I have been running QNX for a while now. I recently got a PictureBook with a Transmeta chip and decided to use the machine with QNX. Since MS does want people to dual boot, I zapped their OS and put QNX instead. I am pretty happy with the machine. Needs a few more drivers (working on the camera support) but things are running smoothly. It's a very reliable OS. I just wish they would do a port to the iBook too.
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The location where the audition will happened is very close from the SJ immigration and naturalisation services (INS) office. If you happen to be a Russian immigrant and your interview day at the INS is that same day, please drop by in front of the court building to show your support after you are done with your green card application. Thanks.
If I were to represent a portfolio of private investors and was interested to put some money if your developement, would you be able to tell me 3 reasons to do so, list your competitors and tell me what make you think you will still develop this product in 3 years?
Jean-Louis Gassee was saying: "when you have a day to spare and don't know what to do. reinstall Windows."
Well, it happens that this sentence is even more true for Linux. How many times did I reinstall one distro of Linux over another one, I can not count. The last time I had debian installed, I screwed up something with the apt command and my system was so bad that I had to reinstall RH and then got Mandrake, then RH again because Mandrake installer was choking on my network card (and couldn't pass further.)
So RH ended up being the best distro for me, and what I did is buy extra HD so next time I have a desire for something else (Woody?) I won't have to zap my working config to get it running. Way cheaper if you considere your time as being valuable (even if the OS is free.)
I was investigating the possibility of using the SDL as the lowest layer in the system. My goal was to replace X Windows entirely, and use SDL instead to create a window system based on OpenGL in a manner not to far fetched with what CoreGraphics is doing inside MacOS X. It appears that SDL on the platforms it supports (in my case linux) , relies on the XWindows windows server and event propagation model.
Do you think it would be feasible to plug something with less complexity than X Windows at the bottom of SDL to do such a task. How tied is SDL coupled with the platform architectures it supports?
Very well engineered my arshe!
I bought a TiG4 recently just too find out that the temperature of the sucker goes well beyond what my table top can stand. I took the laptop by one end and the battery dropped on the floor! Next, I found out that the keys are still marking the LCD screen when you close the lid. And finally, the decals on the laptop transfer to the base frame when you close the machine, so you can read PowerBook G4 on the bottom, mirrored.
I don't mention the problems I had with a Cube G4 since these are well know, neither the underpowered 256KB cache/66MHz memory bus on the new iBooks making these machines unable to run a bloatware ala MacOS X.
What were you saying about well engineered?
I have been using MacOS X since the first ports, and before that OpenStep. I still have a slab running at home. Still a nice system after all these years. I got hooked to objective-c the first day I tried it. The language and the OS where well integrated. The beautiful interface and high-quality of the whole system was a nice achievement. Not like MacOS X unfortunately. Nothing seems to make sense in the gut of the architecture. You have a mixture of C for kernel and foundation, add a little bit of embedded C++ for the IOKit and addtional drivers, drop some C++ with a CodeWarrior PowerPlant on top in what is known as the Finder (a cross between Destop manager and MacOS 9 Finder), then of course, objective C framework renamed Cocoa to go with the trend and add Java in case you get bored to the mix. You end up with this hideous monster of bloatware, hard to program system, slow as hell for loading all the libraries. In short : a kludge. So you know what I did: I installed linux on my PowerMac instead and then things got useable and snappy again. Linux could have even run without the 512MB of RAM I had to put in there ot run OS X. Oh! and finally, I can play DVDs with ut region code, and burn any type of CDs too BTW. And I won't get IE to crash all the time, and Quicktime reminding me to buy the upgrade everytime I watch a movie. Things are so much better now.
or make a snide about the total you demonstrate in English spelling and grammar for every post you are writing. What about buying a copy of the "Elements of Style" and even better reading it. I bet you after a month of studying, you'll fill confident about writing messages again.
absolutly. I hate inexperienced big mouth preaks and he seems to fit that model from every comment he makes. But what can you expect from someone that makes a living at repackaging news garbages stollen from other web sites?
The mac is going to become the best computer to surf the web pretty soon. It doesn't support most 4th generation javascript sites so you can't get annoyed by these ads really. It doesn't support most ecommerce sites so you can't spend money online when you are ready to (big plus here, by the time you think twice you won't buy these gizmos anyway.) Finally if you reach a web site where you can finally see something bigger than in 4 points font it usually shows the text, IE or Netscape usually crash in the next 10 secs, forcing you to reboot your machine or better unplug it and go to play basketball outside. Not to mention that s' kiddies don't give a dam about infecting 3% of the marketshare. Not worse the effort, therefore little viruses on the machine. Now, I heard Apple is coming out with OS X and it's apparently worse as for Web user experience. Good!!!
PPA
Just don't buy these products that use pop up advertisement. And while at it, boycott Abobe products, buying DVDs and everything with Microsoft or Apple in front of it, the end result is that you'll save money and live an healthy life.
When I read a while back that Mandrake had some problems and having been using their distro on my thinkpad (and quite happy with it), I decided to do order their CD. That was about 2-3 weeks ago. I paid $10 for delivery. A week passed and nothing happened. I emailed them and requested some info. It appears that even if I live in CA and there HQ in the States is 10 miles away from my mailing address, the order has to go to France and then get dispatched here. So as for today, still nothing in the mail. These CDs are way over due and even at with a 56K modem, one could get the binaries before the package.
I don't have to tell you that it's the last time that I order from these guys. So much for being nice and helpful. If they treat their customers in the similar fashion, then what's the use.
BTW, I ordered in the past RH 6.2 and FreeBSD (with automatic renewal.) They have been dropping in the mail as expected. Now, that's what I call service.
-- PPA
OK. so this has been released last Nov from their web site. I got impressed by some dude telling me that while playing mp3s the cpu is idling more than 95% of the time. Dam! It was 90% on BeOS. I must have a look. And it's free too. What am I waiting for? Well, there is a catch 22. I tried getting more than the free CD (you still have to pay $30 for shipping/handling BTW.) I installed on my box, got a couple of hangs because my HW must have tricked the loader. Removed a SIMM, and a USB joystick. Then it booted fine (I had to reinstalled a few times and got hangs from time to time causing the machine to reboot. No network support unless you get a specific 3com card dam it. Don't even try on laptops. I wasted a full evening on a Thinkpad.) Finally, I asked to get more development info. The reason I dedicated one of my HDs was trying to do some real work with it: like developing a driver for a wireless 802.11 card. Yeah right! Bummer. The development system is really slim. So I go to the web site. After dicking around on their support page, I learn that the beta program at the time was open to only registered licensees (they recently changed that but the new drivers I posted by a staff of people working only from Nov to Dec apparently because nothing has changed since last year). So I registered and I bought a book on QNX Neutrino (so much for free documentation too!). Bottom line: maybe I have been spoiled with Linux and *BSD but I ended up giving up writting code on QNX because when you don't have the source code for the kernel , you really have to reverse engineer the proprietary binaries all the time to find out where you get a crash (is it their fault? what is the stupid call supposed to do? etc..) That is the only other way to get the info you need unless you buy a license with support from them. Not worse wasting my time for browsing the Net remotely on QNX, let me tell you. I do it from NetBSD right now and it's really free (I don't have even to buy books to learn about BSD, they're online.)
The next thing I wanted was to be able to run QNX on a proto PPC board. Helas, the only "free" version that comes on the CD is for x86 and the rest is not supported unless you shell a few grants to their bank account. Why should I bother with this OS let me ask you? Maybe it's not for me after all. It'll stick with Linux on my iPaq and NetBSD on my dextop.
--PPA
So everything you make in Japan, good or bad, everyone is buying it. You get a hundred and twenty millions of beta testers basically. Is this going to make the product popular in the States just because of Linux on it vs. their OS? I doubt it, especially if/when the only potential buyers of the product realize that the thing doesn't have a flashable rom, and holds barely enough RAM to run a PIM.
IMHO, Yopy is soon to be dead The device that was suppose to be available last year is now available to developers only for twice as much money as you can pay for a Compaq iPaq 36x0. Who's stupid enough to send $800 to Samsung by money order to Taiwan to buy one of these? If you look at the Samsung web site, the type of people they are trying to snag into their business is totally freaky: Young people community as they call it:) I call it marketing BS to cover the ass of incapable engineering staff unable to deliver on time. By the time the Yopy is out, Compaq will be manufacturing a model of the iPaq twice as fast using the intel Xscale technology. RIP Yopy. Amen!
The model you saw down the street are not running Linux but this proprietary OS that Sharp puts on every LDC device they manufacture. Good enough for the Japanese market. Far from being useful in the States.
I was in Japan last month and saw the current device. Sharp is going to put Linux on it and so their engineering group doesn't have to rewrite the whole app bundle designed for the specific Japanese market. IMHO, the device doesn't bring anything new to the PDA trend. The lower part of the unit slides and a really tiny keyboard is revealed. The keys are so small on it that even Japanese kids will find it hard to use.
Sharp is just trying to play the Linux hipe because they don't have anything to lose as far as US market shares. And true, Palm and HandSpring are pretty aggressive at market penetration overseas (Japan and also Europe.) The only trouble with the PalmOS is Input method (you have to enter the graffiti roman syllables to obtain kanas and kanjis, I hate it compared to the hand writting recognition on WinCE.)
I was surprised while I was there to find out that the iPaq 36x0 is not imported currently in Japan and that people were bashing really hard on the new Sony Transmeta chip (WARUI = BAD !)
Lastly, the devel env for Palm and WinCE is not bad at all. I wonder what the author of this post complains about. Did he ever try to build a toolchain to get Helloworld to compile for the iPag running Linux? I wonder...
PPA
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I have been running QNX for a while now. I recently got a PictureBook with a Transmeta chip and decided to use the machine with QNX. Since MS does want people to dual boot, I zapped their OS and put QNX instead. I am pretty happy with the machine. Needs a few more drivers (working on the camera support) but things are running smoothly. It's a very reliable OS. I just wish they would do a port to the iBook too.
The location where the audition will happened is very close from the SJ immigration and naturalisation services (INS) office. If you happen to be a Russian immigrant and your interview day at the INS is that same day, please drop by in front of the court building to show your support after you are done with your green card application. Thanks.
Hi,
If I were to represent a portfolio of private investors and was interested to put some money if your developement, would you be able to tell me 3 reasons to do so, list your competitors and tell me what make you think you will still develop this product in 3 years?
Thanks for your feedback,
PPA
Jean-Louis Gassee was saying: "when you have a day to spare and don't know what to do. reinstall Windows."
Well, it happens that this sentence is even more true for Linux. How many times did I reinstall one distro of Linux over another one, I can not count. The last time I had debian installed, I screwed up something with the apt command and my system was so bad that I had to reinstall RH and then got Mandrake, then RH again because Mandrake installer was choking on my network card (and couldn't pass further.)
So RH ended up being the best distro for me, and what I did is buy extra HD so next time I have a desire for something else (Woody?) I won't have to zap my working config to get it running. Way cheaper if you considere your time as being valuable (even if the OS is free.)
I was investigating the possibility of using the SDL as the lowest layer in the system. My goal was to replace X Windows entirely, and use SDL instead to create a window system based on OpenGL in a manner not to far fetched with what CoreGraphics is doing inside MacOS X. It appears that SDL on the platforms it supports (in my case linux) , relies on the XWindows windows server and event propagation model.
Do you think it would be feasible to plug something with less complexity than X Windows at the bottom of SDL to do such a task. How tied is SDL coupled with the platform architectures it supports?
If all goes as planned, Volumes 4A, 4B, and 4C will be ready in the year 2007. Gosh! I'll be dead by then!
Very well engineered my arshe! I bought a TiG4 recently just too find out that the temperature of the sucker goes well beyond what my table top can stand. I took the laptop by one end and the battery dropped on the floor! Next, I found out that the keys are still marking the LCD screen when you close the lid. And finally, the decals on the laptop transfer to the base frame when you close the machine, so you can read PowerBook G4 on the bottom, mirrored. I don't mention the problems I had with a Cube G4 since these are well know, neither the underpowered 256KB cache /66MHz memory bus on the new iBooks making these machines unable to run a bloatware ala MacOS X.
What were you saying about well engineered?
I have been using MacOS X since the first ports, and before that OpenStep. I still have a slab running at home. Still a nice system after all these years. I got hooked to objective-c the first day I tried it. The language and the OS where well integrated. The beautiful interface and high-quality of the whole system was a nice achievement. Not like MacOS X unfortunately. Nothing seems to make sense in the gut of the architecture. You have a mixture of C for kernel and foundation, add a little bit of embedded C++ for the IOKit and addtional drivers, drop some C++ with a CodeWarrior PowerPlant on top in what is known as the Finder (a cross between Destop manager and MacOS 9 Finder), then of course, objective C framework renamed Cocoa to go with the trend and add Java in case you get bored to the mix. You end up with this hideous monster of bloatware, hard to program system, slow as hell for loading all the libraries. In short : a kludge. So you know what I did: I installed linux on my PowerMac instead and then things got useable and snappy again. Linux could have even run without the 512MB of RAM I had to put in there ot run OS X. Oh! and finally, I can play DVDs with ut region code, and burn any type of CDs too BTW. And I won't get IE to crash all the time, and Quicktime reminding me to buy the upgrade everytime I watch a movie. Things are so much better now.
or make a snide about the total you demonstrate in English spelling and grammar for every post you are writing. What about buying a copy of the "Elements of Style" and even better reading it. I bet you after a month of studying, you'll fill confident about writing messages again.
absolutly. I hate inexperienced big mouth preaks and he seems to fit that model from every comment he makes. But what can you expect from someone that makes a living at repackaging news garbages stollen from other web sites?
The mac is going to become the best computer to surf the web pretty soon. It doesn't support most 4th generation javascript sites so you can't get annoyed by these ads really. It doesn't support most ecommerce sites so you can't spend money online when you are ready to (big plus here, by the time you think twice you won't buy these gizmos anyway.) Finally if you reach a web site where you can finally see something bigger than in 4 points font it usually shows the text, IE or Netscape usually crash in the next 10 secs, forcing you to reboot your machine or better unplug it and go to play basketball outside. Not to mention that s' kiddies don't give a dam about infecting 3% of the marketshare. Not worse the effort, therefore little viruses on the machine. Now, I heard Apple is coming out with OS X and it's apparently worse as for Web user experience. Good!!! PPA
Just don't buy these products that use pop up advertisement. And while at it, boycott Abobe products, buying DVDs and everything with Microsoft or Apple in front of it, the end result is that you'll save money and live an healthy life.
When I read a while back that Mandrake had some problems and having been using their distro on my thinkpad (and quite happy with it), I decided to do order their CD. That was about 2-3 weeks ago. I paid $10 for delivery. A week passed and nothing happened. I emailed them and requested some info. It appears that even if I live in CA and there HQ in the States is 10 miles away from my mailing address, the order has to go to France and then get dispatched here. So as for today, still nothing in the mail. These CDs are way over due and even at with a 56K modem, one could get the binaries before the package. I don't have to tell you that it's the last time that I order from these guys. So much for being nice and helpful. If they treat their customers in the similar fashion, then what's the use. BTW, I ordered in the past RH 6.2 and FreeBSD (with automatic renewal.) They have been dropping in the mail as expected. Now, that's what I call service. -- PPA
OK. so this has been released last Nov from their web site. I got impressed by some dude telling me that while playing mp3s the cpu is idling more than 95% of the time. Dam! It was 90% on BeOS. I must have a look. And it's free too. What am I waiting for? Well, there is a catch 22. I tried getting more than the free CD (you still have to pay $30 for shipping/handling BTW.) I installed on my box, got a couple of hangs because my HW must have tricked the loader. Removed a SIMM, and a USB joystick. Then it booted fine (I had to reinstalled a few times and got hangs from time to time causing the machine to reboot. No network support unless you get a specific 3com card dam it. Don't even try on laptops. I wasted a full evening on a Thinkpad.) Finally, I asked to get more development info. The reason I dedicated one of my HDs was trying to do some real work with it: like developing a driver for a wireless 802.11 card. Yeah right! Bummer. The development system is really slim. So I go to the web site. After dicking around on their support page, I learn that the beta program at the time was open to only registered licensees (they recently changed that but the new drivers I posted by a staff of people working only from Nov to Dec apparently because nothing has changed since last year). So I registered and I bought a book on QNX Neutrino (so much for free documentation too!). Bottom line: maybe I have been spoiled with Linux and *BSD but I ended up giving up writting code on QNX because when you don't have the source code for the kernel , you really have to reverse engineer the proprietary binaries all the time to find out where you get a crash (is it their fault? what is the stupid call supposed to do? etc..) That is the only other way to get the info you need unless you buy a license with support from them. Not worse wasting my time for browsing the Net remotely on QNX, let me tell you. I do it from NetBSD right now and it's really free (I don't have even to buy books to learn about BSD, they're online.) The next thing I wanted was to be able to run QNX on a proto PPC board. Helas, the only "free" version that comes on the CD is for x86 and the rest is not supported unless you shell a few grants to their bank account. Why should I bother with this OS let me ask you? Maybe it's not for me after all. It'll stick with Linux on my iPaq and NetBSD on my dextop. --PPA
So everything you make in Japan, good or bad, everyone is buying it. You get a hundred and twenty millions of beta testers basically. Is this going to make the product popular in the States just because of Linux on it vs. their OS? I doubt it, especially if/when the only potential buyers of the product realize that the thing doesn't have a flashable rom, and holds barely enough RAM to run a PIM.
IMHO, Yopy is soon to be dead The device that was suppose to be available last year is now available to developers only for twice as much money as you can pay for a Compaq iPaq 36x0. Who's stupid enough to send $800 to Samsung by money order to Taiwan to buy one of these? If you look at the Samsung web site, the type of people they are trying to snag into their business is totally freaky: Young people community as they call it :) I call it marketing BS to cover the ass of incapable engineering staff unable to deliver on time. By the time the Yopy is out, Compaq will be manufacturing a model of the iPaq twice as fast using the intel Xscale technology. RIP Yopy. Amen!
The model you saw down the street are not running Linux but this proprietary OS that Sharp puts on every LDC device they manufacture. Good enough for the Japanese market. Far from being useful in the States.
I was in Japan last month and saw the current device. Sharp is going to put Linux on it and so their engineering group doesn't have to rewrite the whole app bundle designed for the specific Japanese market. IMHO, the device doesn't bring anything new to the PDA trend. The lower part of the unit slides and a really tiny keyboard is revealed. The keys are so small on it that even Japanese kids will find it hard to use. Sharp is just trying to play the Linux hipe because they don't have anything to lose as far as US market shares. And true, Palm and HandSpring are pretty aggressive at market penetration overseas (Japan and also Europe.) The only trouble with the PalmOS is Input method (you have to enter the graffiti roman syllables to obtain kanas and kanjis, I hate it compared to the hand writting recognition on WinCE.) I was surprised while I was there to find out that the iPaq 36x0 is not imported currently in Japan and that people were bashing really hard on the new Sony Transmeta chip (WARUI = BAD !) Lastly, the devel env for Palm and WinCE is not bad at all. I wonder what the author of this post complains about. Did he ever try to build a toolchain to get Helloworld to compile for the iPag running Linux? I wonder... PPA