We agonized over whether to go for a 40 or 80 MB disk for about a week, then finally went with the 80 in case we ordered lots of Fred Fish disks. We didn't, so in the 10 years that Amiga 500 was in service, we managed to fill about 30 MB of it, with DeluxePaintIII animations, hundreds of assembly programs, Unicalc spreadsheets, and even a few BASIC programs. We had the disk in a Dataflyer IDE controller, which also held our huge upgrade of 2 MB of fast RAM, on 80-pin 1x8 SIMMs.
We modified an Amdek Color-I monitor and built a custom cable to drive it with the digital RGB output of the Amiga. The computer is gone, but the monitor lives on, with a PSOne[1] connected to its analog input. We still play games with mono sound.
[1] Who would name a product something that looks like it should be pronounced "piss on"?
You didn't say emulate. And as far as that goes, GNOME does not emulate Win98, either. Look at a default GNOME desktop sometime. It has a Mac-like menu bar, detachable menus, and a shade button on every window where the close button would be. And good luck trying to change your keyboard layout in the Control Center.
I think you're trolling, but I'll offer up a pair of quick counterexamples.
Windows does not lock the CD-ROM tray. If you press the Eject button, you will get your CD back, no questions asked. GNOME
certainly does not. There's no way for a Unixy OS to tell a program "You have to chdir() off that CD."
It's quite easy to change Sawfish keybindings. But what if I don't want Win+D to do Minimize All on Windows?
"so do YOU want to tell little jimmy that he can not visit nice mister pilot and watch all the blinking lights and buttons, that actually beeing the one and only reason he did board the plane??"
I should think that tours and flights would be separate things.
Here at SUNY at Buffalo, they've purchased a campus licensing agreement with Microsoft. All you have to do is go print out a voucher, take it to UB Micro,
and you get that particular product for free. I know offhand that WinXP Pro and Office XP are available this way. So what is essentially happening is that UB takes students' money and gives
it to Microsoft without bothering to ask the students if they want that, although a vast majority of them will. "Oh, cool, free stuff!"
Aside from that, only the CIT (computing and information technology, that provides computing for the general public) are Windows. SENS (science and engineering node services) maintains a
mix of Solaris (public) and SGI (engineering majors) boxen, and the CS servers run Solaris as well. But I get the impression that I wouldn't like Solaris nearly as much if I hadn't gotten a
Linux box to play with back when I still went to the pure-Windows Jamestown Community College.
Um... I don't know what article you read, but I don't see anything in particular about the one that/. linked to which would prevent that idea from being used. Think of a screensaver: if you don't wake it up by having your palm scanned while moving the mouse, you won't be able to put in the password on the keyboard.
"Of course, control could be released by insertion of a secret code into a keypad that only certain ground security people would know and could tell the someone on the plane via radio in a pinch..."
The more people that know that password, the more brittle it is. If you have hundreds of airports, and a few tens of people at each airport (someone has to be awake and not sick at all times) that know the code--there are thousands of possible places to get it from. And how easy is it to change? Make it too easy, and an accomplice will simply change it to a key shared by the terrorists.
Technology is not a panacea. How about (bullet|blast)proof doors between the cockpit and passenger compartment? If no hijacker can get into the cockpit, they can't take over the flight.
The only major thing I can think of is that you eat a little performance for using a stock vendor kernel, as these will be running the lowest common denominator (386 or maybe 586, if the box demands a Pentium) code and not optimized for your architecture. Whether this makes any more than a theoretical difference is completely up to you to decide:-)
Linux checks all the CPU features (3DNow, MMX) and bugs (FDIV, F00F, HLT) on startup anyway, so no problems there; it should also auto-detect everything fine and deal with it. If you've got a custom kernel, you'll want to reconfigure it to support your new chipset for things like AGP, and also see if you have any bugfix items out for your chipset. Stock kernels have anything and everything on hand to deal, so things should be good with them.
That's nothing. I once played Civilization (the original) so long that when I looked away, the whole world was pixellated. I couldn't tell what time it was because the Settlers wouldn't quit irrigating the clock... ___ CmdrTHAC0 ___
Linux is free, in the same way that picking up a recipe leaflet in a supermarket is free. If you start assuming time is a cost, then nothing is free and virtually every company in the world will be open to lawsuits.
When someone prints a recipe leaflet, it costs them money. The cost of Linux is borne by the developers that chose to donate their time.
The cost of spam is borne by several people: the moron who runs an open relay, the owners of routers and gateways en route, the bandwidth, and the disk space the victim's mail server uses to store the message. All the spammer needs to do is send 1 message with the victims in the BCC: field. They pay little of the actual cost, if any---some spam from free trial accounts at their ISP.
So the point is that some commmunications are banned because of who pays. Junk faxes operate on the same principle as spam; the receiver pays for the toner and paper, and the sender only pays for the fax line. Junk snail mail and telephone salespeople are fine (legally) because the sender pays for the printing and postage or the long-distance call. ___ CmdrTHAC0 ___
I don't have DSL personally, but the people I know that do claim it's "acceptable"... since they've been using 56k dialup, "acceptable" is 100K/sec downloads on their 128K up/768K down ADSL line from Alltel (Jamestown NY.)
When I visited my brother in Atlanta, I was rather impressed with cable modem... it beats the college network's low-load times (70-90K over 10Mbps Ethernet w/ Cat5 cabling) hands down at 200K/sec under load, but I have no idea about reliability. ___ CmdrTHAC0 ___
No mp3s. Bad bad computer. Eating away at profit margin. Destroy Napster.
That's what the RIAA is saying, but not all artists agree.
Just think back to the last time you went to the music store. All those cd's you don't know what they are, you're not buying them at all. Now if you had a song or 3 from them, maybe you'd purchase some of them.
I usually avoid buying anything.
More to the point... I'm officially for Napster and the artists, and against the RIAA and the attitudes of some of the/. posters.
Napster is good because it promotes sharing. Sharing in real life (need bigger HDD... grr) has introduced me to Shadow Gallery, Dream Theater, Liquid Tension Experiment, James Galway, and Joe Satriani (wrt JS, earlier is better... "Engines of Creation" blows!)
The artists are good because they produce the music.
The RIAA is bad because they end up making retail charge $40 for a couple of CDs (Rush: Chronicles) to make a profit.
The attitudes are bad because they don't agree with mine. I'd prefer to bang my head against the wall than read anything else saying, "I'm not taking anything. There is no less after than before I listened." (Anybody that says that should compare the money they make selling their code with that of giving it away.) The list goes on, but I'd rather not ramble.
I just think it puts a lot of pressure on artists to put out good work instead of shoving it as hard as they can down our throats (MTV/Radio).
Good point... pretty soon we can replace the artists on these media with the automated songwriting programs featured in _1984_. ___ CmdrTHAC0 ___
If you think that being on a major record label equals self-determination for an artist, you're sadly mistaken.
Napster is free. Napster screws them harder than the RIAA if it becomes the dominant distribution model. The masses shouldn't demand that all artists automatically arrive on Napster. "Voting with your feet" was meant in reference to moving to the product/distribution model you like, not kicking the teeth in of the one you don't like. But lots of people seem to have the motto, "Fuck you, RIAA!(Wheee, I'm breaking the law!) Sorry, [artist of choice], I'm fucking you, too, but it's for a good cause." The creator of the work should get the choice: if they think Napster is good, let them support it.
So... how 'bout we end all the hoopla by declaring the RIAA a public utility and regulating them to the moon and back? ___ CmdrTHAC0 ___
if i download music from the internet, im not taking anything. There is no less after, than before i listened to it.
There is no less music... but there is less money. If the artist does not say whether they want it distributed in MP3 form, then someone should ask, and whatever the artist says should be respected. Without respect, there is no civilization...
... intellectual property will make us all slaves. Nobody owns ideas.
MP3s aren't ideas. MP3 itself is a medium that a particular amount of WORK can be stored and transfered in. The artist should be compensated for their work, right? You're compensated for your work for your employer, and you compensate other's work every time you buy something from a store. Why are artists excepted from the compensation rule that our (my?) society runs on? Does my.sig answer my own question?
As for the slavery bit... your perceived freedom of downloading something makes that artist a slave... an uncompensated worker. Are you for slavery or against it? ___ CmdrTHAC0 ___
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We agonized over whether to go for a 40 or 80 MB disk for about a week, then finally went with the 80 in case we ordered lots of Fred Fish disks. We didn't, so in the 10 years that Amiga 500 was in service, we managed to fill about 30 MB of it, with DeluxePaintIII animations, hundreds of assembly programs, Unicalc spreadsheets, and even a few BASIC programs. We had the disk in a Dataflyer IDE controller, which also held our huge upgrade of 2 MB of fast RAM, on 80-pin 1x8 SIMMs.
We modified an Amdek Color-I monitor and built a custom cable to drive it with the digital RGB output of the Amiga. The computer is gone, but the monitor lives on, with a PSOne[1] connected to its analog input. We still play games with mono sound.
[1] Who would name a product something that looks like it should be pronounced "piss on"?
How do you create a symlink to anything?
You didn't say emulate. And as far as that goes, GNOME does not emulate Win98, either. Look at a default GNOME desktop sometime. It has a Mac-like menu bar, detachable menus, and a shade button on every window where the close button would be. And good luck trying to change your keyboard layout in the Control Center.
Then spraypaint it to match :)
Your immediately dropped into a console.
My immediately? I didn't know I had one, or even that anyone could possess an adverb. However, maybe the DMCA changed that.
if only I could turn off that darn amber LED that says it is sleeping...
Duct tape is fairly opaque. Hopefully you can tell when it's on, so you don't need the green light either.
But what's the point of a screensaver you can't look at?
NVidia has had FreeBSD drivers for -STABLE since mid-November.
"so do YOU want to tell little jimmy that he can not visit nice mister pilot and watch all the blinking lights and buttons, that actually beeing the one and only reason he did board the plane??"
I should think that tours and flights would be separate things.
- College teaches what's out there.
- People want what they know.
- What's out there is in demand, and stays out
there.
Lather, rinse, and repeat.Aside from that, only the CIT (computing and information technology, that provides computing for the general public) are Windows. SENS (science and engineering node services) maintains a mix of Solaris (public) and SGI (engineering majors) boxen, and the CS servers run Solaris as well. But I get the impression that I wouldn't like Solaris nearly as much if I hadn't gotten a Linux box to play with back when I still went to the pure-Windows Jamestown Community College.
Um... I don't know what article you read, but I don't see anything in particular about the one that /. linked to which would prevent that idea from being used. Think of a screensaver: if you don't wake it up by having your palm scanned while moving the mouse, you won't be able to put in the password on the keyboard.
"Of course, control could be released by insertion of a secret code into a keypad that only certain ground security people would know and could tell the someone on the plane via radio in a pinch..."
The more people that know that password, the more brittle it is. If you have hundreds of airports, and a few tens of people at each airport (someone has to be awake and not sick at all times) that know the code--there are thousands of possible places to get it from. And how easy is it to change? Make it too easy, and an accomplice will simply change it to a key shared by the terrorists.
Technology is not a panacea. How about (bullet|blast)proof doors between the cockpit and passenger compartment? If no hijacker can get into the cockpit, they can't take over the flight.
Q1. And it's memory that gives something intelligence? In that case, Solaris is AI.
Q2. Are those bitrates an average, or the maximum?
The only major thing I can think of is that you eat a little performance for using a stock vendor kernel, as these will be running the lowest common denominator (386 or maybe 586, if the box demands a Pentium) code and not optimized for your architecture. Whether this makes any more than a theoretical difference is completely up to you to decide :-)
Linux checks all the CPU features (3DNow, MMX) and bugs (FDIV, F00F, HLT) on startup anyway, so no problems there; it should also auto-detect everything fine and deal with it. If you've got a custom kernel, you'll want to reconfigure it to support your new chipset for things like AGP, and also see if you have any bugfix items out for your chipset. Stock kernels have anything and everything on hand to deal, so things should be good with them.
(taking the "link to your dream journals" bit too seriously)
I don't have an online dream journal, but here's a quick synopsis of common threads:
But since I'm not an amnesiac, I don't count.
___ CmdrTHAC0 ___
That's nothing. I once played Civilization (the original) so long that when I looked away, the whole world was pixellated. I couldn't tell what time it was because the Settlers wouldn't quit irrigating the clock...
___ CmdrTHAC0 ___
Linux is free, in the same way that picking up a recipe leaflet in a supermarket is free. If you start assuming time is a cost, then nothing is free and virtually every company in the world will be open to lawsuits.
When someone prints a recipe leaflet, it costs them money. The cost of Linux is borne by the developers that chose to donate their time.
The cost of spam is borne by several people: the moron who runs an open relay, the owners of routers and gateways en route, the bandwidth, and the disk space the victim's mail server uses to store the message. All the spammer needs to do is send 1 message with the victims in the BCC: field. They pay little of the actual cost, if any---some spam from free trial accounts at their ISP.
So the point is that some commmunications are banned because of who pays. Junk faxes operate on the same principle as spam; the receiver pays for the toner and paper, and the sender only pays for the fax line. Junk snail mail and telephone salespeople are fine (legally) because the sender pays for the printing and postage or the long-distance call.
___ CmdrTHAC0 ___
I don't have DSL personally, but the people I know that do claim it's "acceptable"... since they've been using 56k dialup, "acceptable" is 100K/sec downloads on their 128K up/768K down ADSL line from Alltel (Jamestown NY.)
When I visited my brother in Atlanta, I was rather impressed with cable modem... it beats the college network's low-load times (70-90K over 10Mbps Ethernet w/ Cat5 cabling) hands down at 200K/sec under load, but I have no idea about reliability.
___ CmdrTHAC0 ___
No mp3s. Bad bad computer. Eating away at profit margin. Destroy Napster.
That's what the RIAA is saying, but not all artists agree.
Just think back to the last time you went to the music store. All those cd's you don't know what they are, you're not buying them at all. Now if you had a song or 3 from them, maybe you'd purchase some of them.
I usually avoid buying anything.
More to the point... I'm officially for Napster and the artists, and against the RIAA and the attitudes of some of the /. posters.
Napster is good because it promotes sharing. Sharing in real life (need bigger HDD... grr) has introduced me to Shadow Gallery, Dream Theater, Liquid Tension Experiment, James Galway, and Joe Satriani (wrt JS, earlier is better... "Engines of Creation" blows!)
The artists are good because they produce the music.
The RIAA is bad because they end up making retail charge $40 for a couple of CDs (Rush: Chronicles) to make a profit.
The attitudes are bad because they don't agree with mine. I'd prefer to bang my head against the wall than read anything else saying, "I'm not taking anything. There is no less after than before I listened." (Anybody that says that should compare the money they make selling their code with that of giving it away.) The list goes on, but I'd rather not ramble.
I just think it puts a lot of pressure on artists to put out good work instead of shoving it as hard as they can down our throats (MTV/Radio).
Good point... pretty soon we can replace the artists on these media with the automated songwriting programs featured in _1984_.
___ CmdrTHAC0 ___
If you think that being on a major record label equals self-determination for an artist, you're sadly mistaken.
Napster is free. Napster screws them harder than the RIAA if it becomes the dominant distribution model. The masses shouldn't demand that all artists automatically arrive on Napster. "Voting with your feet" was meant in reference to moving to the product/distribution model you like, not kicking the teeth in of the one you don't like. But lots of people seem to have the motto, "Fuck you, RIAA! (Wheee, I'm breaking the law!) Sorry, [artist of choice], I'm fucking you, too, but it's for a good cause." The creator of the work should get the choice: if they think Napster is good, let them support it.
So... how 'bout we end all the hoopla by declaring the RIAA a public utility and regulating them to the moon and back?
___ CmdrTHAC0 ___
if i download music from the internet, im not taking anything. There is no less after, than before i listened to it.
There is no less music... but there is less money. If the artist does not say whether they want it distributed in MP3 form, then someone should ask, and whatever the artist says should be respected. Without respect, there is no civilization...
MP3s aren't ideas. MP3 itself is a medium that a particular amount of WORK can be stored and transfered in. The artist should be compensated for their work, right? You're compensated for your work for your employer, and you compensate other's work every time you buy something from a store. Why are artists excepted from the compensation rule that our (my?) society runs on? Does my .sig answer my own question?
As for the slavery bit... your perceived freedom of downloading something makes that artist a slave... an uncompensated worker. Are you for slavery or against it?
___ CmdrTHAC0 ___
There are things more important than money, and there are actually musicians out there that realize this.
Shouldn't we let the musicians decide how they want to try and live, and not have the masses dictate it for them?
___ CmdrTHAC0 ___