Everything Unix - it's new, but it looks like it could be a real winner. It's from the same bloke who does the "Everything Solaris/Linux/Mac" sites - Michael Holve.
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Now up to 110, and still the thread gets modded down. Amazing. I've been reading Slashdot for a while, and always thought the stuff about editors abusing the system was folklore. Anyone mirroring this thread just in case it goes (ahem) missing when it's archived ?
Because the most common operating system for the x86 platform is not Unix. It's Windows. And Windows still has one of, if not _the_ largest market shares of any OS.
If Microsoft suddenly announced that they were dropping support for x86, and porting WindowsXP and all future releases of Windows over to PowerPC, or SPARC, that _would_ be a death knell.
Indeed. And it's not just on PowerPC that this problem arises - I'm running Mandrake 8.0 on my x86 box. Something Mandrake's done has completely shafted XFree86. If you want to use the DRI, you have to run under a 16-bit graphics depth.
Fine, not a problem, except in this depth changing resolution causes X to die and restart. Try it - I've heard reports from people running all different kinds of GFX card. I first noticed this when I tried to run tuxracer and it tried to go full-screen and change mode - boom. So for now, if you're running Mandrake 8.0, you either have 24-bit graphics and no DRI but you can change resolution, or you get 16-bit window-mode only 3D. And you can't even do ctrl-alt-+ or -. Even some screensavers that run in different modes to what you're using cause X to die!
Let's just hope that they fix this monumental screw-up in the PowerPC port - if anyone knows a fix or workaround for this on x86 I'd be very grateful.
This reminds me so much of what my old school used to be like. Before they changed "IT" lessons to "Using Microsoft word" lessons, we had a few assignments. One of which I did started sporting Monty-Python-style animations, menus being pushed on the screen by giant feet etc. No real reason for, it ( apart from the fact that I was bored ) , but I felt really proud of my efforts. I wanted to learn, and it was interesting doing stuff on the old Acorn Archimedes (still a great OS).
And now it's just "Office skills" type lessons they teach there-which,while important, just don't inspire the same kind of creativity.... Oh well, I've still got my Uni dissertation to do, so I think a few exploding heads should liven it up....
The one that I remember most, and got me to where I am today was my old IT/Computing teacher, George Dryden. After doing my GCSEs, I wanted to go on and do A-Level computing ( before it turned into 'how-to-use-a-word-processor'). Problem was my school didn't do Computing at A-level, so I took technology which seemed the closest thing at the time. Well, 1 year later I decided that it sucked and I'd had enough. I decided that I would try and do the A-level computing course on my own, and the only teacher who encouraged me was Mr.Dryden. He arranged, out of his own time, for all the paper work to be filled in, he arranged for me to sit the exam, he marked my coursework, got the syllabus guides and a whole host of other 'admin' stuff. None of which he had to do in his job - he just did it because he was a nice guy.
The end result was that I passed A-level computing with an 'A' grade, and got 96% for my project, got accepted into University, and am now finishing my final year before I go out into a job with a big London company. None of which I could have done without his help. An all-round top bloke, as well.
If only there were more teachers like that around....
Slashdot Mirror
They're called websites, the crayons are 'leet scripts, and the kids are.... well, they're still kids.
Try here.
:- Download it.
;)
And when you want to give it a go
BONE networking stack, themable GUI, new font controls, hardware OpenGL..... Yum. But you didn't hear ir from me
Well, that's this page fucked with NetNanny then.
Ok. Tell me about Loom(TM)! Are you by any chance referring to the classic LucasArts game?
http://everythingunix.org
-Mark
Everything Unix - it's new, but it looks like it could be a real winner. It's from the same bloke who does the "Everything Solaris/Linux/Mac" sites - Michael Holve.
-Mark
Actually, it's a Frank Zappa tune.
But yes, the "G3" did do it justice.
It's made it to the front page of Kuro5hin.org - check it out here.
Under "Freedom & Politics" no less. It'll be interesting to see if we get a response from the editors now...
-Mark
I've been grabbing updates of it - I'll update my local copy once a day. If it ever disappears, I'll start crap-flooding with the URL.
-Mark
No, I'M Spartacus!
Now up to 110, and still the thread gets modded down. Amazing. I've been reading Slashdot for a while, and always thought the stuff about editors abusing the system was folklore. Anyone mirroring this thread just in case it goes (ahem) missing when it's archived ?
Because the most common operating system for the x86 platform is not Unix. It's Windows. And Windows still has one of, if not _the_ largest market shares of any OS.
If Microsoft suddenly announced that they were dropping support for x86, and porting WindowsXP and all future releases of Windows over to PowerPC, or SPARC, that _would_ be a death knell.
Fine, not a problem, except in this depth changing resolution causes X to die and restart. Try it - I've heard reports from people running all different kinds of GFX card. I first noticed this when I tried to run tuxracer and it tried to go full-screen and change mode - boom. So for now, if you're running Mandrake 8.0, you either have 24-bit graphics and no DRI but you can change resolution, or you get 16-bit window-mode only 3D. And you can't even do ctrl-alt-+ or -. Even some screensavers that run in different modes to what you're using cause X to die!
Let's just hope that they fix this monumental screw-up in the PowerPC port - if anyone knows a fix or workaround for this on x86 I'd be very grateful.
And now it's just "Office skills" type lessons they teach there-which ,while important, just don't inspire the same kind of creativity.... Oh well, I've still got my Uni dissertation to do, so I think a few exploding heads should liven it up....
"Truth is only what we need it to be"
The one that I remember most, and got me to where I am today was my old IT/Computing teacher, George Dryden. After doing my GCSEs, I wanted to go on and do A-Level computing ( before it turned into 'how-to-use-a-word-processor'). Problem was my school didn't do Computing at A-level, so I took technology which seemed the closest thing at the time. Well, 1 year later I decided that it sucked and I'd had enough. I decided that I would try and do the A-level computing course on my own, and the only teacher who encouraged me was Mr.Dryden. He arranged, out of his own time, for all the paper work to be filled in, he arranged for me to sit the exam, he marked my coursework, got the syllabus guides and a whole host of other 'admin' stuff. None of which he had to do in his job - he just did it because he was a nice guy. The end result was that I passed A-level computing with an 'A' grade, and got 96% for my project, got accepted into University, and am now finishing my final year before I go out into a job with a big London company. None of which I could have done without his help. An all-round top bloke, as well. If only there were more teachers like that around....