Yes, it does, and new releases are available for VAXen too. It doesn't run on PCs, though, just like DOS and OS/2 don't run on the Alpha, thus my comment in the previous post.
Compared to the hacks needed to get Linux booted via ARC/AlphaBIOS, having the SRM console sure is nice, but all it really does is load the first sector(s) of a (possibly arbitrary) disk. This is not much different from how PCs boot their OS's. Contrast this with OpenFirmware-compliant systems, where the firmware can load a kernel directly from a partition.
I feel like I'm feeding the troll here, but anyway...
Almost all modern apps require x-86 extensions such as MMX, SSE, and 3dNow,...
You'd only worry about this if you don't have access to your software's source. Besides, why should a non-x86 architecture support x86 features?
... which Alphas do not support.
However, the Alpha, in keeping with the "pure RISC" philosophy, has MVI (Motion Video Instructions), which consists of a "whopping" 4 instructions (really).
Only certain flavors of Unix will run on an Alpha, while Almost all Unices, Windows, DOS, BSD, OS/2 etc. are supported by x86 based processors.
Could you please specify which "certain flavors" of Unix run on the Alpha? Where do you get the impression that x86 boxes are supported by "almost all Unices"? Last time I checked, I could not run IRIX, Tru64, or AIX on an x86 PC (there used to be an x86 version of AIX, but those days are long gone). Windows definitely did run on the Alpha (up to NT 4.0). FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD also run on it. And bringing up DOS, OS/2, or OpenVMS is not worth the trouble, as they only run on a single platform (Yes, I know about OS/2 on PPC, but did anyone pay attention? NT/Alpha got a lot more usage than that).
MarkNet XL internal network adapter options for Token-Ring, LocalTalk and Ethernet...
You'll just have to swap the twinax board for an Ethernet one, which would (presumably) also contain an LPD server. You won't need anything else, as the printer already understands PostScript and PCL5e.
Quite right. And before that, they're named Fintronic. I recall seeing a review of one of their workstations in Byte Magazine sometime around 1995. The reviewer seemed to be quite impressed with the machine, and Fintronic went on to quoting the article in their ads for many years. Unless I'm wrong, these are the names they've had so far, in chronological order:
My understanding is that MiniDiscs never sold well in the US because The Powers That Be (i.e., R.I.A.A.) were strongly opposed against a recordable/rewritable medium that offered near-CD-quality sound (the compression is lossy on these), which, according to them, would undermine CD sales. They seem to have been well received by audio pros and radio stations, however.
I have seen prerecorded MDs on sale at record stores before, BTW. They had a thick coat of dust over them.
Actually, a Suzuki SJ310/Samurai, which was later replaced by the Sidekick. Lighter and much more fuel-efficient than the Wrangler, and just as fun. A bit underpowered, though, and it had a bad habit of rolling over on sharp turns (they had prominent warning labels on the doors and visors instructing the driver of this).
This article on KDE Dot News describes the the 1,000,000,000th second bug in KMail < 1.0.29.1. The problem stems from the index file format used (the time stamp is a 9-char fixed-width field). The index files (and therefore the mail folders) become corrupted when the time value is >= 10^9. This doesn't have anything to do with time_t, which on 32-bit systems is slated to roll over sometime in 2038. Systems with 64-bit timestamps (like pre-X Mac OS and VMS) won't roll over for the next 20,000 years.
The same story appeared earlier today on this Register article, where it is mentioned that Nintendo plans on having 700,000 'Cubes ready for launch, instead of 500,000. In fact, Nintendo plays this up in this announcement on their web site, while skillfully avoiding mentioning the delay.
They have been doing this for a long time here in Pennsylvania.
At the Breezewood interchange of the Penna. Turnpike, where Interstate 70 leaves I-76, there is a great big sign of a policeman pointing at you, saying "You! Slow Down!" From there, you then have to drive a few blocks on US 30 before getting back on I-70.
So they defend the right of a company to not make a profit and burn through cash faster than a pothead burning weed after being deprived for a week? Well, if that's their choice, it's fine with me.
Not recycling, but could be used for waste disposal (think of AOL CDs). However, given how difficult it is to obtain aluminium, decomposing it is not exactly something we'd like to see.
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do they use "american" (standard qwerty) keyboards and change the keyboard layout combos to support the additional characters
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Actually, both, assuming you're only talking about Western European languages. Usually, non-US keyboards have three extra keys, an extra bucky bit key (often labelled AltGr), and extra glyphs on the remaining keys. Accents are usually the result of pressing a dead key (i.e., a key that doesn't cause the cursor to move) and the letter you want to place the accent on. Most of these keyboards use the standard QWERTY layout for the letters; AZERTY has already been mentioned elsewhere. Punctuation and other characters rarely follow the US keyboard layout.
If you don't have an ISO language-specific keyboard, though, you can simply change the keymap to provide additional functionality. Windows provides the US-International keymap, which changes the right Alt key to AltGr, and the quote/doublequote, backtick/tilde and 6/circumflex keys to dead keys. Using AltGr on various keys generates additional characters that cannot be produced with the dead keys alone. More recent releases of XFree also have a us-intl keymap that's almost a clone of the Windows one, with a few slight differences. In my experience, this setup is a lot more efficient for programming than using an ISO keyboard.
At least here in Pennsylvania (and most of New Jersey), I can find the following:
Unleaded gasoline, with octane ratings of 87, 89, and 93 (only God knows whatever happened to 91). Sunoco also offers 94, and 100 in a handful of stations, although I'm not sure they carry it anymore;
One grade of diesel, with a cetane rating of at least 45, in less than half of the gas stations (unless you're driving on an Interstate highway, in which case every station along the way will have diesel).
K-1 kerosene. If you suddenly run out of heating oil, and live in the city of Philadelphia, you'll be glad to know that there are a few gas stations with kerosene pumps not too far away. Also available in quite a number of stations along the Interstates
However, it is not rare to see 20-pump gas stations that only serve gasoline.
Just in case any of you believe that all G4 Cubes are fanless, if you have a built-to-order Cube with an ATI Radeon card, it WILL have a fan. It is still a lot quieter than the average PC case fan, though.
Remember, the GPL is not internet-aware and only requires that sources accompany binaries without further restriction
No, no, no. It has been explained countless times here before. The GPL only requires that the source be available, but not necessarily included along with the binary distribution.
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange;
That's one of the three conditions on which you may distribute GPL'ed binaries, of which you are required to comply with just one. See "Terms and Conditions for Copying, Distribution and Modification" in the GPL.
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Oh, shite, just when I thought I had enough of watching "The Princess Bride" (this past Sunday), you had to bring us this quote. Unconceivable!
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Yes, it does, and new releases are available for VAXen too. It doesn't run on PCs, though, just like DOS and OS/2 don't run on the Alpha, thus my comment in the previous post.
Compared to the hacks needed to get Linux booted via ARC/AlphaBIOS, having the SRM console sure is nice, but all it really does is load the first sector(s) of a (possibly arbitrary) disk. This is not much different from how PCs boot their OS's. Contrast this with OpenFirmware-compliant systems, where the firmware can load a kernel directly from a partition.
I feel like I'm feeding the troll here, but anyway...
Almost all modern apps require x-86 extensions such as MMX, SSE, and 3dNow,...
You'd only worry about this if you don't have access to your software's source. Besides, why should a non-x86 architecture support x86 features?
However, the Alpha, in keeping with the "pure RISC" philosophy, has MVI (Motion Video Instructions), which consists of a "whopping" 4 instructions (really).
Only certain flavors of Unix will run on an Alpha, while Almost all Unices, Windows, DOS, BSD, OS/2 etc. are supported by x86 based processors.
Could you please specify which "certain flavors" of Unix run on the Alpha? Where do you get the impression that x86 boxes are supported by "almost all Unices"? Last time I checked, I could not run IRIX, Tru64, or AIX on an x86 PC (there used to be an x86 version of AIX, but those days are long gone). Windows definitely did run on the Alpha (up to NT 4.0). FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD also run on it. And bringing up DOS, OS/2, or OpenVMS is not worth the trouble, as they only run on a single platform (Yes, I know about OS/2 on PPC, but did anyone pay attention? NT/Alpha got a lot more usage than that).
From the web page:
MarkNet XL internal network adapter options for Token-Ring, LocalTalk and Ethernet...
You'll just have to swap the twinax board for an Ethernet one, which would (presumably) also contain an LPD server. You won't need anything else, as the printer already understands PostScript and PCL5e.
Quite right. And before that, they're named Fintronic. I recall seeing a review of one of their workstations in Byte Magazine sometime around 1995. The reviewer seemed to be quite impressed with the machine, and Fintronic went on to quoting the article in their ads for many years. Unless I'm wrong, these are the names they've had so far, in chronological order:
My understanding is that MiniDiscs never sold well in the US because The Powers That Be (i.e., R.I.A.A.) were strongly opposed against a recordable/rewritable medium that offered near-CD-quality sound (the compression is lossy on these), which, according to them, would undermine CD sales. They seem to have been well received by audio pros and radio stations, however.
I have seen prerecorded MDs on sale at record stores before, BTW. They had a thick coat of dust over them.
It's called a Jeep Wrangler
Actually, a Suzuki SJ310/Samurai, which was later replaced by the Sidekick. Lighter and much more fuel-efficient than the Wrangler, and just as fun. A bit underpowered, though, and it had a bad habit of rolling over on sharp turns (they had prominent warning labels on the doors and visors instructing the driver of this).
Gives new meaning to the phrase "three-finger salute," doesn't it?
Ctrl-Alt-middle finger, indeed.
This article on KDE Dot News describes the the 1,000,000,000th second bug in KMail < 1.0.29.1. The problem stems from the index file format used (the time stamp is a 9-char fixed-width field). The index files (and therefore the mail folders) become corrupted when the time value is >= 10^9. This doesn't have anything to do with time_t, which on 32-bit systems is slated to roll over sometime in 2038. Systems with 64-bit timestamps (like pre-X Mac OS and VMS) won't roll over for the next 20,000 years.
Yes, this is the open-source answer to Microsoft's Windows CE-ME-NT
While it does not mention SPARCs, Apple maintains a page dedicated to Open Firmware here.
The same story appeared earlier today on this Register article, where it is mentioned that Nintendo plans on having 700,000 'Cubes ready for launch, instead of 500,000. In fact, Nintendo plays this up in this announcement on their web site, while skillfully avoiding mentioning the delay.
They have been doing this for a long time here in Pennsylvania.
At the Breezewood interchange of the Penna. Turnpike, where Interstate 70 leaves I-76, there is a great big sign of a policeman pointing at you, saying "You! Slow Down!" From there, you then have to drive a few blocks on US 30 before getting back on I-70.
So they defend the right of a company to not make a profit and burn through cash faster than a pothead burning weed after being deprived for a week? Well, if that's their choice, it's fine with me.
Not recycling, but could be used for waste disposal (think of AOL CDs). However, given how difficult it is to obtain aluminium, decomposing it is not exactly something we'd like to see.
Not quite related, but here's how to create a one-atmosphere plasmoid.
do they use "american" (standard qwerty) keyboards and change the keyboard layout combos to support the additional characters
...Actually, both, assuming you're only talking about Western European languages. Usually, non-US keyboards have three extra keys, an extra bucky bit key (often labelled AltGr), and extra glyphs on the remaining keys. Accents are usually the result of pressing a dead key (i.e., a key that doesn't cause the cursor to move) and the letter you want to place the accent on. Most of these keyboards use the standard QWERTY layout for the letters; AZERTY has already been mentioned elsewhere. Punctuation and other characters rarely follow the US keyboard layout.
If you don't have an ISO language-specific keyboard, though, you can simply change the keymap to provide additional functionality. Windows provides the US-International keymap, which changes the right Alt key to AltGr, and the quote/doublequote, backtick/tilde and 6/circumflex keys to dead keys. Using AltGr on various keys generates additional characters that cannot be produced with the dead keys alone. More recent releases of XFree also have a us-intl keymap that's almost a clone of the Windows one, with a few slight differences. In my experience, this setup is a lot more efficient for programming than using an ISO keyboard.
At least here in Pennsylvania (and most of New Jersey), I can find the following:
However, it is not rare to see 20-pump gas stations that only serve gasoline.
Just in case any of you believe that all G4 Cubes are fanless, if you have a built-to-order Cube with an ATI Radeon card, it WILL have a fan. It is still a lot quieter than the average PC case fan, though.
No, no, no. It has been explained countless times here before. The GPL only requires that the source be available, but not necessarily included along with the binary distribution.
That's one of the three conditions on which you may distribute GPL'ed binaries, of which you are required to comply with just one. See "Terms and Conditions for Copying, Distribution and Modification" in the GPL.
Oh, shite, just when I thought I had enough of watching "The Princess Bride" (this past Sunday), you had to bring us this quote. Unconceivable!
So what if you're browsing a pr0n site? How would it react to a "tent raising" gesture?
Hhmmm... the SR-71 has a cruise speed of Mach 3 (with a sustained maximum of 3.3). The Concorde can do Mach 2, IIRC.
And here I thought that ATA was intended to be used with direct-access media, while a tape drive is a sequential access device...
Yet another removable drive that uses ATA is Castlewood's ORB. Still, this is a very small minority.
My thought was "For great economy", but what the heck...