hell yeah, i *loved* geoworks ensemble. i had a 286-20, it ran great. the integration between all of its office applications and the fact that it actually did preemptive multitasking of them was great. printing in the background (very important considering how "fast" dot matrix and hp deskjet printers of the day weren't), etc. excellent piece of work but in the wrong place at the wrong time to be able to catch on.
it even ran in the cool 800x600x16 vga mode if your monitor supported it.
another odd footnote: AOL's first client for the PC was written as a geoworks ensemble 1.0 application. this was in '93-94 before aol was allowed to corrupt usenet.
cable companies have a natural monopoly, they own the cables and control who and what goes on them. satellite providers don't (competitors can enter without laying down major infrastructure other than a sattelite launch).
DirecTV with the directivo is the absolute best deal. It has two tuners so its can record two different things at the same time; this feature is something all stand alone tivo users are very jealous of. tivo is also much better than the homegrown dvr that dish network tries to give you.
yes its a precursor. laws aren't needed to require this shit when manufacturers are given golden treatment by the government when they voluntarily add this shit. how many of these things also send out a warning via your net connection when you try to scan/burn/copy something they don't like?
do the tivo dvd-burner units or tivotogo pc software options allow you to edit the video before saving or burning the to disk?
if not, that makes the dvd burner functionality useless as you'll still have to skip commercials (and most dvd players are much worse at ffw & skip-ahead than a tivo)
there are many other products doing more for less only if you want something that is large bulky full equipment size without a good display...
The slimp3 is also 100% opensource (firmware & server software). The squeezebox has an opensource server and they are trying to work out the licensing issues to be able to release its firmware similarly.
Wired readers wouldn't give a shit about that but people reading this sure do...
One feature that surprised me, but that I quite like having seen it, is that the indexing software ignores prepositions in artist names. So the list of artists starting with "S" went something like "Sarah McLachlan", "The Seekers", "Severe Tire Damage",..., "Sting", "The Strawbs", "Sunday's Well". It also handled accented characters without a glitch: "äaut" was treated the same as "a" in terms of sorting and searching. Neither of these features is really appropriate outside the English-speaking world.
Yay! thanks. I supplied the ignore-articles-when-sorting patch about a year ago.
The list of articles to ignore is configurable fwiw. That could help with other languages if they are simple enough.
those of us on non-x86 platforms that want read/write NTFS access to external (firewire / usb2.0) drives will only suffer due to driver emulation layers like this.
it satisfys much of the normal x86 crowd which means development of the real driver suffers.
oh really? i haven't been able to find another emusic user to download the same track and compare MD5 sums.
thats really funny if so. their download manager does deliberately break the MP3 file compared to the data that raw MP3 that comes back before going through the emusicdlm program. thats pathetic if so.
Here are the SHA1s and album+track names from some recent downloads:
Artist: Timo Mass Album: Presents Music For The Maases Disc 1
SHA1(01-Muse-Sunburn Breaks Again Mix.mp3)= 301448dd9006c95f9886130afd15ae23c0b30599 SHA1(04- Schieber.mp3)= 70aee364e1de473e7b1059580d228fed5decae47
in what way? surely you could run 64-bit code using 64-bit registers. So there weren't any machines that could even hold >4GB ram at the time (and i'm sure NT didn't support that). the OS still ran on an alpha.
this combined with rfid tags could be used for supermarkets to charge each individual person a different price for items based on a profile of the person indicating how much money they have. pure evil.
"So just how risky is the CURRENT branch? Not very, but it is possible to have some problems"
Yeah sure! its been seriously broken in numerous aspects on and off just in the past couple of weeks alone. Leave FreeBSD CURRENT alone for true developers. The last thing needed is more whiny asses on dev mailing lists complaining that it broke their system without a clue how to diagnose, debug, revert/fix/patch.
'The reason why this is a three-step process is to make the updating procedure more reliable and easier to fix. Having survived the nightmare of Gentoo Linux's always fatally broken and never easily fixed portage system, I can tell you that "ease of use" means "difficult to fix" because it doesn't allow the user to control the process. I've seen APT and Portage choke on dependancies with no obvious way to fix them'
Huh? Have you *looked* or *asked* for a way to fix Gentoo or Debian issues?
The author is comes across as somebody who's a FreeBSD zealot that occasionally tries other systems only to give up and whine when it "doesn't do things the same way as FreeBSD" without being open to finding the answer. Both gentoo and debian provide ways to deal with the rare dependancy issues. (don't even get me started if the guy complain about debian unstable, see my freebsd current comments above. or if he tries to compare the software available in ports to that in portage...)
I run a couple Gentoo, one Debian and one FreeBSD box at home. They all have different strengths and weaknesses but none of their packaging systems should be scoffed at due to ignorance. Is the author trying to sell something
"a Core Team of nine people to make all the important decisions."... "This model differs greatly from that of GNU/Linux"... "ultimately headed by only a few all-powerful decision-makers."
Since when is nine people to make all important decisions any different than a few all powerful decision makers? FreeBSD is not democratic. Only those who currently hold power can vote and decide who can play in their club. if it were democratic all of the idiots reading this on slashdot could vote and the OS would suck goatse.cx.
too many stupid things wrong. why am i bothering to even write and post this? nobody cares.
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how much fuel and water does it take to manufacture 1kw worth of solar electric panels?
i would've been running a freenet server ages ago except that there is no usable jvm for my machine. annoying choice of language from the start.
i've been happily running linux on my alpha since 1997. ;)
hell yeah, i *loved* geoworks ensemble. i had a 286-20, it ran great. the integration between all of its office applications and the fact that it actually did preemptive multitasking of them was great. printing in the background (very important considering how "fast" dot matrix and hp deskjet printers of the day weren't), etc. excellent piece of work but in the wrong place at the wrong time to be able to catch on.
it even ran in the cool 800x600x16 vga mode if your monitor supported it.
another odd footnote: AOL's first client for the PC was written as a geoworks ensemble 1.0 application. this was in '93-94 before aol was allowed to corrupt usenet.
An at-will employment state and decent labor laws so that this isn't such an issue.
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only an idiot would buy a video card that needs cooling. wtf are you doing there anyways? a 1000W computer is -not- better than a 100W one.
cable companies have a natural monopoly, they own the cables and control who and what goes on them. satellite providers don't (competitors can enter without laying down major infrastructure other than a sattelite launch).
DirecTV with the directivo is the absolute best deal. It has two tuners so its can record two different things at the same time; this feature is something all stand alone tivo users are very jealous of. tivo is also much better than the homegrown dvr that dish network tries to give you.
yes its a precursor. laws aren't needed to require this shit when manufacturers are given golden treatment by the government when they voluntarily add this shit. how many of these things also send out a warning via your net connection when you try to scan/burn/copy something they don't like?
you go on and continue using netscape 4.x then...
do the tivo dvd-burner units or tivotogo pc software options allow you to edit the video before saving or burning the to disk?
if not, that makes the dvd burner functionality useless as you'll still have to skip commercials (and most dvd players are much worse at ffw & skip-ahead than a tivo)
They're more than happy to charge you an arm and a leg and the valididy of your vote for it. ;)
there are many other products doing more for less only if you want something that is large bulky full equipment size without a good display...
The slimp3 is also 100% opensource (firmware & server software). The squeezebox has an opensource server and they are trying to work out the licensing issues to be able to release its firmware similarly.
Wired readers wouldn't give a shit about that but people reading this sure do...
hahahaha. yeah. i think i still have their silly slicks that they were handing out at macworld
One feature that surprised me, but that I quite like having seen it, is that the indexing software ignores prepositions in artist names. So the list of artists starting with "S" went something like "Sarah McLachlan", "The Seekers", "Severe Tire Damage", ..., "Sting", "The Strawbs", "Sunday's Well". It also handled accented characters without a glitch: "äaut" was treated the same as "a" in terms of sorting and searching. Neither of these features is really appropriate outside the English-speaking world.
Yay! thanks. I supplied the ignore-articles-when-sorting patch about a year ago.
The list of articles to ignore is configurable fwiw. That could help with other languages if they are simple enough.
any of the old tiny windowmanagers will do.
listed in order of memory footprint above.
those of us on non-x86 platforms that want read/write NTFS access to external (firewire / usb2.0) drives will only suffer due to driver emulation layers like this.
it satisfys much of the normal x86 crowd which means development of the real driver suffers.
there are more CD players than people who believe in god(s) in this world. the format is not going away any time soon.
the spam bot authors have already patched their bots for anything mildly useful mentioned in this thread.
oh really? i haven't been able to find another emusic user to download the same track and compare MD5 sums.
- Schieber.mp3)= 70aee364e1de473e7b1059580d228fed5decae47
thats really funny if so. their download manager does deliberately break the MP3 file compared to the data that raw MP3 that comes back before going through the emusicdlm program. thats pathetic if so.
Here are the SHA1s and album+track names from some recent downloads:
Artist: Timo Mass
Album: Presents Music For The Maases Disc 1
SHA1(01-Muse-Sunburn Breaks Again Mix.mp3)= 301448dd9006c95f9886130afd15ae23c0b30599
SHA1(04
in what way? surely you could run 64-bit code using 64-bit registers. So there weren't any machines that could even hold >4GB ram at the time (and i'm sure NT didn't support that). the OS still ran on an alpha.
9000/735s were HP PA-RISC systems, not alphas.
this combined with rfid tags could be used for supermarkets to charge each individual person a different price for items based on a profile of the person indicating how much money they have. pure evil.
"So just how risky is the CURRENT branch? Not very, but it is possible to have some problems"
... "This model differs greatly from that of GNU/Linux" ... "ultimately headed by only a few all-powerful decision-makers."
Yeah sure! its been seriously broken in numerous aspects on and off just in the past couple of weeks alone. Leave FreeBSD CURRENT alone for true developers. The last thing needed is more whiny asses on dev mailing lists complaining that it broke their system without a clue how to diagnose, debug, revert/fix/patch.
'The reason why this is a three-step process is to make the updating procedure more reliable and easier to fix. Having survived the nightmare of Gentoo Linux's always fatally broken and never easily fixed portage system, I can tell you that "ease of use" means "difficult to fix" because it doesn't allow the user to control the process. I've seen APT and Portage choke on dependancies with no obvious way to fix them'
Huh? Have you *looked* or *asked* for a way to fix Gentoo or Debian issues?
The author is comes across as somebody who's a FreeBSD zealot that occasionally tries other systems only to give up and whine when it "doesn't do things the same way as FreeBSD" without being open to finding the answer. Both gentoo and debian provide ways to deal with the rare dependancy issues. (don't even get me started if the guy complain about debian unstable, see my freebsd current comments above. or if he tries to compare the software available in ports to that in portage...)
I run a couple Gentoo, one Debian and one FreeBSD box at home. They all have different strengths and weaknesses but none of their packaging systems should be scoffed at due to ignorance. Is the author trying to sell something
"a Core Team of nine people to make all the important decisions."
Since when is nine people to make all important decisions any different than a few all powerful decision makers? FreeBSD is not democratic. Only those who currently hold power can vote and decide who can play in their club. if it were democratic all of the idiots reading this on slashdot could vote and the OS would suck goatse.cx.
too many stupid things wrong. why am i bothering to even write and post this? nobody cares.