That gave me a shocker, thought ICANN is being controlled by the Republicans now. Such deals between countries and companies is becoming and thats all fine if more than half of that countrys population agrees with it. I wonder what happens if after the next election (or revolution) in Laos, the next leader asks for their TLD back.
I still doubt many people will actually use it, as most of.tv and others are used for port and cheap personal site hosting. More formal pages in the US just use.com and ones up here in Canada use.ca, but few would want to fork out for a weird TLD unless they have a good idea like http://cr.yp.to
Think of countries like Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and others that try to enter the tech market and attract businesses. They all spend billions in the wrong places. A small portion of the national budget can power fibre optics in every street, installing of which will take some capital, but its maintenance will not. It will soon be in the best interest of the government to keep upgrading the speeds and capabilities of the network.. just like USA working hard for oil. Oil runs the economy of the USA, where everyone over 16 has a car and too many people telecommute long distances to work. This obviously gives an edge to the USA over countries where people have to actually walk to work.
The same analogy applies to communications. We can see the benefits of the Internet, imagine it fast, free and available to everyone. It only takes a smart politician to set the ball rolling.
The more work put into wine, the closer it gets to windows APIs. It never gets there, but the closer wine gets to the windows API, the harder it gets to improve it. Sooner or later, opensource developers get bored for not getting much out of a lot of work. So the companies move in and try to get a niche market to stay afloat.
The companies exist because theres a huge market of running windows software on unices and wine isnt exactly there. Any company can invest in marketing and sell enough copies to pay for the marketing plus their salaries. The free software developers would much rather develop interesting stuff in native Linux/BSD at full speed, and port it everywhere.
Even if Apple loses this one, they're obviously courting geeks, working on Open Darwin, OSX and now this. They realized the power of Unix and the community that has always surrounded it. They like IBM (and even Microsoft now) can see the importance of looking good to free software developers pushed by motivation.
Anyway this lawsuit is far more interesting than the other one. That one is like watchin a marble roll down a funnel, too obvious the outcome and boring. This one is about a retake on the many many lawsuits based on the Unix name.
UNIX means all the operating systems certified to be Unix, even in common use of the word. This includes AIX, Solaris, IRIX and HP-UX and excludes BSD, Linux, OSX, minix and Xenix.
No go about the net looking for software ports. Some are available for UNIX ports, most frequently Solaris on sparc. In many places youd see Unix parallel to Linux as a selection, and you will rarely hear a geek say hes using Unix at home, while hes using FreeBSD or Gentoo.
Apple is in the wrong and might lose the case. OSX, like BeOS has great merits and has stood under its own name well. Theres a whole community of Darwin users, feeding on the leftovers of OSX, so OS-X is a known and used term. Forcing Unix's meaning here will result in failure, regardless of what we believe Unix SHOULD mean.
This is why schools need to get on the track of Opensourced software. So they could use any hardware, even low-end pentium 1s that people are throwing out everywhere. To a kid, the Linux interface is the same no matter if the underlying hardware is an RS/6000, iMac, Athlon or Dreamcast.
Just show that you can fill the screen with characters using debug, fill to c800:0, and the kids get hooked.
Whats wrong with a TASM and TLINK on a 386? couple that with Mr Browns interrupt list and you have a powerful set of tools. There were so many possibilities then. Nowadays everything has been created and commercialized, theres little to make NEW.
I strongly agree there. I was programming BASIC peek/poke statements on the Commodore64 and am STILL trying to really get the hang of C++. I have worked quite a lot with ANSI C and basic C++ as in QT, sleepycat etc, but the main programs are in C.
The problem is that once you know some assembly and the hardware architecture, you 'imagine' your code compiled into machine code. Thats very easy to do with procedural languages as the basic structures are close to what machine language is. For more complex GUI-type programs Ive used arrays of function pointers, but still kept away from classes, and they worked all fine.
I think OOP is the worst thing that happened to computer science as it put a new conceptual layer insulating it from the lower conceptual layers. Object reuse is used less often than compiled ANSI C libraries, and it has divided the programmers into application and system programmers.
I think all the J2EE applications could be developed in C with autoconf and make. If portability is still such a big issue, a vmware with a 'standard' PC image running should be faster and less resource hungry than a full-fledged J2EE server. All that effort going into managing and maintaining J2EE applications and learning newer buzzwords could be spent making a good garbage collector and standard enterprise libraries (already done?) for C.
I remember GWBASIC and the I am cool programs. I tried to continue with QBASIC 4.5 much later, with fancy compiled 3d programs using libraries and tried to read Truespace 3d model files to make a game.
But that good feeling of control that I had over GWBASIC, I had it in TurboC++ 3.0 and in bash in Linux. Everything else is too complicated to begin with. I am tempted to say get them started with borland commandline tools and QT, but opening windows and widgets is not cool for kids. 3d programs, control of the screen (ala SVGAlib and SDL), and keyboard are what matters at that age, and I would start with teaching QBASIC for kids who are on a completely basic level. I could then move them to SVGALib and then back to widgets on windows.
If you get them hooked onto quake2 for instance, and make them develop maps and skins and play the game for the last 10 minutes of the class, interest in computers 3d models and programming will spike. A kids interest of games should be utilized and not sidelined.
Another geekmaker is to have SOC chips control motors, or have network connectors. For instance some System On Chips have a x86 core and come with at least one ethernet interface. When bought in bulk theyre cheap and on proper boards, kids dont need to know pinouts, ROM programming and the likes, just how to transfer data to the on board flash. Others come with analog outputs, which is cool with electronic muscles, magnets, motors etc. The smart ones will soon build little robots and from then on, expect the geek half of the class to get hooked.
The dremels head should be made to be somewhat conic, with the CD sitting on it. Sandpaper is fine around the cone, but should be something with a grip.
And the whole structure should be built on a trolley and two columns where one column carries the trolley and the other touches and pushes the base of the CD at one end. Big rubber bands can hold the trolley holding the dremel and CD with a latch, and once the CD is doing well at high speeds, release the latch to fire the trolley and watch the CD disconnect and fly.
Notes: Make sure the dremel itself doesnt fly. Build a shield in case the CD breaks so you dont kill yourself. Keep some CDs with sarpened edges in case you go out hunting.. can be sharpened on the dremel with sandpaper. Also please note if you shoot into the air, CDs can act like boomerangs. Do not stick around.(remember the results in Unreal)
A far better idea is to have 4 seperately moveable heads to quad the read speed. That will also help a lot in random seeks.
Come to think of it, its possible to have a tiny moveable mirror reflect the laser around in circles on the CD. A parabola-like reflector beneath the CD can direct the laser and the read data with only the little mirror being moveable and the CD being stationary. I think it will fit in one drive bay, and can be completely financially feasable.
Are you serious?? must be kidding. Noone throws out an S/360 no matter how big and old. At least you could auction it on ebay and ask the buyer to pick it up themselves.
I remember everyone was moving to arj during the dos days. That was because pkzip was a pain, multiple large files and didnt have a high compression ratio. There were other nice features in arj that impressed everyone, right up until winzip grabbed the scene in windows95. Thanks to Linus we can use tar cvfy and expect it to work many places.
If they do make themselves incompatible, a third party will come along, incorporate both compressions and will win the market. Will you buy Winzip and have some files not open? Or download some other from sourceforge that will open any zip files.
And come to think of it, what further changes are they planning anyway? The zip format is very much standard and making something new that cant open zip files will not work, nor will compressing files in a format in which most unzippers will fail. The market itself will ensure the old zip format will remain.
Well it just doesnt feel right to have a complete half-tower case buzzing in a corner just to run a firewall and an apache. Gotta be minimalistic and smooth. On one hand, its nice to have a small quite laptop or old IBM Pentium1 system with no processor fan in a corner, and on the other, to be an extremist and get an old and obnoxious AS/400 system and try to run the webserver off it. Yet other geeks try things like running it off dreamcast or a beowulf of Linux PDAs. A simple computer just doesnt help that sense of self-respect. What if there are geeks in the new neighborhood?
I tired to look for an IBM S/360 or S/390 mainframe (will start mortgage to get it) but theyre too rare a commodity. Just needed something fancy to run Quake and impress the snottiest of geeks. I think I'll go with the AS/400.
Ive had to look for a small minimalist firewall+server, and the best thing Ive come across is an old Pentium1 IBM system. Its low-profile, and the power supply is 200W. 200MHz and 64MB Ram using FreeBSD has been enough for me serving 7 domains with their webpages, mysql and postgresql, qmail with virtualhosts, ircd, samba, VPN and other things I cant remember. Ive also installed similar systems at other places including homes and offices, and manage them through ssh. Uptimes have been since the installation and have never had a performance problemo.
Am thinking now to replace the IBM system with a Sun Ultra 5, just for the heck of it. I dont think you should go for a power-guzzling Duron or any system with a loud processor fan. Nor should you have to go with an ATX tower with extra drive bays. Be minimalistic and efficient and you wont need a Pentium4 unless you plan to serve your webpage through an IBM Websphere and DB2.
15,000 is a lot more than 50 times room temp. Assuming the room temperature is 26 degrees, thats 26+275 degrees above absolute zero, around 300 kelvins. I think the writer meant 500 times room temperature. I dont think plasma is 1500 kelvins.
it is morally wrong to take the life of one being only to benefit yourself.
This is a tough one. Millions or Billions of plants are killed, farmed in the name of humanity. Think of the bales of wheat during harvest season. Theyre all lives lost.
Oh yeah its OK for you to take vegetables because they dont feel pain and arent really alive right? Some people say the same of fish. Other vegetarians even avoid eggs and milk.
So where do you draw the line and on what basis? Its hard to believe but we're part of the food chain and taking care of ourselves comes before caring for the environment and other live creatures.
why am I even arguing with you?
WE've tried Tomcat, but it is not a complete J2EE 1.2 or higher. JBoss has big requirements too, for our measly Pentium 200 64MB ram with Linux. I am hoping for a COMPLETE test platform J2EE setup that is not designed for distribution or clustering, and can run happily on a small system (well, happily for a Java application, which is still too slow). These two split developer groups will likely aim for different niches, and I wonder which one will be Postgresql and which MySQL.
Does anyone sell low-cost motherboards and processors like the Taiwanese boards for Intel and AMD? It would be nice to be able to assemble cheap computers in ATX form, perhaps with SCSI built in, for Linux use. I would be interested for one, if the price is right.
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That gave me a shocker, thought ICANN is being controlled by the Republicans now. Such deals between countries and companies is becoming and thats all fine if more than half of that countrys population agrees with it. I wonder what happens if after the next election (or revolution) in Laos, the next leader asks for their TLD back.
.tv and others are used for port and cheap personal site hosting. More formal pages in the US just use .com and ones up here in Canada use .ca, but few would want to fork out for a weird TLD unless they have a good idea like http://cr.yp.to
I still doubt many people will actually use it, as most of
Think of countries like Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and others that try to enter the tech market and attract businesses. They all spend billions in the wrong places. A small portion of the national budget can power fibre optics in every street, installing of which will take some capital, but its maintenance will not. It will soon be in the best interest of the government to keep upgrading the speeds and capabilities of the network.. just like USA working hard for oil. Oil runs the economy of the USA, where everyone over 16 has a car and too many people telecommute long distances to work. This obviously gives an edge to the USA over countries where people have to actually walk to work.
The same analogy applies to communications. We can see the benefits of the Internet, imagine it fast, free and available to everyone. It only takes a smart politician to set the ball rolling.
The more work put into wine, the closer it gets to windows APIs. It never gets there, but the closer wine gets to the windows API, the harder it gets to improve it. Sooner or later, opensource developers get bored for not getting much out of a lot of work. So the companies move in and try to get a niche market to stay afloat.
The companies exist because theres a huge market of running windows software on unices and wine isnt exactly there. Any company can invest in marketing and sell enough copies to pay for the marketing plus their salaries. The free software developers would much rather develop interesting stuff in native Linux/BSD at full speed, and port it everywhere.
Even if Apple loses this one, they're obviously courting geeks, working on Open Darwin, OSX and now this. They realized the power of Unix and the community that has always surrounded it. They like IBM (and even Microsoft now) can see the importance of looking good to free software developers pushed by motivation.
Anyway this lawsuit is far more interesting than the other one. That one is like watchin a marble roll down a funnel, too obvious the outcome and boring. This one is about a retake on the many many lawsuits based on the Unix name.
UNIX means all the operating systems certified to be Unix, even in common use of the word. This includes AIX, Solaris, IRIX and HP-UX and excludes BSD, Linux, OSX, minix and Xenix.
No go about the net looking for software ports. Some are available for UNIX ports, most frequently Solaris on sparc. In many places youd see Unix parallel to Linux as a selection, and you will rarely hear a geek say hes using Unix at home, while hes using FreeBSD or Gentoo.
Apple is in the wrong and might lose the case. OSX, like BeOS has great merits and has stood under its own name well. Theres a whole community of Darwin users, feeding on the leftovers of OSX, so OS-X is a known and used term. Forcing Unix's meaning here will result in failure, regardless of what we believe Unix SHOULD mean.
This is why schools need to get on the track of Opensourced software. So they could use any hardware, even low-end pentium 1s that people are throwing out everywhere. To a kid, the Linux interface is the same no matter if the underlying hardware is an RS/6000, iMac, Athlon or Dreamcast.
Or someone who hates computers to the extent he would only write on paper, and never use emails.
Kids need a break. They need to use assembly 3dnow instructions and Nvidia GPU instructions.
Just show that you can fill the screen with characters using debug, fill to c800:0, and the kids get hooked.
Whats wrong with a TASM and TLINK on a 386? couple that with Mr Browns interrupt list and you have a powerful set of tools. There were so many possibilities then. Nowadays everything has been created and commercialized, theres little to make NEW.
I didnt know they paid for masochism. Do they have any openings?
I strongly agree there. I was programming BASIC peek/poke statements on the Commodore64 and am STILL trying to really get the hang of C++. I have worked quite a lot with ANSI C and basic C++ as in QT, sleepycat etc, but the main programs are in C.
The problem is that once you know some assembly and the hardware architecture, you 'imagine' your code compiled into machine code. Thats very easy to do with procedural languages as the basic structures are close to what machine language is. For more complex GUI-type programs Ive used arrays of function pointers, but still kept away from classes, and they worked all fine.
I think OOP is the worst thing that happened to computer science as it put a new conceptual layer insulating it from the lower conceptual layers. Object reuse is used less often than compiled ANSI C libraries, and it has divided the programmers into application and system programmers.
I think all the J2EE applications could be developed in C with autoconf and make. If portability is still such a big issue, a vmware with a 'standard' PC image running should be faster and less resource hungry than a full-fledged J2EE server. All that effort going into managing and maintaining J2EE applications and learning newer buzzwords could be spent making a good garbage collector and standard enterprise libraries (already done?) for C.
I remember GWBASIC and the I am cool programs. I tried to continue with QBASIC 4.5 much later, with fancy compiled 3d programs using libraries and tried to read Truespace 3d model files to make a game.
But that good feeling of control that I had over GWBASIC, I had it in TurboC++ 3.0 and in bash in Linux. Everything else is too complicated to begin with. I am tempted to say get them started with borland commandline tools and QT, but opening windows and widgets is not cool for kids. 3d programs, control of the screen (ala SVGAlib and SDL), and keyboard are what matters at that age, and I would start with teaching QBASIC for kids who are on a completely basic level. I could then move them to SVGALib and then back to widgets on windows.
If you get them hooked onto quake2 for instance, and make them develop maps and skins and play the game for the last 10 minutes of the class, interest in computers 3d models and programming will spike. A kids interest of games should be utilized and not sidelined.
Another geekmaker is to have SOC chips control motors, or have network connectors. For instance some System On Chips have a x86 core and come with at least one ethernet interface. When bought in bulk theyre cheap and on proper boards, kids dont need to know pinouts, ROM programming and the likes, just how to transfer data to the on board flash. Others come with analog outputs, which is cool with electronic muscles, magnets, motors etc. The smart ones will soon build little robots and from then on, expect the geek half of the class to get hooked.
The dremels head should be made to be somewhat conic, with the CD sitting on it. Sandpaper is fine around the cone, but should be something with a grip.
And the whole structure should be built on a trolley and two columns where one column carries the trolley and the other touches and pushes the base of the CD at one end. Big rubber bands can hold the trolley holding the dremel and CD with a latch, and once the CD is doing well at high speeds, release the latch to fire the trolley and watch the CD disconnect and fly.
Notes: Make sure the dremel itself doesnt fly. Build a shield in case the CD breaks so you dont kill yourself. Keep some CDs with sarpened edges in case you go out hunting.. can be sharpened on the dremel with sandpaper. Also please note if you shoot into the air, CDs can act like boomerangs. Do not stick around.(remember the results in Unreal)
A far better idea is to have 4 seperately moveable heads to quad the read speed. That will also help a lot in random seeks.
Come to think of it, its possible to have a tiny moveable mirror reflect the laser around in circles on the CD. A parabola-like reflector beneath the CD can direct the laser and the read data with only the little mirror being moveable and the CD being stationary. I think it will fit in one drive bay, and can be completely financially feasable.
Wow thanks. There is a chance it will land with me. If it does, expect pictures of me playing doom on it REAL FAST.
I am also thinking of wiring something like it up for public shell accounts, but I have to see its capabilities.
Are you serious?? must be kidding. Noone throws out an S/360 no matter how big and old. At least you could auction it on ebay and ask the buyer to pick it up themselves.
Where is this city again?
I remember everyone was moving to arj during the dos days. That was because pkzip was a pain, multiple large files and didnt have a high compression ratio. There were other nice features in arj that impressed everyone, right up until winzip grabbed the scene in windows95. Thanks to Linus we can use tar cvfy and expect it to work many places.
If they do make themselves incompatible, a third party will come along, incorporate both compressions and will win the market. Will you buy Winzip and have some files not open? Or download some other from sourceforge that will open any zip files.
And come to think of it, what further changes are they planning anyway? The zip format is very much standard and making something new that cant open zip files will not work, nor will compressing files in a format in which most unzippers will fail. The market itself will ensure the old zip format will remain.
Is there a space constraint?
Well it just doesnt feel right to have a complete half-tower case buzzing in a corner just to run a firewall and an apache. Gotta be minimalistic and smooth. On one hand, its nice to have a small quite laptop or old IBM Pentium1 system with no processor fan in a corner, and on the other, to be an extremist and get an old and obnoxious AS/400 system and try to run the webserver off it. Yet other geeks try things like running it off dreamcast or a beowulf of Linux PDAs. A simple computer just doesnt help that sense of self-respect. What if there are geeks in the new neighborhood?
I tired to look for an IBM S/360 or S/390 mainframe (will start mortgage to get it) but theyre too rare a commodity. Just needed something fancy to run Quake and impress the snottiest of geeks. I think I'll go with the AS/400.
Ive had to look for a small minimalist firewall+server, and the best thing Ive come across is an old Pentium1 IBM system. Its low-profile, and the power supply is 200W. 200MHz and 64MB Ram using FreeBSD has been enough for me serving 7 domains with their webpages, mysql and postgresql, qmail with virtualhosts, ircd, samba, VPN and other things I cant remember. Ive also installed similar systems at other places including homes and offices, and manage them through ssh. Uptimes have been since the installation and have never had a performance problemo.
Am thinking now to replace the IBM system with a Sun Ultra 5, just for the heck of it. I dont think you should go for a power-guzzling Duron or any system with a loud processor fan. Nor should you have to go with an ATX tower with extra drive bays. Be minimalistic and efficient and you wont need a Pentium4 unless you plan to serve your webpage through an IBM Websphere and DB2.
I stand corrected and looking bad. Live and learn
15,000 is a lot more than 50 times room temp. Assuming the room temperature is 26 degrees, thats 26+275 degrees above absolute zero, around 300 kelvins. I think the writer meant 500 times room temperature. I dont think plasma is 1500 kelvins.
it is morally wrong to take the life of one being only to benefit yourself. This is a tough one. Millions or Billions of plants are killed, farmed in the name of humanity. Think of the bales of wheat during harvest season. Theyre all lives lost. Oh yeah its OK for you to take vegetables because they dont feel pain and arent really alive right? Some people say the same of fish. Other vegetarians even avoid eggs and milk. So where do you draw the line and on what basis? Its hard to believe but we're part of the food chain and taking care of ourselves comes before caring for the environment and other live creatures. why am I even arguing with you?
WE've tried Tomcat, but it is not a complete J2EE 1.2 or higher. JBoss has big requirements too, for our measly Pentium 200 64MB ram with Linux. I am hoping for a COMPLETE test platform J2EE setup that is not designed for distribution or clustering, and can run happily on a small system (well, happily for a Java application, which is still too slow). These two split developer groups will likely aim for different niches, and I wonder which one will be Postgresql and which MySQL.
Does anyone sell low-cost motherboards and processors like the Taiwanese boards for Intel and AMD? It would be nice to be able to assemble cheap computers in ATX form, perhaps with SCSI built in, for Linux use. I would be interested for one, if the price is right.