I think intels investment in Be is what pushed them to drop mac support. Just Maybe?
As for dropping PPCI see linux is working fine on all macintoshes including dual processor ones. Why can't be do that? I don't really care either way, but they'res no software available on Be to make someone buy a mac then put Beos on it.
Of course Be can't compete on the desktop with MS because they don't have enough driver writers to write drivers because intel hardware is very varried and they're lots and lots of different stuff out there.
I tried Beos on an old mac (about 2 years ago,it came with a magazine. ) It worked but I wasn't very impressed (underwhelmed).
I think computers make people use more power and more paper..
In my experience most people leave there computers running at work 24x7 (not my power...). A few have too. I found old unix users just shut off there monitors..Microsoft could automatically shut off monitors on the NT login screen and set the machine to "sleep" but they don't. That would help a lot.
Also people tend to print a ton of stuff,more than they need to. I hate reading on the screen as much as the next person but seeing one of my old bosses printing out email to read it made me think a little (If he just printed out really important stuff to file maybe...). I've seem students print out books at school (prompting a limit to printing..) Also faxes (look 2 copies) also out weigh the effect of email (which doesn't really save that much paper...)
And for crying out loud print 2-up.
little effort seems to have been made to reduce this paper use. I've been at a company that litterally had paperless time reporting and paperless pcwares buying stuff. It worked really well. (If your boss was out, it would automatically forward to the next person to
sign digitally..)
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SQL is a standart language used to get information from ANY kind of database that supports it.
It allows you to get information from any database using a standart language. (Although many vendors like to tag on "Special" commands that make life easy if your using THEIR database product...)
Don't be confused by Microsofts "SQL Server" product which is basically Sybase's database with MS additions. Although even it can use SQL.
Now if only Oracle would release and ODBC driver for linux......
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My engineering undergraduate career was made easier once I learned RPN and stopped making calculation errors.
My HP 42 and 32s calculators are also tough enough to last me into my career and many on site construction jobs (civil engineering stuff.)
Also HP mass spectrometers are great all well, although not sutable for consumer use.
I'm an civil engineer (actually Engineer In Training with a (EIT) licence) turned programmers. The worst civil engineering plans and designes are vigorously reviewed by PE (licences Proffesional Engineers.
They won't build it unless a PE stamps the design with his stamp
Software design and testing is a lot less mature..
well actually I've gotten about 3 pieces of junk mail from the site since I registered at Register.com about 1 year ago.
I know its from that source because my name is spelled strangly and they send it to me at the semi-fictious enity that is the "company" my web site is registered to.
Only AOL and palm are the only two companies that have managed to beat back MS so far...
But notice that it doesn't stop MS from trying (new CE devices and a big MSN push recently).
MS is very very persistant and has a big war chest and doesn't seem hesitant ot use it to buy what it can't make it self...
Look for MS-LINUX soon. Heck they might buy a distro if they can't compile there own.
Shorten files.
Lots of Phish/DMB files are in this format (some tapers don't like mp3 qualitiy)
Files are Lossless and can play in some programs without uncompressing. Files are very very big though compared to mp3, it seems like a bzip sort of compression
Like another poster. I have a starmax 4000/160 with 96 meg ram. Its dual boot, linux ppc 2000/ macos.
Well actuall it boots up and the bootX boot managers allows you to pick an os in about 10 seconds. They're a way to set it up so it only uses linuxppc but I'm not familiar with that. I like boot X because they have a drop down menu to change the kernel when things get a little weird (I've had to "backtrack" only on the powermac 7200 that is my server..)
The mac os side has 2 partitions and I think the linux side has 3. One trick is that you can mount mac HFS (not HFS + aka HFS EXTENDED) volumes on the linuxppc side so you can share files easily that way. Unix style Permissions don't work though.
All and all it was pretty easy to sey up and use. I'm using the adb ports for mice and keyboard so I'm not sure if it uses the starmax's ps2 ports. I have and eithernet card that works (macsense?) in both macos and linuxppc.
The list only goes back to the apple//e era. Its forgetting some arcade clasics.
I loved ultima III . I think it is one of the most engrossing games ever. I date myself by saying I played and played till I won. Doom was also great (also a great time waster....)
Although i fail to see how Quake and Half-Life are listed. They're almost the same as doom with fancier graphics.
I guess the list depends on what games you were exposed to when younger.
Wouldn't a bus mastering problem effect scsi/firewire cards or any device using a lot of io across the pci bus?? Or are these devices not using bus mastering (shouldn't they be...)
The games were fun. The zork maze was evil though, I took me a while to figure out why Going east then west wouldn't put you in the same spot.
I actually liked planetfall better though and managed to finish that game although barely.
I used to like some of the comments it made.
The planetfall help was really funny too. I read the whole thing. One topic was "Don't read unless you've flown the helicopter" when there was no way to get the helicopter started.
One thing that was frustrating about those games was the descriptions of places sometimes seemed too terse.
I actually don't own a console (well I have and intellivision but that doesn't count..) and can see your point about computers being more flexible..
but a console is NOT a computer so comparing them is silly. Computer games are different than console games as well (although a few are the same..)
I have connectix virtual playstation which makes my 1500$ computer I run like a 100$ playstation. If you have already have a computer it makes sense, but my 19" monitor aren't nearly as big as my tv and the sound isn't as nearly as good. Parents might like to use there computers when the kids play games..Also the DVD on the computer is a pain to hook up to the TV if the machines are in different rooms.
Also consoles work period, no new drivers, updating firmware, maintenance.
Sort of - I was running sco-vision X term client.
(It was an oracle install issue, where you must have a window managed to run their java program, its a long story.....)
I figured why not try something different. I typed KDE and all these icons apeared on top of my existing windows desktop.. It was quite a mess and not easy to stop..
People change there "NT" shell at work to take usix commands (ls, grep etc....) so why not the desk top?
Electricity is not as monoplized as it once was. That is why this whole thing is so curious...
NY has some power "alternitives" and they cost about the same (little cheaper). California has the most open power market and the prices are going up fast.
"The phased-in deregulation of California's $20 billion electrical power industry was supposed to lower prices by creating greater competition. But demand for electricity has outstripped supply because of a growing population, a booming high-tech economy, and less power available from neighboring states that haven't deregulated. "
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I think intels investment in Be is what pushed them to drop mac support. Just Maybe?
,it came with a magazine. ) It worked but I wasn't very impressed (underwhelmed).
As for dropping PPCI see linux is working fine on all macintoshes including dual processor ones. Why can't be do that? I don't really care either way, but they'res no software available on Be to make someone buy a mac then put Beos on it.
Of course Be can't compete on the desktop with MS because they don't have enough driver writers to write drivers because intel hardware is very varried and they're lots and lots of different stuff out there.
I tried Beos on an old mac (about 2 years ago
Choice is good though, so I wish Be well.
I find I have to turn of the "intelipoint" setting in the control panel for specific applications to get my MS moose to work with games..
By putting the monitor in "energy save" mode at the NT/2000 logon screen, and defaulting the screensaver to shut monitor off..
This would at least stop the monitors from sucking juice if users are too lazy to shut down the machines.
Even better would be to default the cpu to "sleep" after 3 hours of non use.
Of course knowing the average microsoft users this may be a tech support headache but its for the greater good..
Good point
I think computers make people use more power and more paper..
In my experience most people leave there computers running at work 24x7 (not my power...). A few have too. I found old unix users just shut off there monitors..Microsoft could automatically shut off monitors on the NT login screen and set the machine to "sleep" but they don't. That would help a lot.
Also people tend to print a ton of stuff
And for crying out loud print 2-up.
little effort seems to have been made to reduce this paper use. I've been at a company that litterally had paperless time reporting and paperless pcwares buying stuff. It worked really well. (If your boss was out, it would automatically forward to the next person to
sign digitally..)
SQL is a standart language used to get information from ANY kind of database that supports it.
It allows you to get information from any database using a standart language. (Although many vendors like to tag on "Special" commands that make life easy if your using THEIR database product...)
Don't be confused by Microsofts "SQL Server" product which is basically Sybase's database with MS additions. Although even it can use SQL.
Now if only Oracle would release and ODBC driver for linux......
My engineering undergraduate career was made easier once I learned RPN and stopped making calculation errors.
My HP 42 and 32s calculators are also tough enough to last me into my career and many on site construction jobs (civil engineering stuff.)
Also HP mass spectrometers are great all well, although not sutable for consumer use.
I'm an civil engineer (actually Engineer In Training with a (EIT) licence) turned programmers. The worst civil engineering plans and designes are vigorously reviewed by PE (licences Proffesional Engineers.
They won't build it unless a PE stamps the design with his stamp
Software design and testing is a lot less mature..
well actually I've gotten about 3 pieces of junk mail from the site since I registered at Register.com about 1 year ago.
I know its from that source because my name is spelled strangly and they send it to me at the semi-fictious enity that is the "company" my web site is registered to.
Only AOL and palm are the only two companies that have managed to beat back MS so far...
But notice that it doesn't stop MS from trying (new CE devices and a big MSN push recently).
MS is very very persistant and has a big war chest and doesn't seem hesitant ot use it to buy what it can't make it self...
Look for MS-LINUX soon. Heck they might buy a distro if they can't compile there own.
Shorten files.
Lots of Phish/DMB files are in this format (some tapers don't like mp3 qualitiy)
Files are Lossless and can play in some programs without uncompressing. Files are very very big though compared to mp3, it seems like a bzip sort of compression
I wonder how long till geoforce imacs...
because OS X will come bundled with new machines unless there is a very compelling reason to switch peolple won't.
Old machines (powerppc 603e/604s etc...) will not run os X so must run linuxPPC. I run linux PPC on an old machine to get java and emacs.
So I predict the market of linuxPPC shrinks, as new machines come out unless ppc motherboards come out and are cheap (please soon!).
microsoft is getting into hardware...(Actually I like there mice...)
So MS is becoming Apple
hmm. I wonder if sony would consider selling computers with linux instead of paying MS for each machine they sell...
This story seems to indicate that back in March the creators knew they were headed into patented waters....
Also I can't find anything that indicates that the posted story is true.
If it is true..Then its ironic because Apple just finished defending itself from a frivolous 2 billion dollar patent suit over color sync..
Like another poster. I have a starmax 4000/160 with 96 meg ram. Its dual boot, linux ppc 2000/ macos.
Well actuall it boots up and the bootX boot managers allows you to pick an os in about 10 seconds. They're a way to set it up so it only uses linuxppc but I'm not familiar with that. I like boot X because they have a drop down menu to change the kernel when things get a little weird (I've had to "backtrack" only on the powermac 7200 that is my server..)
The mac os side has 2 partitions and I think the linux side has 3. One trick is that you can mount mac HFS (not HFS + aka HFS EXTENDED) volumes on the linuxppc side so you can share files easily that way. Unix style Permissions don't work though.
All and all it was pretty easy to sey up and use. I'm using the adb ports for mice and keyboard so I'm not sure if it uses the starmax's ps2 ports. I have and eithernet card that works (macsense?) in both macos and linuxppc.
It works well.
The list only goes back to the apple //e era. Its forgetting some arcade clasics.
I loved ultima III . I think it is one of the most engrossing games ever. I date myself by saying I played and played till I won. Doom was also great (also a great time waster....)
Although i fail to see how Quake and Half-Life are listed. They're almost the same as doom with fancier graphics.
I guess the list depends on what games you were exposed to when younger.
I have some older macs (pre g3) and linux ppc is the only way to get java 2 to run on them.
Mac java 2 support really sucks (no threads?) untill os X comes and fixes thatn.. I can run it java 2 slowly on a older mac that is fine with me.
My server runs linuxppc on a slow dsl line.
Wouldn't a bus mastering problem effect scsi /firewire cards or any device using a lot of io across the pci bus?? Or are these devices not using bus mastering (shouldn't they be...)
I had zork for the apple //e.
The games were fun. The zork maze was evil though, I took me a while to figure out why Going east then west wouldn't put you in the same spot.
I actually liked planetfall better though and managed to finish that game although barely.
I used to like some of the comments it made.
The planetfall help was really funny too. I read the whole thing. One topic was "Don't read unless you've flown the helicopter" when there was no way to get the helicopter started.
One thing that was frustrating about those games was the descriptions of places sometimes seemed too terse.
>Verbose
maximum verbosity
>Jump
weeeeeeee!
Nintendo will use ATI on there next game console.
own a US patent. I thought they were a British Firm??
I thought we threw the british government out of here in 1776. Ironically the british don't have a software patent problem.
I actually don't own a console (well I have and intellivision but that doesn't count..) and can see your point about computers being more flexible..
but a console is NOT a computer so comparing them is silly. Computer games are different than console games as well (although a few are the same..)
I have connectix virtual playstation which makes my 1500$ computer I run like a 100$ playstation. If you have already have a computer it makes sense, but my 19" monitor aren't nearly as big as my tv and the sound isn't as nearly as good. Parents might like to use there computers when the kids play games..Also the DVD on the computer is a pain to hook up to the TV if the machines are in different rooms.
Also consoles work period, no new drivers, updating firmware, maintenance.
Sort of - I was running sco-vision X term client.
(It was an oracle install issue, where you must have a window managed to run their java program, its a long story.....)
I figured why not try something different. I typed KDE and all these icons apeared on top of my existing windows desktop.. It was quite a mess and not easy to stop..
People change there "NT" shell at work to take usix commands (ls, grep etc....) so why not the desk top?
heating there buildings by giving employees those ultra power efficient pentium 4 space heaters.... I mean computers..
Electricity is not as monoplized as it once was. That is why this whole thing is so curious...
NY has some power "alternitives" and they cost about the same (little cheaper). California has the most open power market and the prices are going up fast.
"The phased-in deregulation of California's $20 billion electrical power industry was supposed to lower prices by creating greater competition. But demand for electricity has outstripped supply because of a growing population, a booming high-tech economy, and less power available from neighboring states that haven't deregulated. "