Yes, all that mumbo jumbo about CPUs and interconnects is fine, but what we really want to know is how fast it can run Mac OS X under PearPC... Can anyone tell us an XBench score?
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You are right about your comments about Solaris, but are mistaken about Sun's stance regarding your other comments. Regarding the executives thinking that the future is in selling hardware alone, you're incorrect - Sun is trying to sell itself as a solutions vendor - not just hardware, but software and services as well. See http://www.sun.com/solutions/ for more info. Regarding your comment saying that Sun is ignoring high-volume low-end side of the market, again this is not correct - sun has introduced the LX50, and 1U rack mount system that runs linux or solaris (x86). See more about that at http://wwws.sun.com/servers/entry/lx50/
Finally, a word about Robert Cringley - how many times does this guy need to be wrong before the industry starts ignoring him?
ATI seems to be making a habit of this... In July 2000 they issued press releases a couple of days before MacWorld giving information on yet-to-be announced mac systems, and got themselves into an uncomfortable situation with Apple. See http://www.idg.net/idgns/2000/07/24/ATITakesBlameF orAppleLeak.shtml for a summary.
Regarding the mention of drivers for wireless pcmcia cards not being available for 10.2 and http://wirelessdriver.sourceforge.net not having been updated in months;
An announcement was sent to the wirelessdriver announce list over the weekend stating;
=-=-= Hi all,
I've (finally) posted a build of the driver built for OS X 10.2 to my iDisk. The can be reached via the following URL: <http://homepage.mac.com/robm>
This installer is a preliminary release. I will post to SourceForge in the usual place and make an announcement to VerstionTracker once I've had a few feedback reports.
This build is, essentially, a top-of-tree build from the CVS archives. I have made several changes to it to support compilation under Jaguar and have added a few lines of code towards trying to solve the AppleTalk issue, although I haven't had any opportunity to test that yet.
Let me know how you make out with it and I'll get whatever changes done that need to be made and make a final announcement.
Actually, an add-on pack has been done for the Playstation (not PS2), and it did require the original game in order to play it. In fact, it was for the same game franchise, for the original GTA, and was called 'GTA London'. It was cheaper than a normal new game as well.
He's seeing at 12:01am where? Somewhere in the US? I have a 12:01am ticket for the 16th May in Melbourne Australia which is 14-17 hours before anyone on the mainland of the US gets to see it.
AOL owns Netscape, whose messaging server has been used by several fortune 500 companies and very large ISPs. I'd be surprised if AOL had the kind of troubles being reported if it were to use the technology available right under its own nose.
The company that owns the content for a lot of the pages that the 34 million AOL users (and the rest of the net) is AOL. Aside AOLs own pages, there's the entire Netscape portal site, the CNN and related websites, the warner music and film sites, etc.
Furthermore, what website wouldn't adjust it's pages if not doing so lost visibility to that kind of user base?
Back in 1998, both Netscape and Intel invested in Red Hat. See this Article at wired for details. Unless AOL have since sold the shares that Netscape acquired, they already have a piece of RH. The specific details of how much was invested weren't divulged, so who knows, this could have just been a marketing exercise...
AOL buying Red Hat is merely one more sign that AOL is looking to sock it to Microsoft in the core of their business - the OS market, and with AOL's huge amount of capital/resources, perhaps they'll be able to grow RH from a minority player to something much more prevalant. Perhaps the ultimate release of the AOL/Redhat OS would be a distant version of what we know now, but like Apple's OS X, if there's a unix based kernel at the core of the OS, it will let the tech-folk play dirty while the non-geeks can still have a simple-to-operate user experience.
Japan has it and now North America, but for the rest of us (Europe, Australia and other territories), Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) is still requesting those who are interested in the PS2 linux kit to complete the form at their website. Check it out at;
Slashdot Mirror
Drunk Aussies are a dime a dozen - Assuming they could find one, how much extra do you have to pay to hear a sober one?
Yes, all that mumbo jumbo about CPUs and interconnects is fine, but what we really want to know is how fast it can run Mac OS X under PearPC... Can anyone tell us an XBench score?
... and Micro Channel Architecture (MCA)...
You are right about your comments about Solaris, but are mistaken about Sun's stance regarding your other comments. Regarding the executives thinking that the future is in selling hardware alone, you're incorrect - Sun is trying to sell itself as a solutions vendor - not just hardware, but software and services as well. See http://www.sun.com/solutions/ for more info. Regarding your comment saying that Sun is ignoring high-volume low-end side of the market, again this is not correct - sun has introduced the LX50, and 1U rack mount system that runs linux or solaris (x86). See more about that at http://wwws.sun.com/servers/entry/lx50/
Finally, a word about Robert Cringley - how many times does this guy need to be wrong before the industry starts ignoring him?
ATI seems to be making a habit of this... In July 2000 they issued press releases a couple of days before MacWorld giving information on yet-to-be announced mac systems, and got themselves into an uncomfortable situation with Apple. See http://www.idg.net/idgns/2000/07/24/ATITakesBlameF orAppleLeak.shtml for a summary.
Good Idea. We could call it the cube.
Regarding the mention of drivers for wireless pcmcia cards not being available for 10.2 and http://wirelessdriver.sourceforge.net not having been updated in months;
An announcement was sent to the wirelessdriver announce list over the weekend stating;
=-=-=
Hi all,
I've (finally) posted a build of the driver built for OS X 10.2 to my iDisk. The can be reached via the following URL: <http://homepage.mac.com/robm>
This installer is a preliminary release. I will post to SourceForge in the usual place and make an announcement to VerstionTracker once I've had a few feedback reports.
This build is, essentially, a top-of-tree build from the CVS archives. I have made several changes to it to support compilation under Jaguar and have added a few lines of code towards trying to solve the AppleTalk issue, although I haven't had any opportunity to test that yet.
Let me know how you make out with it and I'll get whatever changes done that need to be made and make a final announcement.
-Rob McKeever
robm@mac.com
=-=-=
Actually, an add-on pack has been done for the Playstation (not PS2), and it did require the original game in order to play it. In fact, it was for the same game franchise, for the original GTA, and was called 'GTA London'. It was cheaper than a normal new game as well.
You call that bragging? Pfffft!
He's seeing at 12:01am where? Somewhere in the US? I have a 12:01am ticket for the 16th May in Melbourne Australia which is 14-17 hours before anyone on the mainland of the US gets to see it.
:-P
Live video streaming requirements to watch G4's top quality transmission this week:
- 300 baud modem
- 6502/Z80 CPU or better
- Video card capable of displaying up to two colours
- 1,024 bytes RAM
- Piezo speaker optional
AOL owns Netscape, whose messaging server has been used by several fortune 500 companies and very large ISPs. I'd be surprised if AOL had the kind of troubles being reported if it were to use the technology available right under its own nose.
The company that owns the content for a lot of the pages that the 34 million AOL users (and the rest of the net) is AOL. Aside AOLs own pages, there's the entire Netscape portal site, the CNN and related websites, the warner music and film sites, etc.
Furthermore, what website wouldn't adjust it's pages if not doing so lost visibility to that kind of user base?
Back in 1998, both Netscape and Intel invested in Red Hat. See this Article at wired for details. Unless AOL have since sold the shares that Netscape acquired, they already have a piece of RH. The specific details of how much was invested weren't divulged, so who knows, this could have just been a marketing exercise...
AOL buying Red Hat is merely one more sign that AOL is looking to sock it to Microsoft in the core of their business - the OS market, and with AOL's huge amount of capital/resources, perhaps they'll be able to grow RH from a minority player to something much more prevalant. Perhaps the ultimate release of the AOL/Redhat OS would be a distant version of what we know now, but like Apple's OS X, if there's a unix based kernel at the core of the OS, it will let the tech-folk play dirty while the non-geeks can still have a simple-to-operate user experience.
Can't wait to see someone re-design one of these into the head of an R2D2 and add a light saber eject mechanism.
http://www.technology.scee.net/cgi-bin/sceeweb1/sc ee.pl?ps2linuxint