We had these in supermarkets about 7 or 8 years ago, you scanned each item as you put it in your shopping cart. You could see what you had bought and you could keep track of your total bill. This could easily be brought up to date using RFID etc.
At the end of the shopping trip you re-docked your scanner in a bank, which printed out a ticket wich you paid for.
They were pulled after about 3 years of use, I don't know why, my guess is when people keep track of their shopping bill they buy less per trip - I know I did.
ISO can tie a standard down in a tangled mess of beaurocracy ; while this might bring credibility it also runs the risk of preventing OOo evolving its formats as fast as it would like to.
This wouldn't happen. There isn't anything to stop the OOo developers from starting an OOo v2 document format with new features, but still retain the OOo ISO options within OOo.
The OOo v2 document format could then go on to form the a new updated ISO format, and the OOo developers could then add the new features to the OOo v3 format... repeat until nausea.
We have a small network of cameras in most towns and on nearly all motoways already in the UK.
I live in a sea side holiday resort and I believe the cameras are very effective in the town where I live in locating areas where large drunken crowds are gathering at pub and club closing time. Police are despatched accordingly thus reducing drink related crimes.
The motoway system looks out for crashes and congestion, again despatching police accordingly and altering large display system with speed restrictions.
I personally think cameras are good, but then again I don't have any reason to worry about people watching me as I walk down the street or drive on the motoway...
ucLinux is in the process of being ported to the Gameboy Advance, as can be seen here.. It seems like its getting to be quite usable, if your pretty good with a directional contral pad and 4 buttons...
I could imagine that the serial port could be used for some sort of network input like this guy did here.
This has got to be a troll, but some points are just plain stupid..
"have a root password since it was a single user machine" - This is totally normal, every version of Windows since NT has had this. Your probably confused because most peoples home Windows machine logs in with the administrator account. Most linux distro's can log straight into your user account from boot now too, IIRC RedHat 8 allowed this.
"X Windows loaded up and I was in Linux" - This statement just proves you know nothing about Linux or UNIX in general.
"CD ROM icon...where was it? Apparently I had to mount it manually" - IIRC RedHat 8 came by default with amd running, so I am starting to think you never actually intalled RedHat 8.
"it wants the stupid root password again" - BTW you better get used to this, Windows 2003 and above tries to enforce good administrator procedures by getting users to log into their own account, then "Run as..." administrator.
I am amazed that someone who has "studied the Linux kernel in depth" actually gave up on installing a distro because the automatic detection of the sound card didn't work.
"even though its autoupdate some how corrupted my kernel and I had to overwrite it" - Didn't your studying help solve this problem?
"I'm an excellent software engineer" - oh boy... I need to laugh... someone carry on for me please!!
The article and talks a great deal about discovering the origins of matter. I am not a physicists so I really don't know the answer to why this takes precedence over other scientific problems, for example discovering a cure to cancer or AIDS?
3 billion is a lot of money, and I am sure there are AIDS or cancer researchers who badly need it, and I can actually see a benefit to humanity in those cases.
I am not against spending 3 billion on science just for the sake of improving humanity, in many cases we have discovered some wonderful things, but I was just wondering, are we going to say "Ah, that's how it works!" and then shut the machine down because there isn't a practical use for knowing the origins of matter or are there projects to actually make use of the results in the pipeline?
I used to think exactly the same as you do until I heard a great explanation for it on BBC Radio 5.
Our elected government decided that there were a few things that our society needs. These things include, schools, hospitals, roads, police, libraries, schools. Television and radio is on that list too, it educates and informs the nation.
Put it this way, you may never use the hospital, take a book out of library or call the police service because your being robbed, but you can understand why you pay your National Insurance and TAX.
TV is the same, you pay a little so the nation, be it poor or rich can have good quality, advert free documentaries, news and entertainment.
Now I think 125 GBP a year is worth it, no matter if I use it personally or not.
I have paid for ten TV licenses in my life, and I have to admit that I am glad the the organisation that gets some of this money is developing something like this...
...although I have to admit, the BBC would have probably have been better off using my money to become the "offical" sponsors for an existing open source project such as Theora, rather than starting from scratch.
The link is the story is dead, I found the home page here, and the SourceForge site here.
You want a low cost, or free, system.
- In which case you use Linux and OpenOffice.org both of which are already proven products.
You want a UNIX based system as your using legacy UNIX products, but need Microsoft Office.
- In which case you use MacOS X and Microsoft Office.
You need Microsoft Office for office productivity and compatibility with other products.
- In which case is the $100 for a Microsoft Windows license really an issue?
I agree developing nations should find better and cheaper ways of doing things, but doing the same things a different way just for the sake of it doesn't seem justified to me!
NVIDIA never wrote the BeOS drivers anyway. They released some, although I beleive not all, specifications to Be, Inc. engineers who wrote the first driver, then some dedicated ex-Be engineers updated them using details from the XFree86 driver.
http://www.bebits.com/app/1622
There is a driver based off of the Matrox open source driver for in the OpenBeOS CVS that supports more cards. I haven't used this myself, but you might have more luck with your specific chipset.
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/be-hold/BeOS/NVdri ve r/
I loaded Gaim for the first time this morning, and I was unable to log into MSM using my hotmail.com account. I loaded Firebird so I could visit Gaim's website to see if this was a known problem, and my homepagetold me all I need to know.
This isn't a major problem, there are plenty of otherIM clients and networks, the problem is getting all my Windows and Mac using friends to move over to using them.
I am not bitter though, after all its their network, bandwidth and development time, but perhaps its time to renew my interest in Jabber and see exactly what it can do....
"A telecommunications company could put transponders on an airplane and fly it over a city," Bushman said. "The aircraft could be used for everything from relaying cell phone calls to cable television or Internet connections."
Now I will have an excuse for not calling the folks often enough - "Sorry ma, I tried to call but it was cloudy, and the telephone exchange fell out of the sky.". Seriously, how would these work during extreme weather conditions? I presume they must have some sort of fuel on-board as backup or would the laser simply cut through cloud vapor?
/me can see himself having fun with radio controlled planes and mirrors in the future....
I returned to the Mac world a few months ago buy buying a Beige G3/300/8Gb HD/128Mb RAM with a 20" monitor, keyboard and mouse from eBay.
I also managed to pick up a cheap USB/FireWire card, and a Radeon for Mac also from eBay. I put 256Mb RAM in that I had in an old PC.
The price of all this gear came at about 1/4 of the cost of an eMac/iMac -(Yes I know its also about 1/4 of the performance!).
I shot out and bought "Jaguar" after about 2 painfull weeks with OS 9.1.
I found the performance to be acceptable so long as you turned off all the fancy dock features and didn't expect *too* much from it (remember, your using hardware nearly half a decade old!).
It is slow, but its nowhere near unusable for things like email, word processing, web browsing, IRC, IM, and coding small applications. I used a Celeron 400 with 256Mb RAM with Linux and KDE3 for a while at my day job, and I would say it was nicer than that to use.
I would say - what you loose in speed by moving away from OS 9, is gained in stability with OS X.
In your case, I would try to pick up a faster G3 processor from eBay, put as much RAM in the machine as you can and see how you get on.
This is all depending on if you *need* to run OS X of course....
If thats true, and going off of previous games requirements I would imagine the specs for an OS X version would be very similar to the PC version.
I doubt very much if it will ever see the light of day on MacOS 9 though:)
SCO sues Gary Urton, Harvard University
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Incas Used Binary?
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· Score: 5, Funny
In other news, SCO is suing Harvard University for $1 Billion, for patent infringement.
A spokesperson for SCO said "One of the khipu contains binary representation of UNIX code, we can't tell you which khipu it is, but anyone who has read, heard or mentioned the Inca civilisation owes us money, and we will be seeking damages."
A spokesperson for the Inca civilisation was unable to comment due to being mummified.
COULD it make it illegal to "reverse engineer" the document format?
I can very easily see that if it could, microsoft could include a clause that explicitly prohibits GPL programs from interpreting the XML...
No way. What happens when I recieve a MS 11 XML Word document on my Linux system via email. I haven't accepted any sort of EULA, and I can start hacking out the DTD straight away - which I must point out, a complex XML document is close to worthless without.
They may prevent MS users from reverse engineering the documents on their MS OS's and I suppose they could even forbid users emailing their documents to other OS's (EULA's are great eh?) - but I doubt they will do this, it would cripple Microsoft Office.
I work for a large local council, and this policy won't make a difference to be quite honest....
Its not policies like these that hold Linux back from running the UK government's servers, its the staff. Very few governments actually hire staff to work on Linux, and the attitude towards Linux is like its some crack-ball OS. You have to remember that staff turn over in UK governments is very low, and many of the staff are not in IT because they love IT, they are there because its a stable job with half decent pay and couldn't care less about Linux or OSS.
If it wasn't for myself campaining to use Linux for our Internet servers they would have been replaced very recently with Microsoft ones that would no doubt have been left unsecure and unreliable. This was going to happen for no reason other than some badly written ASP code didn't work on Chili!Soft and Apache.
The government where I work as a IT team of about 60 people, we have 4 people who are UNIX System Administrators, I myself am the only person who is a dedicated Linux System Administrator, the rest are Microsoft based Administrators. Now imagine being the only voice saying "Use Linux, its free, stable and reliable" to the managers - believe me you don't get heard.
Another problem is the fact that many projects have no involvement from the UNIX team at all, so even if there is a better piece of OSS, they won't know about it, and the MS Administrators who are involved with the project won't look for it.
I know the benefits of OSS and can tell all the staff that we don't need another Windows/Solaris server until I am blue in the face, but when high-level managers demand to use a product they have heard of, this puts pressure on the IT managers to introduce that software. You don't get the average UK council worker snooping around Linux software I can tell you! 90% of the software they want to use runs under Windows.
A conference for governments that I recently went to that was teaching the benefits of OSS and Linux only had around 8 people on it, I am also sure that this is representative of the councils that are actually going to take notice of this policy.
These are just a few reasons why all in all - it won't make a difference, there are many more. It does really frustrate me knowing that a very large amount of my taxes gets spent on software that could be obtained for free, or next to nothing.
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There are a ton of comments in Haiku. Just take a look at their SVN.
We had these in supermarkets about 7 or 8 years ago, you scanned each item as you put it in your shopping cart. You could see what you had bought and you could keep track of your total bill. This could easily be brought up to date using RFID etc.
At the end of the shopping trip you re-docked your scanner in a bank, which printed out a ticket wich you paid for.
They were pulled after about 3 years of use, I don't know why, my guess is when people keep track of their shopping bill they buy less per trip - I know I did.
I don't get it. I visited Asterisk and I don't see any screenshots of the program running.
I thought all open source programs posted screenshots on their site, thats how people tell how good the software is!
(Yes... I am joking....)
This wouldn't happen. There isn't anything to stop the OOo developers from starting an OOo v2 document format with new features, but still retain the OOo ISO options within OOo.
The OOo v2 document format could then go on to form the a new updated ISO format, and the OOo developers could then add the new features to the OOo v3 format... repeat until nausea.
We have a small network of cameras in most towns and on nearly all motoways already in the UK.
I live in a sea side holiday resort and I believe the cameras are very effective in the town where I live in locating areas where large drunken crowds are gathering at pub and club closing time. Police are despatched accordingly thus reducing drink related crimes.
The motoway system looks out for crashes and congestion, again despatching police accordingly and altering large display system with speed restrictions.
I personally think cameras are good, but then again I don't have any reason to worry about people watching me as I walk down the street or drive on the motoway...
ucLinux is in the process of being ported to the Gameboy Advance, as can be seen here.. It seems like its getting to be quite usable, if your pretty good with a directional contral pad and 4 buttons...
I could imagine that the serial port could be used for some sort of network input like this guy did here.
This has got to be a troll, but some points are just plain stupid..
/me wipes a tear from his eye...
"have a root password since it was a single user machine" - This is totally normal, every version of Windows since NT has had this. Your probably confused because most peoples home Windows machine logs in with the administrator account. Most linux distro's can log straight into your user account from boot now too, IIRC RedHat 8 allowed this.
"X Windows loaded up and I was in Linux" - This statement just proves you know nothing about Linux or UNIX in general.
"CD ROM icon...where was it? Apparently I had to mount it manually" - IIRC RedHat 8 came by default with amd running, so I am starting to think you never actually intalled RedHat 8.
"it wants the stupid root password again" - BTW you better get used to this, Windows 2003 and above tries to enforce good administrator procedures by getting users to log into their own account, then "Run as..." administrator.
I am amazed that someone who has "studied the Linux kernel in depth" actually gave up on installing a distro because the automatic detection of the sound card didn't work.
"even though its autoupdate some how corrupted my kernel and I had to overwrite it" - Didn't your studying help solve this problem?
"I'm an excellent software engineer" - oh boy... I need to laugh... someone carry on for me please!!
Ahem...
The article and talks a great deal about discovering the origins of matter. I am not a physicists so I really don't know the answer to why this takes precedence over other scientific problems, for example discovering a cure to cancer or AIDS?
3 billion is a lot of money, and I am sure there are AIDS or cancer researchers who badly need it, and I can actually see a benefit to humanity in those cases.
I am not against spending 3 billion on science just for the sake of improving humanity, in many cases we have discovered some wonderful things, but I was just wondering, are we going to say "Ah, that's how it works!" and then shut the machine down because there isn't a practical use for knowing the origins of matter or are there projects to actually make use of the results in the pipeline?
I used to think exactly the same as you do until I heard a great explanation for it on BBC Radio 5.
Our elected government decided that there were a few things that our society needs. These things include, schools, hospitals, roads, police, libraries, schools. Television and radio is on that list too, it educates and informs the nation.
Put it this way, you may never use the hospital, take a book out of library or call the police service because your being robbed, but you can understand why you pay your National Insurance and TAX.
TV is the same, you pay a little so the nation, be it poor or rich can have good quality, advert free documentaries, news and entertainment.
Now I think 125 GBP a year is worth it, no matter if I use it personally or not.
Thanks,
Andrew McCall
I have paid for ten TV licenses in my life, and I have to admit that I am glad the the organisation that gets some of this money is developing something like this...
...although I have to admit, the BBC would have probably have been better off using my money to become the "offical" sponsors for an existing open source project such as Theora, rather than starting from scratch.
The link is the story is dead, I found the home page here, and the SourceForge site here.
Thanks,
Andrew McCall
There are really three scenarios here:
You want a low cost, or free, system.
- In which case you use Linux and OpenOffice.org both of which are already proven products.
You want a UNIX based system as your using legacy UNIX products, but need Microsoft Office.
- In which case you use MacOS X and Microsoft Office.
You need Microsoft Office for office productivity and compatibility with other products.
- In which case is the $100 for a Microsoft Windows license really an issue?
I agree developing nations should find better and cheaper ways of doing things, but doing the same things a different way just for the sake of it doesn't seem justified to me!
Maybe the FSF or someone in that league should try to trademark Open* names and reserve them for Open programs?
You idiot, Rendezvous is openBut then again, I don't expect somone with a UID as high as 761208 to know that...
"I know this, this is UNIX!"
NVIDIA never wrote the BeOS drivers anyway. They released some, although I beleive not all, specifications to Be, Inc. engineers who wrote the first driver, then some dedicated ex-Be engineers updated them using details from the XFree86 driver.
i ve r/
http://www.bebits.com/app/1622
There is a driver based off of the Matrox open source driver for in the OpenBeOS CVS that supports more cards. I haven't used this myself, but you might have more luck with your specific chipset.
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/be-hold/BeOS/NVdr
Good luck!
Andrew McCall
I loaded Gaim for the first time this morning, and I was unable to log into MSM using my hotmail.com account. I loaded Firebird so I could visit Gaim's website to see if this was a known problem, and my homepage told me all I need to know.
This isn't a major problem, there are plenty of other IM clients and networks, the problem is getting all my Windows and Mac using friends to move over to using them.
I am not bitter though, after all its their network, bandwidth and development time, but perhaps its time to renew my interest in Jabber and see exactly what it can do....
Andrew McCall.
"A telecommunications company could put transponders on an airplane and fly it over a city," Bushman said. "The aircraft could be used for everything from relaying cell phone calls to cable television or Internet connections."
Now I will have an excuse for not calling the folks often enough - "Sorry ma, I tried to call but it was cloudy, and the telephone exchange fell out of the sky.". Seriously, how would these work during extreme weather conditions? I presume they must have some sort of fuel on-board as backup or would the laser simply cut through cloud vapor?
I returned to the Mac world a few months ago buy buying a Beige G3/300/8Gb HD/128Mb RAM with a 20" monitor, keyboard and mouse from eBay.
I also managed to pick up a cheap USB/FireWire card, and a Radeon for Mac also from eBay. I put 256Mb RAM in that I had in an old PC.
The price of all this gear came at about 1/4 of the cost of an eMac/iMac -(Yes I know its also about 1/4 of the performance!).
I shot out and bought "Jaguar" after about 2 painfull weeks with OS 9.1.
I found the performance to be acceptable so long as you turned off all the fancy dock features and didn't expect *too* much from it (remember, your using hardware nearly half a decade old!).
It is slow, but its nowhere near unusable for things like email, word processing, web browsing, IRC, IM, and coding small applications. I used a Celeron 400 with 256Mb RAM with Linux and KDE3 for a while at my day job, and I would say it was nicer than that to use.
I would say - what you loose in speed by moving away from OS 9, is gained in stability with OS X.
In your case, I would try to pick up a faster G3 processor from eBay, put as much RAM in the machine as you can and see how you get on.
This is all depending on if you *need* to run OS X of course....
Isn't John Carmack a big NeXT and Apple OS X fan? I seem to remember that the first demo of Doom 3 was on Apple hardware.
If thats true, and going off of previous games requirements I would imagine the specs for an OS X version would be very similar to the PC version.
I doubt very much if it will ever see the light of day on MacOS 9 though :)
In other news, SCO is suing Harvard University for $1 Billion, for patent infringement.
A spokesperson for SCO said "One of the khipu contains binary representation of UNIX code, we can't tell you which khipu it is, but anyone who has read, heard or mentioned the Inca civilisation owes us money, and we will be seeking damages."
A spokesperson for the Inca civilisation was unable to comment due to being mummified.
Oh... wait.... thats a hard drive, CPU and motherboard I see burning, not a yule log.
Oh well, shame there isn't a Google cache for this.
No way. What happens when I recieve a MS 11 XML Word document on my Linux system via email. I haven't accepted any sort of EULA, and I can start hacking out the DTD straight away - which I must point out, a complex XML document is close to worthless without.
They may prevent MS users from reverse engineering the documents on their MS OS's and I suppose they could even forbid users emailing their documents to other OS's (EULA's are great eh?) - but I doubt they will do this, it would cripple Microsoft Office.
Andrew McCall./. can no longer use the "Read More" option due to a royalty-generating patent.
McCall
No matter what I do, I can't get it working. How do I get this thing to run under Wine?
mccall@indigo:~> wine bugbear.exe
wine: cannot find 'bugbear.exe'
mccall@indigo:~>
Nope, nothing....
I work for a large local council, and this policy won't make a difference to be quite honest....
Its not policies like these that hold Linux back from running the UK government's servers, its the staff. Very few governments actually hire staff to work on Linux, and the attitude towards Linux is like its some crack-ball OS. You have to remember that staff turn over in UK governments is very low, and many of the staff are not in IT because they love IT, they are there because its a stable job with half decent pay and couldn't care less about Linux or OSS.
If it wasn't for myself campaining to use Linux for our Internet servers they would have been replaced very recently with Microsoft ones that would no doubt have been left unsecure and unreliable. This was going to happen for no reason other than some badly written ASP code didn't work on Chili!Soft and Apache.
The government where I work as a IT team of about 60 people, we have 4 people who are UNIX System Administrators, I myself am the only person who is a dedicated Linux System Administrator, the rest are Microsoft based Administrators. Now imagine being the only voice saying "Use Linux, its free, stable and reliable" to the managers - believe me you don't get heard.
Another problem is the fact that many projects have no involvement from the UNIX team at all, so even if there is a better piece of OSS, they won't know about it, and the MS Administrators who are involved with the project won't look for it.
I know the benefits of OSS and can tell all the staff that we don't need another Windows/Solaris server until I am blue in the face, but when high-level managers demand to use a product they have heard of, this puts pressure on the IT managers to introduce that software. You don't get the average UK council worker snooping around Linux software I can tell you! 90% of the software they want to use runs under Windows.
A conference for governments that I recently went to that was teaching the benefits of OSS and Linux only had around 8 people on it, I am also sure that this is representative of the councils that are actually going to take notice of this policy.
These are just a few reasons why all in all - it won't make a difference, there are many more. It does really frustrate me knowing that a very large amount of my taxes gets spent on software that could be obtained for free, or next to nothing.