Hey! That PS/2 50Z has a VGA. I should know, because I used a PS/2 Model 25 for many years, and it definitely does have MCGA. Having just 64KB of video memory is no fun, not to mention having no ability to use EGA software. However, programming in 256-color mode back in 1989 impressed everyone when they were still hacking their digital monitors...
Cheers, Joshua. (Did you visit the Microchannel pornography website yet?)
Alternative platforms have long lacked a superb Java environment (that's one of the few things a battered-spouse OS/2 user like myself can enjoy). I'm hoping something good will come from this.
I've been waiting for IBM to make a major Java/Linux announcement. While there is always Sun's proprietary (half-baked opensource to come soon apparently, but it's not Freed Software) JDK 1.2 out for Linux (I believe it is out), we need freed software alternatives. This is an excellent opportunity for HP to show that they care about GNU/Linux and freed software in general.
Cheers, Joshua (who is going to free the Free Software Song in RealAudio, MP3, and a couple RIFF/WAVE formats soon--people need to hear that song!)
It's nice to know I'm not the only one who gets excited about math. I just love it--(I'm trying to kick the — habit)--I was so happy when I read in my math textbook how to calculate e one way (limit of (1+1/x)^x as x approaches infinity, or limit of (1+x)^(1/x) as x approaches zero). I immediately loaded my REXX intepreter, set NUMERIC DIGITS to 10.000, and calculated away.
Then I found out there is a much better, faster way to calculate e--and it was in a literature textbook from a Mennonite publisher, of all places.
Well, that's enough ramblings for tonight. I'm glad to know there are people like who love nature and math and the way everything works. It's just so cool!
I saw the headline for this article and thought it would be about my beloved PS/2. You let me down. I'll have to head on over to the the Microchannel pornography website and solace myself with the pictures of beautiful adapter/As. Ahh.... I need to scan in my ActionMedia II Display Adapter/A (with capture option daughtercard) and send it over to Peter.
Actually, Word 1.0 (which I have) was a DOS program. It runs nicely on a 320KB PC-1, and even has mouse support. (The Microsoft bus mouse with the green buttons rocks, by the way.) I believe it ran on some other eight-bit platforms as well, but I do not remember any details.
Excel was originally a Macintosh application. Around 1987 or so it was ported to Windows 2.0.
I hereby retract my comment on the comments on the latest posting by Jon Katz. These one outdoes every other Commentforum I have seen yet.
I remember reading an article in an in-flight magazine (United Airline's magazine, IIRC) where the author related her experiences upon acquiring an AOL account and heading for their chatrooms. She was immediately accosted by someone bearing the nickname ``DemonBoy'' who claimed to be fourteen years old and proceeded to spout what he thought were obscene comments (but were actually quite uncreative). The author asked the question: ``Have we built this nationwide network simply for this kind of mental masturbation?'' The question is apt indeed.
Has anyone besides myself noticed how Jon Katz always capitlises his `Dept.'s? I.e:
This-Is-An-Example-Of-Jon-Katz's Dept.
as opposed to:
cmdrtaco-or-sengan-or-hemos-do-it-this-way dept.
In any case, the discussion ensuing this article (which, by the way, was a pretty good article—it's interesting to see Katz's view of the publishing industry) has exceeded that of the recent article we all known and love in terms of pure entertainment quality. If Katz's last article were mental masturbation, then the comments for this article are mental exhibitionism. It's most annoying because this is actually a good article. Granted, it's somewhat offtopic, but what is/. but a place to post offtopic comments and articles?
This is almost as fun as the newsgroup news.admin.net-abuse.email back in the days of the New Jersey Swearing-Harasser, John McGrath, The Church of Forrest Dayton, the Pakistani Spammer, and the girl wanker (AKA Johnboy Junior). <sigh> Those where the days. That was all around the time when we killed Cyberpromo...
I want an Xserver that interfaces with my retina. Even better would be a direct optic nerve connection; however, we would need support for legacy applications (such as traditional vision; you might need it if, say, you were having to use a traditional display) possibly in the form of a wearable camera.
An XInput ``human interface'' device would be a nice accessory. Perhaps it could make use of some unneccessary nerve connections, such as some of the toes (when was the last time I actually needed to wiggle those appendages?)
I'll be happy when my person has an IP address.
ifconfig human0 165.79.145.1 (and no port scanning please!)
BTW, would someone please inform Sun that $2,495 is not PC prices? I'm tired of their commercial for a stripped-down Ultra 5. <sigh>
When you go straight to the comments page, it ignores your preferences. My threshold is always listed as `0' even though it's set to -99. The solution? Click `Flat'.
Inverse killfiles would be interesting: ``I want to read all comments by user X even if they are moderated (or, say, all comments up to -2 moderation).''
Now I just need to find out why dselect decided to zap/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc (it's making Netscape very interesting).
Remember that Redhat *CANNOT* take GNU/Linux and make it nonfree. It just can't happen. As to commercial control, one could just as well argue that GNU exercises control over Redhat—after all, Gnome is for all intents and purposes a GNU project even though a great deal of the development was done by Redhat.
The GPL avoids the BSD/X11 (well, X10 had it to <grin>) problem where greedy companies grab the source, add their logos to the startup screens, and resell it (while at the same time making it incompatible with the original distribution).
It can't happen with Linux, and never will. It should also be noted that a very large part of the community seems to be uniting behind Debian—much of the Slackware crowd (may ``Bob's'' name endure forever) seems to be migrating to Debian (such as myself). Redhat is quickly becoming a very uncool distribution for the hacker crowd.
Well, time to get back to hacking XGRADD, and happy Kernel 2.2.3 release to everyone. Joshua
I'm running a 16mbit/sec Token Ring here using all GNU/Linux and OS/2. The 17,000 byte frame size is very nice--I almost always get a transfer speed of 2 megabytes/sec with TCP. Token Ring equipment is also cheap: I can get eight ports on a hub for $15 (remember, Token Ring's architecture obviates the need for switching—you can run Token Ring at 99% usage and still get 100% packet reliability), a PCI card for $20, an ISA card for $10, and a Microchannel card for $2.
I should also mention that Token Ring takes the cake in terms of QoS: I have an (ancient) copy of IBM's Resource Reservation System, and it does *quite* nicely streaming a dozen 150kbyte/sec at the same time on the same ring (not that I ever do that).
Agree. I personally like Debian's arrangement best—it has that ``clean'' feeling you only get from people who like doing things that way (somewhat like the feeling you get working on any FSF/GNU software). I've excised all other distributions (except my brother's Thinkpad which is using ZipSlack; I have yet to find anything that stuffs in as nicely as ZipSlack) and gone to pure Debian 2.2-CURRENT (potato).
<sigh> I'm extremely pleased to see Debian GNU/Hurd. I may just be dedicating a machine to in the near future.
Cheers, Joshua (a soon-to-be patron of Saint IGNUcius)
I've been using 2.0.34 for a long time without problems. I recently upgraded to 2.2.1 for fun, and had no problems with that either. Last night I upped everything to 2.2.2. When I feel like playing, I'll get the 2.2.3 patches and up that as well.
I like the rapid release of new kernels—it's much more fun than the way things were (are) with OS/2; i.e., workaround bugs in the OS/2 kernel until the next FixPak comes out (but the next FixPak will usually break something in IBM1S506.ADD).
Best of all, the older kernels (like 2.2.2, if you consider a newborn old) continue to work and continue to work well.
I must say for 2.2.[0-3] that the mmgr has been greatly improved—perhaps by kernel 2.4 (or 3.0) it will match OS/2's memory performance <sly grin>.
people will ignore this locquacious ``licencing'' agreement, or this company will get very serious about enforcing their restrictions and everyone will flee this format.
In any case, this announcement is going over like a lead balloon; no serious company will put up with these restrictions or pay these CCDB ``owners'' licencing fees.
I knew this was going to happen today, but it's still too good to be true. Linux is for real! The only problem is... the lineup behind Linux is really reminiscent of OS/2: Corel, IBM, Dell, Compaq... (obviously Unix vendors are excluded)
If Micrografx announces support for Linux, then I know that we really are all doomed. Long live PM Chart (hi Timur).
Comms Manager rules. =) Actually, I've found HOD isn't bad, although I always preferred TN3270 myself (except that IBM's hosts don't accept TN3270 connections&mdash).
HOD is pretty and has lots of function, but it is HUGE. It makes Win2000 look svelte!
The fact that IBM is preparing pcomm for Linux is good, however, because that means that think Linux is a client platform. You don't need emulators on service-only machines. =)
The UNIX mispronunciation HOWTO is a joke. I've never heard anyone say 'effsuck' or 'aches' in reference to a CHKDSK-like utility or an IBM operating system.
I use the GPL because I want to be compensated for my hard effort in writing software. I consider having other people add to my work, and in reciprocalicity allowing me to use their works, to be compensation.
MOSIX is violating the Linux copyright. They can't do that. It's no different than making pirated copies of Quake 2; you have to either follow the software licence, or not use the software at all.
If you don't like the GPL, don't use it. Stay away from GPLd works. Use only non-free software. But do not dare to join the Church of Emacs!
The InterNIC's database (once again) updates not.
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The network information center's database was last updated yesterday. Any conversation about who currently holds ``linux.com'' is pure speculation.
Firstly, I did not realise Linus said that non-freed-source modules were valid only without kernel modifications. My error; that's quite a bit more reasonable. I have a question, however, concering a project on which I am working: I am working to getting a highly modified Linux kernel running in OS/2. It's difficult, due to things like the fact that Linux and OS/2 have different ideas of what the flat selector should be, and the gyrations neccessary to trap software interrupt 128 in OS/2. But it's doable. (No mail about it please; it's nowhere near pre-alpha quality yet.) This kernel is compiled with a non-free compiler (IBM C Set/2) and linked with a number of non-free libraries. They aren't kernel modules, either: they are statically linked with VMLINUX.DLL. Am I violating any licences? I have decided my situation is the same as running Linux on a CPU that uses lots of microcode. Since JCXZ or LAHF is probably invoking reams of microcode, and that microcode is non-free, it's the same situation as linking VMLINUX.DLL with DOSCALL1.DLL and DDE4CRTM.DLL. Feel free to post your comments or mail them to me.
Since a module for Linux can do almost anything, his decision to allow binary-only modules means that the Linux kernel is down the toilet, since almost anything can be done to it without revealing the sources. The kernel could be heavily modified or ported to new platforms with most of the code kept in a ``module''.
I think I will stick with GNU. They understand that freed software means just that: freed. There are no exceptions for ``modules'' to be nonfree. Given the recent thrust towards the commercialisation of Linux, this could be the beginning of the end of free GNU/Linux was we know it. Thank God that GNU will go on.
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Cheers,
Joshua. (Did you visit the Microchannel pornography website yet?)
I've been waiting for IBM to make a major Java/Linux announcement. While there is always Sun's proprietary (half-baked opensource to come soon apparently, but it's not Freed Software) JDK 1.2 out for Linux (I believe it is out), we need freed software alternatives. This is an excellent opportunity for HP to show that they care about GNU/Linux and freed software in general.
Cheers,
Joshua (who is going to free the Free Software Song in RealAudio, MP3, and a couple RIFF/WAVE formats soon--people need to hear that song!)
Then I found out there is a much better, faster way to calculate e--and it was in a literature textbook from a Mennonite publisher, of all places.
Well, that's enough ramblings for tonight. I'm glad to know there are people like who love nature and math and the way everything works. It's just so cool!
Joshua
Cheers,
Joshua (a member of the MCA mafia)
Excel was originally a Macintosh application. Around 1987 or so it was ported to Windows 2.0.
Cheers,
Joshua.
I remember reading an article in an in-flight magazine (United Airline's magazine, IIRC) where the author related her experiences upon acquiring an AOL account and heading for their chatrooms. She was immediately accosted by someone bearing the nickname ``DemonBoy'' who claimed to be fourteen years old and proceeded to spout what he thought were obscene comments (but were actually quite uncreative). The author asked the question: ``Have we built this nationwide network simply for this kind of mental masturbation?'' The question is apt indeed.
This-Is-An-Example-Of-Jon-Katz's Dept.
as opposed to:
cmdrtaco-or-sengan-or-hemos-do-it-this-way dept.
In any case, the discussion ensuing this article (which, by the way, was a pretty good article—it's interesting to see Katz's view of the publishing industry) has exceeded that of the recent article we all known and love in terms of pure entertainment quality. If Katz's last article were mental masturbation, then the comments for this article are mental exhibitionism. It's most annoying because this is actually a good article. Granted, it's somewhat offtopic, but what is /. but a place to post offtopic comments and articles?
This is almost as fun as the newsgroup news.admin.net-abuse.email back in the days of the New Jersey Swearing-Harasser, John McGrath, The Church of Forrest Dayton, the Pakistani Spammer, and the girl wanker (AKA Johnboy Junior). <sigh> Those where the days. That was all around the time when we killed Cyberpromo...
Cheers,
Joshua.
An XInput ``human interface'' device would be a nice accessory. Perhaps it could make use of some unneccessary nerve connections, such as some of the toes (when was the last time I actually needed to wiggle those appendages?)
I'll be happy when my person has an IP address.
ifconfig human0 165.79.145.1 (and no port scanning please!)
BTW, would someone please inform Sun that $2,495 is not PC prices? I'm tired of their commercial for a stripped-down Ultra 5. <sigh>
When you go straight to the comments page, it ignores your preferences. My threshold is always listed as `0' even though it's set to -99. The solution? Click `Flat'.
Now I just need to find out why dselect decided to zap /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc (it's making Netscape very interesting).
I thought that NSI was having database problems again, as that's happened in the past.
The GPL avoids the BSD/X11 (well, X10 had it to <grin>) problem where greedy companies grab the source, add their logos to the startup screens, and resell it (while at the same time making it incompatible with the original distribution).
It can't happen with Linux, and never will. It should also be noted that a very large part of the community seems to be uniting behind Debian—much of the Slackware crowd (may ``Bob's'' name endure forever) seems to be migrating to Debian (such as myself). Redhat is quickly becoming a very uncool distribution for the hacker crowd.
Well, time to get back to hacking XGRADD, and happy Kernel 2.2.3 release to everyone.
Joshua
I should also mention that Token Ring takes the cake in terms of QoS: I have an (ancient) copy of IBM's Resource Reservation System, and it does *quite* nicely streaming a dozen 150kbyte/sec at the same time on the same ring (not that I ever do that).
<sigh> I'm extremely pleased to see Debian GNU/Hurd. I may just be dedicating a machine to in the near future.
Cheers,
Joshua (a soon-to-be patron of Saint IGNUcius)
I like the rapid release of new kernels—it's much more fun than the way things were (are) with OS/2; i.e., workaround bugs in the OS/2 kernel until the next FixPak comes out (but the next FixPak will usually break something in IBM1S506.ADD).
Best of all, the older kernels (like 2.2.2, if you consider a newborn old) continue to work and continue to work well.
I must say for 2.2.[0-3] that the mmgr has been greatly improved—perhaps by kernel 2.4 (or 3.0) it will match OS/2's memory performance <sly grin>.
Cheers,
Joshua.
In any case, this announcement is going over like a lead balloon; no serious company will put up with these restrictions or pay these CCDB ``owners'' licencing fees.
Of course, I've seen lots of people using Apache SSLeay without paying RSA any money.
If Micrografx announces support for Linux, then I know that we really are all doomed. Long live PM Chart (hi Timur).
Cheers,
Joshua.
HOD is pretty and has lots of function, but it is HUGE. It makes Win2000 look svelte!
The fact that IBM is preparing pcomm for Linux is good, however, because that means that think Linux is a client platform. You don't need emulators on service-only machines. =)
I use the GPL because I want to be compensated for my hard effort in writing software. I consider having other people add to my work, and in reciprocalicity allowing me to use their works, to be compensation.
MOSIX is violating the Linux copyright. They can't do that. It's no different than making pirated copies of Quake 2; you have to either follow the software licence, or not use the software at all.
If you don't like the GPL, don't use it. Stay away from GPLd works. Use only non-free software. But do not dare to join the Church of Emacs!
The network information center's database was last updated yesterday. Any conversation about who currently holds ``linux.com'' is pure speculation.
Firstly, I did not realise Linus said that non-freed-source modules were valid only without kernel modifications. My error; that's quite a bit more reasonable.
I have a question, however, concering a project on which I am working:
I am working to getting a highly modified Linux kernel running in OS/2. It's difficult, due to things like the fact that Linux and OS/2 have different ideas of what the flat selector should be, and the gyrations neccessary to trap software interrupt 128 in OS/2. But it's doable. (No mail about it please; it's nowhere near pre-alpha quality yet.)
This kernel is compiled with a non-free compiler (IBM C Set/2) and linked with a number of non-free libraries. They aren't kernel modules, either: they are statically linked with VMLINUX.DLL. Am I violating any licences?
I have decided my situation is the same as running Linux on a CPU that uses lots of microcode. Since JCXZ or LAHF is probably invoking reams of microcode, and that microcode is non-free, it's the same situation as linking VMLINUX.DLL with DOSCALL1.DLL and DDE4CRTM.DLL.
Feel free to post your comments or mail them to me.
I think I will stick with GNU. They understand that freed software means just that: freed. There are no exceptions for ``modules'' to be nonfree. Given the recent thrust towards the commercialisation of Linux, this could be the beginning of the end of free GNU/Linux was we know it. Thank God that GNU will go on.
Cheers,
Joshua.