> These old Sun's are easy to find, and tend to have very nice monitors on them.
Yes, but they tend to have really really poor video cards. We have a SS20 here, with a very good monitor on it, but the video card can only take 8bpp... it would be a pity to waste the 19" GDM1962B on such a card:-)
I have a 19" SUN/Sony 1962B (it was made by Sony and sold by Sun). It didn't work yet.
Fixed sync isn't a problem, all you have to do is find a good modeline (and for text mode, use fb or svgatextmode). But, most of these monitors are nastier - composite sync or sync-on-green. Then you'll have to find a video board that supports these sync modes, or build an adaptor. These are the links I found:
One of these pages claims that the MACH64 can work with my monitor, but I have a VLB one and it doesn't (the modelines given in the page give me "illegal mode according to MACH BIOS" or something). I'll try to exchange it for a PCI. Otherwise, if anyone can send me more modes I'll be very grateful:-)
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What exactly are they selling? A ROM chip with this stuff? Where can we buy it? How much does/will it cost? The press release doesn't make it any more clear.
(On a side note, if the product is a ROM chip this would explain why they claim the ROM image is "for evaluation only" - because of course you can't load a ROM image into your Palm, duh)
Is there some address where we can actually send this stuff? If not, perhaps we could start some "blue ribbon"-like campaing, sticking buttons in our webpages linking to some form of this letter?
Yes, that's how we have been doing freezes since the paleozoic. The problem now is that there is too much stuff in Incoming. Check it out if you wish, some sites mirror Incoming.
The freeze isn't officially announced. It isn't officially decided. It probably won't happen, because one of the people who think it's too early is our Project Leader, Wichert Akkerman.
Basically the point is that some (me included) don't want to freeze without working boot-floppies (the installation program suite, for those not too deep into Debian) and with a lot of new packages stuck in Incoming.
(Yes, I am leaking information here. But my intention is to fix another lack, because a leak of correct information is IMHO better than a leak of misinformation.
It's an arbitrary value. You may use your MAC address or you may use something else.
Your MAC address isn't any more sensitive than your IP.
One of the main points of ipv6 is to give IPs for everyone, so why not? We will already have to rethink a lot of our "privacy" systems. We do a lot of what Perens calls "security trough obscurity"; relying on dynamic IP for "privacy" is in effect treating a bug as a feature.
> Presumably, Sun isn't going to make a lot of cash selling StarOffice, since they are giving it away. So, why not let others distribute? I really don't understand the reasoning behind that.
Short answer: they'll know exactly how many copies were downloaded, so when (if) this numbers exceeds the sales of MS-Office (TM) they can tell the press.
Come on. We're not that stupid:-) The people who would do the port actually run palms, and of course we know it would only make sense with some kind of GUI.
In other words, you'd probably be using "HandGNOME". (And that's not "PalmGNOME" because "Palm" is a registered trademark and all that.)
> Why must you insist on departing from an established OS (PalmOS) designed specifically for this device, with over a thousand applications written for it?
Because Linux is an stablished OS, with over many thousands of applications, and those applications are free. Don't you get tired of shareware? Of "nag screens", and paying 20 dollars for silly apps? If I don't live in US (and I don't) I will have to pay some extra bucks just because it's an international transation.
Sorry, I don't like non-free software. I don't think it's right to be unable to share, modify, etc, etc.
Still, if you want to do a specific task, it's a lot more likely that there is a linux app to do that (free) than a PalmOS (TM) app - and if there is one, it will likely be shareware (ugh).
Turbo Vision has been available for some time (there are even 2 or 3 ports to GNU/Linux/curses), but without a license statement (so I can't package one of them for Debian). Perhaps they can care to fix this now? I love TV (and I loved Turbo/Borland Pascal).
Perhaps spread the habit of making the word `hacker' a link to a correct definition. Here on/. it may link to everything, and elsewhere to any definition - an article on the same site, or everything, or the jargon file.
Do you really know what you're talking about? Corel said they wanted a desktop and would use KDE as long as it was the only option. It's not anymore, and they haven't made a release yet, so I bet they will take the options, study them side by side (on a lot of factors, not only UI) and pick the best. And I seriously doubt it will be KDE.
Conventional wisdom suggests you carefully guard your source code
Why do people always tend to lose sight of what is "conventional"? "Guarding" source is a recent trend, started in the late 70s; computers are here because before that it was "conventional" to share. Copyrights are here since the Renaissance when the press was invented; arts are only here because, before that, it was "conventional" to share. And I fail to see any "wisdom" in not sharing... is there? Why are people's heads so fscked up? Yes, I'm starting to believe in the results of the IQ poll. Perhaps we are here because we think, we are able to see what for us seems obvious but for "them" seems to be a wonder. Go figure.
The OS can probably find a way to not send the ID number right? Actually I can't see a way to keep the OS from doing that. The processor doesn't know which piece of data is a network packet. So, since we have the sources to our OS, what is that we're so worried about?
Basically, the M$ guy is saying that they don't care about it. Won't harm them, as (they think) the grip on OEMs won't loosen - OEMs don't want it to loose, they grew dependent on M$ - and it is indeed very good for M$.
No, I'm not crazy. The idea is that the bigger this "refund day" gets, the more Bill can show to the courts that he doesn't have a monopoly. He is smart, everytime we try to outsmart him we get hurt or he gets richer or both.
Next release, of course. In Debian there have been jokes about freezing 2.2 as soon as 2.1 is released, or even before that, because when we get to release 2.1 there'll be kernels 2.2 and GNOME 1.0 around so Debian will be released outdated...:-)
Paraphrasing someone's sig, life is tough, and then you day. And 95 years after that, people will still be making money on you. Oh boy, as a writer this disturbs me a lot. I will have to start shipping my works with a license.
Are you drunk or what? Ok, history/geography lesson. The Guyannas are a region of the Amazon basin that was colonized by France, England and Holland, right to the north of Brazil. Before independence, they were known as "French Guyanna", "English Guyanna" and... whatever you call things from Holland in English:-)
The English Guyanna, when independence was declared, took the name "Guyanna". The Hollandese one took "Suriname" (yeah sure). And the French one, of course, is French Guyanna.
They're in the order you see in the previous sentence, from west to east.
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Oh, actually I do have an update. They later added a lot of other games to the list, including Quake. Nice thing to do on the week before Xmas.
I'm Brazilian. I even live in São Paulo. I submitted this the day it happened. I was rejected. Now that it's old news, it gets posted.
I used to trust /. to inform me. Guess it's time to get on with my plan of a news site, now that I have the server.
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No, no comments on the story. I even have some, but I'm too disappointed to remember them.
You're in a maze of twisted little Flash pages, all unreadable.
Yes, but they tend to have really really poor video cards. We have a SS20 here, with a very good monitor on it, but the video card can only take 8bpp... it would be a pity to waste the 19" GDM1962B on such a card :-)
Fixed sync isn't a problem, all you have to do is find a good modeline (and for text mode, use fb or svgatextmode). But, most of these monitors are nastier - composite sync or sync-on-green. Then you'll have to find a video board that supports these sync modes, or build an adaptor. These are the links I found:
One of these pages claims that the MACH64 can work with my monitor, but I have a VLB one and it doesn't (the modelines given in the page give me "illegal mode according to MACH BIOS" or something). I'll try to exchange it for a PCI. Otherwise, if anyone can send me more modes I'll be very grateful :-)
(On a side note, if the product is a ROM chip this would explain why they claim the ROM image is "for evaluation only" - because of course you can't load a ROM image into your Palm, duh)
Is there some address where we can actually send this stuff? If not, perhaps we could start some "blue ribbon"-like campaing, sticking buttons in our webpages linking to some form of this letter?
Yes, that's how we have been doing freezes since the paleozoic. The problem now is that there is too much stuff in Incoming. Check it out if you wish, some sites mirror Incoming.
Basically the point is that some (me included) don't want to freeze without working boot-floppies (the installation program suite, for those not too deep into Debian) and with a lot of new packages stuck in Incoming.
(Yes, I am leaking information here. But my intention is to fix another lack, because a leak of correct information is IMHO better than a leak of misinformation.
Put Shatner and/or Nimoy in charge. If possible, Shatner and Nimoy.
I can see three possible outcomes to this course of action:
- They save the "feel" of the Trek universe and get it back to glory.
- They do a mediane job but people like it anyway because after all it's Shatner and Nimoy.
- They do a very lousy job, which will probably make a lot of downright fans realize they're human and maybe even "get a life".
LaloWho is a Trekkie, not a Trekker, by all means
Short answer: they'll know exactly how many copies were downloaded, so when (if) this numbers exceeds the sales of MS-Office (TM) they can tell the press.
Come on. We're not that stupid :-) The people who would do the port actually run palms, and of course we know it would only make sense with some kind of GUI.
In other words, you'd probably be using "HandGNOME". (And that's not "PalmGNOME" because "Palm" is a registered trademark and all that.)
> Why must you insist on departing from an established OS (PalmOS) designed specifically for this device, with over a thousand applications written for it?
Because Linux is an stablished OS, with over many thousands of applications, and those applications are free. Don't you get tired of shareware? Of "nag screens", and paying 20 dollars for silly apps? If I don't live in US (and I don't) I will have to pay some extra bucks just because it's an international transation.
Sorry, I don't like non-free software. I don't think it's right to be unable to share, modify, etc, etc.
Still, if you want to do a specific task, it's a lot more likely that there is a linux app to do that (free) than a PalmOS (TM) app - and if there is one, it will likely be shareware (ugh).
Seems to be a pretty good piece of hardware, dragonball-powered. Can it talk to a linux box?
Turbo Vision has been available for some time (there are even 2 or 3 ports to GNU/Linux/curses), but without a license statement (so I can't package one of them for Debian). Perhaps they can care to fix this now? I love TV (and I loved Turbo/Borland Pascal).
Perhaps spread the habit of making the word `hacker' a link to a correct definition. Here on /. it may link to everything, and elsewhere to any definition - an article on the same site, or everything, or the jargon file.
Do you really know what you're talking about? Corel said they wanted a desktop and would use KDE as long as it was the only option. It's not anymore, and they haven't made a release yet, so I bet they will take the options, study them side by side (on a lot of factors, not only UI) and pick the best. And I seriously doubt it will be KDE.
Why do people always tend to lose sight of what is "conventional"? "Guarding" source is a recent trend, started in the late 70s; computers are here because before that it was "conventional" to share. Copyrights are here since the Renaissance when the press was invented; arts are only here because, before that, it was "conventional" to share. And I fail to see any "wisdom" in not sharing... is there? Why are people's heads so fscked up? Yes, I'm starting to believe in the results of the IQ poll. Perhaps we are here because we think, we are able to see what for us seems obvious but for "them" seems to be a wonder. Go figure.
The OS can probably find a way to not send the ID number right? Actually I can't see a way to keep the OS from doing that. The processor doesn't know which piece of data is a network packet. So, since we have the sources to our OS, what is that we're so worried about?
No, I'm not crazy. The idea is that the bigger this "refund day" gets, the more Bill can show to the courts that he doesn't have a monopoly. He is smart, everytime we try to outsmart him we get hurt or he gets richer or both.
Next release, of course. In Debian there have been jokes about freezing 2.2 as soon as 2.1 is released, or even before that, because when we get to release 2.1 there'll be kernels 2.2 and GNOME 1.0 around so Debian will be released outdated... :-)
Select 3, or 5. One would be insufficient to really shift the paradigm. Otherwise, agreed, I'm up to help with whatever comes out of this.
Paraphrasing someone's sig, life is tough, and then you day. And 95 years after that, people will still be making money on you. Oh boy, as a writer this disturbs me a lot. I will have to start shipping my works with a license.
The English Guyanna, when independence was declared, took the name "Guyanna". The Hollandese one took "Suriname" (yeah sure). And the French one, of course, is French Guyanna.
They're in the order you see in the previous sentence, from west to east.
So shouldn't we be adding it to GIMP, Mozilla, Imlib and others? Can you provide a URL?