Then your linux boxes are probably misconfigured. Are you running lots of services you don't need?
Have you recompiled your kernel to remove checks for hardware you don't have?
Is windows 2000 starting some of its services after the gui appears, just giving the impression it's finished booting, when, in fact, it's still doing stuff in the background (I know NT 4 does that...)
WTF? I know that's a troll, but anyway - the Amiga icons are no more incomprehensible than gnome or kde's, and the windows are whatever size you size them to. In my experience, CDE sucked - was about as good as windows 3.1.
The latest release of the "classic" AmigaOS, 3.9, looks like this.
Raster's screenshots in my previous post are from an early-1990s 14 MHz amiga with 6 MByte of memory + 256 color graphics... They sure as hell look better than a similar specced PeeCee would...
Actually, really, I suppose it's not much to do with X Render anyway, and is more like the GLUI tollkit mentioned in this comment. (GL is actually rather good for pixely 2D stuff).
Then again, maybe I'm letting him off easy 'cause he's an ex-Amiga hacker like myself (only he's better, of course.)...
His archival screenshots ( 12 ) of his amiga desktop from back in the day (early '90s)really illustrate how far behind Unix was on the GUI side
of things when the Amiga was at its peak - I had a similar looking desktop, and, boy, twm was a big step backwards...
The wierd thing is, here, Jack Straw actually seems to be right up the BNP's street, from my experience. At risk of sounding like someone out of the Illuminatus! trilogy - is the BNP raging against Jack Straw because they want to keep him in power? - general british public opinion tends to be pretty much the opposite of whatever fascist rubbish the BNP spouts - so by the BNP complaining publicly about Straw, the general public are more likely to keep the git in power.....
Get rid of the fun-size fascist Jack Straw, who seems to have read 1984 when he was little, and thought "Hey, that's a pretty good idea"...
Actaully don't do that - it'd just be creating a martyr...
The british tabloids are great at discrediting politicians - surely Jackie boy must have some odd little habits like old J.E. Hoover did....
MS don't innovate (except by their own twisted definition of the word, which apparently doesn't coincide with either the american or english one...). They (you?) redefine "innovate" to mean something else.
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The Amiga MagicMenu program does what you want. On an Amiga. (D'oh!).
Yes, there's an Amiga port of Quake, available from Clickboom - but you need a pretty souped up amiga for it.
For reference, my last Amiga before I finally gave in and migrated to x86 Linux was a 233MHz PPC box with a Permedia 2 gfx card, 6GB HD, cdrom, and 64 MByte ram. The Amiga isn't exactly dead, but it's not exactly alive either.
The "classic" Amiga is still around (and the OS is still being updated - it's now at v3.9), but the owners of the Amiga trademark are concentrating on their new language-independent virtual machine which is basically a rich multimedia library set for the tao elate embedded operating system. Technologically, it is very impressive. It's not open source or Libre Software, though, so it's not exactly grabbing developer mindshare left right + centre as fast as linux does.
A lot of the good ideas that appeared on the Amiga in the 80s and 90s are only making it across to "mainstream" platforms now, however. I really wish people would occasionally check out the aminet before starting new projects, and make sure that there isn't a ready-made wodge of amiga source code there for whatever they're doing. The GPL and BSD licenses were very popular among amiga developers too, and the entire GNU CLI tools suite was ported to AmigaOS years ago, via a shared library arrangement like cygwin on windoze, called ixemul.library (shared libraries on the amiga have a.library extension....)
Dunno about that. Over here (Ireland), AMD had a pretty big advertising campaign, and, importantly, their train ads are far better than the Intel "stupid blue men hit green things" campaign. Of course, there's a certain amount of loyalty to Intel over here, since they have a huge big fab up the road from my old secondary school...
Er.... I think you'll find that only a privelged user (i.e. root, or maybe a member of wheel) can make a suid root file. A trojan you get over the internet is NOT going to be able to save itself as suid root.
At the same time, if you wre not worried about binary backward compatibility, you could do away with the legacy cruft in the Intel architecture and produces some sort of pseudo-RISC instruction set, that might well outperform the hideous x86 machine code in all it's non-glory. Since you have the source for gcc and linux "all" you have to do then is produce an optimising compiler...
Of course, in reality, a 400MHz PowerPC is much higer-performance than a 400MHz x86. It's just consumers on the street are SOOOO stupid - It's got more mega-hurts, it must be better...
The x86 design is, quite possibly, the most crappy, kludgy microprocessor architecture still extant in the non-embedded space.
Um. The old amiga, called "classic" Amiga by the Amiga trademark owners, has little or nothing in common with the new Amiga operating environment,
beyond the name, and a certain slant towrads high-speed multimedia applications coupled with resource-efficiency.
Yes, the Amiga was a VERY similar m68k UNIX-like OO GUI architecture to NeXTSTEP, in fact - but at 1/10th the cost.
It was technically excellent, but management screwed it up.
I do this too -and with good reason. There are NO lossless animation/pixel-by-pixel editing tools available anywhere else that I hae found that are on a par with the Amiga's various image processing suites, such as PPaint and Animation Studio.
The modern ones are all either veery powerful, but with hideous, clunky user interfaces (gimp, photoshop), or with superficially similar easy UIs to Amiga packages, but ridiculuously feature free.
If I'm drawing original, bitmapped web graphics, I use an emulated copy of Amiga software - although, now that phoitogenics is out for linux, that can finally begin to change.
I don'te think intercepting the deleta calls a good idea. A new pseudo-delete call with similar semantics would be better, so that programs can be updated to use the trashcan/versioning facility if the so wish.
I'd like to see copyright AND patents rescaled to the de-facto standard internet time metric of 1 Real World Month = 1 Internet Year. That way, Software patents would last about 2 Real World years, and even ridiculously long copyrights (80 years in the real world) would last about 7 years. That time scale sounds about right to me, given the speed at which internet companies move.
In a scarcity economy, the patent on invention wasn't orginally a bad idea, neither was limited copyright. We're not quite post-scarcity yet* (It'll take nanotech and fusion for that...), so there's probably still a place for them, but scaled to realistic levels in internet time.
*As Iain M. Banks would say in a Culture novel "Money is a sign of Poverty"
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The annoying thing is that it /would/ work, Tesla was *right*, and, as usual, greed and nastiness caused his work to be squashed....
Then your linux boxes are probably misconfigured. Are you running lots of services you don't need?
Have you recompiled your kernel to remove checks for hardware you don't have?
Is windows 2000 starting some of its services after the gui appears, just giving the impression it's finished booting, when, in fact, it's still doing stuff in the background (I know NT 4 does that...)
WTF? I know that's a troll, but anyway - the Amiga icons are no more incomprehensible than gnome or kde's, and the windows are whatever size you size them to. In my experience, CDE sucked - was about as good as windows 3.1.
The latest release of the "classic" AmigaOS, 3.9, looks like this.
Raster's screenshots in my previous post are from an early-1990s 14 MHz amiga with 6 MByte of memory + 256 color graphics... They sure as hell look better than a similar specced PeeCee would...
I would presume that, if it's all OpenGL, he just uses XFree86 GLX calls - i.e. the DRI. Little wonder it's fast.
Hmmph.
Actually, really, I suppose it's not much to do with X Render anyway, and is more like the GLUI tollkit mentioned in this comment. (GL is actually rather good for pixely 2D stuff).
Then again, maybe I'm letting him off easy 'cause he's an ex-Amiga hacker like myself (only he's better, of course.)...
His archival screenshots ( 1 2 ) of his amiga desktop from back in the day (early '90s)really illustrate how far behind Unix was on the GUI side
of things when the Amiga was at its peak - I had a similar looking desktop, and, boy, twm was a big step backwards...
How does this relate to Keith Packard's new X Render extension, which so recently gave Qt/KDE antialiased fonts ?
The wierd thing is, here, Jack Straw actually seems to be right up the BNP's street, from my experience. At risk of sounding like someone out of the Illuminatus! trilogy - is the BNP raging against Jack Straw because they want to keep him in power? - general british public opinion tends to be pretty much the opposite of whatever fascist rubbish the BNP spouts - so by the BNP complaining publicly about Straw, the general public are more likely to keep the git in power.....
Get rid of the fun-size fascist Jack Straw, who seems to have read 1984 when he was little, and thought "Hey, that's a pretty good idea"...
Actaully don't do that - it'd just be creating a martyr...
The british tabloids are great at discrediting politicians - surely Jackie boy must have some odd little habits like old J.E. Hoover did....
MS don't innovate (except by their own twisted definition of the word, which apparently doesn't coincide with either the american or english one...). They (you?) redefine "innovate" to mean something else.
The Amiga MagicMenu program does what you want. On an Amiga. (D'oh!).
(warning bad advice follows)
don't use the -w flag then.
Yes, there's an Amiga port of Quake, available from Clickboom - but you need a pretty souped up amiga for it.
.library extension....)
For reference, my last Amiga before I finally gave in and migrated to x86 Linux was a 233MHz PPC box with a Permedia 2 gfx card, 6GB HD, cdrom, and 64 MByte ram. The Amiga isn't exactly dead, but it's not exactly alive either.
The "classic" Amiga is still around (and the OS is still being updated - it's now at v3.9), but the owners of the Amiga trademark are concentrating on their new language-independent virtual machine which is basically a rich multimedia library set for the tao elate embedded operating system. Technologically, it is very impressive. It's not open source or Libre Software, though, so it's not exactly grabbing developer mindshare left right + centre as fast as linux does.
A lot of the good ideas that appeared on the Amiga in the 80s and 90s are only making it across to "mainstream" platforms now, however. I really wish people would occasionally check out the aminet before starting new projects, and make sure that there isn't a ready-made wodge of amiga source code there for whatever they're doing. The GPL and BSD licenses were very popular among amiga developers too, and the entire GNU CLI tools suite was ported to AmigaOS years ago, via a shared library arrangement like cygwin on windoze, called ixemul.library (shared libraries on the amiga have a
I think your mistake is assuming it's necessary to "win".
Isn't Perl a DWIM interface? It aslways seems to do what I wnat it to, no matter how crap the code I throw at it...
Ho hum. Tao/Amiga generalised VM. Runs Java, C, C++, various scripting languages + shells, and native virtual processor assembler.
Dunno about that. Over here (Ireland), AMD had a pretty big advertising campaign, and, importantly, their train ads are far better than the Intel "stupid blue men hit green things" campaign. Of course, there's a certain amount of loyalty to Intel over here, since they have a huge big fab up the road from my old secondary school...
Er.... I think you'll find that only a privelged user (i.e. root, or maybe a member of wheel) can make a suid root file. A trojan you get over the internet is NOT going to be able to save itself as suid root.
At the same time, if you wre not worried about binary backward compatibility, you could do away with the legacy cruft in the Intel architecture and produces some sort of pseudo-RISC instruction set, that might well outperform the hideous x86 machine code in all it's non-glory. Since you have the source for gcc and linux "all" you have to do then is produce an optimising compiler...
Of course, in reality, a 400MHz PowerPC is much higer-performance than a 400MHz x86. It's just consumers on the street are SOOOO stupid - It's got more mega-hurts, it must be better...
The x86 design is, quite possibly, the most crappy, kludgy microprocessor architecture still extant in the non-embedded space.
sp. towards. Not that tows aren't rad or anything, but hey.
Um. The old amiga, called "classic" Amiga by the Amiga trademark owners, has little or nothing in common with the new Amiga operating environment,
beyond the name, and a certain slant towrads high-speed multimedia applications coupled with resource-efficiency.
Yes, the Amiga was a VERY similar m68k UNIX-like OO GUI architecture to NeXTSTEP, in fact - but at 1/10th the cost.
It was technically excellent, but management screwed it up.
I do this too -and with good reason. There are NO lossless animation/pixel-by-pixel editing tools available anywhere else that I hae found that are on a par with the Amiga's various image processing suites, such as PPaint and Animation Studio.
The modern ones are all either veery powerful, but with hideous, clunky user interfaces (gimp, photoshop), or with superficially similar easy UIs to Amiga packages, but ridiculuously feature free.
If I'm drawing original, bitmapped web graphics, I use an emulated copy of Amiga software - although, now that phoitogenics is out for linux, that can finally begin to change.
I don'te think intercepting the deleta calls a good idea. A new pseudo-delete call with similar semantics would be better, so that programs can be updated to use the trashcan/versioning facility if the so wish.
I'd like to see copyright AND patents rescaled to the de-facto standard internet time metric of 1 Real World Month = 1 Internet Year. That way, Software patents would last about 2 Real World years, and even ridiculously long copyrights (80 years in the real world) would last about 7 years. That time scale sounds about right to me, given the speed at which internet companies move.
In a scarcity economy, the patent on invention wasn't orginally a bad idea, neither was limited copyright. We're not quite post-scarcity yet* (It'll take nanotech and fusion for that...), so there's probably still a place for them, but scaled to realistic levels in internet time.
*As Iain M. Banks would say in a Culture novel "Money is a sign of Poverty"