Yes, it supports encrypted web traffic, which is nice I guess, but there's nothing on the site to suggest it comes preinstalled with the most important feature of the communicator: ssh. On the 9110 telnet is an absolute godsend, and with the extra power of the 9210, ssh would be a natural inclusion, but I can't see any mention whatsoever of either.
Still, I guess it'll become available somewhere and they have put the escape key back somewhere sensible (according to the photos), so vi becomes usable again. Hmm reminds me, must take another look - the most irritating thing about the keyboard on the 9110 is having to go to a character menu to type a pipe (which of course is used loads - scan | tail -20 saves you lots of time over 9600bps!).
Looked at some of the screenshots. Doesn't seem to be *quite* what I've been wanting to design/code for ages, but getting there.
Basically I want 3 little nodules on each icon (in, out, error), each of which sits on the root window. You can then drag lines between the nodules and (right?) click the icon to specify parameters.
Then be able to drag a box round them and group them into a tool (shell script) that can shrink to its own little icon with three nodules. etc, etc. Would probably have to be part of the window manager. Anyway, breakfast time...
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I'm sure Apple named this deliberately to confuse us old Dragon owners (yeah, and Tandy Coco owners too). I guess the chances of a release working on an old 64K computer are slim though, eh? Did they need some agreement with Microware for the name?
In a similar vein, "Mac OS X" - was this deliberately named to confuse users of the X Window System?:)
The first part of your comment I agree with, but as for patents:
RMS needs to lighten his stance against Amazon. I think Jeff Bezos's reply to Tim O'Reilly's open letter did a good job of explaning why Amazon had to get the patents it did
Sure, but not why they used them aggressively.
There are a lot of other companies that are misusing software patents to a much worse degree than Amazon -- why not boycott them instead?
The other companies using them are actual software companies, so we do effectively boycott them simply by using Free Software.
Well, as for "Someone has even written a Perl interface to it. God knows why", all packages grow until they have the ability to
a) read mail, and b) be interfaced to perl!
Good interview. I especially liked the "not trying to be *too* like 'doze" attitude. It's important to interact (at the moment), but you certainly don't want to sacrifice your OS's good points just to pander to the Windows types. Many people have perfectly legitimate reasons for using SMB (over NFS) in a Unix-based environment (NFS does, truly, suck in some situations), and until something better comes along...
Thinking back to the only DirectX proggy I've seen the source to, SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) does an awful lot of this, and cross-platform too. I think there's definite stress on the "simple", but that suits me fine...
I know next to nothing about how businesses operate, but surely there's a simple way of putting something like this up for a shareholder vote?
Plus I don't believe refusing to ship through Amazon would hurt them. Their product is technical, and most technical people would only gain more respect for the company as they are more likely to know the issues with the patent. O'Reilly purchasers are also more likely than most to know where to find the on-line competition.
Hurrah for CoCos! Well, actually Hurrah for Dragon's, which were a close clone (better implemented) and largely compatible. Most people skipped past the (MS) BASIC early and bit into 6809 assembler. Mmmmm...
... an encrypted ext2 file system which allows for plausable deniability, i.e. you can give them the password to a lower encryption level and they will have no way to prove higher encryption levels exist, thus there is nothing they can do to make you give up you encrypted data
Not sure about this - as the legislation basically allows them to imprison you on an accusation, could they not simply accuse you of having two keys?
Yeah I agree with your sentiments. It's not as if they really gain anything from them - if J Random Company does some nifty stuff they'll get the reputation that means people go to them, patents or no. In this case, the patent would (if they got it) actively dissuade some people. Sheesh.
Different search engine: Hubat - Yahooish but the summaries are entirely 'puter generated (spotted on TBTF).
One wonders why we have by and large forgotten how to protest.
That one's fairly simple: Conditioning. Media images of protests are now almost always shown in a negative light, even if they're for an obviously 'good' cause. So the 'protest is bad' myth is reinforced time and time again.
Simple concept, but lots of people don't notice...
Another nearby post about following laws that seem 'right' to you is quite a good one - why not say to yourself "Laws are just guidelines" 10 times every morning and evening?:)
>Everything below was generated for the Jargon >File's 4.1.0 version. Note that we no longer >offer info and flat-text formats; it's an >HTML world now. Instead, you can download an >installable HTML tarball here.
Well personally I've always preferred reading the JF as a straight text file (far easier to browse), so unless anyone's done it already, I'm going to have to write a script to convert it to somewhere near the original format.
Then again, maybe this was done just to test our scripting abilities?
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They're not all daft. I work for a very large corporation, and we use Apache. On Solaris.
Yes, it supports encrypted web traffic, which is nice I guess, but there's nothing on the site to suggest it comes preinstalled with the most important feature of the communicator: ssh. On the 9110 telnet is an absolute godsend, and with the extra power of the 9210, ssh would be a natural inclusion, but I can't see any mention whatsoever of either.
Still, I guess it'll become available somewhere and they have put the escape key back somewhere sensible (according to the photos), so vi becomes usable again. Hmm reminds me, must take another look - the most irritating thing about the keyboard on the 9110 is having to go to a character menu to type a pipe (which of course is used loads - scan | tail -20 saves you lots of time over 9600bps!).
Looked at some of the screenshots. Doesn't seem to be *quite* what I've been wanting to design/code for ages, but getting there.
Basically I want 3 little nodules on each icon (in, out, error), each of which sits on the root window. You can then drag lines between the nodules and (right?) click the icon to specify parameters.
Then be able to drag a box round them and group them into a tool (shell script) that can shrink to its own little icon with three nodules. etc, etc. Would probably have to be part of the window manager. Anyway, breakfast time...
I'm sure Apple named this deliberately to confuse us old Dragon owners (yeah, and Tandy Coco owners too). I guess the chances of a release working on an old 64K computer are slim though, eh? Did they need some agreement with Microware for the name?
In a similar vein, "Mac OS X" - was this deliberately named to confuse users of the X Window System? :)
The first part of your comment I agree with, but as for patents:
RMS needs to lighten his stance against Amazon. I think Jeff Bezos's reply to Tim O'Reilly's open letter did a good job of explaning why Amazon had to get the patents it did
Sure, but not why they used them aggressively.
There are a lot of other companies that are misusing software patents to a much worse degree than Amazon -- why not boycott them instead?
The other companies using them are actual software companies, so we do effectively boycott them simply by using Free Software.
Well, as for "Someone has even written a Perl interface to it. God knows why", all packages grow until they have the ability to
a) read mail, and
b) be interfaced to perl!
Good interview. I especially liked the "not trying to be *too* like 'doze" attitude. It's important to interact (at the moment), but you certainly don't want to sacrifice your OS's good points just to pander to the Windows types. Many people have perfectly legitimate reasons for using SMB (over NFS) in a Unix-based environment (NFS does, truly, suck in some situations), and until something better comes along...
You'd be amazed at how easy it is to get classed as Welsh once you've lived there for a few years!
Well in my completely biased subjective opinion, yes, I've found good bands on mp3.com:
You're entirely right though - there's an awful lot of crap. But then, that's subjective too...
Oh so that's where the "Use them together..." malarky came from. I tend to remember the book better anyway.
Thinking back to the only DirectX proggy I've seen the source to, SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) does an awful lot of this, and cross-platform too. I think there's definite stress on the "simple", but that suits me fine...
I know next to nothing about how businesses operate, but surely there's a simple way of putting something like this up for a shareholder vote?
Plus I don't believe refusing to ship through Amazon would hurt them. Their product is technical, and most technical people would only gain more respect for the company as they are more likely to know the issues with the patent. O'Reilly purchasers are also more likely than most to know where to find the on-line competition.
Install StarOffice with setup /NET then every user can have their own mini-install.
At some point the Linux game industry will reach the volume needed to justify a magazine targetted at Linux gamers
Isn't that what Linux Format is going to be? Rumour has it this will be out in Feb/March (UK).
Hurrah for CoCos! Well, actually Hurrah for Dragon's, which were a close clone (better implemented) and largely compatible. Most people skipped past the (MS) BASIC early and bit into 6809 assembler. Mmmmm...
Shouldn't be too hard to find a page on them...
Not sure about this - as the legislation basically allows them to imprison you on an accusation, could they not simply accuse you of having two keys?
Yeah I agree with your sentiments. It's not as if they really gain anything from them - if J Random Company does some nifty stuff they'll get the reputation that means people go to them, patents or no. In this case, the patent would (if they got it) actively dissuade some people. Sheesh.
Different search engine: Hubat - Yahooish but the summaries are entirely 'puter generated (spotted on TBTF).
One wonders why we have by and large forgotten how to protest.
That one's fairly simple: Conditioning. Media images of protests are now almost always shown in a negative light, even if they're for an obviously 'good' cause. So the 'protest is bad' myth is reinforced time and time again.
Simple concept, but lots of people don't notice...
Another nearby post about following laws that seem 'right' to you is quite a good one - why not say to yourself "Laws are just guidelines" 10 times every morning and evening? :)
I will if you like. No guarantees of course, but I'm cheap.
And Hail Eris!
You'll never know the whole truth. Where would be the Fun in That?
Minix? ;)
Actually, the reason it annoyed me to read that is that I don't think it rhymes with any of those words. Each to their own though, I guess.
Damn, you beat me to it. That was exactly the quote I was going to use.
>Everything below was generated for the Jargon
>File's 4.1.0 version. Note that we no longer
>offer info and flat-text formats; it's an
>HTML world now. Instead, you can download an
>installable HTML tarball here.
Well personally I've always preferred reading the JF as a straight text file (far easier to browse), so unless anyone's done it already, I'm going to have to write a script to convert it to somewhere near the original format.
Then again, maybe this was done just to test our scripting abilities?
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This gets on my wick too, and it's all too frequent.
I guess it could mean "Loosen the ties on x so that it may run away", but it's far more likely that people just can't spell.
I think it's on rails so you can remove the entire unit - a habit it would be useful to acquire.
This thing almost makes me want to learn to drive...
Heh - Gary, are you reading this? If the Crocketts don't make it big, at least this Aberystwyth offering will hang around... :)