A. Darwin is a version of the BSD UNIX operating system that offers advanced networking, services such as the Apache web server, and support for both Macintosh and UNIX file systems. It was originally released in March 1999. Darwin currently runs on PowerPC-based Macintosh computers, and is being ported to Intel processor-based computers and compatible systems by the Darwin community.
Q. Is the available Darwin source code up to date?
A. Most of the projects in the Darwin repository are the same live source trees used by Apple engineers for the Mac OS X product build. This means that as we work on Mac OS X internally, the changes we make are immediately visible on the Darwin source code repository. (Visit www.opensource.apple.com/tools/cvs/ for information on how to access the CVS server.) Similarly, changes made by the community that are integrated into the Darwin source base will eventually be included in Mac OS X. This mechanism gives the developer community an unprecedented ability to work with Apple to resolve operating system-level issues and extend the feature set of the Mac OS.
Q. I heard that Darwin runs on Intel processor-based PCs. Is that true?
A. Yes, and we're partnering with the Darwin developer community to enhance support for this platform
As I recall, Apple demod a PC box running Darwin at the WWDC in March of 2000. And I think there is an installer for the x86 platform. Exciting times these are.
I agree. It's nice for companies to attempt to improve their products with services that customize their behaviour based on a user's needs. However, they should disable this feature by default and prompt the user during an installation of Windows to turn this feature on or not. The prompt should clearly explain what is being transmitted each way. Not every company is Big Brother, but it'd be nice to know Phoenix isn't trying to pull a fast one on us ala Digital Convergence.
There was a very long story about this kid in Harper's magazine. It was a very intersting narrative about science, technology, soceity, and a very bright student caught between a divorce.
A very interesting read. I'm not sure which issue it was though. Definitely in the 1999 or 2000 series.
About 1 month before 8th grad ended for me in 1996, I was called into the vice-principal's office for a talk. I was being accused of stealing property from the library, violating the grading system, and crashing 3 school email networks.
In reality, what I had done was sent a really really large email (~50MB) through the system. Because everything was going haywire, they expected the worst.
My parents were called at work and told that I had broken some "serious school rules." There was no due process. There was no search for understanding. There was no compassion. I was suspended in school for 5 days. I had to sit in a sterile classroom and read/copy from books onto paper. I couldn't interact with any of my peers as they walked past the classroom. I felt like I was going to die.
The school administrators that deal with disciplinary problems deal with guns, drugs, and lewd conduct all day. They treat the computer people, generally meeker and milder and more intelligent, the same as everyone else.
This is the fundamental problem: children with a high propensity for computer use aren't your regular disciplinary problem kids. We're usually over active and very curious.
This is a very hard thing to get a grip on. But the question remains, how are schools supposed to deal with computer kids? Mere understanding doesn't do the trick. "Refocusing creative energy" sounds like an administrative cop-out.
Currently, I'm attending a school with an honor code. The administration believes students when they say something. However, I don't believe this would work in middle school. What is the solution?
Does anyone care to speculate how the subscribers for the EarthWeb TPJ will be handled?
When I subscribed it was because I wanted online copies of the journal. I paid for that service. Is this service still going to be available to me? Is the general public going to have access to the journal online?
Do you think this is a good idea? Yeah, it gets the journal out. And yeah, advertising could probably pay the bills. But there are a bunch of people who I speculate will be pissed because they paid for a service when they really didn't have to.
From the land that brought us William Shatner, Dave Foley, and Canadian Whiskey comes this? I have to say that I'm a little disappointed. Perhaps they could've chosen a more scenic location. The pictures in the newspaper aren't that great.
It grabs numbers from SoCal Edison and charts
previous power consumption with current power
consumption and projected black-out times.
Anyway,
I'm an undergrad in college in California.
We've been having regular power outages ordered
by the power company since early this summer. The
school saves money by electing to cut our power
first in exchange for reduced (slightly) power
rates. This power crisis has had the following
negative impacts on our lives:
-If we have to keep the power on (Finals,
presentation days, etc.) we pay 10x the rate we
would normally pay. This translates into $4000 an
hour if we keep the dorms lit and turn off the
other buildings.
Note: if a stage 3 emergency is called, we still lose our power.
Besides financial woes:
-The chemistry department closes down because the fume hoods aren't powered. I'm all for noxious chemicals, but if you can't control them you're sunk.
-The library loses power. Lost research time.
-The cafeteria closes or only serves cold-cuts and fruit. Cafeteria food is bad enough, but to add insult to injury.
-Night labs have to be rescheduled. You can't collect data on a swinging pendulum in the physics lab without electricity.
-Without electricity to power the lights, homework is really hard to get done. The gym has an emergency generator, but it only accomodates so many people. And the more people working in one area, the louder the noise becomes, the harder it is to do work.
The great thing about networks releasing entire shows on DVD is:
1) More people become aware of the show because of the limited number of DVD titles (not so much anymore)
2) Fans don't have to talk about the "good ol' days of network broadcasts." Waiting for NBC or CBS or whatever to replay these on air would be insane
3) DVD makes jumping between episodes easy! Oh, shoot the show about when Mr. Wizard comes to visit Carl is episode #42 not #32.
...and finally...
4) The children of a new generation are able to appreciate some of the finest achievements of television.
I wonder if the BBC is going to release a DVD with the Connections or Connections 2 series.
Sun is switching the Cube OS from Linux to Solaris because they have invested tons of money in a clustering solution for Solaris.
Frankly, clustering on Linux isn't there. It isn't OpenSource's fault. Clustering takes a long time to get right. Witness DEC.
What Linux/OpenSource stands to gain by Sun aquiring a viable Linux-originated product is this: Sun has more incentive to make Solaris more OpenSource friendly. Linux aint going away, and Sun stands to profit if Solaris and Linux start interoperating.
Hopefully, Sun's clustering will make it into Linux...
Harkening back to a episode of the Thunder Cats,
the Cats are forced into a Black Hole by Mum-Rha.
There Lionel and Co. meet an AI whose job it is
to keep things, forever.
How did the Cats escape? Blow-up the
AI, get the sword of omens, and foil Mum-Rha.
In short, if we do send an AI into outer space to
probe for life it's only going to become evil and
try to destroy bad Anime.
It seems that IBM is moving towards providing mainstream Unix products to the burgoning amount of middle class Unix systems on the Internet.
Every day some Tom, Dick, and Harry start an Internet company. Who better to sell them hardware and software than IBM, a trusted name and institution.
If IBM buys Novell, IBM will have the final piece of the puzzle: a network operating system from which to integrate Linux/AIX compatibility.
The future: cheap, powerful, versatile servers.
I wonder if AOL is releasing a version of AIM for Linux so that AIM will gain more support, and thus displace the AT&T, Excite@Home, iCAST, MSN, Odigo, Phone.com, Prodigy, Tribal Voice, and Yahoo! from getting their "open" IM standard adopted.
The guy who invented the laser didn't get his patent until recently.
We're talking decades and billions of dollars in royalties. CD players, laser pointers, industry equipment -- just because the patent office took their sweet time getting the man his patent.
No matter how f*cked the system is, shouldn't we try to perserve the musician's rights? While the RIAA is slowly rotting, lets get to work on a new distribution system so we can get more help to more musicians.
>> Nowhere is it written that rock stars get to >> make millions of dolars.
Of course not, and, unfortunately, many aspiring musicians are under this delusion.
I think that C. Love is right on when she says that the distribution and licensing system needs to be restructured. Music copyrights should revert back to the author. However, Napster isn't helping to put money in the pockets of musicans. eMusic isn't really working, although I could be wrong. CDNow is just an online music store. Services are being created to allow easier distribution on the Net, but its awhile off.
Slashdot Mirror
The rumors about Mac OS X and i386 are quelled here at www.opensource.apple.com
The FAQ online reads:
Q. What is Darwin?
A. Darwin is a version of the BSD UNIX operating system that offers advanced networking, services such as the Apache web server, and support for both Macintosh and UNIX file systems. It was originally released in March 1999. Darwin currently runs on PowerPC-based Macintosh computers, and is being ported to Intel processor-based computers and compatible systems by the Darwin community.
Q. Is the available Darwin source code up to date?
A. Most of the projects in the Darwin repository are the same live source trees used by Apple engineers for the Mac OS X product build. This means that as we work on Mac OS X internally, the changes we make are immediately visible on the Darwin source code repository. (Visit www.opensource.apple.com/tools/cvs/ for information on how to access the CVS server.) Similarly, changes made by the community that are integrated into the Darwin source base will eventually be included in Mac OS X. This mechanism gives the developer community an unprecedented ability to work with Apple to resolve operating system-level issues and extend the feature set of the Mac OS.
Q. I heard that Darwin runs on Intel processor-based PCs. Is that true?
A. Yes, and we're partnering with the Darwin developer community to enhance support for this platform
As I recall, Apple demod a PC box running Darwin at the WWDC in March of 2000. And I think there is an installer for the x86 platform. Exciting times these are.
"Tilt all data lost."
By your same reasoning, is it not the case that the vast majority of users will benefit by the automated installation of Internet features?
I agree. It's nice for companies to attempt to improve their products with services that customize their behaviour based on a user's needs. However, they should disable this feature by default and prompt the user during an installation of Windows to turn this feature on or not. The prompt should clearly explain what is being transmitted each way. Not every company is Big Brother, but it'd be nice to know Phoenix isn't trying to pull a fast one on us ala Digital Convergence.
I woke 'rm -rf *' in my home directory.
There was a very long story about this kid in Harper's magazine. It was a very intersting narrative about science, technology, soceity, and a very bright student caught between a divorce.
A very interesting read. I'm not sure which issue it was though. Definitely in the 1999 or 2000 series.
About 1 month before 8th grad ended for me in 1996, I was called into the vice-principal's office for a talk. I was being accused of stealing property from the library, violating the grading system, and crashing 3 school email networks.
In reality, what I had done was sent a really really large email (~50MB) through the system. Because everything was going haywire, they expected the worst.
My parents were called at work and told that I had broken some "serious school rules." There was no due process. There was no search for understanding. There was no compassion. I was suspended in school for 5 days. I had to sit in a sterile classroom and read/copy from books onto paper. I couldn't interact with any of my peers as they walked past the classroom. I felt like I was going to die.
The school administrators that deal with disciplinary problems deal with guns, drugs, and lewd conduct all day. They treat the computer people, generally meeker and milder and more intelligent, the same as everyone else.
This is the fundamental problem: children with a high propensity for computer use aren't your regular disciplinary problem kids. We're usually over active and very curious.
This is a very hard thing to get a grip on. But the question remains, how are schools supposed to deal with computer kids? Mere understanding doesn't do the trick. "Refocusing creative energy" sounds like an administrative cop-out.
Currently, I'm attending a school with an honor code. The administration believes students when they say something. However, I don't believe this would work in middle school. What is the solution?
Does anyone care to speculate how the subscribers for the EarthWeb TPJ will be handled?
When I subscribed it was because I wanted online copies of the journal. I paid for that service. Is this service still going to be available to me? Is the general public going to have access to the journal online?
Do you think this is a good idea? Yeah, it gets the journal out. And yeah, advertising could probably pay the bills. But there are a bunch of people who I speculate will be pissed because they paid for a service when they really didn't have to.
Hmmm....an eleventh hour move to the right technology. Good work, Slashdot
From the land that brought us William Shatner, Dave Foley, and Canadian Whiskey comes this? I have to say that I'm a little disappointed. Perhaps they could've chosen a more scenic location. The pictures in the newspaper aren't that great.
It grabs numbers from SoCal Edison and charts previous power consumption with current power consumption and projected black-out times.
Anyway,
I'm an undergrad in college in California. We've been having regular power outages ordered by the power company since early this summer. The school saves money by electing to cut our power first in exchange for reduced (slightly) power rates. This power crisis has had the following negative impacts on our lives:
-If we have to keep the power on (Finals, presentation days, etc.) we pay 10x the rate we would normally pay. This translates into $4000 an hour if we keep the dorms lit and turn off the other buildings.
Note: if a stage 3 emergency is called, we still lose our power.
Besides financial woes:
-The chemistry department closes down because the fume hoods aren't powered. I'm all for noxious chemicals, but if you can't control them you're sunk.
-The library loses power. Lost research time.
-The cafeteria closes or only serves cold-cuts and fruit. Cafeteria food is bad enough, but to add insult to injury.
-Night labs have to be rescheduled. You can't collect data on a swinging pendulum in the physics lab without electricity.
-Without electricity to power the lights, homework is really hard to get done. The gym has an emergency generator, but it only accomodates so many people. And the more people working in one area, the louder the noise becomes, the harder it is to do work.
The great thing about networks releasing entire shows on DVD is:
1) More people become aware of the show because of the limited number of DVD titles (not so much anymore)
2) Fans don't have to talk about the "good ol' days of network broadcasts." Waiting for NBC or CBS or whatever to replay these on air would be insane
3) DVD makes jumping between episodes easy! Oh, shoot the show about when Mr. Wizard comes to visit Carl is episode #42 not #32.
...and finally...
4) The children of a new generation are able to appreciate some of the finest achievements of television.
I wonder if the BBC is going to release a DVD with the Connections or Connections 2 series.
Man that was a great series!
Sun is switching the Cube OS from Linux to Solaris because they have invested tons of money in a clustering solution for Solaris.
Frankly, clustering on Linux isn't there. It isn't OpenSource's fault. Clustering takes a long time to get right. Witness DEC.
What Linux/OpenSource stands to gain by Sun aquiring a viable Linux-originated product is this: Sun has more incentive to make Solaris more OpenSource friendly. Linux aint going away, and Sun stands to profit if Solaris and Linux start interoperating.
Hopefully, Sun's clustering will make it into Linux...
PMDF and the associated LDAP services aren't expected to be available for Linux anytime soon.
Sun, trying to keep it's budding cash cow healthy has to create new markets for it to penetrate: Net Application Boxes.
Mail Transfer Agent in a box!
Harkening back to a episode of the Thunder Cats,
the Cats are forced into a Black Hole by Mum-Rha.
There Lionel and Co. meet an AI whose job it is
to keep things, forever.
How did the Cats escape? Blow-up the
AI, get the sword of omens, and foil Mum-Rha.
In short, if we do send an AI into outer space to
probe for life it's only going to become evil and
try to destroy bad Anime.
Then again...
I hope their IPO doesn't get /.ed
With Microsoft comes the Microsoft developers comes the legions of loyal Microsoft users that want their Microsof style programs.
I'm a little weary of inviting a 600lb gorilla into my parlor even if he promises to behave.
Hey,
it's my job to keep punk rock elite.
It seems that IBM is moving towards providing mainstream Unix products to the burgoning amount of middle class Unix systems on the Internet.
Every day some Tom, Dick, and Harry start an Internet company. Who better to sell them hardware and software than IBM, a trusted name and institution.
If IBM buys Novell, IBM will have the final piece of the puzzle: a network operating system from which to integrate Linux/AIX compatibility.
The future: cheap, powerful, versatile servers.
viva la revolution!
I wonder if AOL is releasing a version of AIM for Linux so that AIM will gain more support, and thus displace the AT&T, Excite@Home, iCAST, MSN, Odigo, Phone.com, Prodigy, Tribal Voice, and Yahoo! from getting their "open" IM standard adopted.
Apple needs to hire the Security Firm of Fruity, Bo Bo Chop, and Willey from the Richard Townsend show.
Whenever a website does something Apple doesn't like, BAM! Fruity and Bo Bo Chop go down there to adjust some attitudes.
The guy who invented the laser didn't get his patent until recently.
We're talking decades and billions of dollars in royalties. CD players, laser pointers, industry equipment -- just because the patent office took their sweet time getting the man his patent.
...I'm running CP/M. No bugs listed on BugTraq, no vulnerabilities. I'm totally secured.
And to think they laughed at me!
No matter how f*cked the system is, shouldn't we try to perserve the musician's rights?
While the RIAA is slowly rotting, lets get to work on a new distribution system so we can get more help to more musicians.
>> Nowhere is it written that rock stars get to
>> make millions of dolars.
Of course not, and, unfortunately, many aspiring musicians are under this delusion.
I think that C. Love is right on when she says that the distribution and licensing system needs to be restructured. Music copyrights should revert back to the author.
However, Napster isn't helping to put money in the pockets of musicans. eMusic isn't really working, although I could be wrong. CDNow is just an online music store. Services are being created to allow easier distribution on the Net, but its awhile off.