As soon as VMWare is ported to the TRS80, I'll try it:)
Why not bundle Office SBE with a clone? Surely Microsoft wouldn't be adverse to an OEM like that. However, I would be willing to pay for a no-OS clone that I would still pay $99 for the OS - if it's around $1000 and includes PCI Slots I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
One hot topic in Linux for PPC today is the Mac on Linux emulator - my question is "What's the license on the NewWorld ROM file you need to download to use the software?" If Apple lets people distribute the NewWorld ROM, wouldn't it be possible to write a Mac emulator simply by booting up a Linux kernel (screw that, boot up a Mach kernel) and then load an emulator? Supposedly this software works on any CHRP/PREP architecture - has anybody had any luck working this thing on a CHRP architecture like the BeBox?
Secondly, now that MacOSX is almost here, wouldn't it be possible to engineer a peice of PPC hardware so that it boots Darwin, and then shouldn't MacOSX work fine from there? What's to stop a new clone manufacturer?
Ummm... have you tried clicking the wheel? I don't understand why you need 4 buttons in X windows - anyway, X thinks of the wheel as your 4th and 5th buttons - you should be able to not map those and have a 5 button mouse!
locking your hand into the three-fingered-claw position
The only mouse I've seen properly designed for three-button use is a Sun mouse - you don't need the claw position to use three buttons. Anybody know if you can use one of these on a PC?
Microsoft licensed the technology from HP, who may or may not have a patent on it. HP is liecensing it to everyone under the sun (MS, Logitech, Apple, etc.)
A while back the media companies (that is, the companies that make physical media like Sony) tried to create a standard named DAT. It failed precisely because the music industry thought it would encourage copying. If you can make a perfect sound quality copy, what's to stop widespread piracy?
The music industry still remembers tapes, that's what. I'd say that more piracy occured because of standard audio tapes than anything else. Artists had a horrible time selling tapes, and the industry was hurt terribly because of it.
Burning a CD copy is still clumsy and slow; older CD players won't even play CDR's. But MP3's offer the solution akin to tapes - fast, cheap, and portable. Now, I still prefer my CD player - it would cost me too much to carry around CFlash cards equivalent to what I can carry around in a CD wallet. But many people are happy with their Rio's, and it scares the industry.
For the first time since audio tapes the technology is there to make a fast copy of an album and share it with your friends.
This isn't about digital rights. This is about an industry scarred by horrible memories of tapes - of consumers who would trade albums instead of buying one.
I think this point has already been discussed - nVidia's drivers include stuff for licensed components/algorithms/etc. they use in their chips, and opening the source isn't an option at this point. It would be a nice option to have the RH Xconfigurator automatically configure the new nVidia drivers if you download them at least - any thoughts about this?
RH is very leery about new sendmail releases until they've been thuroughly tested. kernel 2.4 is still very unstable; and they probably don't expect a stable patch to 2.4.0 to be out when 7.0 is released.
Tux is still being worked on. Apache is probably being held for Tux.
They've been burned by bind once already.
Staroffice will be Open Source in October. It's not open source yet.
OT: Do any distros have plans to ship nVidia's official drivers with their distros? I had to switch from RedHat to Mandrake just to get XFree 4.0 working properly.
RH also knows to expect that kernel 2.4.0 will be just as bad as a beta release, considering how buggy 2.2.0 was. They'll wait a couple of patches before jumping into the fray.
It's not anything special. AvantGo channels are actually HTML!
If you just wanted to grab the stories in a nice-looking fashion, it shouldn't be too hard to write a script (php3 or perl, pick your poison) that grabs $name_of_site.xml and turns it into some AvantGo HTML - something like http://slashtogo.sourceforge.net/convert.php3?www. slashdot.org (or www.yourofficegeek.com, etc.) - does anybody want to help start on this?
It's called RDF and is becoming the de facto standard for headline interchange between websites. For instance, the slashboxes that you can add to your slashdot screen use this interchange.
My last sentence came out a little weird. Anybody who read the entirety of my question would be ablte to tell that I'm trying to elicit his thoughts on stereotyping.
If you are so insightful about these questions, right one of your own, please, instead of criticising mine.
Actually it's sort of the other way around. Trolls thrive through poking people about contraversial issues; however, in this instance it doesn't appear contraversial so much as a question that really needs answering.
All you BeOS users: there is a BeOS native filesharing program called BeShare, BeBits entry here - it's got some interesting features (such as live queries) that use BeOS-native features.
From looking at your bio (and realizing who you were) it would seem that you play upon popular culture's impression of us computer geeks. For instance, use the oft-stated myth that nerds "can't get a date", but in a recent article about system administrators it was revealed that quite a few (from anectdotal evidence) are married. Do you feel that it's really accurate/justified to portray the innovators of the computer world as social misfits, or is it just a stereotype that's sometimes true and sometimes not?
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Why not bundle Office SBE with a clone? Surely Microsoft wouldn't be adverse to an OEM like that. However, I would be willing to pay for a no-OS clone that I would still pay $99 for the OS - if it's around $1000 and includes PCI Slots I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
It's actually 70 seconds. Slashcode rounds down minutes, so it thinks 70 seconds==1 minute.
Secondly, now that MacOSX is almost here, wouldn't it be possible to engineer a peice of PPC hardware so that it boots Darwin, and then shouldn't MacOSX work fine from there? What's to stop a new clone manufacturer?
Ummm... have you tried clicking the wheel? I don't understand why you need 4 buttons in X windows - anyway, X thinks of the wheel as your 4th and 5th buttons - you should be able to not map those and have a 5 button mouse!
The only mouse I've seen properly designed for three-button use is a Sun mouse - you don't need the claw position to use three buttons. Anybody know if you can use one of these on a PC?
Microsoft licensed the technology from HP, who may or may not have a patent on it. HP is liecensing it to everyone under the sun (MS, Logitech, Apple, etc.)
You are? Works great in Solaris with Netscape...
It's called a "reality distortion field".
Minidisc is cool in Europe and Japan. It "flounders in relative obscurity" here because so few US artists use it.
The music industry still remembers tapes, that's what. I'd say that more piracy occured because of standard audio tapes than anything else. Artists had a horrible time selling tapes, and the industry was hurt terribly because of it.
Burning a CD copy is still clumsy and slow; older CD players won't even play CDR's. But MP3's offer the solution akin to tapes - fast, cheap, and portable. Now, I still prefer my CD player - it would cost me too much to carry around CFlash cards equivalent to what I can carry around in a CD wallet. But many people are happy with their Rio's, and it scares the industry.
For the first time since audio tapes the technology is there to make a fast copy of an album and share it with your friends.
This isn't about digital rights. This is about an industry scarred by horrible memories of tapes - of consumers who would trade albums instead of buying one.
I think this point has already been discussed - nVidia's drivers include stuff for licensed components/algorithms/etc. they use in their chips, and opening the source isn't an option at this point. It would be a nice option to have the RH Xconfigurator automatically configure the new nVidia drivers if you download them at least - any thoughts about this?
Tux is still being worked on. Apache is probably being held for Tux.
They've been burned by bind once already.
Staroffice will be Open Source in October. It's not open source yet.
Which LVM tool?
Install BeOS under your Linux partition. Then wait for Wildcard to fininh the BeOS port of W:A.
Oh, that's right, GNOME called their beta "stable". Nevermind...
You must means SunOS 5.5.8? Or is that Solaris 2.8? Too many #$@#$ version numbers...
RH also knows to expect that kernel 2.4.0 will be just as bad as a beta release, considering how buggy 2.2.0 was. They'll wait a couple of patches before jumping into the fray.
You invoke a strange scroll labeled 'LEGAL THREAT'.
The Net Community utters some magic words which you have never heard before. Suddenly, you are surrounded by copies of the orb of teaser footage!
Inventory: You have a +2 cloak (being worn) and a strange scroll labeled 'LEGAL THREAT'.
You invoke a strange scroll labeled 'LEGAL THREAT'. One of the orbs dissapears.
You see: 512 copies of the orb of teaser footage, and a +20 Net Community.
If you just wanted to grab the stories in a nice-looking fashion, it shouldn't be too hard to write a script (php3 or perl, pick your poison) that grabs $name_of_site.xml and turns it into some AvantGo HTML - something like http://slashtogo.sourceforge.net/convert.php3?www. slashdot.org (or www.yourofficegeek.com, etc.) - does anybody want to help start on this?
It's called RDF and is becoming the de facto standard for headline interchange between websites. For instance, the slashboxes that you can add to your slashdot screen use this interchange.
If you are so insightful about these questions, right one of your own, please, instead of criticising mine.
Actually it's sort of the other way around. Trolls thrive through poking people about contraversial issues; however, in this instance it doesn't appear contraversial so much as a question that really needs answering.
All you BeOS users: there is a BeOS native filesharing program called BeShare, BeBits entry here - it's got some interesting features (such as live queries) that use BeOS-native features.
From looking at your bio (and realizing who you were) it would seem that you play upon popular culture's impression of us computer geeks. For instance, use the oft-stated myth that nerds "can't get a date", but in a recent article about system administrators it was revealed that quite a few (from anectdotal evidence) are married. Do you feel that it's really accurate/justified to portray the innovators of the computer world as social misfits, or is it just a stereotype that's sometimes true and sometimes not?
Actually, it'll be called the palm M100, and is due out in August.