In my dorm computer cluster in about 1996 there was a Mac that had an x86 processor on it as well as a PPC. It ran Windows natively on the x86 daughtercard. You could run both OSes at once, I didn't think it was a very elegant solution.
Most of the CAC card deployments use software from http://www.actividentity.com/ which also makes products geared towards the corporate market. I've installed them in the past and the combination of PKI, card management, and SSO software is hard to beat.
I have a Dell 20 inch widescreen display hooked up to my Mac mini. It rotates 90 degrees to portrait mode and I am able to change the display to match. It is very useful for certain operations.
I've written games in c++ using OpenGL and SDL that run on Mac, Windows and Linux. All from the same source code. If you plan it that way from the start it is very easy to do.
There will be no speed gain until the emulation technology in Virtual PC is completely rewritten.
Actually, I would guess that a lot of code will simply be thrown out rather than rewritten. A straight Universal Binary compile wouldn't make sense for this since. The whole x86 to PPC translation process is no longer needed. The question is when will this come out?
I wrote a game for 148. We were required to do asteriods. I did in in 3-d with a first person perspective. The prof's son was still playing it years later and it was shown as a demo on the first day of class for a few years after that. You can find it at http://www.angelfire.com/games/ultimateblaster/
In any case, what was your game? Do you have a link to it? The 248 games get mentioned on/. pretty regularly. Maybe it was featured and you missed it.
I think that a ton of people are in a similar situation and I really hope that some details come out in the next few weeks that explain the process and clarify what the issues are. The, "We won't do anything to stop you from running Windows," line is not the sort of concrete information people need before dropping $2500 on a laptop.
My wife is planning on getting one of these but she HAS to have Windows for work. Some of the web apps will only work with IE. Lame, but true.
Can you load easily dual boot Windows on the new iMac and on the MacBook Pro? If you can then this opens up a new market of tepid switchers. It seems that Steve didn't mention this sort of functionality at all which leaves it as a big question mark for now.
This is something i'm going to try to do more often.
Please do. Those are the most encouraging words I've seen on this article. Over the past few years I've felt that while there have been some cool innovations such as zoo, the editors have become more and distant from the users. The discussions about/. don't even have to be on the front page. You could have a navel gazing section where this sort of thing goes. I think once a month would be plenty, and keep it focused on a particular issue like this one.
This is the first time in a long time that Taco has asked for feedback on the front page. That is a great first step. However I agree with you that/. has listened to users less and less over the years. Ever since the First Slashdot Troll Investigation there has been a mistrust of the users. Rob & Co are trying to make/. nice on the front page for the 80% of users that never make it to the comments. The users that do use comments see/. differently and have a hard time communicating their concerns to the editors since the editors feel that they aren't making this site for those users.
You are smarter than that. The text of article at the end of the URL can be compared. If you wanted to get more sophisticated you could do a wordprint analysis type of match which would tell you how similar the story is to previously posted stories. This sounds really fancy but wouldn't be that hard.
I suggested months ago to Taco that he keep a database of abusive submitters and auto reject them. It would save them time and keep the occasional nutjob post from getting through. Taco told me it was not possible. At least he was kind enough to respond.
I also think that anything that links back to your own site should raise some red flags of abuse. Maybe limit such submitters to one story per month to stem the torrent. It is only the last few months that people are gaming the system this way, which indicates to me that the system wasn't built for this and that it needs an update.
For a high school student a great and doable project would be to write software to crack CSS from scratch. The format is well documented on the web and cracking it via brute force is easily doable. A discussion of the weaknesses of CSS and the impact on the DVD industry would be doable as well. Plus this is something that has an impact that is more easily explained than MD5 collisions.
I was careful to not exclude the possibility of a software decoder but I doubt that you would get the same functionality (formats, frame rate, and battery life) that you get on the iPods with video support.
I've been out of college (and employed!) for 7.5 years and even with the discounts could only justify the 21 inch model. Perhaps I'm just jealous of your lack of other obligations, but if money is tight you probably don't need that much monitor.
Does anyone out there have a set-top box to recieve over the air digital TV signals? A free one, not a pay service like Xoom or USDTV? I know that broadcasters as sending out digital signals but I don't know anyone that currently receives them.
Once he stated that he thinks there will be a firmware upgarde to the iPod nano to support video I figured he was out to lunch. The 5G iPod has a hardware video decoder. You aren't going to be able to update your nano's software and get the same thing.
I recently had a long email conversation about this with Taco. He basically isn't interested in feedback, which seems very not in the spirit of open source to me. He also said that/. doesn't track who is submitting what and doesn't care about a submitter's positive or negative track record because it would be hard to keep track of such things. If only there were a way of automating the process...
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The 128 had the Z-80 built in to it. You couldn't buy one without it.
c =96&st=1
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?
I'm pretty sure that the Commodore C=128 did something similar. It had a 6502c and a z80. If only they had gone for a DOS machine instead of CP/M...
In my dorm computer cluster in about 1996 there was a Mac that had an x86 processor on it as well as a PPC. It ran Windows natively on the x86 daughtercard. You could run both OSes at once, I didn't think it was a very elegant solution.
Most of the CAC card deployments use software from http://www.actividentity.com/ which also makes products geared towards the corporate market. I've installed them in the past and the combination of PKI, card management, and SSO software is hard to beat.
I have a Dell 20 inch widescreen display hooked up to my Mac mini. It rotates 90 degrees to portrait mode and I am able to change the display to match. It is very useful for certain operations.
I've written games in c++ using OpenGL and SDL that run on Mac, Windows and Linux. All from the same source code. If you plan it that way from the start it is very easy to do.
There will be no speed gain until the emulation technology in Virtual PC is completely rewritten.
Actually, I would guess that a lot of code will simply be thrown out rather than rewritten. A straight Universal Binary compile wouldn't make sense for this since. The whole x86 to PPC translation process is no longer needed. The question is when will this come out?
I should also point out that there are links to all past competitions on the site. Which entry is yours?
I wrote a game for 148. We were required to do asteriods. I did in in 3-d with a first person perspective. The prof's son was still playing it years later and it was shown as a demo on the first day of class for a few years after that. You can find it at http://www.angelfire.com/games/ultimateblaster/
/. pretty regularly. Maybe it was featured and you missed it.
In any case, what was your game? Do you have a link to it? The 248 games get mentioned on
I think that a ton of people are in a similar situation and I really hope that some details come out in the next few weeks that explain the process and clarify what the issues are. The, "We won't do anything to stop you from running Windows," line is not the sort of concrete information people need before dropping $2500 on a laptop.
My wife is planning on getting one of these but she HAS to have Windows for work. Some of the web apps will only work with IE. Lame, but true.
That is a good question as well.
You are going to buy a Pegasos laptop? Where?
Can you load easily dual boot Windows on the new iMac and on the MacBook Pro? If you can then this opens up a new market of tepid switchers. It seems that Steve didn't mention this sort of functionality at all which leaves it as a big question mark for now.
This is something i'm going to try to do more often.
/. don't even have to be on the front page. You could have a navel gazing section where this sort of thing goes. I think once a month would be plenty, and keep it focused on a particular issue like this one.
Please do. Those are the most encouraging words I've seen on this article. Over the past few years I've felt that while there have been some cool innovations such as zoo, the editors have become more and distant from the users. The discussions about
This is the first time in a long time that Taco has asked for feedback on the front page. That is a great first step. However I agree with you that /. has listened to users less and less over the years. Ever since the First Slashdot Troll Investigation there has been a mistrust of the users. Rob & Co are trying to make /. nice on the front page for the 80% of users that never make it to the comments. The users that do use comments see /. differently and have a hard time communicating their concerns to the editors since the editors feel that they aren't making this site for those users.
Taco,
You are smarter than that. The text of article at the end of the URL can be compared. If you wanted to get more sophisticated you could do a wordprint analysis type of match which would tell you how similar the story is to previously posted stories. This sounds really fancy but wouldn't be that hard.
I suggested months ago to Taco that he keep a database of abusive submitters and auto reject them. It would save them time and keep the occasional nutjob post from getting through. Taco told me it was not possible. At least he was kind enough to respond.
I also think that anything that links back to your own site should raise some red flags of abuse. Maybe limit such submitters to one story per month to stem the torrent. It is only the last few months that people are gaming the system this way, which indicates to me that the system wasn't built for this and that it needs an update.
For a high school student a great and doable project would be to write software to crack CSS from scratch. The format is well documented on the web and cracking it via brute force is easily doable. A discussion of the weaknesses of CSS and the impact on the DVD industry would be doable as well. Plus this is something that has an impact that is more easily explained than MD5 collisions.
I was not joking. I've asked before at Best Buy and Circuit City and haven't gotten an answer.
I was careful to not exclude the possibility of a software decoder but I doubt that you would get the same functionality (formats, frame rate, and battery life) that you get on the iPods with video support.
I've been out of college (and employed!) for 7.5 years and even with the discounts could only justify the 21 inch model. Perhaps I'm just jealous of your lack of other obligations, but if money is tight you probably don't need that much monitor.
You are on financial aid and are using the money to buy a 23 inch widescreen monitor? Well that is just great!
Does anyone out there have a set-top box to recieve over the air digital TV signals? A free one, not a pay service like Xoom or USDTV? I know that broadcasters as sending out digital signals but I don't know anyone that currently receives them.
Once he stated that he thinks there will be a firmware upgarde to the iPod nano to support video I figured he was out to lunch. The 5G iPod has a hardware video decoder. You aren't going to be able to update your nano's software and get the same thing.
BW,
/. doesn't track who is submitting what and doesn't care about a submitter's positive or negative track record because it would be hard to keep track of such things. If only there were a way of automating the process...
I recently had a long email conversation about this with Taco. He basically isn't interested in feedback, which seems very not in the spirit of open source to me. He also said that