All I can say is that someone who so stupid that they manage to break their system by RPM installing the GTK/GLib bits and bobs shouldn't be given credit for anymore insight than Jesse Berst.
It must have been in a sorry-ass state before he started.
I'm sure I could break BeOS (or worse yet, MacOS) so that when you installed an update, it'd fall over. This is borderline FUD.
His is the song of the disgruntled enduser, who claims that "I didn't touch it, *it* did it!", when their computer screws up. His is the song of the lamer. This shows very poor standards of journalistic integrity.
A lot of the "technology journalists" who are jumping on the bandwagon these days are doing so for reasons of facile progress. They neither have journalistic standards worth a damn, nor any decent grasp about their subjects.
I have a port of redhat 5.1 running on my old Amiga 4000, with a 68060 and a clgen-using graphics card (along with 80 megs of RAM and a nippy SCSI card). It's usuable, but I am not about to compile GNOME on there:)
A 68060/50 is a bit slower than a Pentium 75 (though not by much), so not really fast enough for modern games on the whole. Quake, for example, is playable, but only managed about 15 FPS in 320x240-ish resolution. So, earlier comments were right; it's not reasonable to complain about modern games not being released for this platform.
What's more, there's a lack of decent 3d hardware for most 68k boxen.. For the Amiga, there's a permedia 2 based video card which you can use if you have a certain mindblowingly expensive (and slow) PPC card, but the developer support from the company (phase 5) is worse than awful, so usefulness is limited. Goodness knows what the Mac 68k and Atari boxen are like..
Yebbut, isn't the whole point of pr0n that it contains actual fit(ish) sleek individuals pumping joylessly at each other? Geeks of either persuasion aren't well-known for being pneumatic or having acres of well-toned golden flesh:)
This could be a "joe job". Make very sure (by pretending to be a potential customer, mebbe?) before releasing the dogs.
There have been cases in the past where pammers have deliberately faked people's details (indeed, sent a spam for their company) deliberately to discredit and harm them.
I'm not saying this is what this is, but just check before the loonies start attacking this guy, ok?
You must decode the headers, and hunt them down. Spammers hate losing their net access. Usually there's a dialup, a web page and a drop box at the very least.. make sure you whack all three for max karma bonus.
These screamy platform advocates remind me of the comp.sys.mac[..].advocacy morons, or even the sad remnants still clinging to the corpse of the (once great) Amiga.
I don't particularly want to be associated with people whose arguments stretch about as far as "YOU SUXXX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!".
Admittedly, the mass media needs to get a major clue infusion too, but then that's nothing new. Telling one's arse from a hole in the ground never was the strong suit of the Jesse Bersts of this world..
Sadly, morons are ?(and have been) flowing onto linux as a platform for a while. Too many of them use it as a psychological crutch and something to worship. these people would be no loss if they vanished tommorow, since they don't contribute anything. Quite the reverse; they spend hours flaming poor saps in a functionally illiterate manner, and then go on to annoy the hell out of ordinary users by demanding "How can I get X driver for my FarEastTech GrandPants AGP of is??!!!!!?!?!" very loudly. They're a pain.
However, we're a victim of our own sucess in that respect. Everything that becomes popular does, due to the law of averages, attract a lot of noisy idiots. Because they're so vocal, it sounds like there's a whole lot of them, rather than the good old bell curve, which is closer to the truth..
End of ramble..:)
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Agreed.
It's a big, fat, reassuring book, and it resists coffee stains nicely. I have a copy at work, and due to strange circumstances, we have two copies at home.
Even if you don't ever need to dip into, it's nice to know it's there, just in case. Possibly my favorite of all the ORA books so far (OK, so you might argue that the Bat Book is more of a lifesaver, but it just scares me).
>They obviously have people out there looking for >new good technology, ICQ anyone?
At least ICQ was flaky and full of security holes BEFORE they bought it. The features that were added later (like the "web server" which gave you global read to a BillyWare ICQ user's box) didn't come as much of a shock.
Winamp, on the other hand, works quite well, and isn't yet an unmitigated disaster to your hapless BillyWare box.
>good note they haven't f**ked with ICQ yet, so >maybe they know when to keep hands off.
See above:-) ICQ was a bunch of lemurs (who seemed to be unable to pay attention to bugtraq etc) from the getgo, it made perfect sense.
>subject line) so don't be surprised when they >adopt a yearly subscription fee for all AOL(tm) >software. Of course all that would do is >make more people look for free stuff, so JUST >KEEP CODING.
Interesting hypothesis. You could well be right, even if it does plunge us in to bad 80s sci-fi (Bruce Sterling, anyone?). Even more reason to learn to love debian, GNU and the like! An ex-colleague of mine worked for AOL in quite a senior executive position, and what he told me doesn't fill me with glee AT ALL.
I'm just glad that I don't spend much time in windows.. X11amp works just fine.
DAT and Minidisk have a thing called SCMS (serial copy management system) which seeks to limit multigenerational digital copies. However, since the stupid fscking recoding industry fatcats all but killed those formats (though Minidisk is undergoing a bit of a renaissance of late), it didn't affect consumers overmuch.
However, it DID affect musicians on a tight budget, trying to make decent copies of their masters etc. All of a sudden, they couldn't use the $500 sony consumer level DAT, but had to either use a big expensive pro level machine(which are lovely, but cost a bomb), or shell out for a widget like the behringer sample rate converter and SCMS filter...
Of course, a friend in.se has built me an SCMS filter and shipped it over airmail (thanks, F, your Redhat 6 CD will be int he mail really soon!), but that's not an option for most people.
I also worked out how to get SMCS disabled on one of my minidisk machines, after throwing it into service mode, but again, this won't be an option for most people...
What relevance does this have? Well, just to point out that the RIAA and their greasy fatcat friends have a nasty habit of screwing EVERYTHING up when they turn consumer audio into crippleware. They like to control the means of production, and delivery. It's clearly a restrictive trade practice, and morally bankrupt.
It's also short sighted, they need to get with the program, and realise that there's money to be made for those who can evolve and make the paradigm shift.
That said.. every new medium faces opposition from the old school, who stand to lose their power and control. Look at how scathing Radio people were about TV. Look at how people were burned, and presses were smashed when movable type started to spread, even..
Plus ca change, eh?
If you need to flame me for being horribly wrong, I'm ancipital (at) hotmail dot com...
Re: Tracker programs.. have you played with Voodootracker under Gnome/GTK? Seems pretty nice so far.. (I haven't tested it heavily yet).
Find linked from Freshmeat, I think.. there are a few midi sequencers too, including a rudimentary midi+audio one in a Cubase stylee, called Jazz..
http://www.jazzware.com/
Until we get some kind of unified audio and midi architecture (with routing a la OMS etc), this kind of thing will always be tricky, mind you.
Personally, I use DAP as a sample ed under leenux right now, and Terminator-X is lot of fun. Do you know of an SMIDI dumper so I can do digital dumps down to my lil Akai sampler?
Considering trying out Freebirth.. I don't think I could rig Rebirth 2.xx (which I love to death- why don't the props look at a linux port?:) to work properly under Wine..
Anyway, I prefer using the sequencer on my mc505 to drive everything- no sync probs there:) However, an SMIDI dumper and a decent patch librarian would be nice..
The Amiga for instance, doesn't just smell funny, it's dead- an ex-parrot; joined the choir invisibule etc etc..
However, hop on over to comp.sys.amiga.misc to see how valid your metric is- lots of drongos flaming each other over vaporware:-)
Yes, I do own several Amigas, but they mostly run linux.. and when we get cross-compilation running on the x86 box, the PPC Amiga will run APUS linux too...
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All I can say is that someone who so stupid that they manage to break their system by RPM installing the GTK/GLib bits and bobs shouldn't be given credit for anymore insight than Jesse Berst.
:)
It must have been in a sorry-ass state before he started.
I'm sure I could break BeOS (or worse yet, MacOS) so that when you installed an update, it'd fall over. This is borderline FUD.
His is the song of the disgruntled enduser, who claims that "I didn't touch it, *it* did it!", when their computer screws up. His is the song of the lamer. This shows very poor standards of journalistic integrity.
A lot of the "technology journalists" who are jumping on the bandwagon these days are doing so for reasons of facile progress. They neither have journalistic standards worth a damn, nor any decent grasp about their subjects.
End of rant!
68060 marks the end of the true 680x0 family.
:)
I have a port of redhat 5.1 running on my old Amiga 4000, with a 68060 and a clgen-using graphics card (along with 80 megs of RAM and a nippy SCSI card). It's usuable, but I am not about to compile GNOME on there
A 68060/50 is a bit slower than a Pentium 75 (though not by much), so not really fast enough for modern games on the whole. Quake, for example, is playable, but only managed about 15 FPS in 320x240-ish resolution. So, earlier comments were right; it's not reasonable to complain about modern games not being released for this platform.
What's more, there's a lack of decent 3d hardware for most 68k boxen.. For the Amiga, there's a permedia 2 based video card which you can use if you have a certain mindblowingly expensive (and slow) PPC card, but the developer support from the company (phase 5) is worse than awful, so usefulness is limited. Goodness knows what the Mac 68k and Atari boxen are like..
Anyway, end of ramble, hope this helps.
-A-
Yebbut, isn't the whole point of pr0n that it contains actual fit(ish) sleek individuals pumping joylessly at each other? Geeks of either persuasion aren't well-known for being pneumatic or having acres of well-toned golden flesh :)
This could be a "joe job". Make very sure (by pretending to be a potential customer, mebbe?) before releasing the dogs.
There have been cases in the past where pammers have deliberately faked people's details (indeed, sent a spam for their company) deliberately to discredit and harm them.
I'm not saying this is what this is, but just check before the loonies start attacking this guy, ok?
Dont "Just Hit Delete"[tm].
You must decode the headers, and hunt them down. Spammers hate losing their net access. Usually there's a dialup, a web page and a drop box at the very least.. make sure you whack all three for max karma bonus.
It's nice to see enthusiasm, BUT...
:)
These screamy platform advocates remind me of the comp.sys.mac[..].advocacy morons, or even the sad remnants still clinging to the corpse of the (once great) Amiga.
I don't particularly want to be associated with people whose arguments stretch about as far as "YOU SUXXX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!".
Admittedly, the mass media needs to get a major clue infusion too, but then that's nothing new. Telling one's arse from a hole in the ground never was the strong suit of the Jesse Bersts of this world..
Sadly, morons are ?(and have been) flowing onto linux as a platform for a while. Too many of them use it as a psychological crutch and something to worship. these people would be no loss if they vanished tommorow, since they don't contribute anything. Quite the reverse; they spend hours flaming poor saps in a functionally illiterate manner, and then go on to annoy the hell out of ordinary users by demanding "How can I get X driver for my FarEastTech GrandPants AGP of is??!!!!!?!?!" very loudly. They're a pain.
However, we're a victim of our own sucess in that respect. Everything that becomes popular does, due to the law of averages, attract a lot of noisy idiots. Because they're so vocal, it sounds like there's a whole lot of them, rather than the good old bell curve, which is closer to the truth..
End of ramble..
Agreed.
It's a big, fat, reassuring book, and it resists coffee stains nicely. I have a copy at work, and due to strange circumstances, we have two copies at home.
Even if you don't ever need to dip into, it's nice to know it's there, just in case. Possibly my favorite of all the ORA books so far (OK, so you might argue that the Bat Book is more of a lifesaver, but it just scares me).
>They obviously have people out there looking for >new good technology, ICQ anyone?
:-) ICQ was a bunch of lemurs (who seemed to be unable to pay attention to bugtraq etc) from the getgo, it made perfect sense.
At least ICQ was flaky and full of security holes BEFORE they bought it. The features that were added later (like the "web server" which gave you global read to a BillyWare ICQ user's box) didn't come as much of a shock.
Winamp, on the other hand, works quite well, and isn't yet an unmitigated disaster to your hapless BillyWare box.
>good note they haven't f**ked with ICQ yet, so
>maybe they know when to keep hands off.
See above
>subject line) so don't be surprised when they
>adopt a yearly subscription fee for all AOL(tm)
>software. Of course all that would do is
>make more people look for free stuff, so JUST >KEEP CODING.
Interesting hypothesis. You could well be right, even if it does plunge us in to bad 80s sci-fi (Bruce Sterling, anyone?). Even more reason to learn to love debian, GNU and the like! An ex-colleague of mine worked for AOL in quite a senior executive position, and what he told me doesn't fill me with glee AT ALL.
I'm just glad that I don't spend much time in windows.. X11amp works just fine.
Mmm, you know that the weenies and drones are getting scared when they have to troll to try and spread this sort of pitiful FUD.
I can't wait for the day when I can dump all the NT boxes on my network, personally. They are a liability.
[scuse typos, I am in a hurry here.. ]
.se has built me an SCMS filter and shipped it over airmail (thanks, F, your Redhat 6 CD will be int he mail really soon!), but that's not an option for most people.
DAT and Minidisk have a thing called SCMS (serial copy management system) which seeks to limit multigenerational digital copies. However, since the stupid fscking recoding industry fatcats all but killed those formats (though Minidisk is undergoing a bit of a renaissance of late), it didn't affect consumers overmuch.
However, it DID affect musicians on a tight budget, trying to make decent copies of their masters etc. All of a sudden, they couldn't use the $500 sony consumer level DAT, but had to either use a big expensive pro level machine(which are lovely, but cost a bomb), or shell out for a widget like the behringer sample rate converter and SCMS filter...
Of course, a friend in
I also worked out how to get SMCS disabled on one of my minidisk machines, after throwing it into service mode, but again, this won't be an option for most people...
What relevance does this have? Well, just to point out that the RIAA and their greasy fatcat friends have a nasty habit of screwing EVERYTHING up when they turn consumer audio into crippleware. They like to control the means of production, and delivery. It's clearly a restrictive trade practice, and morally bankrupt.
It's also short sighted, they need to get with the program, and realise that there's money to be made for those who can evolve and make the paradigm shift.
That said.. every new medium faces opposition from the old school, who stand to lose their power and control. Look at how scathing Radio people were about TV. Look at how people were burned, and presses were smashed when movable type started to spread, even..
Plus ca change, eh?
If you need to flame me for being horribly wrong, I'm ancipital (at) hotmail dot com...
Re: Tracker programs.. have you played with Voodootracker under Gnome/GTK? Seems pretty nice so far.. (I haven't tested it heavily yet).
:) to work properly under Wine..
:) However, an SMIDI dumper and a decent patch librarian would be nice..
Find linked from Freshmeat, I think.. there are a few midi sequencers too, including a rudimentary midi+audio one in a Cubase stylee, called Jazz..
http://www.jazzware.com/
Until we get some kind of unified audio and midi architecture (with routing a la OMS etc), this kind of thing will always be tricky, mind you.
Personally, I use DAP as a sample ed under leenux right now, and Terminator-X is lot of fun. Do you know of an SMIDI dumper so I can do digital dumps down to my lil Akai sampler?
Considering trying out Freebirth.. I don't think I could rig Rebirth 2.xx (which I love to death- why don't the props look at a linux port?
Anyway, I prefer using the sequencer on my mc505 to drive everything- no sync probs there
Surely, restriction of use along political lines is as insidious as export restriction?
Fnord.
Hmm, I have to disagree...
:-)
The Amiga for instance, doesn't just smell funny, it's dead- an ex-parrot; joined the choir invisibule etc etc..
However, hop on over to comp.sys.amiga.misc to see how valid your metric is- lots of drongos flaming each other over vaporware
Yes, I do own several Amigas, but they mostly run linux.. and when we get cross-compilation running on the x86 box, the PPC Amiga will run APUS linux too...
Wow, that would be, like so heavy. I'm talking MAJOR bummer with a side order of HECTIC.
I would, like, photocopy them and stuff, and post them to yourself.
Peace..