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The reason for the ISA->PCI migration is not always about performance. When ISA came out, there were lots of devices that didn't need ISA "performance".
The reason for the PCI push, such as PC'99 which says "no ISA at all", is because ISA devices are very difficult to configure correctly. One of the reasons why PnP doesn't work on PC systems is because it just doesn't work on ISA. By eliminating ISA entirely, DMA and IRQ problems disappear completely. The only resource a PCI device uses is memory, and it can allocate its memory anywhere in the 4GB range. Any IRQ's the device needs can be shared with any other PCI device.
Ok, it took me a long time searching through the Weird Al web site, but I knew there was evidence to prove they weren't the same person. Oh sure, obviously they're NOT the same person (duh!), but those pictures were so much alike I needed to find hard evidence.
Thanks for the link to Propaganda - they really are nice images. It's stuff like this why I read Slashdot. I'm just a little confused by the "for Linux" part - it just seems to be a bunch of JPG's, which can be used on any platform.
This would be a disaster. Windows needs to die, not proliferate! The last thing this world needs is more reason to use Windows or the Win32 API. Time to write another letter to the DOJ.
I disagree with the statement that you need to have the entire source code to an operating system in order to be a hacker. I think that's rather closed-minded. In fact, I would say that if you can figure out the internals of an OS without having the source code (as some of the great of OS/2 programmers have done), then you're an even better hacker.
I believe that I have the know-how to be a hacker. I have 20 years programming experience, I know how to write device drivers for several OS's, I know a few different kinds of assembly language, and I work on BIOSes. However, I don't exactly have the attitude of a hacker, since I'm not really as involved in hacking as I used to be. So I don't call myself a hacker. But if I really wanted to ignore my wife and hack away on my OS/2 machine, I could and then I would be a bona-fide hacker.
This Star Wars fanaticism (sp?) is getting out of hand. I have the perfect solution: just wait! I think anyone who has to see the move the first weekend it comes out is a complete loser. If you see the movie on May 18th instead of June 18th, will your life be that much better when July 1st comes around? No, of course not.
I just submitted this link as a story, not knowing it was already submitted and had over 200 comments. I guess that's one drawback to the filter system (I filter out articles on Music).
It also appears to me that the "no drivers needed" bit is an exaggeration. In fact, it's just like a generic Postscript driver with PPD support. A PPD (postscript printer description) file is a text file that describes the capabilities and features of a postscript printer. Any normal postscript driver will allow you to specify a PPD file (either at compile time or at run time) and that's all you need to support that Postscript printer. That's how I got OS/2 support for my Apple Laserwriter Select 310 - I found the PPD file for the LWS310 on Adobe's web site, and recompiled the OS/2 Postscript driver with it.
I wonder if it's possible to create a PPD file for IPP?
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Doesn't the OSI own the trademark for "Open Source". Isn't Eric Raymond the president of the OSI? Didn't Eric Raymond validate the APSL as Open Source? If so, then what more is there? As far as I'm concerned, if the OSI says it's Open Source (TM), then it's Open Source (TM)!!!!
Is this the best the PC designers can do? I think so. Typical PC users (and companies who cater to them) have no sense of style, and this is just more proof. I should know, because I use a PC most of the time (the Mac belongs to my wife) and if I had to design a case, mine would look just as lame. You want to know why? It's because I have no formal training and no talent, just like the people who designed these and every other PC case I've seen. The Penguin one is really bad. It's almost as bad as those lame Kipling "Hacker" backpacks. It's just a pathetic attempt to appeal to a clique.
I'm not that surprised by this. IBM has an OpenGL DDK for OS/2 that allows IHV's to update their video drivers to support hardware accellerated OpenGL. Unfortunately, you need an OpenGL license from SGI (which costs tens of thousands of dollars, I've heard) in order to get the DDK. The ironic thing is that a lot of IHV's and programmers know how to program their 3D hardware but don't have an OpenGL license. The end result is that the only people who can get the DDK aren't interested in it - so there are no hardware accellerated 3D drivers for OS/2, even though the DDK has been available for a year.
I've submitted countless number of OS/2-related articles over the past year or so, and NONE of them ever get published. Slashdot will post the most useless and significant articles about Linux, but even the biggest OS/2 news of the year gets discarded.
Slashdot should remove the banner "News for nerds" and replace it with "News for Linux users". At least that way, they won't be deceiving anyone.
Is there any way I can obtain a complete list of all articles from a particular Slashdot editor? For instance, I think nothing that JonKatz has posted would be of interest to me, but I want to see all of his stuff to be certain.
Like the other poster said, a second CPU will only give you about a 30% boost - SMP on NT is pathetic. Every other OS does much better. So if two low-cost CPU's is significantly cheaper than a single high-performance CPU, then go for it.
I've never heard of this term. It sounds like a provision where if the company goes out of business, then the source code to its products will be released to.... whom? Only the customers, or everyone?
I was debating a clause like this with a friend of mine who has his own side company. I said that if he should include a clause that says that if he ever shuts down his company, the source code to all of his software will be released under the GPL. His response was that it was bad business to talk about shutting down the company and other such things.
Plus, if a company does say they'll release the code under the GPL, then it means that if someone buys the product from the company, and the company goes under next month, then the person will have purchased a product right before it became free! Yeah, I know - there's still the support issue.
I don't know for sure, but from a conversation I had with someone working in this area, SSL is an RSA patent. The algorithms you use to create an SSL transaction can only be implemented by using a patented RSA algorithm. In fact, you can consider SSL to be an implementation of the RSA patent. There's no way around it.
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The reason for the PCI push, such as PC'99 which says "no ISA at all", is because ISA devices are very difficult to configure correctly. One of the reasons why PnP doesn't work on PC systems is because it just doesn't work on ISA. By eliminating ISA entirely, DMA and IRQ problems disappear completely. The only resource a PCI device uses is memory, and it can allocate its memory anywhere in the 4GB range. Any IRQ's the device needs can be shared with any other PCI device.
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So, take a look at these pictures of Weird Al:
http://www.weirdal.com/alshair.jpg
http://www.weirdal.com/ricky2.jpg
http://www.weirdal.com/ricky3.jpg
Yes, they don't at first look like Weird Al, but they're from his web site and he claims they are pictures of him.
So what's the proof? Look at the ear lobes. Larry's don't hang, but Al's do.
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Thanks for the link to Propaganda - they really are nice images. It's stuff like this why I read Slashdot. I'm just a little confused by the "for Linux" part - it just seems to be a bunch of JPG's, which can be used on any platform.
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This would be a disaster. Windows needs to die, not proliferate! The last thing this world needs is more reason to use Windows or the Win32 API. Time to write another letter to the DOJ.
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I believe that I have the know-how to be a hacker. I have 20 years programming experience, I know how to write device drivers for several OS's, I know a few different kinds of assembly language, and I work on BIOSes. However, I don't exactly have the attitude of a hacker, since I'm not really as involved in hacking as I used to be. So I don't call myself a hacker. But if I really wanted to ignore my wife and hack away on my OS/2 machine, I could and then I would be a bona-fide hacker.
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This Star Wars fanaticism (sp?) is getting out of hand. I have the perfect solution: just wait! I think anyone who has to see the move the first weekend it comes out is a complete loser. If you see the movie on May 18th instead of June 18th, will your life be that much better when July 1st comes around? No, of course not.
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I just submitted this link as a story, not knowing it was already submitted and had over 200 comments. I guess that's one drawback to the filter system (I filter out articles on Music).
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I wonder if it's possible to create a PPD file for IPP?
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Doesn't the OSI own the trademark for "Open Source". Isn't Eric Raymond the president of the OSI? Didn't Eric Raymond validate the APSL as Open Source? If so, then what more is there? As far as I'm concerned, if the OSI says it's Open Source (TM), then it's Open Source (TM)!!!!
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I want to add some OS/2 sites to Slashdot. What exactly is a "public backend" and how do I know if my favorite news sites have one?
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Is this the best the PC designers can do? I think so. Typical PC users (and companies who cater to them) have no sense of style, and this is just more proof. I should know, because I use a PC most of the time (the Mac belongs to my wife) and if I had to design a case, mine would look just as lame. You want to know why? It's because I have no formal training and no talent, just like the people who designed these and every other PC case I've seen. The Penguin one is really bad. It's almost as bad as those lame Kipling "Hacker" backpacks. It's just a pathetic attempt to appeal to a clique.
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OS/2 users number in the millions. BeOS users number in the tens of thousands (as estimated by the VP of engineering at Be).
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I'm not that surprised by this. IBM has an OpenGL DDK for OS/2 that allows IHV's to update their video drivers to support hardware accellerated OpenGL. Unfortunately, you need an OpenGL license from SGI (which costs tens of thousands of dollars, I've heard) in order to get the DDK. The ironic thing is that a lot of IHV's and programmers know how to program their 3D hardware but don't have an OpenGL license. The end result is that the only people who can get the DDK aren't interested in it - so there are no hardware accellerated 3D drivers for OS/2, even though the DDK has been available for a year.
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You can get the OS/2 version of Enlightenment from http://r350.ee.nt u.edu.tw/~hcchu/os2/ports/xfree86/#enlightenment
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I've submitted countless number of OS/2-related articles over the past year or so, and NONE of them ever get published. Slashdot will post the most useless and significant articles about Linux, but even the biggest OS/2 news of the year gets discarded.
Slashdot should remove the banner "News for nerds" and replace it with "News for Linux users". At least that way, they won't be deceiving anyone.
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I tried index.pl and I still get Star Wars articles even though I filter them out.
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A number of people believe that cell phones can cause brain tumors in people who use them a lot. I wonder if these monitors have the same problems?
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Is there any way I can obtain a complete list of all articles from a particular Slashdot editor? For instance, I think nothing that JonKatz has posted would be of interest to me, but I want to see all of his stuff to be certain.
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Let's see how interesting Slashdot is when I remove all Linux- and Linux distro-related articles.
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Flame me, please!
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Like the other poster said, a second CPU will only give you about a 30% boost - SMP on NT is pathetic. Every other OS does much better. So if two low-cost CPU's is significantly cheaper than a single high-performance CPU, then go for it.
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I've never heard of this term. It sounds like a provision where if the company goes out of business, then the source code to its products will be released to .... whom? Only the customers, or everyone?
I was debating a clause like this with a friend of mine who has his own side company. I said that if he should include a clause that says that if he ever shuts down his company, the source code to all of his software will be released under the GPL. His response was that it was bad business to talk about shutting down the company and other such things.
Plus, if a company does say they'll release the code under the GPL, then it means that if someone buys the product from the company, and the company goes under next month, then the person will have purchased a product right before it became free! Yeah, I know - there's still the support issue.
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Wow, what an egregious spelling error. I can understand "alot", but "allot"?!?!? And you even misspelled "immaculate"!
Maybe you should spend less time compiling kernels and more time in school?
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I don't know for sure, but from a conversation I had with someone working in this area, SSL is an RSA patent. The algorithms you use to create an SSL transaction can only be implemented by using a patented RSA algorithm. In fact, you can consider SSL to be an implementation of the RSA patent. There's no way around it.
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The deal is for Dell to buy IBM products. So IBM gets $16B of Dell's money.
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