It reminds me of an old Radius video card (for PCs!) that had three (read: one more than two) 64-bit video processors. That was a few years ago, and semingly no one cared much. It has to do with something utterly evil most people call "hype".
There's a bunch of sites that have the same effect. Like http://www.erikaweb.com/misc/hotmail.htm, for example. Just go to AltaVista and search for "hotmail login -host:*.hotmail.com".
It seems like Hotmail doesn't check for the password when you first open the mailbox when the referring page is not in Hotmail's domain. Big hairy bug indeed.
If you don't mind getting cancer in your guts, then yes, you may eat plutonium ceramic pellets, and expect them to come out the bunhole in 24 hours or so. Nevermind that inhaling just a few *molecules* of plutonium induces lung cancer. And that the pellets won't fall into the ground intact, but be vapourised in the air during re-entry. It won't be TEOTWAWKI, but we're gonna suffer from it in one way or another... if the thing falls, anyway.
OS/2 for the PowerPC was released and available for some time. It got killed because of poor demand for the product. About the other ones, well, IBM wasn't alone in their development (Apple and Motorola were there too), so they can't be given all the blame for it.
Yes, just four CPUs. It doesn't scale that well yet. It can START 16 processors, but won't utilise them all appropiately. So, just four (with 2.2).
The part about Linux being 32 bits is way off, though, as you noted. Linux runs as a 64-bit OS on Alpha and UltraSPARC. But then, the article's author's mentality is surrounded around Wintel.
It looks a lot like the old unified Compaq Presarios (the ones with CPU, monitor, and speakers in the same box). The difference here is that the monitor+speakers are detached, and the finish has a different colour and a grainy, sandy appearance (guessing by the pictures). When you put the monitor on top of the CPU, it looks astonishingly like those bloody Compaqs.
IBM had a ThinkPad that lacked a polariser in its display. You used the included polaroid glasses (or used your own) to view the image on the screen. They probably still have it, but I haven't seen it anymore for a long time now.
USPS Priority Mail to/from Puerto Rico usually takes three days (might be just two days from Florida, but I don't live there), and costs the same. They will also ship next day, if you want to, still for the same price. They beat the crap out of UPS and FedEx in that part, specially considering that it is so much less expensive. Only caution, though: make sure you don't send anything fragile, as their handling is, to put it mildly, not the best.
Unfortunately, they can hurt you thru that hole, which is one of the reasons hidden cameras are used instead. Of course you remember the part when the girls see that thing sticking out of the hole...:p
The stock closed at 2 1/16 up, for a total of 8 1/16. For 6 million shares, this means that Be has $12,375,000 more than during opening. If this is not good, I don't know what is.
That's what M$ was saying when they introduced WinNT 3.1 a few years ago. Now with Linux blowing fire under their pants, they have to react quickly, and what better for them than throwing some vapourware and FUD to keep the populace confused until they actually come up with something saleable? Well, since Linux doesn't depend on sales to stay afloat, vapourware and fudslinging won't work, so what-me-worry?
Now, I don't know much about chip design, but the author stated clearly that the emphasis of the chipset would be high performance, as noted by the poster above. However, burst memory transfers would not benefit much from a non-multiplexed design, since the address is sent on the first cycle, followed by the burst of data. Unfortunately, most memory access is random, so what the heck...
Once upon a time, a big, fat corporation by the name of IBM presented the PS/2 E. This machine sorta looked like the one in the article, however the CPU was contained in its own slim desktop case. It was expandable using PCMCIA cards, which is infinitely better than having no expandability whatsoever. The flat panel display could be replaced with a regular CRT, if need be. However, many of you might have never heard of this machine, which says much about its success.
Caldera's GUI-based installation tool (called Lizard, for 'Linux Wizard', and part of Caldera OpenLinux 2.2) has a lot of potential. It is a lot easier to use than LISA, which was the standard installation tool for COL (and still an option). However, Lizard still leaves a lot to be desired. It only gives you three package installation options: Minimal, Recommended, and Everything, leaving out the option of manually selecting which packages are to be installed. If you want that, you have to whip out a boot disk (make your own, because the included one boots into Lizard) and use LISA instead. Also, the version of Lizard currently included in the retail version of COL 2.2 is buggy; among others, it craps out when you try to create additional users during installation.
All this said, average Joe Lusers will enjoy this new installer. It boots into graphical mode immediately, even while the kernel is loading. The video config used for the installer has virtually no glitches (it worked flawlessly with my Millenium rev. 1). X server configuration is just as simple as in Windoze (maybe easier, mileage will vary). It skillfully demonstrates Linux's multitasking prowess by installing the package while you enter the site configuration information. And at the end, it lets you play Tetris while the programme finishes the installation. Truly impressing stuff.
All this is not representative of how COL compares to other distributions. I have different opinions for that.
If I were to sell you a computer, and included some GNU software as part of the package, wouldn't I have to include the source to said software as part of the package? That's what Microworkz would have to do to comply with the GPL.
If they have ported GNU software to BeOS, they still have to make available the source code to their ports, according to the GPL. If they don't do, they'd still be violating the licence whether they mess with the Linux kernel or not.
According to the article, this HAL thingee will "run PC applications in emulation mode, in a manner similar to how the DEC Alpha runs NT, but it will run it a lot faster." Eh... I always thought NT ran as native code on the Alpha... that must explain why it is so slow...
If you read it correctly, you will notice that this didn't come from the writer of the article; this is actually a quote from Kent Gilson, Star Bridge System's CTO. Well, with a CTO like that, I can just imagine what kind of product they will come up with.
Every so often, I see trucks from some freight trucking company that calls itself "G.O.D." rolling down the Turnpike, "G.O.D." standing for "Guaranteed Overnight Delivery". It gives you some sense of relief when you look thru your rear view mirror and see this big ole semi tailgating you and the first thing you notice is a big sign that reads "GOD", 'cause maybe God is driving that truck.
So, who knows? They might get the domain name, they got a reason for it after all...
This will surely good for just about all Unix and Linux standardisation efforts, including the LSB. I wonder what the LSB people say about this (if they're awake at this moment), but this seems to me like it will add a little bit more commonality between the various Unix flavours out there. We still have a long way, though. Having a bunch of non-standard-compliant libraries doesn't help much.
Be cautioned, though: Microsoft owns a good-sized chunk of SCO.
As someone commented below, having more HDs increases performance. So instead of having one mumbo jumbo HD, have two, or three, or whatever you want. Then run fsck/badblocks/defrag in parallel (fsck can do this on its own,;Windoze loses on this count:).
Well, no, I don't really think M$ alone will do that. We can al count on The Open Group to come up with X11R7, Motif 3.0, and CDE 3.0 to eat up availale hard disk space. And just so that the Open Source movement isn't left behind in the features race, GNOME 2.0 and KDE 3 to complement our selection.:op
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Depending on the specific formulation utilised, polycarbonate could withstand heat just as well as aluminium, while being stronger at the same time (Ever seen Gargoyles sunglasses? Ever seen how they survive gunshots?) Since plastic is lighter, it carries a smaller angular momentum, and thus requires a smaller amount of energy to give it spin. In such a case, you'd use a smaller motor, which means lower energy consumption, and less heat, and less chance of having a platter melt down inside the harddrive casing.
I don't know if you noticed the same as me, but that Trackz! MP3 player look very much like any clock radio that you can buy at Radio Shack or Walgreens, specially the red LED display... ugh.
OTOH, I'd very much like to be awaken by MP3 music...
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It reminds me of an old Radius video card (for PCs!) that had three (read: one more than two) 64-bit video processors. That was a few years ago, and semingly no one cared much. It has to do with something utterly evil most people call "hype".
There's a bunch of sites that have the same effect. Like http://www.erikaweb.com/misc/hotmail.htm, for example. Just go to AltaVista and search for "hotmail login -host:*.hotmail.com".
It seems like Hotmail doesn't check for the password when you first open the mailbox when the referring page is not in Hotmail's domain. Big hairy bug indeed.
If you don't mind getting cancer in your guts, then yes, you may eat plutonium ceramic pellets, and expect them to come out the bunhole in 24 hours or so. Nevermind that inhaling just a few *molecules* of plutonium induces lung cancer. And that the pellets won't fall into the ground intact, but be vapourised in the air during re-entry. It won't be TEOTWAWKI, but we're gonna suffer from it in one way or another... if the thing falls, anyway.
OS/2 for the PowerPC was released and available for some time. It got killed because of poor demand for the product. About the other ones, well, IBM wasn't alone in their development (Apple and Motorola were there too), so they can't be given all the blame for it.
Yes, just four CPUs. It doesn't scale that well yet. It can START 16 processors, but won't utilise them all appropiately. So, just four (with 2.2).
The part about Linux being 32 bits is way off, though, as you noted. Linux runs as a 64-bit OS on Alpha and UltraSPARC. But then, the article's author's mentality is surrounded around Wintel.
It looks a lot like the old unified Compaq Presarios (the ones with CPU, monitor, and speakers in the same box). The difference here is that the monitor+speakers are detached, and the finish has a different colour and a grainy, sandy appearance (guessing by the pictures). When you put the monitor on top of the CPU, it looks astonishingly like those bloody Compaqs.
I just want a SPARC-like pizza box. Nothing else.
IBM had a ThinkPad that lacked a polariser in its display. You used the included polaroid glasses (or used your own) to view the image on the screen. They probably still have it, but I haven't seen it anymore for a long time now.
USPS Priority Mail to/from Puerto Rico usually takes three days (might be just two days from Florida, but I don't live there), and costs the same. They will also ship next day, if you want to, still for the same price. They beat the crap out of UPS and FedEx in that part, specially considering that it is so much less expensive. Only caution, though: make sure you don't send anything fragile, as their handling is, to put it mildly, not the best.
Unfortunately, they can hurt you thru that hole, which is one of the reasons hidden cameras are used instead. Of course you remember the part when the girls see that thing sticking out of the hole... :p
The stock closed at 2 1/16 up, for a total of 8 1/16. For 6 million shares, this means that Be has $12,375,000 more than during opening. If this is not good, I don't know what is.
Here's a lame list of links pointing to prior patents related to "digital audio players":
These are but just a few that I could find in IBM's patent database. Just look for "digital audio player", you'll be surprised.
That's what M$ was saying when they introduced WinNT 3.1 a few years ago. Now with Linux blowing fire under their pants, they have to react quickly, and what better for them than throwing some vapourware and FUD to keep the populace confused until they actually come up with something saleable? Well, since Linux doesn't depend on sales to stay afloat, vapourware and fudslinging won't work, so what-me-worry?
Now, I don't know much about chip design, but the author stated clearly that the emphasis of the chipset would be high performance, as noted by the poster above. However, burst memory transfers would not benefit much from a non-multiplexed design, since the address is sent on the first cycle, followed by the burst of data. Unfortunately, most memory access is random, so what the heck...
Once upon a time, a big, fat corporation by the name of IBM presented the PS/2 E. This machine sorta looked like the one in the article, however the CPU was contained in its own slim desktop case. It was expandable using PCMCIA cards, which is infinitely better than having no expandability whatsoever. The flat panel display could be replaced with a regular CRT, if need be. However, many of you might have never heard of this machine, which says much about its success.
Caldera's GUI-based installation tool (called Lizard, for 'Linux Wizard', and part of Caldera OpenLinux 2.2) has a lot of potential. It is a lot easier to use than LISA, which was the standard installation tool for COL (and still an option). However, Lizard still leaves a lot to be desired. It only gives you three package installation options: Minimal, Recommended, and Everything, leaving out the option of manually selecting which packages are to be installed. If you want that, you have to whip out a boot disk (make your own, because the included one boots into Lizard) and use LISA instead. Also, the version of Lizard currently included in the retail version of COL 2.2 is buggy; among others, it craps out when you try to create additional users during installation.
All this said, average Joe Lusers will enjoy this new installer. It boots into graphical mode immediately, even while the kernel is loading. The video config used for the installer has virtually no glitches (it worked flawlessly with my Millenium rev. 1). X server configuration is just as simple as in Windoze (maybe easier, mileage will vary). It skillfully demonstrates Linux's multitasking prowess by installing the package while you enter the site configuration information. And at the end, it lets you play Tetris while the programme finishes the installation. Truly impressing stuff.
All this is not representative of how COL compares to other distributions. I have different opinions for that.
If I were to sell you a computer, and included some GNU software as part of the package, wouldn't I have to include the source to said software as part of the package? That's what Microworkz would have to do to comply with the GPL.
If they have ported GNU software to BeOS, they still have to make available the source code to their ports, according to the GPL. If they don't do, they'd still be violating the licence whether they mess with the Linux kernel or not.
You mean, those TV's with UHF tuners that go all the way up to channel 83? Hhmmm... gotta try with mom's old 12-incher B/W...
According to the article, this HAL thingee will "run PC applications in emulation mode, in a manner similar to how the DEC Alpha runs NT, but it will run it a lot faster." Eh... I always thought NT ran as native code on the Alpha... that must explain why it is so slow...
If you read it correctly, you will notice that this didn't come from the writer of the article; this is actually a quote from Kent Gilson, Star Bridge System's CTO. Well, with a CTO like that, I can just imagine what kind of product they will come up with.
Every so often, I see trucks from some freight trucking company that calls itself "G.O.D." rolling down the Turnpike, "G.O.D." standing for "Guaranteed Overnight Delivery". It gives you some sense of relief when you look thru your rear view mirror and see this big ole semi tailgating you and the first thing you notice is a big sign that reads "GOD", 'cause maybe God is driving that truck.
So, who knows? They might get the domain name, they got a reason for it after all...
This will surely good for just about all Unix and Linux standardisation efforts, including the LSB. I wonder what the LSB people say about this (if they're awake at this moment), but this seems to me like it will add a little bit more commonality between the various Unix flavours out there. We still have a long way, though. Having a bunch of non-standard-compliant libraries doesn't help much.
Be cautioned, though: Microsoft owns a good-sized chunk of SCO.
As someone commented below, having more HDs increases performance. So instead of having one mumbo jumbo HD, have two, or three, or whatever you want. Then run fsck/badblocks/defrag in parallel (fsck can do this on its own, ;Windoze loses on this count :).
Well, no, I don't really think M$ alone will do that. We can al count on The Open Group to come up with X11R7, Motif 3.0, and CDE 3.0 to eat up availale hard disk space. And just so that the Open Source movement isn't left behind in the features race, GNOME 2.0 and KDE 3 to complement our selection. :op
Depending on the specific formulation utilised, polycarbonate could withstand heat just as well as aluminium, while being stronger at the same time (Ever seen Gargoyles sunglasses? Ever seen how they survive gunshots?) Since plastic is lighter, it carries a smaller angular momentum, and thus requires a smaller amount of energy to give it spin. In such a case, you'd use a smaller motor, which means lower energy consumption, and less heat, and less chance of having a platter melt down inside the harddrive casing.
I don't know if you noticed the same as me, but that Trackz! MP3 player look very much like any clock radio that you can buy at Radio Shack or Walgreens, specially the red LED display... ugh.
OTOH, I'd very much like to be awaken by MP3 music...