I stand by what I said: If an application doesn't support ctrl-c/ctrl-v, scrap it. In this case, scrap xterm and use GNOME Terminal or the KDE equivalent.
Lately I have begun to find the automatic highlight-copy to be annoying. As in, I'll highlight text to copy it, then realize I want to highlight a block of text for the purpose of deleting it. Of course, the second highlighting overwrites the first highlighting. I am curious about how other people accomplish their copy/paste needs.
I used to run into the same problem, but you already know the solution: use ctrl-c and ctrl-v. If an application doesn't support them, scrap it. Just ignore your middle mouse button -- pretend it isn't there -- and you won't have this problem.
1. Buy whichever AMD64 processor you like. 2. Buy a motherboard that supports that processor. 3. Buy all the other parts (RAM, hard disk, graphics card, etc.). 4. Put it together. 5. Install Fedora Core 2.
Personally I used an Athlon 64 FX-51, an ASUS SK8N, Corsair low-latency RAM, and a Radeon 9800 Pro (if you're not playing games, get a cheaper video card).
If I buy Apple hardware, Apple is just going to use those sales to claim more OS X installations and to try to use that as a marketing weapon against Linux.
Or you could forget about being a pawn in a marketing war and just buy the hardware that best fits your needs.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Acrobat Capture, which is designed for exactly your scenario. The JBIG2 plugin can make really small PDFs from scanned documents. The downside is that it's not cheap.
Yes, Apple made a big mistake with the Darwin kernel. They get none of the advantages of a monolothic kernel (speed) and none of the advantages of a microkernel (isolation). They probably would have been better off just throwing away the NeXT kernel and porting the FreeBSD kernel to PPC.
I would argue that QNX is slow. It doesn't even have a unified page cache. But you could prove me wrong with some QNX vs. Linux LMBench results on the same hardware.
First, let's compare apples to apples. These new ColdFire processors run at 266 MHz and cost $20-27. The 266MHz PowerPC MPC5200 (also from Motorola) costs $27.
Even the desktop-class PPC 750s and 74xxs aren't expensive if you buy them in volume. The AmigaOne is expensive because it is a niche-of-a-niche product, not because Moto is ripping people off.
The Optimization, Consulting, Subscription, Hosted, and Embedded strategies don't require writing any open source code; they work better if you just use existing code.
Like if I submit a fix/enchancement to MySQL in the GPL version, can they as the 'owners' put that in their commercial license which their customers can release without the source code?
If you (foolishly) assign the copyright on your code to them, then they can do whatever they want. If you keep copyright to your patch, they can only use it under the license you have chosen.
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I stand by what I said: If an application doesn't support ctrl-c/ctrl-v, scrap it. In this case, scrap xterm and use GNOME Terminal or the KDE equivalent.
Lately I have begun to find the automatic highlight-copy to be annoying. As in, I'll highlight text to copy it, then realize I want to highlight a block of text for the purpose of deleting it. Of course, the second highlighting overwrites the first highlighting. I am curious about how other people accomplish their copy/paste needs.
I used to run into the same problem, but you already know the solution: use ctrl-c and ctrl-v. If an application doesn't support them, scrap it. Just ignore your middle mouse button -- pretend it isn't there -- and you won't have this problem.
Sure, I've done this.
1. Buy whichever AMD64 processor you like.
2. Buy a motherboard that supports that processor.
3. Buy all the other parts (RAM, hard disk, graphics card, etc.).
4. Put it together.
5. Install Fedora Core 2.
Personally I used an Athlon 64 FX-51, an ASUS SK8N, Corsair low-latency RAM, and a Radeon 9800 Pro (if you're not playing games, get a cheaper video card).
If I buy Apple hardware, Apple is just going to use those sales to claim more OS X installations and to try to use that as a marketing weapon against Linux.
Or you could forget about being a pawn in a marketing war and just buy the hardware that best fits your needs.
For servers there's the JS20. If you're talking about an IBM Linux PPC workstation, give up already; that market's even smaller than Apple's.
They've had PPC64 versions for a while, and they seem to work.
I agree. I never got FC1 working at all on my Opteron, but FC2 works fine.
That article only reinforces Kjella's point: The VIA C3 has a crypto accelerator, which is neutral when it comes to DRM.
VIA doesn't have any DRM support.
So then you'd have a choice of several buggy uncertified third-party apps or zero high-quality certified apps?
A certification system won't help you if writing an app for this box is "harder than flying the space shuttle".
Since many radio stations broadcast music that is owned by record labels who are members of the RIAA.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Acrobat Capture, which is designed for exactly your scenario. The JBIG2 plugin can make really small PDFs from scanned documents. The downside is that it's not cheap.
The latest versions of Linux seem to support my nForce3-based SK8N well enough.
I'm pretty ambivalent about that one. BeOS was better than NeXTSTEP in some areas and worse in others. And buying Be wouldn't have brought Steve back.
FC2T3 installed OK on my system with a Radeon 9800 Pro and a DVI monitor.
Yes, Apple made a big mistake with the Darwin kernel. They get none of the advantages of a monolothic kernel (speed) and none of the advantages of a microkernel (isolation). They probably would have been better off just throwing away the NeXT kernel and porting the FreeBSD kernel to PPC.
I would argue that QNX is slow. It doesn't even have a unified page cache. But you could prove me wrong with some QNX vs. Linux LMBench results on the same hardware.
After I paid $700 for an Athlon 64 FX, I won't dare to burn it up by overclocking...
Yes, servers can benefit from dynamic voltage/frequency scaling (aka Cool'n'quiet). My colleagues wrote several papers on this topic.
So use XLC on the 970 and the PathScale compiler on the Opteron.
You just described RealOne for OS X perfectly (except it's free). I've been pretty happy with it.
The RealCodecs(TM) are not open source, but the goal of Helix Player is to be open source, so Helix Player doesn't include them.
First, let's compare apples to apples. These new ColdFire processors run at 266 MHz and cost $20-27. The 266MHz PowerPC MPC5200 (also from Motorola) costs $27.
Even the desktop-class PPC 750s and 74xxs aren't expensive if you buy them in volume. The AmigaOne is expensive because it is a niche-of-a-niche product, not because Moto is ripping people off.
The Optimization, Consulting, Subscription, Hosted, and Embedded strategies don't require writing any open source code; they work better if you just use existing code.
Like if I submit a fix/enchancement to MySQL in the GPL version, can they as the 'owners' put that in their commercial license which their customers can release without the source code?
If you (foolishly) assign the copyright on your code to them, then they can do whatever they want. If you keep copyright to your patch, they can only use it under the license you have chosen.