as for arch, i've been looking into it, but it's still a hack onto cvs.
Arch is a hack onto CVS how? It doesn't rely on a single central repository, doesn't store things in RCS-format files, doesn't screw up on binaries, and imposes a rigid category-branch-version structure that's absent from CVS.
About the only commonality seems to be that Arch started as a bunch of shell scripts, same as CVS did.
OTOH the Arch commands can be very verbose and it's "maze of twisty little directories, all alike" storage model can make for some very long path lengths, so you can forget about ever being able to use it for anything real-world on Windows.
... because all I had was a Commodore PET. 1MHz 6502, 16kb RAM, a built-in green screen and a BASIC interpreter from some company called Micro Soft of Palo Alto.
It never fails to amaze me that now I carry round in my pocket a Palm that runs 33 times as fast as the PET did and has 1500 times as much memory, and even that's a fairly modest toy these days.
I think that record companies distributed Heavy Metal bands on vinyl far longer than any other genre because the improved quality of CDs just didn't make any discernable difference to either the listeners or to the music.
Hmmm - I think the converse is true, that the rapid rise of heavy metal in the 80's and 90's was at least partially because it sounded so much better on CD, especially the accurate reproduction of high frequencies (which you get a lot of with distorted guitars). Remember that a lot of recording engineers are/were into metal and could tell the difference.
I've recently moved my old G3 Powerbook from MacOS to Debian. I tried OS X and Mandrake 8.2 (and, a long time ago, LinuxPPC) to see how they would go but Debian wins hands down for me (OS X is nice but miles too slow on this machine).
The m505 was sold in Australia as having an inbuilt expenses application (it's noted on the box and in the instructions), but it doesn't -- I confirmed with Palm Australia. I didn't really give a damn when I bought mine, but I could imagine some people being quite pissed off about that. OK, so where's that refund?
Other way round - it protects the distribution monopolies out in the non-US regions. If region coding weren't in place those of us in places like Australia would just order new releases from wherever was cheapest, probably through the web from the US, and local distributors would likely collapse.
With region coding in place, the idea is that we're forced to buy DVD's from local distributors, which are released on their schedule and at their price point.
This isn't new - in about '94/'95 my boss at the time ordered laserdiscs from the US. They were stopped at the border because the discs hadn't come through the official release channels and weren't officially available in NZ. (They were just regular Hollywood movies).
Yep, agreed - I used to run a classical radio show on student radio in New Zealand and would play way, way too much of the Batman Returns soundtrack, just because it was good stuff.
Hmm, here in Oz they're touting a new cable channel which just plays soundtracks - anyone know is it any good?
Cobweb's a good read, it's a nicely plotted thriller with the usual Stephenson eye for detail. Less techy but still the same sort of approach to the story.
I read it last year sometime around August, which was a bit too weird considering what happened in September (Cobweb's subject matter has some parallels).
PHP is just one of many languages one can use in Active Server Pages
No, PHP runs in a separate space to the ASP stuff. AFAIK you can't use PHP as a plugin language in the same way you can with VBScript, JScript, PerlScript etc.
PHP either runs as a CGI or in an ISAPI process.
ASP is simply the name Microsoft chooses to
confuse the world with. The rest of the
computing planet uses CGI as the acronym.
Not really. CGI scripts traditionally run in a separate process with the associated overhead of process setup and teardown for each request, while ASP pages run in-process with the web server. Similar to a language-independent mod_perl or the way PHP runs inside Apache.
In my experience developing cross platform stuff in PHP is easy, you shouldn't have absolute pathnames running round in your code anyway (except in config sections), and PHP - like most scripting languages - is very tolerant about using forward slashes on Windows so relevant paths are fine too.
Well, then your feeling is wrong. I read a great deal, always have, and these books are fucking great. I don't care whether they're deemed 'good literature' or not, they're good stories well told.
I also think its kinda sad that you don't want to 'waste time' reading kid's books. I mean, sheesh, a couple of hours with a good story isn't going to kill you.
Odd. I had no such problems talking to Gateway when I had Linux on my Solo - they even walked me through taking the machine to bits to fix the screen over the phone. And it worked:-)
This is so cool to see - the PET was my first computer, bought second hand in late 1983 in New Zealand. As well as the interminable wait for tapes to load, and having to write down lots of tape counter references in order to use C-60's for storage, I remember that my PET 4016 (with 16k RAM) would stay on all day through a frenzy of programming, with a loud buzz from the power supply gradually rising in intensity, and would then freeze solid after about 12 hours. Shit shit shit...
Also my grandfather made an amp for it from an old trannie radio, which plugged into the 'User Port' at the back, and we then installed it internally in that acre of white metal above the keyboard. Wow, custom hardware!
Lastly, you could buy custom ROM chips for it (from a company named Arrow?) which would give you more BASIC commands like cursor positioning. We borrowed an Arrow chip from another PET, broke a leg off it while getting it out, and simply soldered it back on. Try that these days. Not to mention that when I had to give the Arrow chip back all my code broke because it depended on the extra routines...
> Microsofts copyrite dose not show up on any of > the other Commodore 8 bits...
Yep, it does. My first computer was a PET 4016 (16k Ram) and it definitely had software by "Micro Soft" in the ROM, because you could peek for that string.
Depending on your version of IE5, turning off friendly error messages doesn't work. I grabbed it first from ZDNet because none of Microsoft's servers worked from Australia. The ZDNet version of IE5 always gives you the 'friendly' error messages that take the whole page, no matter what your setting.
Since then I've installed the one that came on the APCMag cover disk and no worries.
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as for arch, i've been looking into it, but it's still a hack onto cvs.
Arch is a hack onto CVS how? It doesn't rely on a single central repository, doesn't store things in RCS-format files, doesn't screw up on binaries, and imposes a rigid category-branch-version structure that's absent from CVS.
About the only commonality seems to be that Arch started as a bunch of shell scripts, same as CVS did.
OTOH the Arch commands can be very verbose and it's "maze of twisty little directories, all alike" storage model can make for some very long path lengths, so you can forget about ever being able to use it for anything real-world on Windows.
> Click and hold the mouse.
> Voila. 100% CPU usage.
Um, no. No change in the background noise here on Windows XP. Which version were you talking about?
... because all I had was a Commodore PET. 1MHz 6502, 16kb RAM, a built-in green screen and a BASIC interpreter from some company called Micro Soft of Palo Alto.
It never fails to amaze me that now I carry round in my pocket a Palm that runs 33 times as fast as the PET did and has 1500 times as much memory, and even that's a fairly modest toy these days.
It really is too fuckin' ironic.
I think that record companies distributed Heavy Metal bands on vinyl far longer than any other genre because the improved quality of CDs just didn't make any discernable difference to either the listeners or to the music.
Hmmm - I think the converse is true, that the rapid rise of heavy metal in the 80's and 90's was at least partially because it sounded so much better on CD, especially the accurate reproduction of high frequencies (which you get a lot of with distorted guitars). Remember that a lot of recording engineers are/were into metal and could tell the difference.
Well count me in there...
I've recently moved my old G3 Powerbook from MacOS to Debian. I tried OS X and Mandrake 8.2 (and, a long time ago, LinuxPPC) to see how they would go but Debian wins hands down for me (OS X is nice but miles too slow on this machine).
The m505 was sold in Australia as having an inbuilt expenses application (it's noted on the box and in the instructions), but it doesn't -- I confirmed with Palm Australia. I didn't really give a damn when I bought mine, but I could imagine some people being quite pissed off about that. OK, so where's that refund?
>... what the deal is with region coding?
Other way round - it protects the distribution monopolies out in the non-US regions. If region coding weren't in place those of us in places like Australia would just order new releases from wherever was cheapest, probably through the web from the US, and local distributors would likely collapse.
With region coding in place, the idea is that we're forced to buy DVD's from local distributors, which are released on their schedule and at their price point.
This isn't new - in about '94/'95 my boss at the time ordered laserdiscs from the US. They were stopped at the border because the discs hadn't come through the official release channels and weren't officially available in NZ. (They were just regular Hollywood movies).
> Tagalog
No need to highlight this one... Tagalog's a real language (from the Philippines).
Yep, agreed - I used to run a classical radio show on student radio in New Zealand and would play way, way too much of the Batman Returns soundtrack, just because it was good stuff.
Hmm, here in Oz they're touting a new cable channel which just plays soundtracks - anyone know is it any good?
XM Hell?
surly they should make XSL more functional first?
protable and transformable?
no weasy way?
itterative functions?
somthingusefull?
Well i'm sure you get my drift so I'll leave it there for now.
I haven't got the faintest idea what your drift might be, sorry...
what the heck does Mandrake offer that RH does not?
Oh I dunno, maybe PowerPC support? I'm installing Mandrake 8.2 ppc as I write this and I certainly don't have a choice of RedHat. Now Debian, maybe...
besides being OS X native, photoshop 7's text engine is gonna have spell check!
But that breaks the one true rule of graphic design: Every l33t d3s1gn must have at least one glaring spelling mistake...
Packard Bell is still available as a brand in Australia. No idea why. (And no, I don't own one!)
Cobweb's a good read, it's a nicely plotted thriller with the usual Stephenson eye for detail. Less techy but still the same sort of approach to the story.
I read it last year sometime around August, which was a bit too weird considering what happened in September (Cobweb's subject matter has some parallels).
+1... the tapes are running!
I'm getting that as well, on a Connexus ADSL link. Reg is at 213.40.196.64 if you're desperate :-)
PHP is just one of many languages one can use in Active Server Pages No, PHP runs in a separate space to the ASP stuff. AFAIK you can't use PHP as a plugin language in the same way you can with VBScript, JScript, PerlScript etc. PHP either runs as a CGI or in an ISAPI process. ASP is simply the name Microsoft chooses to confuse the world with. The rest of the computing planet uses CGI as the acronym. Not really. CGI scripts traditionally run in a separate process with the associated overhead of process setup and teardown for each request, while ASP pages run in-process with the web server. Similar to a language-independent mod_perl or the way PHP runs inside Apache. In my experience developing cross platform stuff in PHP is easy, you shouldn't have absolute pathnames running round in your code anyway (except in config sections), and PHP - like most scripting languages - is very tolerant about using forward slashes on Windows so relevant paths are fine too.
Well, then your feeling is wrong. I read a great deal, always have, and these books are fucking great. I don't care whether they're deemed 'good literature' or not, they're good stories well told.
I also think its kinda sad that you don't want to 'waste time' reading kid's books. I mean, sheesh, a couple of hours with a good story isn't going to kill you.
Odd. I had no such problems talking to Gateway when I had Linux on my Solo - they even walked me through taking the machine to bits to fix the screen over the phone. And it worked :-)
This is so cool to see - the PET was my first computer, bought second hand in late 1983 in New Zealand. As well as the interminable wait for tapes to load, and having to write down lots of tape counter references in order to use C-60's for storage, I remember that my PET 4016 (with 16k RAM) would stay on all day through a frenzy of programming, with a loud buzz from the power supply gradually rising in intensity, and would then freeze solid after about 12 hours. Shit shit shit...
Also my grandfather made an amp for it from an old trannie radio, which plugged into the 'User Port' at the back, and we then installed it internally in that acre of white metal above the keyboard. Wow, custom hardware!
Lastly, you could buy custom ROM chips for it (from a company named Arrow?) which would give you more BASIC commands like cursor positioning. We borrowed an Arrow chip from another PET, broke a leg off it while getting it out, and simply soldered it back on. Try that these days. Not to mention that when I had to give the Arrow chip back all my code broke because it depended on the extra routines...
What a machine!
> Microsofts copyrite dose not show up on any of
> the other Commodore 8 bits...
Yep, it does. My first computer was a PET 4016 (16k Ram) and it definitely had software by "Micro Soft" in the ROM, because you could peek for that string.
Maybe not in the States, but I just got an R5 CD from EverythingLinux in Australia, took two days to arrive. Tonight's the big install night :-)
Depending on your version of IE5, turning off friendly error messages doesn't work. I grabbed it first from ZDNet because none of Microsoft's servers worked from Australia. The ZDNet version of IE5 always gives you the 'friendly' error messages that take the whole page, no matter what your setting.
Since then I've installed the one that came on the APCMag cover disk and no worries.