Re:How do I port Slackware to Sparc32/64? :-)
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It seems from my limited experience (and yes, I want to always learn, so if I am wrong I hope I'll be corrected!) like you would have to build all the packages, then wrap them up in the.tgz files, before you could do the classic Slackware install onto your system. In other words, if you wanted to blaze the trail, which will NOT be a trivial task, then everyone else would have Slack/Sparc. I don't see any shortcut for you to arrive at a working system.
If you like the feel of Slack, why not install NetBSD on your Sparc hardware? NetBSD is good stuff, and the install has a concise feel to it, much like a Slackware install.
Think about installing a BSD on your alphas. I prefer Slackware over any other Linux (started out on Yggdrasil back in '93, quickly switched to Slack). But I also prefer BSD to any Linux.
And it's great that we have so many options to choose from, so don't think that I'm slamming your choice.
Unfortunately you're probably recording Punk Rock and not music.
Although, actually, Punk Rock ended in about 1979, and was replaced by poseurs. I know, because I was there when it happened. One of the last times I went to a particular club, there were people with funny costumes out on the dance floor and a camera crew filming them. Regulars from the crowd were not allowed on the floor. We didn't have funny enough costumes on.
Punks didn't dress up to go out back then. And mommy didn't drop them off downtown with the station wagon.
Whatever. It's been a dead scene (zombie wannabes excepted) since then.
I have a Redhat CD here. Does this mean I OWN Linux and can do whatever I want with it, licenses be damned?
As an interesting sidenote: A few years ago when RedHat were in town giving a presentation, I walked up to one of the RH Reps (Melissa something, I think I remember) and asked her if it was legal for me to duplicate my RedHat 5.0 CDROMs and give them to a friend. I was answered with a very uncomfortable look and a response that it was NOT permitted.
If you're going to get extremely literal in your interpretation, then anybody who loads and runs a piece of commercial software is in violation. You make a copy of the software into RAM every time you run it. Except in those rare cases (i.e. my HP Omnibook 300 **) where the software runs in place, directly off the storage media.
(** The HP Omnibook 300 had a 10 MB ROM PCMCIA card in it that contained special run-in-place versions of Windows 3.1, Excel 4 and Word 2 that loaded and ran directly out of ROM memory. This means that on this machine it takes almost zero RAM overhead to run Word and Excel. The machine came equipped with a stock 2 MB of RAM. It is also the only machine of it's kind I have seen that displayed "Reverse Engineering Prohibited" on startup)
Re:Restrict the number of TLD's allowed per-compan
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Your arguement doesn't hold, however. Look around. There are many, many cases now of organisations that own multiple radio stations. Huge media conglomerates, even.
Re:We Are Heading To A Crisis In Trademark Law
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Actually, this is exactly what Trademark Law was devised to handle. There are scaling problems to be resolved, but law is "open source" so differences will be hammered out.
For anyone with any backgroun in microcontrollers, this is like an HC11 on steroids.
It does sound cool. But can you jumper it to come out of reset, initialize it's on-chip serial port, and wait for an.S10 file to be thrown at it over the serial port, then automatically program the contents of that file into flash?
Are you sure Apple is Motorola's biggest external customer?
They make tons and tons of embedded chips for places like the Ford Motor Company, and I suspect Ford's volume (numerous chips per car) is significantly higher than Apple Computer.
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It seems from my limited experience (and yes, I want to always learn, so if I am wrong I hope I'll be corrected!) like you would have to build all the packages, then wrap them up in the .tgz files, before you could do the classic Slackware install onto your system. In other words, if you wanted to blaze the trail, which will NOT be a trivial task, then everyone else would have Slack/Sparc. I don't see any shortcut for you to arrive at a working system.
If you like the feel of Slack, why not install NetBSD on your Sparc hardware? NetBSD is good stuff, and the install has a concise feel to it, much like a Slackware install.
Think about installing a BSD on your alphas. I prefer Slackware over any other Linux (started out on Yggdrasil back in '93, quickly switched to Slack). But I also prefer BSD to any Linux.
And it's great that we have so many options to choose from, so don't think that I'm slamming your choice.
However, my "marry a Russian amputee mail-order bride" site also tends to take a massive hit
That's the "Dr. Adder" (KW Jeter) crowd.
Cool book, btw.
Unfortunately you're probably recording Punk Rock and not music.
Although, actually, Punk Rock ended in about 1979, and was replaced by poseurs. I know, because I was there when it happened. One of the last times I went to a particular club, there were people with funny costumes out on the dance floor and a camera crew filming them. Regulars from the crowd were not allowed on the floor. We didn't have funny enough costumes on.
Punks didn't dress up to go out back then. And mommy didn't drop them off downtown with the station wagon.
Whatever. It's been a dead scene (zombie wannabes excepted) since then.
I have a Redhat CD here. Does this mean I OWN Linux and can do whatever I want with it, licenses be damned?
As an interesting sidenote: A few years ago when RedHat were in town giving a presentation, I walked up to one of the RH Reps (Melissa something, I think I remember) and asked her if it was legal for me to duplicate my RedHat 5.0 CDROMs and give them to a friend. I was answered with a very uncomfortable look and a response that it was NOT permitted.
If you're going to get extremely literal in your interpretation, then anybody who loads and runs a piece of commercial software is in violation. You make a copy of the software into RAM every time you run it. Except in those rare cases (i.e. my HP Omnibook 300 **) where the software runs in place, directly off the storage media.
(** The HP Omnibook 300 had a 10 MB ROM PCMCIA card in it that contained special run-in-place versions of Windows 3.1, Excel 4 and Word 2 that loaded and ran directly out of ROM memory. This means that on this machine it takes almost zero RAM overhead to run Word and Excel. The machine came equipped with a stock 2 MB of RAM. It is also the only machine of it's kind I have seen that displayed "Reverse Engineering Prohibited" on startup)
Your arguement doesn't hold, however. Look around. There are many, many cases now of organisations that own multiple radio stations. Huge media conglomerates, even.
Actually, this is exactly what Trademark Law was devised to handle. There are scaling problems to be resolved, but law is "open source" so differences will be hammered out.
I don't see a crisis.
Apple didn't go with Linux because they purchased NeXT. They went with BSD purely because it's the underlying OS beneath the NeXT OS.
I like BSD a lot more than Linux, too, but I'm not delusional enough to think that they chose NeXT/BSD over Linux. Linux wasn't even on the list.
For anyone with any backgroun in microcontrollers, this is like an HC11 on steroids.
.S10 file to be thrown at it over the serial port, then automatically program the contents of that file into flash?
It does sound cool. But can you jumper it to come out of reset, initialize it's on-chip serial port, and wait for an
That's what is cool about the 'HC11 chip.
Are you sure Apple is Motorola's biggest external customer?
They make tons and tons of embedded chips for places like the Ford Motor Company, and I suspect Ford's volume (numerous chips per car) is significantly higher than Apple Computer.