It`s money well spend though. This OS requires very little hardware resources to give excellent performance and it isn`t bloated like nowadyas "modern" mainstream OSs. If you want
to save yourself some cash then this is a nice purchase (Man do you have to have a kick ass system to get only decent performance out of Linux)
Nonsense. It's a shareware/freeware bundle dressed up as a new OS. You can get 99% of the contents for free on Aminet anyway.
Reading the specification is like leafing through a consumer's rights document. All it says is that OSTA will test each player with 5 discs, containing 5 tracks. They will insert the discs, check that all the tracks play in order, and, er, that's it. They then give it a seal of approval.
I always though OSTA was a hardcore technical standards committee. Where's the specification for supported media formats, and how to play them? Where's the filesystem specs (like UDF)? Why are the CD/CD-R/CDRW specs only handwaved?
And it doesn't even use dotless IP addresses, which would've made all the difference (ie story_id=@1882493024). Probably couldn't get a static-IP web address. Cheap.
I'd like to see the French government not just ban Region 1 DVDs, but Region 2, 3 and others. This would mean that only Region 0 discs would be saleable. In fact, the entire EU should stop all regionalised DVD madness, because it will never happen in corporate-lapdog North America.
Until such time that the evil megalopoly cartel that controls DVDs can comply with the EU directive, I propose that we Europeans decode all regionalized DVDs with DeCSS (or equivalent) and write unlocked copies onto blank DVD media. We can then break the tainted DVDs against rocks, or send them with excretia to the DVD-CCA.
For the past 6 years, I have held a patent on providing utterly abysmal telephone and internet service to the British people. I now feel the time is right to enforce it.
Ask emulator authors how complex a processor is. While marketing departments talk up the pipelines and cache aspect, it's not very complex at all. It's just a big state machine. Software implementations of processors are very good.
But who wants just a processor?
The point is, hardware is split up into discrete packages. Your CD-ROM drive cannot, no matter how much it wants to, write directly into your processor's cache control bits. You cannot edit the value stored in the 13th pipeline status area. They are protected! In hardware, you cannot break the API. It's pins on a chip, there's no other way in to the silicon!
But in software, you can access everything about the API, and 'hack' it. Bleah. Software, to be as safe as hardware, needs full Java-like encapsulation, where you cannot poke inside the box at all.
Furthermore, there are far more varied software components depending on each other than you would ever find in a hardware device. Imagine a desktop computer running a web browser and word-processor. There are thousands of individual widgets in both programs. One requires a TCP/IP stack and network driver underneath that. Both require user-interface APIs which in turn require graphics APIs and input APIs, which in turn require drivers. Just imagine a hardware device with 500 Pentium 4, 120 StrongARMs, 50 Z80s, 20 6502s, 100 MC68000s, 12 different bus protocols, hundreds of ways to access the hardware devices (forget those ATAPI, IDE and SCSI standards...)
In short, even the simplest looking computer system is a nightmare under the hood. Even if I simplified all _my_ code, I would still have far more code running from _other_ people that I cannot change at all. That's why it sucks. Hardware guys have it easy.
Well, actually, I believe that games companies should leave warezing old games alone, and that new games should come down in price.
However, I do accept that it's the games company's that should get the final decision. In fact, several companies have released 'retro-game' packs of their own, such as Square releasing the entire Final Fantasy series, and then demanding all Final Fantasy games come off the retrogaming download sites.
And there still remains the problem of Stuart Campbell being a loudmouth, arrogant arse, which was my main point. Where does that leave the Cult of Personality?
Now, I've never wanted to point this out to Stuart, but most of his earnings come from game-related punditry. If the only games available were badly-done freeware clones, why would anyone want to have them reviewed, especially by a man with an evil streak a mile wide? But I digress...
Most likely because they already have published a book on Apache.
So? They've published more than one book on Oracle, Photoshop, etc. In fact, they've even published another Apache book, so you can't claim that they've reached the Apache limit.
I don't understand. Netcraft shows that there are millions of Apache servers out there, so that means they are good, but 95% of workstations out there run Windows, which is supposedly bad. Huh?
Well, it's 'good' in the 'ra-ra-ra-open-source' sense. Netcraft shows that Apache really is ubiquitous, I have no idea how it could show it is useful.
But anyway. 95% of workstations running Windows is very good, for Microsoft at least.
why aren't O'Reilly publishing this? They must be kicking themselves now, this is clearly their territory and it paves the wave for a lovely wood carving of a native american on the front cover.
The Atreides family is sent by the Emperor of the Galaxy to Arrakis (Dune) to wrestle the spice production away from the evil Harkonnens. Spice
is pretty much what crude oil is today. Paul Atreides befriends the Fremen, the Dune natives. The Fremen recognize Paul as their spiritual leader, and name him Muadib. They agree to mine spice for him, and he leads them into battle against the Harkonnens. And that's where the film
ends.
I don't quite understand why the article claims that Java isn't liked in 'the community' because it's not 'free' - the Free Software Foundation itself realises that there are free implementations of Java, and that the language itself is very practical -- why not look at their GNU and Java page and their Free Java software page.
Fun way to torment Best Buy/Staples/CompUSA employees of the day: Go conspiciously hang out in the networking aisle, say you are looking at, say a linksys 10/100 hub versus
switch, and then when he tries to explain the difference, ask "Can you tell me if this switch uses store-and-forward or cut-through switching"?
Also, ask "I'm interested in upgrading my twenty eight point eight kilobaud internet connection to a one point five megabit fibre-optic T-1 line. Will you be able to provide an IP router that's compatable with my token ring ethernet LAN configuration?", and dazzle them with your superior wit and intellect.
Why say "double-u, double-u, double-u" when "world wide web" is faster (9 vs 3 syllables)?
Ah, well, with people I know to be computer-literate, I leave off the http://www. part. They know it's there. With computer-illiterate people, they'd probably type in worldwideweb.foo.net. It's quite handy for them that NS (and IE?) can put in http://www. and.com for them.
Phone numbers have explicit routing information in them! This is currently being touted as a 'feature' of IPv6! If you're within part of the route, you have less to type! IPv4 numbers remain the same length, however near you are to the source.
Phone numbers are easy to say. Every time I say a URL out loud, I feel like the Comic Store guy in the Simpsons; "that's heigch tee tee pee colon slash slash double-u double-u double-u dot"...
Admittedly, I prefer 'dot com' adverts to phone number adverts where the phone number spells a word. I think saying 'phone 1-800 DUMBGUY' is as sillier than saying 'visit halfbee.com'.
Typosquatting. Who would buy the number 408-739 to catch people really wanting 468-739?
I thought an application error couldn't crash a Unix box?
In 1990, a gnat's fart from 50 metres could crash a UNIX box. But at least they could stay up for more than one week, which is far beyond all capabilities of the GUI enhanced MS-DOS (called Windows) at the time.
There was actually a fun program around which wrote random data into a buffer and then longjmp()ed into it, to execute random data as code. It also hooked into all the exception handlers so that when an exception was trapped, it immediately executed even more random code. It was very good for sorting flaky UNIXen from bad ones. I seem to remember that IRIX performed terribly on this test.
Interesting that the Open Source apps performed as poorly as the closed source apps. Guess the engineering discipline in open source (and the many eyes, many bugs fixed) is just as
sloppy as closed source.
You're either a troll or an idiot. The Windows apps had a 100% failure rate. The closed-source UNIX utilities had a 40% failure rate. The "open-source" GNU utilities had a 9% failure rate. Duh.
Framemaker is an SGML editor. What this means is you can create structured documents, like TeX and LaTex, using a wysiwig interface. You can also create unstructured documents, a poor man's MS Word (but it runs on UNIX too).
If you want DTP, you want Pagemaker. Framemaker itself has competition on linux from the office packages, Lyx and obviously TeX/LaTeX + text editor of choice.
I am somewhat taken aback by the venom in some of the above posts. If the online book in question was the Torah or the Koran would they have provoked such vitriolic comment?
Familiarity breeds contempt. Americans are mostly surrounded by screaming protestant fundamentalists, other denominations and religions generally keep their heads down and do the American thing - keep Church and State apart.
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It`s money well spend though. This OS requires very little hardware resources to give excellent performance and it isn`t bloated like nowadyas "modern" mainstream OSs. If you want to save yourself some cash then this is a nice purchase (Man do you have to have a kick ass system to get only decent performance out of Linux)
Nonsense. It's a shareware/freeware bundle dressed up as a new OS. You can get 99% of the contents for free on Aminet anyway.
Colts are collectors items not because they're old but because they're the best revolvers ever made.
Methinks REVOLVER OCELOT would agree with you.
Reading the specification is like leafing through a consumer's rights document. All it says is that OSTA will test each player with 5 discs, containing 5 tracks. They will insert the discs, check that all the tracks play in order, and, er, that's it. They then give it a seal of approval.
I always though OSTA was a hardcore technical standards committee. Where's the specification for supported media formats, and how to play them? Where's the filesystem specs (like UDF)? Why are the CD/CD-R/CDRW specs only handwaved?
http:// www.cnn.com&story=breaking_news&template=default&r eferer=f1r5tp05t&passport=none&os=francais&list=dv d&type1&story_id= @linuxthings.virtualave.net/
And it doesn't even use dotless IP addresses, which would've made all the difference (ie story_id=@1882493024). Probably couldn't get a static-IP web address. Cheap.
I'd like to see the French government not just ban Region 1 DVDs, but Region 2, 3 and others. This would mean that only Region 0 discs would be saleable. In fact, the entire EU should stop all regionalised DVD madness, because it will never happen in corporate-lapdog North America.
Until such time that the evil megalopoly cartel that controls DVDs can comply with the EU directive, I propose that we Europeans decode all regionalized DVDs with DeCSS (or equivalent) and write unlocked copies onto blank DVD media. We can then break the tainted DVDs against rocks, or send them with excretia to the DVD-CCA.
For the past 6 years, I have held a patent on providing utterly abysmal telephone and internet service to the British people. I now feel the time is right to enforce it.
BT - I'm warning you - watch your back.
Ask emulator authors how complex a processor is. While marketing departments talk up the pipelines and cache aspect, it's not very complex at all. It's just a big state machine. Software implementations of processors are very good. But who wants just a processor?
The point is, hardware is split up into discrete packages. Your CD-ROM drive cannot, no matter how much it wants to, write directly into your processor's cache control bits. You cannot edit the value stored in the 13th pipeline status area. They are protected! In hardware, you cannot break the API. It's pins on a chip, there's no other way in to the silicon!
But in software, you can access everything about the API, and 'hack' it. Bleah. Software, to be as safe as hardware, needs full Java-like encapsulation, where you cannot poke inside the box at all.
Furthermore, there are far more varied software components depending on each other than you would ever find in a hardware device. Imagine a desktop computer running a web browser and word-processor. There are thousands of individual widgets in both programs. One requires a TCP/IP stack and network driver underneath that. Both require user-interface APIs which in turn require graphics APIs and input APIs, which in turn require drivers. Just imagine a hardware device with 500 Pentium 4, 120 StrongARMs, 50 Z80s, 20 6502s, 100 MC68000s, 12 different bus protocols, hundreds of ways to access the hardware devices (forget those ATAPI, IDE and SCSI standards...)
In short, even the simplest looking computer system is a nightmare under the hood. Even if I simplified all _my_ code, I would still have far more code running from _other_ people that I cannot change at all. That's why it sucks. Hardware guys have it easy.
Well, actually, I believe that games companies should leave warezing old games alone, and that new games should come down in price.
However, I do accept that it's the games company's that should get the final decision. In fact, several companies have released 'retro-game' packs of their own, such as Square releasing the entire Final Fantasy series, and then demanding all Final Fantasy games come off the retrogaming download sites.
And there still remains the problem of Stuart Campbell being a loudmouth, arrogant arse, which was my main point. Where does that leave the Cult of Personality?
Get your C64 games, Spectrum games, Amiga games and Atari ST games.
Hey you nasty games companies! The loudmouth Stuart Campbell journalist thinks you should leave him and his retro-gaming rampant piracy activities alone. In fact, he thinks you shouldn't make much money on them, too.
Now, I've never wanted to point this out to Stuart, but most of his earnings come from game-related punditry. If the only games available were badly-done freeware clones, why would anyone want to have them reviewed, especially by a man with an evil streak a mile wide? But I digress...
Most likely because they already have published a book on Apache.
So? They've published more than one book on Oracle, Photoshop, etc. In fact, they've even published another Apache book, so you can't claim that they've reached the Apache limit.
I don't understand. Netcraft shows that there are millions of Apache servers out there, so that means they are good, but 95% of workstations out there run Windows, which is supposedly bad. Huh?
Well, it's 'good' in the 'ra-ra-ra-open-source' sense. Netcraft shows that Apache really is ubiquitous, I have no idea how it could show it is useful.
But anyway. 95% of workstations running Windows is very good, for Microsoft at least.
why aren't O'Reilly publishing this? They must be kicking themselves now, this is clearly their territory and it paves the wave for a lovely wood carving of a native american on the front cover.
The Atreides family is sent by the Emperor of the Galaxy to Arrakis (Dune) to wrestle the spice production away from the evil Harkonnens. Spice is pretty much what crude oil is today. Paul Atreides befriends the Fremen, the Dune natives. The Fremen recognize Paul as their spiritual leader, and name him Muadib. They agree to mine spice for him, and he leads them into battle against the Harkonnens. And that's where the film ends.
I don't quite understand why the article claims that Java isn't liked in 'the community' because it's not 'free' - the Free Software Foundation itself realises that there are free implementations of Java, and that the language itself is very practical -- why not look at their GNU and Java page and their Free Java software page.
Fun way to torment Best Buy/Staples/CompUSA employees of the day: Go conspiciously hang out in the networking aisle, say you are looking at, say a linksys 10/100 hub versus switch, and then when he tries to explain the difference, ask "Can you tell me if this switch uses store-and-forward or cut-through switching"?
Also, ask "I'm interested in upgrading my twenty eight point eight kilobaud internet connection to a one point five megabit fibre-optic T-1 line. Will you be able to provide an IP router that's compatable with my token ring ethernet LAN configuration?", and dazzle them with your superior wit and intellect.
Why say "double-u, double-u, double-u" when "world wide web" is faster (9 vs 3 syllables)?
.com for them.
Ah, well, with people I know to be computer-literate, I leave off the http://www. part. They know it's there. With computer-illiterate people, they'd probably type in worldwideweb.foo.net. It's quite handy for them that NS (and IE?) can put in http://www. and
I thought an application error couldn't crash a Unix box?
In 1990, a gnat's fart from 50 metres could crash a UNIX box. But at least they could stay up for more than one week, which is far beyond all capabilities of the GUI enhanced MS-DOS (called Windows) at the time.
There was actually a fun program around which wrote random data into a buffer and then longjmp()ed into it, to execute random data as code. It also hooked into all the exception handlers so that when an exception was trapped, it immediately executed even more random code. It was very good for sorting flaky UNIXen from bad ones. I seem to remember that IRIX performed terribly on this test.
Interesting that the Open Source apps performed as poorly as the closed source apps. Guess the engineering discipline in open source (and the many eyes, many bugs fixed) is just as sloppy as closed source.
You're either a troll or an idiot. The Windows apps had a 100% failure rate. The closed-source UNIX utilities had a 40% failure rate. The "open-source" GNU utilities had a 9% failure rate. Duh.
Framemaker is an SGML editor. What this means is you can create structured documents, like TeX and LaTex, using a wysiwig interface. You can also create unstructured documents, a poor man's MS Word (but it runs on UNIX too).
If you want DTP, you want Pagemaker. Framemaker itself has competition on linux from the office packages, Lyx and obviously TeX/LaTeX + text editor of choice.
Indeed. He knew the world was round, because he sailed west to find a shortcut from Europe to India. That's why he found "American Indians".
I am somewhat taken aback by the venom in some of the above posts. If the online book in question was the Torah or the Koran would they have provoked such vitriolic comment?
Familiarity breeds contempt. Americans are mostly surrounded by screaming protestant fundamentalists, other denominations and religions generally keep their heads down and do the American thing - keep Church and State apart.