Well, there's ucLinux, a project designed for microcontrollers without a MMU. With tools, it adds up to about 900KB. Somebody with way too much time on their hands (i.e. maths students) could probably port it to the TI-89, though I have no idea what hardware it has.
Now, what would've been cool, is porting it to Casio calculators. In Norway, Casio rules for some reason, and I have to use my 1.5MB FX 1.0 for something! (-: Does anybody know anything about custom OS for Casio calculators?
The DMCA prevents you from viewing the images on your DVD (you own the thing) that you just bought if you don't own a "preapproved" DVD player. A mere DVD-ROM + Linux can't do it legally.
This was the case against Jon Lech Johansen here in Norway - and he won. Thus, in Norway, it is quite legal to access the information on any copy protected DVD that you have legally bought and display the information in any way you might want to. This does not intefere with copyright laws, as they cover how you distribute copyrighted material. As you don't distribute anything when viewing a DVD on your Linux computer, it should be legal.
Twice today. Windows XP Home on a brand new Dell Inspiron at 2.2GHz. Granted, it has only blue screened once before, but still. One of the crashes appeared to be caused by the (Microsoft signed) display drivers and the other with WLAN PCMCIA card network drivers (that Microsoft does not have driver signing for). Needless to say, I'm running Linux (Debian, in fact) a lot more than Windows on this computer, and has never had a problem.
You can login via ssh/rsh without a password _or token_ of any kind being given to the remote machine and have full network access.
If I read you correctly, you're saying that if you have root on any given workstation, you can log in to a server as root without having the server's root password. In my experience, that is impossible. It's up the the server wether someone applies the correct username/password or any other token, and the server does not care what user the client is. This is true for telnet, ssh, rsh and any other remote management I know of, on every system I know of.
well, I'm looking forward to it. I live at 69 deg. N, where we can watch aurora about every night.. (-: This one's going to be beatiful, tough, if the weather allows.
did you miss the part that allows you to export to MS Office format?
This raises an important issue. The main reason Microsoft is able to keep such a good grip on office-suites, is the file formats. Everything is kept in Microsoft Word og Excel-formats. It's all well and good that the alternatives can read and write these formats (though they're not perfect), but what we need, is an alternetive. We need an open format common to all word processors. The only format I know of that Word will read, is RTF. But RTF is rather limited. When I send a document from OO, I want to do it in an open format, readable by all (including Microsoft Word). These days, KOffice won't even read OO-documents.
No can do. It's a quote from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams; but the sig-limit limits me from quoting all of it. It ends this way:..worked out. --Douglas Adams
I'm too lazy to change it, or find a new sig. So as of now it's left as an exercise for the reader.
I'd say just *x*, case insensitive. This way, you'll cover most of the lot. What is this thing about the letter X, by the way? Unix, XFree, Linux, XP.. you name it (I know, *BSD).
I started on an Apple II but so what? You can't get any real useful work done on one now and yes, even the 400mhz and 733mhz CPU's people are talking about in here are getting pretty long in the tooth for business use.
Only yesterday I saw a Mac Plus doing its job for a librarian - granted, only for text processing and printing, but still. It did its job. I actually asked wether she would rather like a new computer - there were quite a lot of them around. Of course not, she replied, as the Mac does its job. I beleive the librarian did "real useful work" on that Mac.
Just because you happen to be internet content creation, doesn't mean that your computer would fit everybody else. The reason you see such many "Word and Excel"-arguments around here, is because the majority of business computer users only to text processing, spreadsheet and e-mail. Computers have been able to do that for quite a while, now. In the real world, people look as computers as tools, not as the real work.
I'm a web developer. As I run Linux, my applications ranges from Gimp to web/script/databaseserver to several web browsers, of course in addition to mail and news applications and all the small stuff like XMMS and Gaim. For these tasks, I have an AMD K6-II 400MHz with 128MB RAM and a 16 MB video adapter. I'll upgrade the RAM soon, but the computer is sufficient for my needs, and it's not painful.
I think the definition of real work needs some polishing. I admit that my computer have troubles with the latest games, but I don't linke this trend of always needing the latest and greatest hardware. People did real work on PDP-11, for crying out load!
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The web is about content, not design. The web should be available to all browsers, including Opera, Links, Mozilla, w3m, Internet Explorer, netrik, Konqueror and so on.
It's not the box that should meet sepcs, it's the webpage. It's about seperating content from presentation.
Flash is a great medium, but has nothing to do on the web.
And just think, in a few years Perl6 will come too!
Yeah, yeah. You know just as well as me that Duke Nukem Forever 2 Extended Edition will come before Perl6.
Probably because, if I dare to be so presumptious, the majority of people here are American.
Do you have any facts to back up this claim? The whole metric/imperial-thing isn't that big a thing, but I'm actually interested in where the majority of the/. readers come from. I know for sure that quite a lot norwegians read slashdot.
And from a brain-processing point of view, it would spare the world a lot of time if the editors (or story submitter) would do the conversion than if each and every non-US-reader would do it in their heads. And we wouldn't have had this discussion (-:
And still you think that the rest of us should do it in our heads? Quoting you: Yes, because people can't do simple conversions in their head.
There are three (3) countries in the world that still uses the imperial system: Liberia, Burma and the US. Every other contry implements the metric system.. Look here if you're interested.
There's a certain "American Tunnel Vision Syndrome" around Slashdot, it seems..
No, and X has never done this (all the way back to my Pentium 75 with a S3 Trio64 video card).
Is that so? Impressive. I'm curious, because on my 400MHz with 128MB RAM and a Riva TNT at 1280x1024x16 (my main computer; don't tell me to upgrade, it does its job quite well), I get artifacts when I move windows around. It's actually not a "black/white-trail", but bits of the window that moves stays on the underlaying windows for a split second, creating a trail of the window I'm currently moving. Yep, latest drivers from nVidia. And do I have to say; in Windows 98 the windows moves much more smoothly (that being said, moving windows don't keep me from moving from Windows)..
I know that my Java program will never have a buffer overrun because it is impossible for me to produce JVM instructions that corrupt buffers or alter pointers.
That is so, and Java eliminiates the buffer overrun problems. But that doesn't mean a Java application is reliable by default. There's still a lot of stuff that could go wrong (a bug doesn't always crash a program, often it just does undiserable things). Software needs to be tested, no matter what the pitfalls of programming might be. You could argue that lots of the problems in the Unix-world is caused by C, but no software is perfect, no matter what the language it is written in.
You Java application may not crash your smartphone, but it might not work as expected.
Why can't there be a "cutting edge" in reliability?
Because software needs to be thoroughly tested before it can be called reliable. "Cutting edge" software tends to be poorly (relativly speaking) tested, since it hasn't had that much time in the real world.
Therefore, for instance, Debian stable still uses kernel 2.2 by default (alltough there's a 2.4 installation flavour), because it's well tested and reliable. As a result, I've never experienced inconsistency or crashes with a Debian stable release.
(Now, if you want cutting edge Debian, there's always Debian Sid (also known as unstable)).
Icelandic supposedly being very close to Old Norse
It is, and furthermore, it's a beatiful language. I (being a norwegian) can even understand quite a lot of a written Icelandic text. At school, we are to learn a bit about Old Norse. That means generally listen to somebody speaking Icelandic and try to understand what they say.
KDE and as far as I know, OpenOffice are translated to Icelandic.
In Norway, there are two variations of the same language - roughly translated "Nynorsk: New norwegian" and "Bokmål: Book norwegian." The nynorsk variation is the official languagte in parts of the country. Microsoft has at length decided to translated MS Office into nynorsk, after pressure from the KDE and OpenOffice-translations.
Its not Windows is giving more problems - its usually less computer savy people using Windows.
I tend to disagree. I think that a somewhat properly configured KDE (as it's my favourite - I would think Gnome can do the trick as well) is far more userfriendly than any Windows system. And, it seems, so does my family members that are using it. An example is my sister - she has got the choice between our father's Windows system, or my Debian. She regularly chooses my system (when I'm not using it). Exact same with my mom. They kind of say, "it just works." None of them are pro-users in any way, but they do know what a file and directory is, and they know how to choose between web browsers.
Again, this is all in my experience. But hey - discussions like this are kind of always based on people's experience.
I know, and I'm sorry if I got meself wrong. I wasn't reffering to the incident in the article (heh..), but my general experience. In my general experience, Windows users have more problems than others. If I ever find an operating system that will work (perfectly well) on faulty hardware, I'll let you know (-:
And I'll admit that comptuer-common-sense (CCS, perhaps?) is quite a part of the problem/solution/issue. But it seems to me that CCS is more commonly available, so to speak, on Macs (and to a certain degree, Linux (and/or $YourFavouriteFreeOS)).
And furthermore, it seems that family always thinks that any computer related problem can be solved over the phone in a matter of minutes. "Hey, just call $YourName! He'll know what to do."
Granted, some problems can be solved per voice ("click the Start-button in the leftmost corner of your screen, choose Find, and Files and Folders. Type the name of the file you're looking for"), but the vast majority of the problems requires you to actually sit down at the computer.
(And, since this is Slashdot, the obligatory pro.-Linux/Mac disclaimer): The (albeit few) family members (and others) that has a Linux distribution haven't got nearly as much troubles as the ones using That-Other system. People using Macs hardly ever has problems. Hm..
Well - then I must be allowed to point out the merits of my own particular religion.
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get upgrade (The last step can replaced with apt-get dist-upgrade if you're doing some serious stuff.)
Da-dum, da-dum and wait a little while the packages download from Your Local Mirror and watch nifty little statistics on how many files you've got installed....and whammmoo! System updated, and there's no need for compiling a single source! There's even nice GUIs with WIMP (Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointers) if you're the kind of type that don't type. Dead easy.
To keep on topic (for a split second), no personal identifiable information is sent to anybody (perhaps except for my IP address and some FTP-commands).
I know, I know, I dont't get any system-specific optimizations. But who can afford the time to compile stuff (other than kernels) these days? This is a 400MHz compter! It can barely compile my kernels (wich, BTW, are nicely fitted as a Debian package to install). Of course, if you've got the spare cycles, there's always source available for you.
But it must be noted that since people's saying so much nice about Gentoo, I've got to try it. I don't doubt it rocks a bit.
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Well, there's ucLinux, a project designed for microcontrollers without a MMU. With tools, it adds up to about 900KB. Somebody with way too much time on their hands (i.e. maths students) could probably port it to the TI-89, though I have no idea what hardware it has. Now, what would've been cool, is porting it to Casio calculators. In Norway, Casio rules for some reason, and I have to use my 1.5MB FX 1.0 for something! (-: Does anybody know anything about custom OS for Casio calculators?
The DMCA prevents you from viewing the images on your DVD (you own the thing) that you just bought if you don't own a "preapproved" DVD player. A mere DVD-ROM + Linux can't do it legally.
This was the case against Jon Lech Johansen here in Norway - and he won. Thus, in Norway, it is quite legal to access the information on any copy protected DVD that you have legally bought and display the information in any way you might want to. This does not intefere with copyright laws, as they cover how you distribute copyrighted material. As you don't distribute anything when viewing a DVD on your Linux computer, it should be legal.
Windows XP blue screens?
Twice today. Windows XP Home on a brand new Dell Inspiron at 2.2GHz. Granted, it has only blue screened once before, but still. One of the crashes appeared to be caused by the (Microsoft signed) display drivers and the other with WLAN PCMCIA card network drivers (that Microsoft does not have driver signing for). Needless to say, I'm running Linux (Debian, in fact) a lot more than Windows on this computer, and has never had a problem.
You can login via ssh/rsh without a password _or token_ of any kind being given to the remote machine and have full network access.
If I read you correctly, you're saying that if you have root on any given workstation, you can log in to a server as root without having the server's root password. In my experience, that is impossible. It's up the the server wether someone applies the correct username/password or any other token, and the server does not care what user the client is. This is true for telnet, ssh, rsh and any other remote management I know of, on every system I know of.
Wouldn't know where Edmonton is, but in Alta, Norway, the sky is clear (-:
well, I'm looking forward to it. I live at 69 deg. N, where we can watch aurora about every night.. (-: This one's going to be beatiful, tough, if the weather allows.
Well, OpenOffice doesn't read KOffice files. So there. (-:
did you miss the part that allows you to export to MS Office format?
This raises an important issue. The main reason Microsoft is able to keep such a good grip on office-suites, is the file formats. Everything is kept in Microsoft Word og Excel-formats. It's all well and good that the alternatives can read and write these formats (though they're not perfect), but what we need, is an alternetive. We need an open format common to all word processors. The only format I know of that Word will read, is RTF. But RTF is rather limited. When I send a document from OO, I want to do it in an open format, readable by all (including Microsoft Word). These days, KOffice won't even read OO-documents.
No can do. It's a quote from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams; but the sig-limit limits me from quoting all of it. It ends this way: ..worked out. --Douglas Adams
I'm too lazy to change it, or find a new sig. So as of now it's left as an exercise for the reader.
I'd say just *x*, case insensitive. This way, you'll cover most of the lot. What is this thing about the letter X, by the way? Unix, XFree, Linux, XP.. you name it (I know, *BSD).
I started on an Apple II but so what? You can't get any real useful work done on one now and yes, even the 400mhz and 733mhz CPU's people are talking about in here are getting pretty long in the tooth for business use.
Only yesterday I saw a Mac Plus doing its job for a librarian - granted, only for text processing and printing, but still. It did its job. I actually asked wether she would rather like a new computer - there were quite a lot of them around. Of course not, she replied, as the Mac does its job. I beleive the librarian did "real useful work" on that Mac.
Just because you happen to be internet content creation, doesn't mean that your computer would fit everybody else. The reason you see such many "Word and Excel"-arguments around here, is because the majority of business computer users only to text processing, spreadsheet and e-mail. Computers have been able to do that for quite a while, now. In the real world, people look as computers as tools, not as the real work.
I'm a web developer. As I run Linux, my applications ranges from Gimp to web/script/databaseserver to several web browsers, of course in addition to mail and news applications and all the small stuff like XMMS and Gaim. For these tasks, I have an AMD K6-II 400MHz with 128MB RAM and a 16 MB video adapter. I'll upgrade the RAM soon, but the computer is sufficient for my needs, and it's not painful.
I think the definition of real work needs some polishing. I admit that my computer have troubles with the latest games, but I don't linke this trend of always needing the latest and greatest hardware. People did real work on PDP-11, for crying out load!
The web is about content, not design. The web should be available to all browsers, including Opera, Links, Mozilla, w3m, Internet Explorer, netrik, Konqueror and so on.
It's not the box that should meet sepcs, it's the webpage. It's about seperating content from presentation.
Flash is a great medium, but has nothing to do on the web.
"Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it."
Kudos for obscure HHGTHG-sig!
And just think, in a few years Perl6 will come too! Yeah, yeah. You know just as well as me that Duke Nukem Forever 2 Extended Edition will come before Perl6.
Probably because, if I dare to be so presumptious, the majority of people here are American.
/. readers come from. I know for sure that quite a lot norwegians read slashdot.
Do you have any facts to back up this claim? The whole metric/imperial-thing isn't that big a thing, but I'm actually interested in where the majority of the
And from a brain-processing point of view, it would spare the world a lot of time if the editors (or story submitter) would do the conversion than if each and every non-US-reader would do it in their heads. And we wouldn't have had this discussion (-:
It's too damned early for unit conversion.
And still you think that the rest of us should do it in our heads? Quoting you:
Yes, because people can't do simple conversions in their head.
There are three (3) countries in the world that still uses the imperial system: Liberia, Burma and the US. Every other contry implements the metric system.. Look here if you're interested.
There's a certain "American Tunnel Vision Syndrome" around Slashdot, it seems..
No, and X has never done this (all the way back to my Pentium 75 with a S3 Trio64 video card).
Is that so? Impressive. I'm curious, because on my 400MHz with 128MB RAM and a Riva TNT at 1280x1024x16 (my main computer; don't tell me to upgrade, it does its job quite well), I get artifacts when I move windows around. It's actually not a "black/white-trail", but bits of the window that moves stays on the underlaying windows for a split second, creating a trail of the window I'm currently moving. Yep, latest drivers from nVidia. And do I have to say; in Windows 98 the windows moves much more smoothly (that being said, moving windows don't keep me from moving from Windows)..
I know that my Java program will never have a buffer overrun because it is impossible for me to produce JVM instructions that corrupt buffers or alter pointers.
That is so, and Java eliminiates the buffer overrun problems. But that doesn't mean a Java application is reliable by default. There's still a lot of stuff that could go wrong (a bug doesn't always crash a program, often it just does undiserable things). Software needs to be tested, no matter what the pitfalls of programming might be. You could argue that lots of the problems in the Unix-world is caused by C, but no software is perfect, no matter what the language it is written in.
You Java application may not crash your smartphone, but it might not work as expected.
Why can't there be a "cutting edge" in reliability?
Because software needs to be thoroughly tested before it can be called reliable. "Cutting edge" software tends to be poorly (relativly speaking) tested, since it hasn't had that much time in the real world.
Therefore, for instance, Debian stable still uses kernel 2.2 by default (alltough there's a 2.4 installation flavour), because it's well tested and reliable. As a result, I've never experienced inconsistency or crashes with a Debian stable release.
(Now, if you want cutting edge Debian, there's always Debian Sid (also known as unstable)).
Well, both Google and Slashdot can take googling/slashdotting, but those are probably the only ones (-:
Icelandic supposedly being very close to Old Norse
It is, and furthermore, it's a beatiful language. I (being a norwegian) can even understand quite a lot of a written Icelandic text. At school, we are to learn a bit about Old Norse. That means generally listen to somebody speaking Icelandic and try to understand what they say.
KDE and as far as I know, OpenOffice are translated to Icelandic.
In Norway, there are two variations of the same language - roughly translated "Nynorsk: New norwegian" and "Bokmål: Book norwegian." The nynorsk variation is the official languagte in parts of the country. Microsoft has at length decided to translated MS Office into nynorsk, after pressure from the KDE and OpenOffice-translations.
Its not Windows is giving more problems - its usually less computer savy people using Windows.
I tend to disagree. I think that a somewhat properly configured KDE (as it's my favourite - I would think Gnome can do the trick as well) is far more userfriendly than any Windows system. And, it seems, so does my family members that are using it. An example is my sister - she has got the choice between our father's Windows system, or my Debian. She regularly chooses my system (when I'm not using it). Exact same with my mom. They kind of say, "it just works." None of them are pro-users in any way, but they do know what a file and directory is, and they know how to choose between web browsers.
Again, this is all in my experience. But hey - discussions like this are kind of always based on people's experience.
I know, and I'm sorry if I got meself wrong. I wasn't reffering to the incident in the article (heh..), but my general experience. In my general experience, Windows users have more problems than others. If I ever find an operating system that will work (perfectly well) on faulty hardware, I'll let you know (-:
And I'll admit that comptuer-common-sense (CCS, perhaps?) is quite a part of the problem/solution/issue. But it seems to me that CCS is more commonly available, so to speak, on Macs (and to a certain degree, Linux (and/or $YourFavouriteFreeOS)).
And furthermore, it seems that family always thinks that any computer related problem can be solved over the phone in a matter of minutes. "Hey, just call $YourName! He'll know what to do."
Granted, some problems can be solved per voice ("click the Start-button in the leftmost corner of your screen, choose Find, and Files and Folders. Type the name of the file you're looking for"), but the vast majority of the problems requires you to actually sit down at the computer.
(And, since this is Slashdot, the obligatory pro.-Linux/Mac disclaimer):
The (albeit few) family members (and others) that has a Linux distribution haven't got nearly as much troubles as the ones using That-Other system. People using Macs hardly ever has problems. Hm..
Well - then I must be allowed to point out the merits of my own particular religion.
..and whammmoo! System updated, and there's no need for compiling a single source! There's even nice GUIs with WIMP (Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointers) if you're the kind of type that don't type. Dead easy.
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
(The last step can replaced with apt-get dist-upgrade if you're doing some serious stuff.)
Da-dum, da-dum and wait a little while the packages download from Your Local Mirror and watch nifty little statistics on how many files you've got installed..
To keep on topic (for a split second), no personal identifiable information is sent to anybody (perhaps except for my IP address and some FTP-commands).
I know, I know, I dont't get any system-specific optimizations. But who can afford the time to compile stuff (other than kernels) these days? This is a 400MHz compter! It can barely compile my kernels (wich, BTW, are nicely fitted as a Debian package to install). Of course, if you've got the spare cycles, there's always source available for you.
But it must be noted that since people's saying so much nice about Gentoo, I've got to try it. I don't doubt it rocks a bit.
Well, wasn't that a rant! (-8