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  1. Re:Please enlighten me... on Running AmigaOS on a PC (The Proper Way) · · Score: 1
    here are some little things too, like "assigns" (a way to use a sort of shorthand for a long path) which you can kinda fake on Unix-like systems with softlinks in your root, I guess.

    You can?

    assign libs: sys:mui/libs add

    How do I fake that using symlinks, eh?

    (For those that don't get it, "add" *adds* the contents of sys:mui/libs to the libs: assign, without replacing the old.)

    (And yes, I can make /libs a dir, and put thousands of symlinks in it, but that seems silly..)

    And more importantly, how to I make a thing like the TCP: "device" on a unix-like system? (I've implemented several special-purpose devices on AmigaOS, and named pipes are not the same, no.)

  2. Why not UAE, then? (was: Vm_Ware) on Running AmigaOS on a PC (The Proper Way) · · Score: 1
    If you don't want it to take over the computer you could just use UAE, couldn't you? (Ok, so networking isn't exactly perfect, but I'm sure someone will either fix it or pester me enough to fix it.. (This is about the unix-version, I've never even used the windows-version.))


    The JIT might not work in the latest version, but 0.8.15 isn't such a bad version, is it?

  3. Re:Bandwidth is nice, but... on Cringley On Bandwidth-Expanding Modulation Technology · · Score: 1
    And also, for a machine not on a NAT, with the modem inside, would most likely still take an enormous amount of processing power to recieve 10 GBits of data per second

    Even if this was in fact about what you get, and not the whole area, consider the max speed of PCI in a typical desktop (133Mbyte/s)..

    Most computers have an IDE drive, of which the *fastest* transfer rate is 133 MB(its?) a second

    And who cares what you can push over the cable, the actual disk (you know, that spinning thing that actually stores the data) usually doesn't get more than 10Mbyte/s write-speed..

    (And no, I don't know why I bothered to post either..)

  4. Re:In case you hadn't noticed... on Escaflowne & Metropolis Hit US Big Screens Friday · · Score: 1
    Maybe my distaste for anime stems from the fact that there are no hot anime guys?


    Aren't there? Certainly, assuming you consider std anime female hot, there are a lot more hot females than males, but still. They do exist.. Not that I will give any examples, I don't know what you'd like anyway, but you can find almost anything as anime. (Not in america of course, though.)


    Search some filesharing network for fansubs. (After searching the web for something that seems to be to your tastes.)

  5. Re:Relative costs? on IBM Announces First Linux-only Mainframes · · Score: 3, Insightful
    but how much does using a linux reduce the price of a $400,000 machine?

    I don't think it's supposed to. I think it's supposed to make maintaining a workabe OS for the mainframe cheaper for IBM.

  6. Re:like so? on Non-MP3 Codecs? · · Score: 1
    Surely we can't accept having to order the bytes and bits?

    <byte position=0 defaultbit=0>
    <bit position=0>1</bit>
    <bit position=3>1</bit>
    <bit position=4>1</bit>
    <bit position=5>1</bit>
    </byte>

    Note how for "unbalanced" bytes this could even be smaller, because of my wonderful idea with default bit-values. =)

  7. Re:Bear with me... on Export-level Encryption Proves Insufficient · · Score: 1
    we do have regulations on things that have the potential to cause harm, and crypto shouldn't be any different.

    Corresponding laws about crypto would require it to be strong, not weak. (Since the above laws are about protecting you from inferior versions.)

  8. Re:Bear with me... on Export-level Encryption Proves Insufficient · · Score: 1
    but as far as I'm concerned one life saved would be enough to justify exportation laws.

    I see. How many people die in car accidents every year? Surely outlawing cars would then be a terrific idea?

    And how many people die prematurely due to smoking, overweight, etc? Let's outlaw cigarettes and unhealthy food too. For surely, since this will save lives, it will be worth it?

    Bah.

  9. Re:How much will be "enough"? on 64 Mbyte Write once CMOS Chip from Standard Fabs · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If the technology is there, people will want to carry (DVD-quality) movies around (without a "huge" DVD..). Once we're there, people will want to carry many of them. And then 3D-movies.. and after that I'm sure someone will come up with something even bigger.

  10. Re:Versioning on 2.4 Maintainer Marcelo Tosatti Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1
    Who the hell made .10 larger than .9? It's stupid, just go to 2 decimal places if you have to, not pick a conflicting system

    10 is bigger than 9. "." is not a decimal-marker, it's a general separator (as clearly evidenced by the fact that there are two of them). Now I agree it would probably have been better to use, say ":" instead, but is it really that hard to substitute it in your head?

    (The trolls were starving.. =)

  11. Re:C|Net's on CRACK on Treó 10: Another Portable Mass Storage Device · · Score: 1

    And then there are headache pills called Treo.. At least in sweden. (Yeah, very on topic..)

  12. Re:link to the high res photo on Linux On HP Blades · · Score: 1

    Save as? Right-click, select "Copy image location", middle-click somewhere non-linked on the page. Not so damn hard. (At least in netscape-like browsers.)

  13. Schools do feature porn, just not in the USA.. on Slashback: Scramjet, Golden Ears, Preciousness · · Score: 1

    Actually, public school (here, sweden) does subject you to porn. We had some sort of sexual orientation week (whatever they might have called it) when we were, I think, 13 or 14. It featured a lot porn. (And of course, teachers to talk about it.)

  14. Re:Termination on The Book of SCSI, 2nd Edition · · Score: 1
    Some controllers and devices are incredibly picky about the quality of the termination, refusing to work reliably with anything but the best quality active termination.

    Well, obviously buying the cheap stuff gets you in trouble. But I would think you wouldn't buy SCSI at all if you're picky about the price.. (Unless it's for something like an A3000, which simply needs SCSI, but it works with seriously incorrect termination, so it's still not an issue.. (The A3000 SCSI controller is well known for being picky, but that's about the SCSI-protocol, not termination.))

    Then you have SCSI devices of varying bus widths and you have to terminate on half of the data bus or the other.

    Well.. I suppose my experience is limited to the above mentioned A3000 (with and 8bit bus) and server-type stuff where everything is nicely streamlined and just works. =) (Brand servers)

    Frankly, I think that termination problems with SCSI has had more to do with its demise in high-end consumer PCs than any other factor.

    Make that termination problems with incorrectly designed stuff and bad docs, not SCSI as such, and I might even agree.. =)

  15. Termination on The Book of SCSI, 2nd Edition · · Score: 2, Informative

    What's so difficult about termination anyway? Terminate both ends of the bus, nothing else. If you have both internal and external devices, check if your controlles uses the same or separate buses for them. That seems to be it to me..

  16. Not at all similar to junkbuster on Don't Eat the Yellow Links · · Score: 1
    Junkbuster doesn't change the contents of a page. It stops certain URLs from being loaded, but that's it. And since it doesn't have any other, totally unrelated functionality, noone who doesn't want it is going to install it.

    Two pretty major differences IMHO..

  17. Re:zsh prompt... on What Does Your Command Prompt Look Like? · · Score: 1
    Well, I have to attach myself to some thread, and it might as well be this one.. Ok, here are my zsh-prompts for home-machines:

    PROMPT=$'%{\e[m%}%n%{\e[33m%}@%{\e[m%}%m%{\e[31m%} %# %{\e[m%}'
    RPROMPT=$'%{\e[31m%}%#%{\e[m%}%3~ %T %0(?:%{\e[32m%}:%{\e[31m%})[%?]%{\e[m%}'

    This expands to something like this:

    marvin@towel% <write stuff here> %~ 0:36 [0]

    Both % are # if I'm root, the [0] is the return code of the last command, green if 0, red otherwise. Pretty long prompts for such little effect.. =)
    (Oh yeah, the ~ is of course current directory, never showing more than 3 levels.)

  18. Much cheaper LCD display solution on Cappuccino PC Round 2 · · Score: 1
    The Cappuccino has serial, but never mind.

    Why not just run the serial over the cat5 cable and skip buying another computer all together? Unless "serial" for the LDC really means something like a complete RS232 (and I doubt that) there should be more than enough wires in cat5 (probably only uses gnd, power and one data)..

  19. Re:UK Supplier on Cappuccino PC Round 2 · · Score: 1

    Since it even says Cappuccino on the picture (only the small one, seems to be edited out on the big one, but there is a blurred effect where it would be to show that it was done on computer, and not very well) I'd say it's pretty likely to be the same thing.. =)

  20. How to make your own on Half Keyboard, Full Bore · · Score: 1
    It shouldn't really be hard to try it out on a normal keyboard. Lots of

    xmodmap -e 'keycode 24 q Q p P'

    commands should give you a similar effect. Next you make space into Alt_R, and then you are almost set. (Can't type space, but it should let you try it out well enough..)

  21. Annoying the people around you.. on What Do You Do To Relieve Lower Back Pain? · · Score: 1
    ..works well for me. I sit and "bounce", looking all crazy. Mostly my legs, but all of me is in almost constant motion. Always has been. Drives people nuts. But it's the only exercise I get, and I'm in pretty good shape, so it must be good for me. Try it. =)

    (And my aunt always used to try to stop me. I wonder if that was because she wanted me to have back problems..)

  22. Not exactly new.. on You Are What You Click · · Score: 1

    I don't remember what book I read it in, though I think it was by Larry Niven, but the idea is definitely not new.. (Your idea that is.) Is was completely automatic in the book (retina-scan of the user or something like that), but that's hardly relevant. And the idea is hardly something that struck me as more than obvious at the time..

  23. Re:My mouse idea on Interesting Keyboard/Mouse Combo · · Score: 1

    Bah. I'd much prefer having a little trackball under spacebar and some way of clicking with the keyboard (and a scrollwheel where IBM put their little joystick) than anything I've ever actually seen.. (Not too little of course, most laptops have too small trackballs, when they're old enough to have then at all.) (Or maybe scroll with the trackball, like one of logitechs trackballs, except I don't really like that..)

  24. Re:My mouse idea on Interesting Keyboard/Mouse Combo · · Score: 1
    I assume something like this could also be written into mouse drivers so that holding a combination of keys will make your mouse only move in certain directions.

    Why is everything useful only made for the Amiga? My Amiga has had that functionality for years. Maybe '93 or so. Most "multi commodities" could do that..

  25. Smaller?! on Clawhammer to be 1/2 size of P4 · · Score: 1
    Things get smaller? Have you looked at a 386 lately? It's *way* smaller than any current CPU. (And the 486, while considerable larger, is still much smaller than anything current. Etc.)

    Also, already back then AMD made smaller chips, my AMD 5x86 (a 486 class CPU) is just a little chip on a big circuit-board that makes it fit in a normal 486 socket. (Though I admit it was probably made a lot later than the first 486s..)