YellowDog ran on the G5's even before they were publicly available.
Then why have the Yellow Dog mailing lists been full of people saying "when can I get my hands on any version of Linux that will run on my new G5 please please please"?
No. The reason why this is a big deal is because the Power Mac G5 is not backwards-compatible -- it will not run old versions of Linux designed for previous PowerPCs. So until today there was no version of Linux available that works on the G5s.
The concept of "aggregation" on page 9 is interesting.
* Today's RFID technology does not allow for 100% read and identification of all products at all times... * Aggregation is the association of multiple tagged items to a single grouping. * Readability of ANY ONE of the associated tags in the grouping will identify the whole grouping.
The writer explains that the new devices that take advantage of this HDTV flag will not play anything recorded on current-generation devices. It seems that, in the absense of the flag setting, the recorder simply does not play the content.
That's a nice conspiracy theory, but where's the proof? What devices are we talking about? DVD players? DVHS decks? Blu-Ray players? TiVos?
The article didn't say anything about IBM writing VoIP software. IBM is probably just installing some off-the-shelf softswitches on Linux servers. Will it be free? As an example, IIRC Pingtel's softswitch starts at $10,000. I'm sure those Cisco Call Managers aren't cheap either.
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...companies would take their research and patent it and then charge the university to use it.. researchers having to pay to use their own findings.
Besides the prior art issue that others mentioned, academic research is not subject to patents. So university researchers never have to pay to license patents.
Many digital TVs will be digital-cable-ready, so buying a digital TV may save you $5/month in cable box rental fees.
And once digital tuners are in every TV set, the cost won't be $200 per set; think $10.
And if that's not enough, then just buy a closeout analog TV on the last day they're available; that way you can delay worrying about the problem until 2017.
Those are "2GB kits", which is marketing-speak for a box with two 1GB DIMMs in it. Real 2GB DIMMS are $1600 each, which is beyond the budget of the hardware review sites and most of their readers.
Actually, Microsoft has recently complained that since their beta cycle is longer than an entire development cycle for OS X or a Linux distro, their ideas were getting copied before MS could even release them. So now they're going to keep the "Astro" user interface secret until just before Longhorn lauches.
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Does Redhat or the Fedora project plan on setting up guidelines for minimizing the chaos involved with using multiple 3rd-party repositories...
That's called Fedora Extras. It's just getting started.
RHEL 2.1 was a stabilized version of RHL 7.1.
RHEL 3 is a stabilized version of RHL 9.
RHEL 4 will probably be a stabilized version of Fedora Core 3.
The CDs are available from Cheapbytes, among others.
http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/comparison/
The advantage of ES over WS is that it includes server packages.
The advantage of ES over AS is that it is cheaper.
Are "consumer" end users really willing to pay for up2date? I know I'm not. Windows Update and Red Carpet deliver security patches for free.
Fedora is called Fedora so that Red Hat can keep iron-fisted control over its trademarks.
YellowDog ran on the G5's even before they were publicly available.
Then why have the Yellow Dog mailing lists been full of people saying "when can I get my hands on any version of Linux that will run on my new G5 please please please"?
It's in Fink. It can't get much easier than that.
With consumer graphics chips having water cooling built in...
...how long until Apple puts water cooling onto the G5's?
Which ones?
Probably never, since water cooling doesn't make the heatsink(s) and fans smaller or cheaper.
No. The reason why this is a big deal is because the Power Mac G5 is not backwards-compatible -- it will not run old versions of Linux designed for previous PowerPCs. So until today there was no version of Linux available that works on the G5s.
RAID strikes again!
The writer explains that the new devices that take advantage of this HDTV flag will not play anything recorded on current-generation devices. It seems that, in the absense of the flag setting, the recorder simply does not play the content.
That's a nice conspiracy theory, but where's the proof? What devices are we talking about? DVD players? DVHS decks? Blu-Ray players? TiVos?
That dongle is illegal; sorry.
And it wouldn't be cheap, since it would have to contain both an ATSC demodulator and modulator.
The article didn't say anything about IBM writing VoIP software. IBM is probably just installing some off-the-shelf softswitches on Linux servers. Will it be free? As an example, IIRC Pingtel's softswitch starts at $10,000. I'm sure those Cisco Call Managers aren't cheap either.
Since the official Linux source is Linus's BK tree, you'd be doing a diff between your CVS checkout and Linus's tree, which would pick up the trojan.
IIRC, OpenCM and monotone work this way.
You can still copy and archive with perfect digital fidelity, you just can't redistribute it outside your home network.
Devices that allow you to do that do not exist and probably will not exist in 2005, so instead you just won't be able to record at all.
The badram patch does not help with soft errors.
...companies would take their research and patent it and then charge the university to use it.. researchers having to pay to use their own findings.
Besides the prior art issue that others mentioned, academic research is not subject to patents. So university researchers never have to pay to license patents.
The real question is whether it's worth it for Apple to spend millions designing a new north bridge for those hypothetical 4-way Macs.
FireWire readers are faster than USB, and CardBus readers are faster than FireWire.
1/9/2003: TiVo Unveils New DVR Design That Supports HDTV.
Many digital TVs will be digital-cable-ready, so buying a digital TV may save you $5/month in cable box rental fees.
And once digital tuners are in every TV set, the cost won't be $200 per set; think $10.
And if that's not enough, then just buy a closeout analog TV on the last day they're available; that way you can delay worrying about the problem until 2017.
Those are "2GB kits", which is marketing-speak for a box with two 1GB DIMMs in it. Real 2GB DIMMS are $1600 each, which is beyond the budget of the hardware review sites and most of their readers.
Actually, Microsoft has recently complained that since their beta cycle is longer than an entire development cycle for OS X or a Linux distro, their ideas were getting copied before MS could even release them. So now they're going to keep the "Astro" user interface secret until just before Longhorn lauches.