There once was a thread a long time ago on slashdot in something to do with coffee, where someone referred to something called "cold brewed" I think.
The jist is that you soak grinds in cold water in a fridge for a long time, pour off the liquid into a container, that you can use to make your own 'instant' with hot water.
I don't remember more than that, (anyone done this?) but the folks who mentioned it swore by the flavor.
Some of the items on the list are flops, but the biggest 8--not hardly.
I'm sure that if we tried, we could come up with a better list of 8 flops..
Shit, OS/2 ain't even on the list. How about Taligent? Bill Gates himself said that Taligent was the one thing he worried about that ended up being absolutely nothing.
What about the Disney Sound Doohicky--It plugged into the parallel port, and gave some of the crappiest sound ever made on a computer.
The list certainly could have been better than that.:p
Sun's goal is to apply its expertise in Java to defining an architecture-independent, low-level software standard - like Java bytecodes - that a language could present to any computer's run-time environment.
Sun's expertise in Java? From the asshats who brought us SWING??!?
Thiis is kinda like having Osama bin Laden in charge of bringing peace to the middle east.
This is all kinda like a mule with a spinning wheel: No one knows how he got it, and be damned if he knows how to use it.
Seriously tho' Almost all of them are running under virtual PC. That hardly makes this article about a powerbook, and more a testemonial to Virutal PC ( or a simple x86 processor ).
Now, if you want to have fun, one could certainly load 55+ OSes native on a PC notebook, all directly bootable with one of those new-fangled boot managers.:p
In my brand new Honda Accord, I came out to the cold Canadian air last week, pressed the button on my key to open the door, and All I heard was a faint thudding click. It seemed the locking mechanism was a tad frozen ( it was -26c that night).
Repeated attempts were not producing results, so I inserted the key into the lock, figuring I'd just open in manually. It turns out there is no physical connection to the locking mechanism, the key simply triggers the electronic lock!
Needless to say, I ended up popping the trunk with the remote, and crawling thru, pushing down the back seat. When I got inside the car, I had to end up pulling the lock up mannualy, and boy was it ever stuck.
Seems like a simple thing, but how the hell could some idiot engineer put together a single point of failure for getting into the car?
What if the battery was dead? then neither the trunk nor the door would open, and I couldn't get in to pop the hood to replace the battery. Needless to say, I'm still quite pissed about it.
I'll be yelling rather profusely at the Honda rep this week.
But seriously, Every once in a while someone comes up with the idea that software should be easy enough to create that anyone could do it.
It never ceases to amaze me that people think they want that. What you will get is 5 million shitty apps. A great software developer doesn't simply code the solution, but can provide insight into the solution.
Apparently, MS is considering using it's recently--acquired Connectix stuff to do emulation of the X86 instruction set.
This should be quite interesting. Given that MS can change the specs of the box at will, I wonder how long it will take for the Xbox Linux hackers to keep up.
Hey, as much as MS is a pain in the ass, they also tend to be a lightning rod for this sort of crap.
They at least have the ability to deflect some of the wrath of companies like eolas (which is not some small downtrodden either-- this is a company which specializes in buying patents from losers, and then using them to sue the shit out of companies.)
Microsoft needs to beat this, otherwise there may be hell to pay all over.
And, as for the "free(as beer)" concept, it boils down to the two types of free:
a) liberty -- free to do that as you please b) gratis -- something for no cost.
Think of the (as beer) as a casting operation to the free word.
People will often say free(libre) or free(gratis), but more often, it is just easier to say free(as beer) 'cause who would turn down free beer?
And finally, how can someone who has such a low slashdot ID not have picked these things up? Have you been pouring hot grits down Natalie Portman's pants?:p
Ext2: Whoops. I guess my bad.. I knew they *could* do a clean room, there's plenty of info, I just still doubt they DID.
I just found out about ExtFS anywhere... I suspect that *is* a clean room, given the nightmare of making windows file systems, starting with the linux one, wouldn't be much help;p
I never thought about the BSD version. Hmmm. In a way I'm kinda suprised that that exists. Was that really implemented from scratch? Really? wow.
Still the Linux Compatability layer in SCO Unix is hardly likely to be actually cleanroomed. (wait: I've got a SCO style argument for that!) "There's no possible way they could come up with that without using the source code" -- Isn't that what they said about the SMP support in linux?
Heh-heh..
either way, I would almost bet the farm on GPL code being inside of SCO's products. Those dimwits aren't all that careful.
Heck, I'd be willing to concede that there is a significant amount shared. But how can we tell when it appeared in SCO's code? As it's closed source, there is no public record of the commits to their source tree. All those copied code segments between Linux and Unix probably originated with Linux.
Any way you slice it, SCO is a box full of assholes. Unwiped.:p
It's not really relevant whether the GPL is valid or not.
If the GPL is compeletly invalid -- they have a singular problem : Distributing copywrited software without a license. Linus et all can sue for massive damages.
If the GPL is valid, they are in a boatload of shit anyway: How the fuck could they get EXT2 compatability in SCO Unix? They sure the hell didn't clean room it. I wanna see the code to their filesystems. How about the Linux Compatability crap? Clean room? NO FUCKING WAY!
any way you slice it, SCO is gettin' ready to get their butts kicked, but IBM, Redhat SuSE and others.
You: You can't handle the truth! Son, we live in a world that has firewalls. And those firewalls have to be guarded by men with keyboards. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for the treasury department and you curse the Hackers. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that The treasury departments scans, while tragic, probably saved networks. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves networks...You don't want the truth. Because deep down, in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me in that code. You need me in that code.
We use words like hack, root, pwnzz...we use these words as the backbone to a life spent defending something. You use 'em as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide, then questions the manner in which I provide it! I'd rather you just said thank you and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a manual and stand a terminal. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you're entitled to!
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There once was a thread a long time ago on slashdot in something to do with coffee, where someone referred to something called "cold brewed" I think.
The jist is that you soak grinds in cold water in a fridge for a long time, pour off the liquid into a container, that you can use to make your own 'instant' with hot water.
I don't remember more than that, (anyone done this?) but the folks who mentioned it swore by the flavor.
Anyone?
Never heard of those... must be some kind of sugary candy.
And hey, since when did Slashdot become Fark's bitch? This was run just a day or so ago on Fark.
*sigh*
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that Fark ran too.
"Guy modifies his Honda Civic into X-Wing... er, "H-Wing." Ladies, this is not the geek you are looking for"
*sigh*
I really wish that IBM would Acquire/Merge with Novell.
:)
That would just be damn great, and likely offer more leverage to smash SCO into tiny itsy bitsy peices.
Heh-heh.
:)
I like the objectivity on both sides of this debate.
We all like to cry FUD everytime someone we dislike opens their mouth. FUD of course, is "Fear, Uncertainty,Doubt"... Nowhere does it say "Lying"
Has anyone considered that there is little left to marketing than making you afraid of not having a product? Pretty much makes all advertising "FUD"
That's a pretty lame article.
:p
Some of the items on the list are flops, but the biggest 8--not hardly.
I'm sure that if we tried, we could come up with a better list of 8 flops..
Shit, OS/2 ain't even on the list. How about Taligent? Bill Gates himself said that Taligent was the one thing he worried about that ended up being absolutely nothing.
What about the Disney Sound Doohicky--It plugged into the parallel port, and gave some of the crappiest sound ever made on a computer.
The list certainly could have been better than that.
According to the article:
Sun's goal is to apply its expertise in Java to defining an architecture-independent, low-level software standard - like Java bytecodes - that a language could present to any computer's run-time environment.
Sun's expertise in Java? From the asshats who brought us SWING??!?
Thiis is kinda like having Osama bin Laden in charge of bringing peace to the middle east.
Sure as shit, he's got 55 OSes on there.
:p
This is all kinda like a mule with a spinning wheel: No one knows how he got it, and be damned if he knows how to use it.
Seriously tho' Almost all of them are running under virtual PC. That hardly makes this article about a powerbook, and more a testemonial to Virutal PC ( or a simple x86 processor ).
Now, if you want to have fun, one could certainly load 55+ OSes native on a PC notebook, all directly bootable with one of those new-fangled boot managers.
It is most likely just using the ATA password feature present on most ATA drives. Some mfrs don't implement them, but alot do.
XBOX, UltimateTV and other systems use this to stop you from accessing the drive.
I beleive there is two passwords for the drive, an OEM password and a user password.
nothing magical here folks..
"That's no mooon, it's a SPACESTATION".
:)
Oops, SCO is about to get blasted.
Calgary, Alberta. :)
It was damn freekin' cold.
Brrr.
I just had the opposite problem.
In my brand new Honda Accord, I came out to the cold Canadian air last week, pressed the button on my key to open the door, and All I heard was a faint thudding click. It seemed the locking mechanism was a tad frozen ( it was -26c that night).
Repeated attempts were not producing results, so I inserted the key into the lock, figuring I'd just open in manually. It turns out there is no physical connection to the locking mechanism, the key simply triggers the electronic lock!
Needless to say, I ended up popping the trunk with the remote, and crawling thru, pushing down the back seat. When I got inside the car, I had to end up pulling the lock up mannualy, and boy was it ever stuck.
Seems like a simple thing, but how the hell could some idiot engineer put together a single point of failure for getting into the car?
What if the battery was dead? then neither the trunk nor the door would open, and I couldn't get in to pop the hood to replace the battery. Needless to say, I'm still quite pissed about it.
I'll be yelling rather profusely at the Honda rep this week.
G
For your birthday, we have a plan to write your name into the moon.
Not unless you can pull some serious magic out of your ass :)
Unfortunatly, JUNCTION won't let you mount network shares into an existing drive tree.
I freekin' wish. *sigh*
Me too.
But seriously, Every once in a while someone comes up with the idea that software should be easy enough to create that anyone could do it.
It never ceases to amaze me that people think they want that. What you will get is 5 million shitty apps. A great software developer doesn't simply code the solution, but can provide insight into the solution.
I, for one am not worried in the slightest.
Apparently, MS is considering using it's recently--acquired Connectix stuff to do emulation of the X86 instruction set.
This should be quite interesting. Given that MS can change the specs of the box at will, I wonder how long it will take for the Xbox Linux hackers to keep up.
I for one, welcome our new Chineese overlords.
Heh-heh, hey look ma!, on Topic!
It is not 'same shit, new wrapping', it is a completely new company with no other relation to Trustix than that they were emplyed there at one point.
Pity the headline and blurb didn't explain that. You summed it up in as much text, but made it clear.
but, whatever.
This is most excellent news.
Hey, as much as MS is a pain in the ass, they also tend to be a lightning rod for this sort of crap.
They at least have the ability to deflect some of the wrath of companies like eolas (which is not some small downtrodden either-- this is a company which specializes in buying patents from losers, and then using them to sue the shit out of companies.)
Microsoft needs to beat this, otherwise there may be hell to pay all over.
Damn Fine Job.
Please don't call it the PS/2
:( :) :p
When I read that I was thinking: I wonder if there is any good support for microchannel hardware?
PS/2 == IBM Crap
PS2 == Sony Crap
That's great news for super-duct-work-activity! :p
And, as for the "free(as beer)" concept, it boils down to the two types of free:
:p
a) liberty -- free to do that as you please
b) gratis -- something for no cost.
Think of the (as beer) as a casting operation to the free word.
People will often say free(libre) or free(gratis), but more often, it is just easier to say free(as beer) 'cause who would turn down free beer?
And finally, how can someone who has such a low slashdot ID not have picked these things up? Have you been pouring hot grits down Natalie Portman's pants?
other than bleedinge edge Gentoo and "we don't need no steenking 2.x kernels" Debian
:)
This makes me smile.
Not that it's not too much of an strech.
I'm running several gentoo boxen, all with at least 2.6.0-test3-mm1 or higher.
It's pretty damn good, but there is always room for improvement.
Ext2: Whoops. I guess my bad.. I knew they *could* do a clean room, there's plenty of info, I just still doubt they DID.
;p
:p
I just found out about ExtFS anywhere... I suspect that *is* a clean room, given the nightmare of making windows file systems, starting with the linux one, wouldn't be much help
I never thought about the BSD version. Hmmm. In a way I'm kinda suprised that that exists. Was that really implemented from scratch? Really? wow.
Still the Linux Compatability layer in SCO Unix is hardly likely to be actually cleanroomed. (wait: I've got a SCO style argument for that!) "There's no possible way they could come up with that without using the source code" -- Isn't that what they said about the SMP support in linux?
Heh-heh..
either way, I would almost bet the farm on GPL code being inside of SCO's products. Those dimwits aren't all that careful.
Heck, I'd be willing to concede that there is a significant amount shared. But how can we tell when it appeared in SCO's code? As it's closed source, there is no public record of the commits to their source tree. All those copied code segments between Linux and Unix probably originated with Linux.
Any way you slice it, SCO is a box full of assholes. Unwiped.
It's not really relevant whether the GPL is valid or not.
If the GPL is compeletly invalid -- they have a singular problem : Distributing copywrited software without a license. Linus et all can sue for massive damages.
If the GPL is valid, they are in a boatload of shit anyway: How the fuck could they get EXT2 compatability in SCO Unix? They sure the hell didn't clean room it. I wanna see the code to their filesystems. How about the Linux Compatability crap? Clean room? NO FUCKING WAY!
any way you slice it, SCO is gettin' ready to get their butts kicked, but IBM, Redhat SuSE and others.
You: You want answers?
.
Them: I think I'm entitled to them.
You: You want answers?
Them: I want the truth!
You: You can't handle the truth! Son, we live in a world that has firewalls. And those firewalls have to be guarded by men with keyboards. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for the treasury department and you curse the Hackers. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that The treasury departments scans, while tragic, probably saved networks. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves networks...You don't want the truth. Because deep down, in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me in that code. You need me in that code
We use words like hack, root, pwnzz...we use these words as the backbone to a life spent defending something. You use 'em as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide, then questions the manner in which I provide it! I'd rather you just said thank you and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a manual and stand a terminal. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you're entitled to!
Them: Did you scan the network?
You: I did the job you sent me to do.
Them: Did you scan the network?
You: You're goddamn right I did!!