Apple's second foray into xNIX-like operating systems after A/UX was MKLinux. Basically MKLinux was the bastard child of Linux and the Mach microkernel. It's no longer actively developed by Apple for obvious (MacOS X) reasons, but it's still got a bit of a community left at http://www.mklinux.org/.
I think it only runs on Power Macintosh, and it's the only flavor of Linux that will work on NuBus (first generation) Power Macs.
I thought someone was trolling/kidding about the Treamcast but apparently it does exist. No, that's not a typo...that's what the HK wizards who built it call it.
There is precious little info in the reviews I linked to. The dcemu.co.uk review mentioned an empty modem slot...will a DC modem fit the slot? How about the Broadband adapter? What about usage of all my DC goodies with this machine...some of the stuff I like to play requires not one, but two VMUs to make it work like I like it, and I have favorite controllers I use. The one that comes with the Treamcast looks pretty lame. And what about The Typing Of The Dead? Can I plug in my SegaNet keyboard and type some zombie ass to Kingdom Come?
Despite the unanswered questions, the Treamcast suggests there's life in the old platform yet, regardless of Sega killing it before its time. Between the fanboys writing new games for it and the legally questionable but laudable in many other respects manufacture of this brand new version of the platform what remains of Sega is probably kicking itself.
You can't keep a good console down! W00t!
I'm buying Fahrenheit 9/11 the day it comes out...
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...then I'm going to throw F9/11 watching parties up until the election. I waived my boycott of the MPAA to go see the movie, and I will waive my boycott of them to buy a DVD of it.
Unfortunately I don't have access to a SVGA projector. If I did, I have a DVD player (a player, not a computer with a DVD drive, simplicity rules) that is currently set up to output video out its SVGA port.
Hopefully someone with an SVGA projector and a copy of F9/11 might get inspired to set up guerilla drive in showings between the September release date and November 2nd. Which, as you can read from my.SIG, is Official Regime Change Day in the US. That is, if it's not postponed...ugh...
but California, beholden to the entertainment lobby, would never attempt such a thing.
Exactly. My Congresscritter is Howard Berman. My Senators are Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein. All three are 0wnz0r3d, lock, stock and barrel, by the RIAA and the MPAA.
If those three had their way copyright would be "Forever less one day."
And before you tell me to vote Republican and throw them out it is abundantly clear that nothing would change. The RIAA and the MPAA are way too powerful not to get California's elected reps dancing to their tune.
I intend to vote against Berman like I did two years ago because he's pissed me off too much, and he has Gerrymandered himself into a "safe" seat. However, I have to vote for Feinstein and Boxer because the alternative would be "conservative" (radical Religio-fascist is more accurate) Republicans who would be advocating policies which I disagree wholeheartedly with, and would be equally 0wnz0r3d by the xxAAs.
Also, there is the matter of Gates and Allen dumpster diving at Dartmouth to get the guts of their Microsoft Altair Basic, and Gates, Allen and Ballmer paying the author of QDOS a pittance to get the source and "innovate" their MS-DOS from it. This is SOP for Microsoft. I'm not surprised. The surprising thing about this whole affair is the fact that this guy GOT CAUGHT.
This is something that I have been waiting for for a long time. A software DVD player that "Just Works" on Linux? Bring it on, man! This is the reason why I am sort of, kind of, considering Linspire as a way to get Debian-based Linux on a machine or two of mine. You still cannot download a trial version from the Cyberlink site, which is an oversight at best and really nasty of Cyberlink at worst.
I would take Linspire over Turbolinux because Turbo is an RPM-based distro, and Linspire is Debian under the hood and can be updated to Debian Testing/Unstable with a few apt-get commands. Here's the how-to: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7165
These are the same guys who are PROUD of the fact that they never watched the original series.
Now I know why I absolutely loathe Rick Berman and what he has done to Star Trek. TOS is the root from which the entire Star Trek Universe sprang. Cheesy or not, it is the model for everything that came before it.
Someone yank the ST franchise from Berman's grubbies and put it on hiatus for a while. Voyager and Enterprise suck runny eggs. It's time to put it to bed. Maybe give it to Stracynski (sp?) after a few fallow years.
As for myself, I find that Mozilla 1.6 (I know 1.7 is out, but this is doing me just fine) can go just about everywhere IE does.
The only time I use IE is to run this retarded courseware I occasionally have to use for College, or going to Windows Update to patch things. Like this damn fool 'sploit. Thank you very much, MS. Fix your fsckn OS, already, k?
Ummm...so was Jack Valenti. He was a cabinet member in LBJ's cabinet. Special assistant to the President, whatever that entails. My Congressman and both ofmy Senators are thoroughly 0wnz0r3d by the RIAA and MPAA. And they all are Democrats. Dems are usually better about personal freedom issues, but that all falls apart whenever Big Media and their desire for special rights against potential thieves^H^H^Hconsumers enters into the picture.
All I know was this: I was using FireFox 0.9 for about two hours the first night I downloaded it onto this machine:
Thinkpad 600e 400MHz Pentium II Mobile processor 228MB RAM 10GB HD running Knoppix 3.3 installed to HD.
All went well until FireFox became very sluggish. Did the top command in console, and noticed that FireFox's process was taking 95% of CPU. I tried a simple kill of FireFox's process, but it wouldn't yield. A kill -9 did the trick.
I have been limiting the amount of time I use FireFox 0.9 and that seems to help. Quitting the program and then restarting it seems to be beneficial.
The University I am preparing to attend, Woodbury, has a policy where they require their students to have at least a 300MHz Pentium (Pro? 2? Celeron?) class computer, (laptop preferred, desktop in your dorm room accepted) some version of Windows, a copy of Office 2000 or Office XP, and a copy of SPSS. LA Valley College, on the other hand, has no such policy, but it also has a free Wi-Fi hotspot I'm looking forward to using in the future.
I've got the laptop in question right here, (I'm typing on it now) and yeah, I dual-boot Linux (Knoppix knx-hdinstall) and Windows 2000 SP4. I need to upgrade the hard drive to give both systems the space they need to coexist happily, but even now they both are happy together. The hard drive is 10GB, there is 228MB of RAM in here, and I have both a wired NIC and a Prism-based 802.11b card to use with it. It won't run Neverwinter Nights or Doom 3, or anything like that, but from what I understand Starcraft will probably run on this. I can certainly play KMahjongg on this until the cows come home.
However, I intend to use this machine primarily on Linux...*especially* when it is hooked up to the University network. Everyone knows just how good OpenOffice.org is as an Office alternative, and how much it needs to evolve, so I won't say much about that. However, the SPSS requirement is something that takes some thought.
After some judicious googling, I found two SPSS alternatives: The R Project and GNU/PSPP. I don't know much about either program, (nor do I know much about SPSS) but it's good to know there are at least two alternatives that leap out at you when you look for it.
Linux solves a lot of problems that bedevil IT departments at Colleges and Universities. It comes with great Free/Open Source alternatives to widely-bootlegged proprietary software. It is less prone to malware, viruses and trojans. It is more secure than Windows. And if you look beyond full-figured GUIs like GNOME and KDE and use trim window managers like IceWM, BlackBox, XFCE and so on, you can run graphical Linux on modest computers. Linux + KDE is actually quite nimble on my 400MHz ThinkPad 600E, and I have seen it run OK on 233MHz Pentium systems with 128MB RAM or better. If Windows 2000 will run on a machine, Linux and KDE will also run.
All these problems the article we're discussing enumerates would be ameliorated if not completely sidestepped by encouraging alternatives to a Windows Monoculture.
No, the date showed as being 1901. Seriously.
Tue Jan 19 03:14:01 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:02 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:03 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:04 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:05 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:06 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038
Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901
Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901
Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901
This looks like a job for Dharmaman! Faster than a swinging monkey! More powerful than an Elephant! Able to leap Mount Meru in a single bound! Truth, Justice, and the Bharati way! With lots of singing and dancing!
Which is apparently still a problem under Linux. I ran the script from the page and it rolled over from 2038 to 1901. This is on a Linux 2.4.x kernel, however...I don't know what would happen if it was run under a 2.6.x kernel.
So does Palm Desktop...it requires being Admin. Again, for no freakin' reason at all other than sloppy coding. Kiss Palm Desktop buh-bye when XP SP2 comes out.
...Nuku Nuku.She's got the brain of a cat, the behavior of a genki little High School girl, and she kicks all manner of ass. I'm sure she's a bit low on their priority list but she deserves a spot in the Robot Hall Of Fame.
Yes, my blog at blogspot.com got me my Golden Gmail Ticket. Frankly I don't know what all the hubbub is about. I look at it as yet another disposable address.:P
(That's the sound of me taking notes on my refurbed Palm m125. Or playing Mahjongg solitare on it, take your choice.)
I personally don't know what I'd do without my Palm. I use it basically to do everything I used to do in a paper and pencil organizer, and the difference between a 5 pound DayRunner and a 6 ounce m125 is pretty obvious. It's nice that you can also do other things like play cute little games on it and have an entire dictionary and thesaurus on it too.
If any of you reading this are in the Western US, Fry's is selling a Palm IIIxe in their stores for $30 after rebate. I have had good luck with these factory refurbed units. The XE has 8MB of Flash which, as you know, is split between files and programs and the OS. This device can have its OS upgraded to PalmOS v.4.1, which is pretty damn modern. You don't get the SDIO/SD/MMC slot I get, but that is a minor convenience.
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I think it only runs on Power Macintosh, and it's the only flavor of Linux that will work on NuBus (first generation) Power Macs.
I thought someone was trolling/kidding about the Treamcast but apparently it does exist. No, that's not a typo...that's what the HK wizards who built it call it.
There is precious little info in the reviews I linked to. The dcemu.co.uk review mentioned an empty modem slot...will a DC modem fit the slot? How about the Broadband adapter? What about usage of all my DC goodies with this machine...some of the stuff I like to play requires not one, but two VMUs to make it work like I like it, and I have favorite controllers I use. The one that comes with the Treamcast looks pretty lame. And what about The Typing Of The Dead? Can I plug in my SegaNet keyboard and type some zombie ass to Kingdom Come?
Despite the unanswered questions, the Treamcast suggests there's life in the old platform yet, regardless of Sega killing it before its time. Between the fanboys writing new games for it and the legally questionable but laudable in many other respects manufacture of this brand new version of the platform what remains of Sega is probably kicking itself.
You can't keep a good console down! W00t!
...then I'm going to throw F9/11 watching parties up until the election. I waived my boycott of the MPAA to go see the movie, and I will waive my boycott of them to buy a DVD of it.
.SIG, is Official Regime Change Day in the US. That is, if it's not postponed...ugh...
Unfortunately I don't have access to a SVGA projector. If I did, I have a DVD player (a player, not a computer with a DVD drive, simplicity rules) that is currently set up to output video out its SVGA port.
Hopefully someone with an SVGA projector and a copy of F9/11 might get inspired to set up guerilla drive in showings between the September release date and November 2nd. Which, as you can read from my
G4TechTV sux0rz. Curse you, Comcast! Curse you!
(Yeah, I know he's on KFI Radio here in LA. Whatever, I miss him on TSS.)
Be careful what you wish for.
but California, beholden to the entertainment lobby, would never attempt such a thing.
Exactly. My Congresscritter is Howard Berman. My Senators are Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein. All three are 0wnz0r3d, lock, stock and barrel, by the RIAA and the MPAA.
If those three had their way copyright would be "Forever less one day."
And before you tell me to vote Republican and throw them out it is abundantly clear that nothing would change. The RIAA and the MPAA are way too powerful not to get California's elected reps dancing to their tune.
I intend to vote against Berman like I did two years ago because he's pissed me off too much, and he has Gerrymandered himself into a "safe" seat. However, I have to vote for Feinstein and Boxer because the alternative would be "conservative" (radical Religio-fascist is more accurate) Republicans who would be advocating policies which I disagree wholeheartedly with, and would be equally 0wnz0r3d by the xxAAs.
Also, there is the matter of Gates and Allen dumpster diving at Dartmouth to get the guts of their Microsoft Altair Basic, and Gates, Allen and Ballmer paying the author of QDOS a pittance to get the source and "innovate" their MS-DOS from it. This is SOP for Microsoft. I'm not surprised. The surprising thing about this whole affair is the fact that this guy GOT CAUGHT.
I would take Linspire over Turbolinux because Turbo is an RPM-based distro, and Linspire is Debian under the hood and can be updated to Debian Testing/Unstable with a few apt-get commands. Here's the how-to: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7165
Now I know why I absolutely loathe Rick Berman and what he has done to Star Trek. TOS is the root from which the entire Star Trek Universe sprang. Cheesy or not, it is the model for everything that came before it.
Someone yank the ST franchise from Berman's grubbies and put it on hiatus for a while. Voyager and Enterprise suck runny eggs. It's time to put it to bed. Maybe give it to Stracynski (sp?) after a few fallow years.
It just so happens that LWN.Net talked about this recently.
As for myself, I find that Mozilla 1.6 (I know 1.7 is out, but this is doing me just fine) can go just about everywhere IE does.
The only time I use IE is to run this retarded courseware I occasionally have to use for College, or going to Windows Update to patch things. Like this damn fool 'sploit. Thank you very much, MS. Fix your fsckn OS, already, k?
Ummm...so was Jack Valenti. He was a cabinet member in LBJ's cabinet. Special assistant to the President, whatever that entails. My Congressman and both of my Senators are thoroughly 0wnz0r3d by the RIAA and MPAA. And they all are Democrats. Dems are usually better about personal freedom issues, but that all falls apart whenever Big Media and their desire for special rights against potential thieves^H^H^Hconsumers enters into the picture.
All I know was this: I was using FireFox 0.9 for about two hours the first night I downloaded it onto this machine:
Thinkpad 600e
400MHz Pentium II Mobile processor
228MB RAM
10GB HD
running Knoppix 3.3 installed to HD.
All went well until FireFox became very sluggish. Did the top command in console, and noticed that FireFox's process was taking 95% of CPU. I tried a simple kill of FireFox's process, but it wouldn't yield. A kill -9 did the trick.
I have been limiting the amount of time I use FireFox 0.9 and that seems to help. Quitting the program and then restarting it seems to be beneficial.
If this is useful, please let me know.
Thanks,
Michelle
Did they fix the memory leak in FireFox 0.9 for Linux?
Which, alas, is likely to reverse this decision.
I've got the laptop in question right here, (I'm typing on it now) and yeah, I dual-boot Linux (Knoppix knx-hdinstall) and Windows 2000 SP4. I need to upgrade the hard drive to give both systems the space they need to coexist happily, but even now they both are happy together. The hard drive is 10GB, there is 228MB of RAM in here, and I have both a wired NIC and a Prism-based 802.11b card to use with it. It won't run Neverwinter Nights or Doom 3, or anything like that, but from what I understand Starcraft will probably run on this. I can certainly play KMahjongg on this until the cows come home.
However, I intend to use this machine primarily on Linux...*especially* when it is hooked up to the University network. Everyone knows just how good OpenOffice.org is as an Office alternative, and how much it needs to evolve, so I won't say much about that. However, the SPSS requirement is something that takes some thought.
After some judicious googling, I found two SPSS alternatives: The R Project and GNU/PSPP. I don't know much about either program, (nor do I know much about SPSS) but it's good to know there are at least two alternatives that leap out at you when you look for it.
Linux should be a supported alternative at all Universities and Colleges throughout the world. Actually, I think Linux should be promoted over Windows, and I am not alone in thinking this..
Linux solves a lot of problems that bedevil IT departments at Colleges and Universities. It comes with great Free/Open Source alternatives to widely-bootlegged proprietary software. It is less prone to malware, viruses and trojans. It is more secure than Windows. And if you look beyond full-figured GUIs like GNOME and KDE and use trim window managers like IceWM, BlackBox, XFCE and so on, you can run graphical Linux on modest computers. Linux + KDE is actually quite nimble on my 400MHz ThinkPad 600E, and I have seen it run OK on 233MHz Pentium systems with 128MB RAM or better. If Windows 2000 will run on a machine, Linux and KDE will also run.
All these problems the article we're discussing enumerates would be ameliorated if not completely sidestepped by encouraging alternatives to a Windows Monoculture.
No, the date showed as being 1901. Seriously.
Tue Jan 19 03:14:01 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:02 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:03 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:04 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:05 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:06 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038
Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901
Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901
Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901
This looks like a job for Dharmaman! Faster than a swinging monkey! More powerful than an Elephant! Able to leap Mount Meru in a single bound! Truth, Justice, and the Bharati way! With lots of singing and dancing!
Which is apparently still a problem under Linux. I ran the script from the page and it rolled over from 2038 to 1901. This is on a Linux 2.4.x kernel, however...I don't know what would happen if it was run under a 2.6.x kernel.
So does Palm Desktop...it requires being Admin. Again, for no freakin' reason at all other than sloppy coding. Kiss Palm Desktop buh-bye when XP SP2 comes out.
Oh definitely...you brought up a lot of good Anime robots.
...Nuku Nuku.She's got the brain of a cat, the behavior of a genki little High School girl, and she kicks all manner of ass. I'm sure she's a bit low on their priority list but she deserves a spot in the Robot Hall Of Fame.
Yes, my blog at blogspot.com got me my Golden Gmail Ticket. Frankly I don't know what all the hubbub is about. I look at it as yet another disposable address. :P
Winona: Dude?
Keanu: Whoa.
Woody: Groovy.
Winona: Dude!
Robert: (Grins)
Keanu: Whoa.
I personally don't know what I'd do without my Palm. I use it basically to do everything I used to do in a paper and pencil organizer, and the difference between a 5 pound DayRunner and a 6 ounce m125 is pretty obvious. It's nice that you can also do other things like play cute little games on it and have an entire dictionary and thesaurus on it too.
If any of you reading this are in the Western US, Fry's is selling a Palm IIIxe in their stores for $30 after rebate. I have had good luck with these factory refurbed units. The XE has 8MB of Flash which, as you know, is split between files and programs and the OS. This device can have its OS upgraded to PalmOS v.4.1, which is pretty damn modern. You don't get the SDIO/SD/MMC slot I get, but that is a minor convenience.
Actually if you want to spend $80 you can get a a refurbed m125 like mine through Fry's online presence, Outpost.Com. I don't know if they are available in stores, but you can ask a salesperson to look up SKU number 3748726 on one of the machines on the floor. I like mine.