Sounds like he doesn't have much memory to play with and the 2.2.13 image, although larger, fit in the available memory footprint available and the 2.2.20 one just didn't.
But just because you have your source code sitting around in public doesn't mean someone's going to do a free security review on it, either, which is what the open-source guys think.
Er, OpenBSD, anyone?
Theo seems to be a fairly abrasive little fucker, but god bless his black little heart for doing this sort of work for the benefit of all.
I realize that this isn't specifically related to the Mozilla release, but it seems somewhat germane to the topic.
I've got an old Sparc IPC workstation running OpenBSD that I'm playing around with right now. Does anyone know of a decent, lightweight browser that I can compile and use on this platform? I'd prefer not to install Netscape, both because of the closed source and because I'd have to compile SUNOS compatability into my kernel for one stinking app.
I don't need Flash or anything like that, just something barebones that I can read static pages on.
(And yes, Lynx is already installed, but I do sort of like graphics.)
I think the Xbox could become what CD32 and CDI were trying to become.
Oh, and the Pippin. Way to innovate from another failed Apple product, Bill.
--saint
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You should fire it up and run SETI@home on it...
You know, someone I worked with at my last job out on the far end of tech support hell did something like this. He actually had _two_ subnets on his home LAN to accomodate both Ethernet and Token Ring. Why token ring? Because he had some old piece of shit MCA box and only had a Token Ring card for it.
And why was it running at all? To complete SETI work units. No other use. Bah. Waste of time.
Am I the only one who wants a laptop with fewer features, not more?
Hear hear. I have a desktop for gaming and such. I want a laptop with good battery life, a greyscale dual scan screen, and wireless connectivity. The heavy lifting is better done by machines suited to it, in my opinion. All I want is something cheap that I can check email and such from the living room with.
(And no, I don't want an Audrey. Yes, I know about Tiger direct. No, I still don't want one.)
Some bridges, specifically the Oxford 911 chip bridges, are a bit faster, but performance is not quite up to par with ATA-66.
Also, the Oxford 911 is fairly unreliable and dicky when used with Apple hardware (OS 9 and OS X both tested.) Something to keep in mind if you're running Linux/PPC.
In your experience, is the kernel development genuinely international and multilingual, or are there tensions between developers from different regions or who speak different native languages?
Is it just me, or is this review incredibly low on actual information?
"Well, uh, it detected my hardware fine and then everything worked. The end."
I suppose this does say something about how idiot-proof the typical Linux distro has become, but there sure doesn't seem to be a whole lot of meat here.
The article says that Red Hat managed to avoid the hype of the dot-com gold rush and build a normal business instead.
Forgive my ignorance of Linux history, but I thought they were on a buying spree much like VA Ice Cream (or whatever they are these days.) Anyone know?
It has better security than Exchange and IBM is much more friendly to OSS projects than Microsoft. They also have a Linux version of their Domino server.
Oooh, and don't forget about Lotus Notes having quite possible the worst user interface in the history of computing. There's a feature and a half, right there, a pseudo desktop that looks like it was designed by a half retarded rhesus monkey.
Retraining for that platform shift would be a bit of a bitch, I'm thinking.
Oh, come on. I don't think that was really flamebait. After all, anyone whose account is old enough to have been granted the boon of mod points has certainly heard MySQL sputtering and choking at the other end of the browser when trying to access this site.
I didn't know there were still Apple clones. Are they relegated to System 7.5, or are they allowed to sell OS X
There aren't any more.... Herr Jobs cut all their licenses when he returned to the company. Personally, I think that OS X's requirements may well be an attempt to end that experiment once and for all. After all, people have gotten OS X running on 604 based machines, which were the last processor that the cloners put out. But if it is hardcoded to _require_ a G3, then its a guaranteed sale for Apple.
potential of watching the graph wiggle while seeing what porn others are searching for
This is already a fairly interesting utility. Turn on the "view search" option on your favorite gnutella client (Limewire on OS X for me) and check out how specific people's porn searches can be.
"Asian nurse enema big boobs midget amputee smoking."
I guess there really is something for everyone on this new fangled internet thing.
So what do the trolls do? Work harder and come up with articles like this.
Or like the one about "Cesium". Or the "How ESR built a bad motherfucking computer." Or the "Look how quiet my ThinkGeek(tm) computer is" article.
There's tech news happening every day. Are the readers here really more interested in this trivial shit? It's like a site for professional carpenters reprinting the instructions for a birdhouse kit from a craft store, for crissake.
Oh, and many thanks to the fuckwit who modded my last post "Overrated". When you're finished eating oatmeal and shaking on the short bus, you might want to look up what the Score +1 Bonus is, you grannyfucking slophound.
This ask slashdot sounds a touch like the *BSD is dying troll
Yeah, it certainly doesn't sound like a half assed attempt to start a distro flame war with lots of posts, does it? Banner ads ahoy.
Fucking Christ on a pogo stick, this site is going into the toilet fast. As you can see from my UID, I'm a relative newcomer but even I can see the signal to noise dropping. And to think I wasted all that time gathering karma, eh?
(You know, I really hate these "Slashdot is suckier than before" posts. But this story is just blatant dogshit.)
I don't see any mention of that revolutionary MS Bob system that was going to make life worth living. Am i the only one who remembers when Egghead had stores, this was a featured software of hte week thingie in one of their fliers. I remember saying to the wife, that it was a stinker. I think the assistant was Bill himself if I remember correctly.
When a friend of mine was working at Computer City, they had the launch party for Microsoft Bob. The store had preordered something along the lines of 7 thousand copies to meet the anticipated demand. They sold four.
Not four thousand. Four.
And then they were all returned within a week.
(Adding insult to injury, the mylar balloons with the Bob logo were floating around the barnlike interior of the store and setting off the security alarms for weeks.)
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Compared to lawyers, the gnomes would probably be as effective, cheaper, and they wouldn't piss off the customers.
Er, not if Stallman ends up representing the GNOMEs, like he's trying to. I'd rather deal with a whole pile of lawyers, and I _hate_ lawyers.
--saint
Sounds like he doesn't have much memory to play with and the 2.2.13 image, although larger, fit in the available memory footprint available and the 2.2.20 one just didn't.
Hey, no shit? That's how you read it too, eh?
--saint
But just because you have your source code sitting around in public doesn't mean someone's going to do a free security review on it, either, which is what the open-source guys think.
Er, OpenBSD, anyone?
Theo seems to be a fairly abrasive little fucker, but god bless his black little heart for doing this sort of work for the benefit of all.
--saint
Even MacOS ports are risky propositions.
That's sobering, when you consider two things:
1) MacOS users are more likely to actually pay for software than Linux users and
2) MacOS is a much larger slice of the desktop market share than Linux.
--saint
now stay away or I'll give you lup.us
Hey, what did I do?
(Thanks for the idea, though. Hmmm.)
--saint
I realize that this isn't specifically related to the Mozilla release, but it seems somewhat germane to the topic.
I've got an old Sparc IPC workstation running OpenBSD that I'm playing around with right now. Does anyone know of a decent, lightweight browser that I can compile and use on this platform? I'd prefer not to install Netscape, both because of the closed source and because I'd have to compile SUNOS compatability into my kernel for one stinking app.
I don't need Flash or anything like that, just something barebones that I can read static pages on.
(And yes, Lynx is already installed, but I do sort of like graphics.)
--saint
It looks like ICQ on the mobile phone is closer than ever!
Great! Now I can use my mobile phone to get in touch with people!
Uh...
--saint
I think the Xbox could become what CD32 and CDI were trying to become.
Oh, and the Pippin. Way to innovate from another failed Apple product, Bill.
--saint
You should fire it up and run SETI@home on it...
You know, someone I worked with at my last job out on the far end of tech support hell did something like this. He actually had _two_ subnets on his home LAN to accomodate both Ethernet and Token Ring. Why token ring? Because he had some old piece of shit MCA box and only had a Token Ring card for it.
And why was it running at all? To complete SETI work units. No other use. Bah. Waste of time.
--saint
Am I the only one who wants a laptop with fewer features, not more?
Hear hear. I have a desktop for gaming and such. I want a laptop with good battery life, a greyscale dual scan screen, and wireless connectivity. The heavy lifting is better done by machines suited to it, in my opinion. All I want is something cheap that I can check email and such from the living room with.
(And no, I don't want an Audrey. Yes, I know about Tiger direct. No, I still don't want one.)
--saint
Some bridges, specifically the Oxford 911 chip bridges, are a bit faster, but performance is not quite up to par with ATA-66.
Also, the Oxford 911 is fairly unreliable and dicky when used with Apple hardware (OS 9 and OS X both tested.) Something to keep in mind if you're running Linux/PPC.
--saint
In your experience, is the kernel development genuinely international and multilingual, or are there tensions between developers from different regions or who speak different native languages?
--saint
Is it just me, or is this review incredibly low on actual information?
"Well, uh, it detected my hardware fine and then everything worked. The end."
I suppose this does say something about how idiot-proof the typical Linux distro has become, but there sure doesn't seem to be a whole lot of meat here.
--saint
Palm will pay $11 for BeOS
Then they are being ripped off.
--saint
The article says that Red Hat managed to avoid the hype of the dot-com gold rush and build a normal business instead.
Forgive my ignorance of Linux history, but I thought they were on a buying spree much like VA Ice Cream (or whatever they are these days.) Anyone know?
--saint
It has better security than Exchange and IBM is much more friendly to OSS projects than Microsoft. They also have a Linux version of their Domino server.
Oooh, and don't forget about Lotus Notes having quite possible the worst user interface in the history of computing. There's a feature and a half, right there, a pseudo desktop that looks like it was designed by a half retarded rhesus monkey.
Retraining for that platform shift would be a bit of a bitch, I'm thinking.
--saint
Oh, come on. I don't think that was really flamebait. After all, anyone whose account is old enough to have been granted the boon of mod points has certainly heard MySQL sputtering and choking at the other end of the browser when trying to access this site.
--saint
Gee, I sure hope the new slashcode has the same rock-solid reliability I've come to expect from this site.
*crickets*
--saint
I didn't know there were still Apple clones. Are they relegated to System 7.5, or are they allowed to sell OS X
There aren't any more.... Herr Jobs cut all their licenses when he returned to the company. Personally, I think that OS X's requirements may well be an attempt to end that experiment once and for all. After all, people have gotten OS X running on 604 based machines, which were the last processor that the cloners put out. But if it is hardcoded to _require_ a G3, then its a guaranteed sale for Apple.
--saint
potential of watching the graph wiggle while seeing what porn others are searching for
This is already a fairly interesting utility. Turn on the "view search" option on your favorite gnutella client (Limewire on OS X for me) and check out how specific people's porn searches can be.
"Asian nurse enema big boobs midget amputee smoking."
I guess there really is something for everyone on this new fangled internet thing.
--saint
yes, the fact that I don't own a TV set *does* make me a better person.
Why?
Does it mean that you have more time to read and actually engage in some sort of mentally stimulating activity?
Or does this simply mean that you're a pretentious git going for whatever snooty "I'm better than you" points you can get?
It's an interpretation thing, I suppose.
--saint
So what do the trolls do? Work harder and come up with articles like this.
Or like the one about "Cesium". Or the "How ESR built a bad motherfucking computer." Or the "Look how quiet my ThinkGeek(tm) computer is" article.
There's tech news happening every day. Are the readers here really more interested in this trivial shit? It's like a site for professional carpenters reprinting the instructions for a birdhouse kit from a craft store, for crissake.
Oh, and many thanks to the fuckwit who modded my last post "Overrated". When you're finished eating oatmeal and shaking on the short bus, you might want to look up what the Score +1 Bonus is, you grannyfucking slophound.
--saint
So, the other day i'm trying to install linux (a linux with some sort of package management abilities) onto a firewall (486sx, 40meg HD, 8 meg ram).
One word, baby. NetBSD. I ran a web/file/mail server on a Quadra 700 with a 200 meg drive for months.
The hardware has since been changed over from the Mac to a Dell 486. Seamless and fast.
--saint
This ask slashdot sounds a touch like the *BSD is dying troll
Yeah, it certainly doesn't sound like a half assed attempt to start a distro flame war with lots of posts, does it? Banner ads ahoy.
Fucking Christ on a pogo stick, this site is going into the toilet fast. As you can see from my UID, I'm a relative newcomer but even I can see the signal to noise dropping. And to think I wasted all that time gathering karma, eh?
(You know, I really hate these "Slashdot is suckier than before" posts. But this story is just blatant dogshit.)
--saint
I don't see any mention of that revolutionary MS Bob system that was going to make life worth living. Am i the only one who remembers when Egghead had stores, this was a featured software of hte week thingie in one of their fliers. I remember saying to the wife, that it was a stinker. I think the assistant was Bill himself if I remember correctly.
When a friend of mine was working at Computer City, they had the launch party for Microsoft Bob. The store had preordered something along the lines of 7 thousand copies to meet the anticipated demand. They sold four.
Not four thousand. Four.
And then they were all returned within a week.
(Adding insult to injury, the mylar balloons with the Bob logo were floating around the barnlike interior of the store and setting off the security alarms for weeks.)
Truly a stellar product, eh?
--saint