There is no "parking" orbit in the way you would imagine. The re-entry vehicle will be on a high-speed direct-entry trajectory from its inter-planet course. That is part of the challenge and and a reason to attempt it even if the capsule might be empty.
No need for it. They will distribute the source together with the binaries on the same DVD. Now go and read GPL section 3.
By distributing source and binary together, they have fullfilled their duties, no need to provide it to "any third party".
Of course, they can't disallow you from redistribution the source, so certainly somebody will upload it somewhere, but that's another story.
Thanks for the real insight guys. I got snippets here and there and buuum, there was the wrong sum. I really (yes, seriously) find it exciting to be knowing about 20x more about the topic compared to when I made my first post. Thanks again.
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At least my wrong post gave birth to usefull stuff.
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The significant thing about this discovery is, that the superconducting temperature for metals acieved here (39K) is much higher than what was tought to be possible in conventional superconductivity theoriy. The old theory on how superconductivity works has basically been proven to be wrong.
So if further research evolves into a new theory, researchers will know what to look for in their search for metals with even higher superconducting temperatures.
BTW, it is important that this is about superconducting metals. Ceramics have higher temperatures, but are inflexible and very difficult to make something out of them, especially thin long wires.
Besides the allegation, the complaint makes, I got a very funny feeling reading it. In the front page, they decide to abbriviate "VA Linux Systems, Inc." just with "Linux". This leades to sentences such as:
"Defendants are Linux and [...]" (Sue an OS?)
"Linux is a Delaware Company" (Now it's an corporate entity)
"Linux was required to comply with SEC regulations" (Security audits like C2?)
I worry that this could be (maybe intentionally) misquotet like "Linux sued for securities-fraud" or something like that. It's bad enough that there are people who installed "Linux 7.0" insted of "RedHat/SuSE Linux 7.0"
Overall, this is more against Credit Suisse and it's business methods of handling over-hyped IPOs than against VA personally. If VA can show proof that they didn't know what their underwriter was doing, they have a chance. Sadly, this case just demonstrate that the US stock bubble, which just started to burst, was based on the fact that common peoples savings shifted into institutional investors. And mony circulation drives the economy, you know:-)
YI totally agree to our claim about laws to be enforced across borders being bad. But you didn't realize that the US set the beginning of this trend.
Ever heared of Super 101 ? Or have flown from some Latin American countries to the US? I was truely amazed when a plane I took from Equador to Miami after a vacation, all passengers and the whole plane was turned upside down in search of drug by US agents on foreign soil.
The US penalizes countries that don't cooperate or have laws that the US doesn't like with trade barriers, boycotting international conferences in that country or bulling with veto rights in UN or snatching criminals across the border with (para-)military action. This clearly violates other countries sovereignity.
And if Napster doesn't cooperate, they won't be allowed to operate inside German borders. It's as simple as that. And Napster being now a German-owned company, it doesn't seem they are asking to enforce their laws across borders. That Nazis in the US (where such racisst activity is legal and common) can't download the Music, because it's banned for German Users, that's a just a unfortunate (though welcome) side-effect
# And yes, I have seen many people with tons of Nazi-shit on Napster
# Is there any client for Linux that can put people on a kill-list ?
Is there really separation of Church and State in the US? I only know that the President is sowrn in to his job over the Bible. How will it handled if the Jewish guy becomes Vice-President? Will he be sworn in over Jewish holy writings by a Rabbi? Would a (potential) Moslem President be sworn in over the Koran? How about an Atheist? I am just curious.
In Germany, where I am originally from (lived 17 years in Japan), there is no separation of church and nation. If you are catholic or protestand, you pay your 10% church taxes like in the middle ages and Sunday is "holy" in the "base law" (Germany doesn't have something called a constitution due to historical reasons) and therefore a law exists that forbids shops to open on sundays. Of course there is freedom of religion and I, as a atheist, have never been discriminated but it feels still odd.
In fact, the German government ordered one of it's agencies to do a full code audit on all code written by the defrag util maker and all core interfacing with it.
But, no surprise, Microsoft did not at any price agree to showing even one line of code, even if it wasn't "theirs".
This little battle of "let me review it - no, NEVER EVER OVER MY REMAINS" has been going on for at least half a year now. And only after so much time, has MS agreed to remove the tool. What surprises me even more is, that the German government accepted this proposal. I would have sworn that they would not let loose until they see the source code. After I LOVE YOU, I could have imagined ALL code being reviewed. There must have lots of pressure from somewhere overseas with anti-dupming and super101 and, you should open your markets like our market (but dare try to bring something in that's more competetive then our stuff) stories:-)
A student council is always a popularity vote. Would vote on somebody you don't know? And those that promise to make a better life and talk "clean" stuff are "uncool" and not known to anybody and thus not voted in to this job.
I got the job because nobody else wanted it. At the general assembly I got voted down because I was a geek and because people just vote NO. No voted was needed in secound round at a smaller meeting (only 1 representative per class ) as still nobody else wanted to do the job.
So why did I want this job? It was a way to protect myself. You wouldn't want to confront a student council president with stupid stuff because him being a geek. And because they couldn't do it to me, they couldn't do it to other guys being different. A lot of parents still believe in the "student council" crap and the influence could be abu^h^h^h used to make parents aware of the discrimination.
And of couse there came some privileges like a lockable room and a nice couch:-)
For the same reason I am network admin at university. People apreciate you being a geek if you help them and they respect you.
My place (informatik.uni-muenchen.de) has been using mostly OpenSource for years now.
All of the roughly 150 clients in the computer pool are running SuSE Linux (to be replaced with Debian next year). The only non-free software that's essentianl on them is Netscape and StarOffice 5.x, but is's just a question of time before they are replaced with Mozilla/OpenOffice. There is Windows access for those who need it via a WTS client for Win3.1 running on WINE, but nobody actuallly uses it.
Also the servers are completely Linux, except the news server (Sparc, never touch a running system).
So why is this article a big deal? It just shows that the US is "behind", compared to the free world.
I uploaded both, tuxracer-0.60.1-1 and tuxracer-data-0.60-1 at the same time and both got dinstalled into the main Debian Archive at ftp.debian.org at the same time. See for yourself in/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/games/ .
Either you are using an non-IA32 architecture and the auto-builders for the other archs havn't caught up (tuxracer-data is installed because it's Architecture: all) or something with your mirror is wrong.
Please get the i386 binary package off a more complete mirror or compile from source for your architecture.
I'm the Debian package maintainer for TuxRacer, getting/.ed by mail asking for potato (Debian 2.2) packages.
And I am currently looking for an adequate potato machine to recompile my package, that does have the apropriate -dev packages installed or where I can have them installed easily. If I can't find one, I'll try to create an chroot() potato environment. So be patient and wait a few more days. Unfortunatly, I can't afford to keep an extra machine running potato.
Of course, you can always recompile from source. Do a s/stable/unstable/ on your deb-src line in/etc/apt/sources.list, apt-get update and apt-get source tuxracer tuxracer-data Don't we just love Debian?
PS: Potato binaries won't have sound and joystick support, unless you use libsdl* from unstable.
I went to the Sony Showroom in Ginza(Tokyo), the supposedly only place where these sweeties are currently on public display.
1. Size: Not as big as they look on the photos. The right width to hold in an European's palm. The corners are a bit "hard" and not as ergonomic/confortable to hold as the Palm Vx.
2: Jog Dial: Very confortable. only need one hand to check some address or quick memo. But if you have many items, turning the wheel becomes a heavy job as the wheel is a bit too small
3: Color LCD: Better than the Palm IIIc. The contrast wasn't too good indoors with strong white lighting. Supposedly better outdoors. Black wasn't really "BLACK", like old color ink-jet printers with no black cartridge.
I had ordered a color Clie via www.sonystyle.co.jp (about USD 120 cheaper than retail), but changed my mind after seeing the real thing to black-white. No need for color with an Palm.
Can't wait for the delivery on the 9th:-)
I have just ordered a HP Journada as the Linux port to SupoerH (same CPU as in the Dreamcast) has become quite stable and Linux + famebuffer runs on it. I sav a friend of mine with a bash on that baby (drool...)
The PocketLinux people said that it's environment should be not too difficult to port, so I'm gonna give it a try. As there is a Debian port for SuperH starting, it shouldn't be too difficult to port Kaffe to it. When Kaffe runs, can't be too difficult to port PcoketLinux.
Linux running on the Dreamcast was demoed at a recent LinuxUserGroup meeting in the Tokyo area.
Though there was no shell yet, but the kernel booted and could be manipulated via the VS. communication cable. Quite impressive.
As much as this sounds a inviting idea, it would not work without some degree of control. Look at what happened to the alt.* groups on Usenet. A lot us usefull stuff, but even more junk.
A friend of mine has this little puppy running and it's great as a geek's toy. What impresed me most is, that the zxLinux kernel runs *on top* of the native kernel and OS. So they just wrote a device driver for the keyboard to get that info from the host OS. That means it can do hand-writing recognition and use the on-screen keyboard. You can even switch to one of the built-in apps. The only problem is, since the Zaurus doesn't support unloading started apps (sounds funny, but true), you'd have to reset the whole device to shut down zxLinux. And the Zaurus has only 5MBs of RAM, of which the kernel alone uses 2.5MB. According to the developers talk at the PDA-BOF at LinuxConference2000 in Tokyo, they do plan to make somekind of GUI platform available. It won't be full X (no RAM to do that) but probably some X-ish implementation possibly using frame-buffer with widgets designed for 1/4 VGA size screens. At yesterday's PDA-BOF, the PDA makers agreed to cooperate in creating a common Linux PDA-GUI spec/API. Though this is defnetly nothing for the avarage Zaurus user, its surely a super cool geek toy, and is more advanced than the Linux-port to the Palm.
This export restriction should not be taken too seriously. It's just that the PS2's computing power is too much for old guidelines which designate everything above a certain line as "super computer". It was (is?) the same with the G4: too powerful -> super-computer -> dangerous. And there are exceptions to this rule. If you take equipment worth 50.000 Yen (about $450) or less out of the country yourself, it's perfectly legal. The PS2 costs 40.000 Yen. I'll be doing just that, next Saturday. They probably panic more on the electric circuits in my carry-on. Knowing it's legal, it will quite fun to see if/how anybody will react. BTW, if you took an laptop with an SSL-enabled browser with you (without the intention to bring it back) you'd break the very same law.
My PS2 should be arriving at my "home" within 34 hours (morning of March 4th JST) and I will be leaving Germany tomorrow to go to Japan. I'd even love to skip the two week skiing in the US to get there sooner, but that's already paid for. (;_;)
Nevertheless, after my home-leave is over, I will definetly bring the PS2 back to Germany. If the DVD playback quality is really as good as my Pioneer box, I'll get rid of the Pioneer, as Japan and Europe have the same region code and I'll be watching stuff from "home" mostly anyway.
Yes, it is illigal to export the PS2 from Japan. But the same applied to my PC, which included a SSL-enabled browser (and GPG and SSLLeay and crypt() and....), when I moved to Germany last summer. Officially, I could take it with me for a temporary export up to 6 month and personal use only. But as there never has been any record kept on when and what I took out, this export-restiction can't really be enforced. I am more worried if the German customs will let me take it in.
BTW, Sony's own direct-selling site revealed name and adress of their customers just by changing the cusomer-id in the URL. Now fixed but another scandal for Sony, after their site was toooootaly overwhelmed when they started to take reservations.
I had a talk with one of the guys at their booth yesterday. I think it was their CFO. At first, he sounded quite reasonable and said things like they had not been doing well on their side and "deserve[d] all the 'abuse' we got from the Linux community" aswell as that there was a lawyer that did not understand the spirit of the community, but he got fired, etc... All the top management (/C?O/) has been replaced in the last two weeks and on their press material nowhere could the name of their doubious founder be found. At first, I almost fell for their arguments, that they were "newly reborn", "got rid of the evil", but some indepth questions made me even more suspicious then before. First, he didn't want to answer my questions about how large their staff was, only that they had guys "here and there" like in Taiwan, where "guys at the Ministry of Something have guys working on Linux" (aha! for LinuxOne?) and some in California. Realizing that I was writing for a Japanese publisher he claimed "we have a very successfull Japanese version". Gotcha. After telling him, that I KNOW that that is an absolute lie, because I am at the center of the community there (board of linu.or.jp), his statement suddenly changed to "we are having an alliance with the largest software ditributor there", and named an absolutely unknown name, not even sounding Japanese. He said that their Japanesation Engeneer would get in contact with me the same day, but I have not heared from him yey. Also their press kit is a JOKE. When this stuff appeared at the press root, most of the press (that has a clue) burst out in laughter. Now they are sellin Harddisks as "LinuxOne OS Easy Drive", 13.5GB for $169.95 and $17.3GB for $199.95. Also their "Partial List of Drivers" boasts about "USB UHCI support", "USB keyboard support", "3C507", "Infrared-port devices". Also it runs "with devices[...] such as ADSL and cable modems" (yeah, mine eat 100Base-T) Statements like "When ready to resume Winows, simply type 'reboot' [...] and LinuxOne Win/Lite terminated" just make me laugh. Guess I have had an amusing afternoon reading this crap. Because the CFO said, "it was a bad decision to announce intentions IPO, you simple don't do that" I asked him, wheter they were going to delay their IPO untill they repaired their reputation (which he promised to do), he was "not allowed to say" (quiet period?) but "it was every intention to IPO as soon as possible when the company was founded". So they havn't changed, though admitting what they do is wrong.
I am even more convinced that they indeed are a FRAUD, but were trying very hard to cover that up. Without knowing their history and being a community activist, I'd probably fallen for their arguments. The general public MUST be WARNED about this monstrosity.
PS: When Linus worked by, the guy asked to take a picture with Linus. After noticing that he was LinuxOne Linus explictly disallowed them to use this picture for marketing/PR purposes or post it publicaly. I have witnessed this dialoge from a distance of 1m and are willing to testify as a witness in any court, should they abuse this picture.
MS failed with Dreamcast, now they try themselfes.
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Microsoft tryed to get into the game console market before. Sega's Dreamcast is supposed to be running WindowsCE. But the truth is different. Microsoft could not deliver CE on time for the Dreamcast's launch here in Japan. In reality, all the big game makers have written their own OSs for their games. Much faster, more reliable. Because of this delay, the Dreamcast has basically failed here in Japan and Sega is in a really dangerous state financially. My only proof would be that virtually no games have been ported from Dreamcast to PC. Though that been the basic idea behind using WindowsCE and DirectX on the Dreamcast. With PCs becoming so cheap, I see no sense in creating a game console with x86 compatible chip and PC architecture. Better buy a cheap PC.
The page of the guy who found out that the Celerons can be manipulated to do SMP is at
http://www.kikumaru.com/ (in Japanese)
Recently an English WebBoard has been added where Duaron (=Dual Celeron) people gather.
I use a Celeron 300A x 2 machine running at 504MHz. Requires some cooling but runs great. I was one of those who drilled 0.5mm holes into the SCPP version Celeron and hotwired the whole thing with 1.5V. Was quite fun soldering a CPU. (The new PPGA are just too easy)
> please do try to at least witness RMS speak, and take up an argument > with him in person. You may be in for quite a surprise.
I personally think Emacs (I use XEmacs --with-mule), GCC and all the GNU tools are just great and I really apreciate their authors work just as I apreciate anybody's work that contributed to my Linux box. For software that I write, I'd choose the GPL, but it is not perfect for every situation. Having many different licences makes life more complicated, but the GPL can't be perfect for everything.
And yes, I did listen and talk to him "live". The was at the Linux Conference'98 last December in Kyoto/Japan . I had heared a lot about RMS and was very eager to talk to him. But having met him and after talking to him, I was disappointed. I asked him if he'd come to the "Linux Conference" the following day. He answered that he had heared there would be a "GNU/Linux Conference" but as such a thing wasn't scheduled, he would stay at the GNU booth (at the InternetWeek 98, LinuxConf. being part of it) all day. I think everybody should call their Penguin the way they want it (like the pronounciation issue), but that reaction of RMS was kind of childish. Afterwards he tried to convince me why it was GNU/Linux for half an hour. I still like him as a figure and am very thankful of what he has achived, but as a person, my impression is that he is just one guy being good in getting on somebody's nerves.
Not liking RMS as a person doesn't mean one has no respect of the GNU project. Those issues should be strictly seperated.
Just recovered from the big feast after the LinuxWorld Conference Japan '99. At the conference, a session about large scale installation of Linux on an university campus was on the agenda. The 600 machines got delivered and installed by IBM. They do such a thing if requested. Other companies are scrambling to catch the high demand with NEC starting installation services (700.000 Yen for 50 PCs, about $5500) and CTC will start selling UltraPenguins. Sun is helping them to localize the stuff.
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There is no "parking" orbit in the way you would imagine. The re-entry vehicle will be on a high-speed direct-entry trajectory from its inter-planet course. That is part of the challenge and and a reason to attempt it even if the capsule might be empty.
Yes the PS2 dev kits come with gcc, as did the ones for the PSOne© And it was/is completely in accordance with the GPL© Pleeeeeaaasse everybody read the GPL first©
/usr/share/common-licences/GPL on a Debian system or in any other copy of the GPL©
The source has to be made publicly available only in certain cases© If they did provide the source wiht the binary to those who they gave the binary to, they do not have to make it publicly availavle© Yes, that's true, written in black and white in
So now, everybody please go back again and re-read the GPL before you spread more FUD about the GPL which just hinders the adaption of GPL software in coorporate environments, because companies are unneccercarily afraid of it©
No need for it. They will distribute the source together with the binaries on the same DVD. Now go and read GPL section 3.
By distributing source and binary together, they have fullfilled their duties, no need to provide it to "any third party".
Of course, they can't disallow you from redistribution the source, so certainly somebody will upload it somewhere, but that's another story.
Thanks for the real insight guys. I got snippets here and there and buuum, there was the wrong sum. I really (yes, seriously) find it exciting to be knowing about 20x more about the topic compared to when I made my first post. Thanks again.
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At least my wrong post gave birth to usefull stuff.
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The significant thing about this discovery is, that the superconducting temperature for metals acieved here (39K) is much higher than what was tought to be possible in conventional superconductivity theoriy. The old theory on how superconductivity works has basically been proven to be wrong.
So if further research evolves into a new theory, researchers will know what to look for in their search for metals with even higher superconducting temperatures.
BTW, it is important that this is about superconducting metals. Ceramics have higher temperatures, but are inflexible and very difficult to make something out of them, especially thin long wires.
Besides the allegation, the complaint makes, I got a very funny feeling reading it. In the front page, they decide to abbriviate "VA Linux Systems, Inc." just with "Linux". This leades to sentences such as:
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"Defendants are Linux and [...]" (Sue an OS?)
"Linux is a Delaware Company" (Now it's an corporate entity)
"Linux was required to comply with SEC regulations" (Security audits like C2?)
I worry that this could be (maybe intentionally) misquotet like "Linux sued for securities-fraud" or something like that. It's bad enough that there are people who installed "Linux 7.0" insted of "RedHat/SuSE Linux 7.0"
Overall, this is more against Credit Suisse and it's business methods of handling over-hyped IPOs than against VA personally. If VA can show proof that they didn't know what their underwriter was doing, they have a chance. Sadly, this case just demonstrate that the US stock bubble, which just started to burst, was based on the fact that common peoples savings shifted into institutional investors. And mony circulation drives the economy, you know
YI totally agree to our claim about laws to be enforced across borders being bad. But you didn't realize that the US set the beginning of this trend.
Ever heared of Super 101 ? Or have flown from some Latin American countries to the US? I was truely amazed when a plane I took from Equador to Miami after a vacation, all passengers and the whole plane was turned upside down in search of drug by US agents on foreign soil.
The US penalizes countries that don't cooperate or have laws that the US doesn't like with trade barriers, boycotting international conferences in that country or bulling with veto rights in UN or snatching criminals across the border with (para-)military action. This clearly violates other countries sovereignity.
And if Napster doesn't cooperate, they won't be allowed to operate inside German borders. It's as simple as that. And Napster being now a German-owned company, it doesn't seem they are asking to enforce their laws across borders. That Nazis in the US (where such racisst activity is legal and common) can't download the Music, because it's banned for German Users, that's a just a unfortunate (though welcome) side-effect
# And yes, I have seen many people with tons of Nazi-shit on Napster
# Is there any client for Linux that can put people on a kill-list ?
Is there really separation of Church and State in the US? I only know that the President is sowrn in to his job over the Bible. How will it handled if the Jewish guy becomes Vice-President? Will he be sworn in over Jewish holy writings by a Rabbi? Would a (potential) Moslem President be sworn in over the Koran? How about an Atheist? I am just curious.
In Germany, where I am originally from (lived 17 years in Japan), there is no separation of church and nation. If you are catholic or protestand, you pay your 10% church taxes like in the middle ages and Sunday is "holy" in the "base law" (Germany doesn't have something called a constitution due to historical reasons) and therefore a law exists that forbids shops to open on sundays. Of course there is freedom of religion and I, as a atheist, have never been discriminated but it feels still odd.
In fact, the German government ordered one of it's agencies to do a full code audit on all code written by the defrag util maker and all core interfacing with it. :-)
But, no surprise, Microsoft did not at any price agree to showing even one line of code, even if it wasn't "theirs".
This little battle of "let me review it - no, NEVER EVER OVER MY REMAINS" has been going on for at least half a year now. And only after so much time, has MS agreed to remove the tool. What surprises me even more is, that the German government accepted this proposal. I would have sworn that they would not let loose until they see the source code. After I LOVE YOU, I could have imagined ALL code being reviewed. There must have lots of pressure from somewhere overseas with anti-dupming and super101 and, you should open your markets like our market (but dare try to bring something in that's more competetive then our stuff) stories
A student council is always a popularity vote. Would vote on somebody you don't know? And those that promise to make a better life and talk "clean" stuff are "uncool" and not known to anybody and thus not voted in to this job. :-)
I got the job because nobody else wanted it. At the general assembly I got voted down because I was a geek and because people just vote NO. No voted was needed in secound round at a smaller meeting (only 1 representative per class ) as still nobody else wanted to do the job.
So why did I want this job? It was a way to protect myself. You wouldn't want to confront a student council president with stupid stuff because him being a geek. And because they couldn't do it to me, they couldn't do it to other guys being different. A lot of parents still believe in the "student council" crap and the influence could be abu^h^h^h used to make parents aware of the discrimination.
And of couse there came some privileges like a lockable room and a nice couch
For the same reason I am network admin at university. People apreciate you being a geek if you help them and they respect you.
My place (informatik.uni-muenchen.de) has been using mostly OpenSource for years now.
All of the roughly 150 clients in the computer pool are running SuSE Linux (to be replaced with Debian next year). The only non-free software that's essentianl on them is Netscape and StarOffice 5.x, but is's just a question of time before they are replaced with Mozilla/OpenOffice. There is Windows access for those who need it via a WTS client for Win3.1 running on WINE, but nobody actuallly uses it.
Also the servers are completely Linux, except the news server (Sparc, never touch a running system).
So why is this article a big deal? It just shows that the US is "behind", compared to the free world.
I uploaded both, tuxracer-0.60.1-1 and tuxracer-data-0.60-1 at the same time and both got dinstalled into the main Debian Archive at ftp.debian.org at the same time. See for yourself in /debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/games/ .
Either you are using an non-IA32 architecture and the auto-builders for the other archs havn't caught up (tuxracer-data is installed because it's Architecture: all) or something with your mirror is wrong.
Please get the i386 binary package off a more complete mirror or compile from source for your architecture.
Sorry for you inconvenience.
I'm the Debian package maintainer for TuxRacer, getting /.ed by mail asking for potato (Debian 2.2) packages.
And I am currently looking for an adequate potato machine to recompile my package, that does have the apropriate -dev packages installed or where I can have them installed easily. If I can't find one, I'll try to create an chroot() potato environment. So be patient and wait a few more days. Unfortunatly, I can't afford to keep an extra machine running potato.
Of course, you can always recompile from source. Do a s/stable/unstable/ on your deb-src line in /etc/apt/sources.list, apt-get update and apt-get source tuxracer tuxracer-data Don't we just love Debian?
PS: Potato binaries won't have sound and joystick support, unless you use libsdl* from unstable.
I went to the Sony Showroom in Ginza(Tokyo), the supposedly only place where these sweeties are currently on public display.
:-)
1. Size: Not as big as they look on the photos. The right width to hold in an European's palm. The corners are a bit "hard" and not as ergonomic/confortable to hold as the Palm Vx.
2: Jog Dial: Very confortable. only need one hand to check some address or quick memo. But if you have many items, turning the wheel becomes a heavy job as the wheel is a bit too small
3: Color LCD: Better than the Palm IIIc. The contrast wasn't too good indoors with strong white lighting. Supposedly better outdoors. Black wasn't really "BLACK", like old color ink-jet printers with no black cartridge.
I had ordered a color Clie via www.sonystyle.co.jp (about USD 120 cheaper than retail), but changed my mind after seeing the real thing to black-white. No need for color with an Palm.
Can't wait for the delivery on the 9th
I have just ordered a HP Journada as the Linux port to SupoerH (same CPU as in the Dreamcast) has become quite stable and Linux + famebuffer runs on it. I sav a friend of mine with a bash on that baby (drool...)
The PocketLinux people said that it's environment should be not too difficult to port, so I'm gonna give it a try. As there is a Debian port for SuperH starting, it shouldn't be too difficult to port Kaffe to it. When Kaffe runs, can't be too difficult to port PcoketLinux.
Linux running on the Dreamcast was demoed at a recent LinuxUserGroup meeting in the Tokyo area.
Though there was no shell yet, but the kernel booted and could be manipulated via the VS. communication cable. Quite impressive.
As much as this sounds a inviting idea, it would not work without some degree of control. Look at what happened to the alt.* groups on Usenet. A lot us usefull stuff, but even more junk.
A friend of mine has this little puppy running and it's great as a geek's toy. What impresed me most is, that the zxLinux kernel runs *on top* of the native kernel and OS. So they just wrote a device driver for the keyboard to get that info from the host OS. That means it can do hand-writing recognition and use the on-screen keyboard. You can even switch to one of the built-in apps.
The only problem is, since the Zaurus doesn't support unloading started apps (sounds funny, but true), you'd have to reset the whole device to shut down zxLinux. And the Zaurus has only 5MBs of RAM, of which the kernel alone uses 2.5MB.
According to the developers talk at the PDA-BOF at LinuxConference2000 in Tokyo, they do plan to make somekind of GUI platform available. It won't be full X (no RAM to do that) but probably some X-ish implementation possibly using frame-buffer with widgets designed for 1/4 VGA size screens. At yesterday's PDA-BOF, the PDA makers agreed to cooperate in creating a common Linux PDA-GUI spec/API.
Though this is defnetly nothing for the avarage Zaurus user, its surely a super cool geek toy, and is more advanced than the Linux-port to the Palm.
This export restriction should not be taken too seriously. It's just that the PS2's computing power is too much for old guidelines which designate everything above a certain line as "super computer". It was (is?) the same with the G4: too powerful -> super-computer -> dangerous.
And there are exceptions to this rule. If you take equipment worth 50.000 Yen (about $450) or less out of the country yourself, it's perfectly legal. The PS2 costs 40.000 Yen. I'll be doing just that, next Saturday. They probably panic more on the electric circuits in my carry-on. Knowing it's legal, it will quite fun to see if/how anybody will react.
BTW, if you took an laptop with an SSL-enabled browser with you (without the intention to bring it back) you'd break the very same law.
My PS2 should be arriving at my "home" within 34 hours (morning of March 4th JST) and I will be leaving Germany tomorrow to go to Japan. I'd even love to skip the two week skiing in the US to get there sooner, but that's already paid for. (;_;)
Nevertheless, after my home-leave is over, I will definetly bring the PS2 back to Germany. If the DVD playback quality is really as good as my Pioneer box, I'll get rid of the Pioneer, as Japan and Europe have the same region code and I'll be watching stuff from "home" mostly anyway.
Yes, it is illigal to export the PS2 from Japan. But the same applied to my PC, which included a SSL-enabled browser (and GPG and SSLLeay and crypt() and....), when I moved to Germany last summer. Officially, I could take it with me for a temporary export up to 6 month and personal use only. But as there never has been any record kept on when and what I took out, this export-restiction can't really be enforced. I am more worried if the German customs will let me take it in.
BTW, Sony's own direct-selling site revealed name and adress of their customers just by changing the cusomer-id in the URL. Now fixed but another scandal for Sony, after their site was toooootaly overwhelmed when they started to take reservations.
I had a talk with one of the guys at their booth yesterday. I think it was their CFO.
At first, he sounded quite reasonable and said things like they had not been doing well on their side and "deserve[d] all the 'abuse' we got from the Linux community" aswell as that there was a lawyer that did not understand the spirit of the community, but he got fired, etc...
All the top management (/C?O/) has been replaced in the last two weeks and on their press material nowhere could the name of their doubious founder be found.
At first, I almost fell for their arguments, that they were "newly reborn", "got rid of the evil", but some indepth questions made me even more suspicious then before. First, he didn't want to answer my questions about how large their staff was, only that they had guys "here and there" like in Taiwan, where "guys at the Ministry of Something have guys working on Linux" (aha! for LinuxOne?) and some in California. Realizing that I was writing for a Japanese publisher he claimed "we have a very successfull Japanese version". Gotcha. After telling him, that I KNOW that that is an absolute lie, because I am at the center of the community there (board of linu.or.jp), his statement suddenly changed to "we are having an alliance with the largest software ditributor there", and named an absolutely unknown name, not even sounding Japanese. He said that their Japanesation Engeneer would get in contact with me the same day, but I have not heared from him yey.
Also their press kit is a JOKE. When this stuff appeared at the press root, most of the press (that has a clue) burst out in laughter. Now they are sellin Harddisks as "LinuxOne OS Easy Drive", 13.5GB for $169.95 and $17.3GB for $199.95. Also their "Partial List of Drivers" boasts about "USB UHCI support", "USB keyboard support", "3C507", "Infrared-port devices". Also it runs "with devices[...] such as ADSL and cable modems" (yeah, mine eat 100Base-T)
Statements like "When ready to resume Winows, simply type 'reboot' [...] and LinuxOne Win/Lite terminated" just make me laugh. Guess I have had an amusing afternoon reading this crap.
Because the CFO said, "it was a bad decision to announce intentions IPO, you simple don't do that" I asked him, wheter they were going to delay their IPO untill they repaired their reputation (which he promised to do), he was "not allowed to say" (quiet period?) but "it was every intention to IPO as soon as possible when the company was founded". So they havn't changed, though admitting what they do is wrong.
I am even more convinced that they indeed are a FRAUD, but were trying very hard to cover that up. Without knowing their history and being a community activist, I'd probably fallen for their arguments. The general public MUST be WARNED about this monstrosity.
PS: When Linus worked by, the guy asked to take a picture with Linus. After noticing that he was LinuxOne Linus explictly disallowed them to use this picture for marketing/PR purposes or post it publicaly. I have witnessed this dialoge from a distance of 1m and are willing to testify as a witness in any court, should they abuse this picture.
Microsoft tryed to get into the game console market before. Sega's Dreamcast is supposed to be running WindowsCE.
But the truth is different. Microsoft could not deliver CE on time for the Dreamcast's launch here in Japan. In reality, all the big game makers have written their own OSs for their games. Much faster, more reliable. Because of this delay, the Dreamcast has basically failed here in Japan and Sega is in a really dangerous state financially.
My only proof would be that virtually no games have been ported from Dreamcast to PC. Though that been the basic idea behind using WindowsCE and DirectX on the Dreamcast.
With PCs becoming so cheap, I see no sense in creating a game console with x86 compatible chip and PC architecture. Better buy a cheap PC.
The page of the guy who found out that the Celerons can be manipulated to do SMP is at
http://www.kikumaru.com/ (in Japanese)
Recently an English WebBoard has been added where Duaron (=Dual Celeron) people gather.
I use a Celeron 300A x 2 machine running at 504MHz. Requires some cooling but runs great. I was one of those who drilled 0.5mm holes into the SCPP version Celeron and hotwired the whole thing with 1.5V. Was quite fun soldering a CPU.
(The new PPGA are just too easy)
> please do try to at least witness RMS speak, and take up an argument
> with him in person. You may be in for quite a surprise.
I personally think Emacs (I use XEmacs --with-mule), GCC and all the GNU tools are just great and I really apreciate their authors work just as I apreciate anybody's work that contributed to my Linux box. For software that I write, I'd choose the GPL, but it is not perfect for every situation. Having many different licences makes life more complicated, but the GPL can't be perfect for everything.
And yes, I did listen and talk to him "live". The was at the Linux Conference'98 last December in Kyoto/Japan . I had heared a lot about RMS and was very eager to talk to him. But having met him and after talking to him, I was disappointed. I asked him if he'd come to the "Linux Conference" the following day. He answered that he had heared there would be a "GNU/Linux Conference" but as such a thing wasn't scheduled, he would stay at the GNU booth (at the InternetWeek 98, LinuxConf. being part of it) all day.
I think everybody should call their Penguin the way they want it (like the pronounciation issue), but that reaction of RMS was kind of childish. Afterwards he tried to convince me why it was GNU/Linux for half an hour. I still like him as a figure and am very thankful of what he has achived, but as a person, my impression is that he is just one guy being good in getting on somebody's nerves.
Not liking RMS as a person doesn't mean one has no respect of the GNU project. Those issues should be strictly seperated.
Just recovered from the big feast after the LinuxWorld Conference Japan '99. At the conference, a session about large scale installation of Linux on an university campus was on the agenda. The 600 machines got delivered and installed by IBM. They do such a thing if requested. Other companies are scrambling to catch the high demand with NEC starting installation services (700.000 Yen for 50 PCs, about $5500) and CTC will start selling UltraPenguins. Sun is helping them to localize the stuff.