There is something (ok, better there was at least two years ago) called UniCon and UniKey. Which had support for japanese/korean/china simplified/china traditional characters. I'm not sure who developed this little piece of code, it might be that someone from TurboLinux, not sure tho, but it worked like a charm (for someone that doesn't know anything about this writings...;> )
You simply booted kernel in frambuffer, modprobed unicon and you had the ability to display the double-byte characters on your screen. Then for keyboard input you loaded unikey module and there was status line on the bottom where you could by pressing shift-space or ctrl-space or something like that, enter all syllables and the thing also checked if they are valid. You couldn't just write some nonsense...
So the support looked pretty much ok.. At least for me...:))
TurboLinux infact had support for Japan, traditional and simplified Chinese and Korean characters. This was from the first boot up screen where you selected language and writing.. Console support was also there...
Ah well, Turbo....:/
But I still remember how fun was porting of their installer to PPC... We completed everything and everything seemed to work, then people from China got their first beta and then you realize that it helps if you can read/write all those characters while working on installer...;)
Ah, but you missed the point... HTML was created to present the same content on multiple platforms and different kinds of user agents (try SVG or Flash on Braille terminal) and now it's everything except that...
True, it could be what it wanted to be, but it is not, blame the creators that don't write proper code, blame the useragents that don't render the code correctly... It doesn't matter it is not what was supposed to be...
And BTW, TV and Radio both successfully deliver news to me... Some flashy web page fails to do that, because I simply close the damned thing... Oh and with TV, you can still turn off the picture and just listen to it, most of the time, if you turn off Flash you will lose like 95% of the functionality... Which sucks...
I would give anything to go back to the html... All those new features... I would like to see html 2.0 and tables and that's it! People don't need anything else to put stuff on the web... Now you got all that fancy stuff, flash,... animateg gifs (ok, those could be tolerated) and all those things that make your browser choke and spit...
Use those 'new' shinny stuff somewhere else... We need something simple... I know that html alone is simple, but do we really need so many extension to it? Graphics, scripts, animations, whoknowswhatelse, FSCK! I need something that I can use to read HOWTO's and FAQ's and sometimes/.
Ah well.. I'll go back to bed.. feverish again....;)
We should make sure, that nobody runs some sort of 'Sherlock Holmes' programs on those things... It will go nuts and try to take over the ship... er... computer,..world whatever... Then we will have all sorts of photonic life forms running around, fighting for their rights...
Now suddenly it will be their fault that ISS will no longer be operational (it was operational now?)...
And what would happen if shuttle would be there docked for 6 months as a rescue vehicle? What's the big issue?
I guess shuttle is not that good anyway...
How to fix this mess? Design some capsule that could be used for reentry for emergencies. something like Apollo module or whatever would be good enough, just attach one booster and couple of thrusters so that you can back away from the station and use the booster to make a re-entry burn and then land somewhere in the ocean... Shouldn't be too difficult...
And maybe even use a shuttle to bring it to ISS...
... sort of...:) I wasn't their employee, but I worked for a company that developed ClusterServer and Enfuzion. No, they weren't developed in Japan or USA, but mostly in Slovenia (That's Europe...:P ).:)
I was working in IT and helping with everything Cluster Server too and later I was porting TurboLinux to IBM's RS6000 and AS400 platforms.
It's a shame that TurboLinux went down, why I never understood, bad marketing I guess. It was fun working for them, I don't care about the company, but there are hours of work that are now completely lost and who knows what will happen with the Linux part of Turbo.:) Maybe they'll continue to develop ClusterServer, it was pretty cool load balancing software with all the bells and whistles or Enfuzion. Or make them OpenSource... That'd be cool...;>
Well, to be honest, I hate flash. It's bloated (compared to plaintext) and it's more or less useless and doesn't do anygood to web pages. Yeah, plain old HTML2.0 with tables would be enough for me. Flash might be good for some gadget, but think of it again... Are you really sure you want to stick it in everything?
This will sound like a troll, but, think about it. Only in America you have warning labels on almost every product. Are really americans so stupid, that they don't know that plastic bags are not for eating? Do you also have signs 'do not stand in front of the moving vehicle'? Well, it's dangeorous to do that... Now every computer game will have a label? That's just great. Maybe his gun should have a label? Will she sue also the gun making company? 'He shot himself, there was no label in the gun, why don't you put a label on every gun? You bad bad gun maker!'
People get real, labels will not help, brain surgery will. Or maybe different school system...
BigWhale!
Why did all those great platforms die?
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An Amiga Round-up
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Ok, let's be true to ourselves. When Amiga was still alive and competing with Atari (I was Atari fan, I hated Amiga *grin*) PC's were junk compared to those two. There was WOW 4 Color graphics card and that was pretty much it, not to mention the glorious PC speaker. *grin* So if you wanted to work with graphics or sound your choice was Amiga or Atari. Period. They had just about everything better than average PC, also they were faster. Heck, they could also compete with VGA in all aspects.
I am personnaly glad that there is still something going on, on that scene. I'm just guessing, but all of you that bitch about Amiga being dead, must be too young to see it or something. This article is like a reminder to us all, well to us that lived in that era... *grin*
Anyway, I think that the real problem was that creators of those great platforms were mostly hackers and not bussiness men and what they were able to do is to hack and not to market. So PC overwhelmed them. Same thing now with the OS'es. Windows are so popular bcs they have good marketing (and FUD) not because they are soooo good.;)
So, stop whining and comparing your 1Ghz Athlon and GeForce3 to a piece of hardware that is almost 20 years old. Get a life, anyone can do good 3D stuff on that kind of platform, real hacking is doing a 3D shaded landscape on Atari XL/XE. And I saw it few weeks ago on, yes a working Atari 800 XL.:)
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Oh, yeah.. traffic sirens... That's just great...
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The Sound of Safety?
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Professor Withington was sitting in her car when she heard the sound of a fire engine's siren. "I realised I had not got the faintest idea where it was coming from," she said. "Because of that, I was still in danger. It was a "eureka' moment.
Right! Great Idea! Now we will have a siren that will make everyone that's driving a car look in that direction, in fact they wont be able to
resist looking into that direction...
I can just imagine now... "Oh it's the siren, where it is.. and you're looking around to spot it and by that you wiggle your steering wheel a little, and everyone on the road is doing that...
Greeeaat!!....;>
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They've been looking, speculating, guessing and who knows what else and they found shit... There's nothing in our vicinity that we could find. Face it, if there is life somewhere it will have to find us, because with today's technology we're incapable to find anything usefull...
If there was life somewhere else, they shouldn't bother to look something that is not carbon based. Silicon or whatever based life is right now as close as a warp drive... People speculate about it, you can see it in the movies and that's about it...:)
Wait few decades, I hope things will change and somebody will find something or they will find us... If not, then this whole space is such a waste... *grin*
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I never wanted to go anywhere. I'm happy here...
You know... maybe somebody should figure out how to send mail thru it. It could be used instead of MS Exchange... I bet this thing is smaller, qucker and uses much less resources than Exchange...;>
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Ok, so somebody has a TM on some product name, to protect himself. Nothing wrong with that, I agree on this one. Now, for a change let's think about this with clear head. KIllustrator is a program where you can, well Illustrate, so why not name it KIllustrate? Oh, because somebody tradmarked word Illustrate. Ah well, how more insane can we get? I'm just gonna go and trademark 'word processor' and then threaten anyone who will dare to use this two words to describe their product, god forbid use them in the name of their product (just don't start complaining that it's KIllustrator and not KIllustrate...:P)!
People whine about insane software patents. Don't you think that those kind of trademarks are even more insane? Somebody patented their work and everyone is complaining about it, but when somebody 'patents' a word everyone says it is ok? Give us non-americans a break, pleaseeeee!!!! I agree completely with Adobe, but, threats to someone that's using similar name, to theirs?
What is too much, it is just too much...:)
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Ok, here's the deal... Ever since.6 release or something like that, Mozilla was claimed to be rock solid. Every time I tried to run it was crashing all the time. It gotten better over time, but still I didn't see that rock solid thing anywhere. Maybe it works for some people, for me, well Konqueror is really rock solid. It crashes time to time, but mostly works... Of course, I'll download this release also and try to use it, but I have doubts...:)
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I never wanted to go anywhere. I'm happy here...
Slashdot it's not under attack, it's just... hmmm, well umm, Well, it's being slashdotted!;)
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I never wanted to go anywhere. I'm happy here...
Why do all distros claim to be a PPC distributions? But actually they are Linux on Mac distributions. There are a lot of differences between G3, iMac and RS/6k for example. Those are all PPC platforms and I still would like to see a single distro that would install on all of them. All the machines could use the same bootloader (yaboot) and the same binaries, but kernel would have to be different for everyone of them. I never saw three or four different kernels on one distribution. I hope this will change someday or even better that it's changed already...:)
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I never wanted to go anywhere. I'm happy here...
... yes... But what about diesel cars? VW Lupo 3l that was mentioned so many times is so expensive that you'd have to drive about 60.000 miles per year that investment would pay off... That's sad. Because if diesel cars were cheaper more people would have them and then it would really matter... Right now... Who knows...
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I never wanted to go anywhere. I'm happy here...
Slashdot Mirror
Ah, the sun could be indication of summer... ;)
There is something (ok, better there was at least two years ago) called UniCon and UniKey. Which had support for japanese/korean/china simplified/china traditional characters. I'm not sure who developed this little piece of code, it might be that someone from TurboLinux, not sure tho, but it worked like a charm (for someone that doesn't know anything about this writings... ;> )
:))
You simply booted kernel in frambuffer, modprobed unicon and you had the ability to display the double-byte characters on your screen. Then for keyboard input you loaded unikey module and there was status line on the bottom where you could by pressing shift-space or ctrl-space or something like that, enter all syllables and the thing also checked if they are valid. You couldn't just write some nonsense...
So the support looked pretty much ok.. At least for me...
TurboLinux infact had support for Japan, traditional and simplified Chinese and Korean characters. This was from the first boot up screen where you selected language and writing.. Console support was also there...
:/
;)
Ah well, Turbo....
But I still remember how fun was porting of their installer to PPC... We completed everything and everything seemed to work, then people from China got their first beta and then you realize that it helps if you can read/write all those characters while working on installer...
Ah, but you missed the point... HTML was created to present the same content on multiple platforms and different kinds of user agents (try SVG or Flash on Braille terminal) and now it's everything except that...
True, it could be what it wanted to be, but it is not, blame the creators that don't write proper code, blame the useragents that don't render the code correctly... It doesn't matter it is not what was supposed to be...
And BTW, TV and Radio both successfully deliver news to me... Some flashy web page fails to do that, because I simply close the damned thing... Oh and with TV, you can still turn off the picture and just listen to it, most of the time, if you turn off Flash you will lose like 95% of the functionality... Which sucks...
I would give anything to go back to the html... All those new features... I would like to see html 2.0 and tables and that's it! People don't need anything else to put stuff on the web... Now you got all that fancy stuff, flash,... animateg gifs (ok, those could be tolerated) and all those things that make your browser choke and spit...
/.
;)
Use those 'new' shinny stuff somewhere else... We need something simple... I know that html alone is simple, but do we really need so many extension to it? Graphics, scripts, animations, whoknowswhatelse, FSCK! I need something that I can use to read HOWTO's and FAQ's and sometimes
Ah well.. I'll go back to bed.. feverish again....
I played the game on PC...
:)
Now go figure...
Banzai!
..world whatever... Then we will have all sorts of photonic life forms running around, fighting for their rights...
We should make sure, that nobody runs some sort of 'Sherlock Holmes' programs on those things... It will go nuts and try to take over the ship... er... computer,
When eyeball is not 'inside' the skull, the iris will lose its color. After some time (this is like a day or two) it will become completely white.
:)
So, no worries about this one. fingerprint however will stay 'on' the finger for quite some time.
... would I have it? Are you kidding! I would give my right eye for one of this babies! ;>
Now suddenly it will be their fault that ISS will no longer be operational (it was operational now?)...
And what would happen if shuttle would be there docked for 6 months as a rescue vehicle? What's the big issue?
I guess shuttle is not that good anyway...
How to fix this mess? Design some capsule that could be used for reentry for emergencies. something like Apollo module or whatever would be good enough, just attach one booster and couple of thrusters so that you can back away from the station and use the booster to make a re-entry burn and then land somewhere in the ocean... Shouldn't be too difficult...
And maybe even use a shuttle to bring it to ISS...
Dunno...
I was working in IT and helping with everything Cluster Server too and later I was porting TurboLinux to IBM's RS6000 and AS400 platforms.
It's a shame that TurboLinux went down, why I never understood, bad marketing I guess. It was fun working for them, I don't care about the company, but there are hours of work that are now completely lost and who knows what will happen with the Linux part of Turbo.
So much for the Turbo... Heh...
-- Earthquake warning alarm -- ;>
1: "Ok, quake comming up.. Turn off the gas"
2: "Where are the basement keys?"
1: "On the shelf beside the door..."
2: "Which door?"
1: "To the basement?"
2: "Aha..."
1: "Hm, here's twenty or so keys..."
2: "Hurry up!"
1: "I'm trying..."
2: "Give me the keys damn it..."
2: "Look, it's this one, see..."
-- door opening --
1: "Ok, quick now..."
-- ground shaking --
-- rumble --
1,2: "UGH!"
Ah well...
Well, to be honest, I hate flash. It's bloated (compared to plaintext) and it's more or less useless and doesn't do anygood to web pages. Yeah, plain old HTML2.0 with tables would be enough for me. Flash might be good for some gadget, but think of it again... Are you really sure you want to stick it in everything?
;> :))
I have a bad feeling about this
Bioware has released a dedicated Linux server for NeverWinter Nights. It requires a Windows install to use,
:)
Wait... Dedicated Linux... but... well... Windows install... oooh.... Funny...
Warning!
Do not look at the laser with the remaining eye!
:)
Banzai!
This will sound like a troll, but, think about it. Only in America you have warning labels on almost every product. Are really americans so stupid, that they don't know that plastic bags are not for eating? Do you also have signs 'do not stand in front of the moving vehicle'? Well, it's dangeorous to do that... Now every computer game will have a label? That's just great. Maybe his gun should have a label? Will she sue also the gun making company? 'He shot himself, there was no label in the gun, why don't you put a label on every gun? You bad bad gun maker!'
People get real, labels will not help, brain surgery will. Or maybe different school system...
BigWhale!
Ok, let's be true to ourselves. When Amiga was still alive and competing with Atari (I was Atari fan, I hated Amiga *grin*) PC's were junk compared to those two. There was WOW 4 Color graphics card and that was pretty much it, not to mention the glorious PC speaker. *grin* So if you wanted to work with graphics or sound your choice was Amiga or Atari. Period. They had just about everything better than average PC, also they were faster. Heck, they could also compete with VGA in all aspects.
;)
:)
I am personnaly glad that there is still something going on, on that scene. I'm just guessing, but all of you that bitch about Amiga being dead, must be too young to see it or something. This article is like a reminder to us all, well to us that lived in that era... *grin*
Anyway, I think that the real problem was that creators of those great platforms were mostly hackers and not bussiness men and what they were able to do is to hack and not to market. So PC overwhelmed them. Same thing now with the OS'es. Windows are so popular bcs they have good marketing (and FUD) not because they are soooo good.
So, stop whining and comparing your 1Ghz Athlon and GeForce3 to a piece of hardware that is almost 20 years old. Get a life, anyone can do good 3D stuff on that kind of platform, real hacking is doing a 3D shaded landscape on Atari XL/XE. And I saw it few weeks ago on, yes a working Atari 800 XL.
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I never wanted to go anywhere. I'm happy here...
Right! Great Idea! Now we will have a siren that will make everyone that's driving a car look in that direction, in fact they wont be able to resist looking into that direction...
;>
I can just imagine now... "Oh it's the siren, where it is.. and you're looking around to spot it and by that you wiggle your steering wheel a little, and everyone on the road is doing that...
Greeeaat!!....
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I never wanted to go anywhere. I'm happy here...
They've been looking, speculating, guessing and who knows what else and they found shit... There's nothing in our vicinity that we could find. Face it, if there is life somewhere it will have to find us, because with today's technology we're incapable to find anything usefull...
:)
If there was life somewhere else, they shouldn't bother to look something that is not carbon based. Silicon or whatever based life is right now as close as a warp drive... People speculate about it, you can see it in the movies and that's about it...
Wait few decades, I hope things will change and somebody will find something or they will find us... If not, then this whole space is such a waste... *grin*
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I never wanted to go anywhere. I'm happy here...
You know... maybe somebody should figure out how to send mail thru it. It could be used instead of MS Exchange... I bet this thing is smaller, qucker and uses much less resources than Exchange... ;>
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I never wanted to go anywhere. I'm happy here...
Banzai!
:P)!
:)
Ok, so somebody has a TM on some product name, to protect himself. Nothing wrong with that, I agree on this one. Now, for a change let's think about this with clear head. KIllustrator is a program where you can, well Illustrate, so why not name it KIllustrate? Oh, because somebody tradmarked word Illustrate. Ah well, how more insane can we get? I'm just gonna go and trademark 'word processor' and then threaten anyone who will dare to use this two words to describe their product, god forbid use them in the name of their product (just don't start complaining that it's KIllustrator and not KIllustrate...
People whine about insane software patents. Don't you think that those kind of trademarks are even more insane? Somebody patented their work and everyone is complaining about it, but when somebody 'patents' a word everyone says it is ok? Give us non-americans a break, pleaseeeee!!!! I agree completely with Adobe, but, threats to someone that's using similar name, to theirs?
What is too much, it is just too much...
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I never wanted to go anywhere. I'm happy here...
BigWhale!
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I never wanted to go anywhere. I'm happy here...
Slashdot it's not under attack, it's just... hmmm, well umm, Well, it's being slashdotted! ;)
BigWhale!
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I never wanted to go anywhere. I'm happy here...
Why do all distros claim to be a PPC distributions? But actually they are Linux on Mac distributions. There are a lot of differences between G3, iMac and RS/6k for example. Those are all PPC platforms and I still would like to see a single distro that would install on all of them. All the machines could use the same bootloader (yaboot) and the same binaries, but kernel would have to be different for everyone of them. I never saw three or four different kernels on one distribution. I hope this will change someday or even better that it's changed already... :)
Bigwhale!
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I never wanted to go anywhere. I'm happy here...
... yes... But what about diesel cars? VW Lupo 3l that was mentioned so many times is so expensive that you'd have to drive about 60.000 miles per year that investment would pay off... That's sad. Because if diesel cars were cheaper more people would have them and then it would really matter... Right now... Who knows...
BigWhale!
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I never wanted to go anywhere. I'm happy here...