there's now a planet enum internally (only mars + earth for now... hopefully we go do something interesting on the moon again soon), and an alternate latlng field that we're storing the planet-specific coordinates in. The web rendering code knows to look for the astralLatLng if planet != earth. So that all our current clients and api consumers don't explode , we're pushing out the earth latlng of mission control via the public api.
Where is Cringley getting useful applications for OSx86? One of the things that has kept the mac platform alive is very stable & mature ports of MS Office. MS will *not* port office to a direct windows competitor.
Sure, it's BSD, so OSS apps can be compiled for it, but people don't want abiword or kword, they want MS Word. There's no way apple is going to bundle pre-compiled OSS software, and even if they did, it's not what people are looking for. If anything, without apps, this would be a niche desktop OS.
Unless Cringley expects a perfect win32 emulator to appear, or perhaps he supports a classic mode for windows [this is feasible, grab the netraverse guys and port win4lin to bsd in a rootless mode], this won't work.
Where did this FUD come from? Even the mac geeks I know admit that the mac platform is very unstable prior to OS X, not as a feature of the OS, but due to extensions (the puzzle icons pn boot). Macs generally crash more than a comprably installed windows PC. At thier base, both are stable operating systems that can run for years without installing anything else. However, my understanding is that Mac OS deals even worse with extensions than windows does with DLLs & VXDs.
But OS X isn't tuned to the hardware. It runs dog slow on anything below a g3/500, and you really want to be running it on a g4. There is a tremendous amount of hardware incompatibilities and classic isn't always your best bet for running older apps.
the core frequency of the athalon is measured as a mutliple of 100, the fsb is 2x that. So the fsb is 200. It's a kt133a.
yeah...you're also right about the p3, 933 divides roughly evenly by 133...
Where does the feel good effect of intel chipsets come from? Are via chipsets that crappy? What alternative is there for a good amd chipset? none of the in-house amd chipsets are actually production read yas far as I understand, they were jsut reference designs.
just from personal experience, the p3 is a better/faster/more responsive desktop chip. I realize it's about 50% more expensive than a comprable athalon, but a 933mhz p3 on an i815 smokes my 1.1ghz tbird wit a gf2-mx400. Both 100mhz fsb (yeah, tbird is ddr, so it's 2x100). Not a hard drive issue either.
You can say that Blade Runner or Total Recall were better than the book. They were both amazing movies, btu they were completely different. Ridley Scott took ideas from Phillip K Dick, and very little else. I give credi to both for being amazing, but read Do Androids Dream... and then watch the movie, no comparison, simply because they're so different.
I've done it in vmware for a lexmark z12 printer. Vmware 3.0 has full raw support for usb (for the usb printer) and scsi (meanign I can burn.cdi's with discjuggler in windows). So I had a host-only network running on vmnet0, 192.168.17.1 for my dekstop,.2 for linux, and I had a smbprint/smbspool printcap entry to print to the smb shared printer in vmware/win2k. It worked, a little slow, and big overhead, btu ti worked (until I got my epson c80, which I adore.)
DeCSS and Skylarov arent designed for copyright infrignment, those are both designed for regaining rights granted by fair use. Skylarov's program would not crack pdf password, it woudl only crack them if you had your key. DeCSS was designed so peopel coudl watch DVDs in linux. DVDs could be copied before DeCSS.
I have an inkling Ayn Rand will survive, she'll be seen as an exaggerrated form of 20th century philosiphy.
I want to see Douglas Coupland survive, I've always connected with his books, even as a pre-teen, as a demonstration of the alienation that is the root of the GenX/latter-half-of-the-century culture.
There's more, but I have an AP US history test to study for.
Going to school in lower manhattan, I immediatley thought of the stench down there. I go to Stuy, and I need to walk over the Tribeca bridge to get to school. It's the cutoff point for how far south you can go in manhattan. The smell is awful, death and burnt plastic, and bsut steel, and dust and mold and fire. That may not have been the intent, but that's how I took it.
that's bad logic, you can run a linux system without "Apache, Perl, Python, vim, etc..", you can't run it without gcc, g++, *libc*, binutils, bash, gzip, less, ncurses, readline, *shellutils*.
All gnu tools. They are vital to a linux system booting, apache is not.
Most RPMs can simply be converted to deb format with 'alien', and a little bit of elbow grease figuring out what libs need to be installed. I've dealt with numerous packages including win4lin (can't think of any others at the moment, but there have been lots).
Stuy is 65-100, everything below a 65 is a special code (if I remember from the back of my last report card correctly). It was a mroe general statement about grades & stuy.
Your GPA at stuy depends a lot on the teachers you get. There are a lot of bad teachers,a lot of easy ones. THere are easy courses, kids who don't take APs, kids who tailor schedules to maximum GPA, minimum work. Stuy has issues living up to it's reputation.
There's a wonderful thing called a UFT transfer. Where a teacher in the system who's been etaching long enough can transfer into a position to stuy, regardless of whether or not they are qualified to etach APs or even gifted students. Sometimes budding, wonderful new teahcers, who still enjoy thier work get bumped by a UFT transfer.
Our principal is a non-confrontational jerk, who refuses to fight the battles that need to be fought. The CS department gets no respect, we're still classified as math classes.
That's a pessimistic look @ stuy from inside. At least we have knowledgable CS people I can learn from, and student have lots of power. Thanks god we just upgraded to webserver to a PIII-700 penguin box, don't think the old p-pro could have handled it. The layout is new, If you don't like it, don't blame me, I maintain and install the servers, not the content.
they really don't. Most people have fun with them. i know I have. They're simple arcade games. Most of the stuff you play on a palm pilot comes from atari concepts. Pong is simple. Pong is fun. Pong is addictive. Same for pacman, space invaders, maybe you're looking through smoky lenses. Atari started the platform game.
Can anyone who's recently been in China describe how internet access is really like? Who are the ISPs run by? is there a government run firewall? where does that firewall sit? Are there ways to circumvent it?
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there's now a planet enum internally (only mars + earth for now ... hopefully we go do something interesting on the moon again soon), and an alternate latlng field that we're storing the planet-specific coordinates in. The web rendering code knows to look for the astralLatLng if planet != earth. So that all our current clients and api consumers don't explode , we're pushing out the earth latlng of mission control via the public api.
ourTunes is applerecords+. Applerecords was one2 + 4.5 auth. Our code is applerecords+searching+downloading.
--dabe
You want to play music, as an amateur, hobby thing, but maybe you're thinking about doing a few gigs.
Buy an electric guitar. You computer. You can now theoretically make music.
Next you want an amp, this could be more than your guitar. Add petals. Add replacement stirngs.
You've spent a lot more than your initial investment.The computer is a platform from which to run tools.
Where is Cringley getting useful applications for OSx86? One of the things that has kept the mac platform alive is very stable & mature ports of MS Office. MS will *not* port office to a direct windows competitor.
Sure, it's BSD, so OSS apps can be compiled for it, but people don't want abiword or kword, they want MS Word. There's no way apple is going to bundle pre-compiled OSS software, and even if they did, it's not what people are looking for. If anything, without apps, this would be a niche desktop OS.
Unless Cringley expects a perfect win32 emulator to appear, or perhaps he supports a classic mode for windows [this is feasible, grab the netraverse guys and port win4lin to bsd in a rootless mode], this won't work.
Where did this FUD come from? Even the mac geeks I know admit that the mac platform is very unstable prior to OS X, not as a feature of the OS, but due to extensions (the puzzle icons pn boot). Macs generally crash more than a comprably installed windows PC. At thier base, both are stable operating systems that can run for years without installing anything else. However, my understanding is that Mac OS deals even worse with extensions than windows does with DLLs & VXDs.
But OS X isn't tuned to the hardware. It runs dog slow on anything below a g3/500, and you really want to be running it on a g4. There is a tremendous amount of hardware incompatibilities and classic isn't always your best bet for running older apps.
Sourceforge?
1 word:
playboy
--dave
no benchmarks...day to day desktop usage...
It's a via (amd) board...maybe it is the chipset.
the core frequency of the athalon is measured as a mutliple of 100, the fsb is 2x that. So the fsb is 200. It's a kt133a.
yeah...you're also right about the p3, 933 divides roughly evenly by 133...
Where does the feel good effect of intel chipsets come from? Are via chipsets that crappy? What alternative is there for a good amd chipset? none of the in-house amd chipsets are actually production read yas far as I understand, they were jsut reference designs.
I've come to the belief that there's a difference between benchmarks and real world use. Mostly after my experiences with the athalon & the p3.
the p3....
just from personal experience, the p3 is a better/faster/more responsive desktop chip. I realize it's about 50% more expensive than a comprable athalon, but a 933mhz p3 on an i815 smokes my 1.1ghz tbird wit a gf2-mx400. Both 100mhz fsb (yeah, tbird is ddr, so it's 2x100). Not a hard drive issue either.
You can say that Blade Runner or Total Recall were better than the book. They were both amazing movies, btu they were completely different. Ridley Scott took ideas from Phillip K Dick, and very little else. I give credi to both for being amazing, but read Do Androids Dream... and then watch the movie, no comparison, simply because they're so different.
I've done it in vmware for a lexmark z12 printer. Vmware 3.0 has full raw support for usb (for the usb printer) and scsi (meanign I can burn .cdi's with discjuggler in windows). So I had a host-only network running on vmnet0, 192.168.17.1 for my dekstop, .2 for linux, and I had a smbprint/smbspool printcap entry to print to the smb shared printer in vmware/win2k. It worked, a little slow, and big overhead, btu ti worked (until I got my epson c80, which I adore.)
DeCSS and Skylarov arent designed for copyright infrignment, those are both designed for regaining rights granted by fair use. Skylarov's program would not crack pdf password, it woudl only crack them if you had your key. DeCSS was designed so peopel coudl watch DVDs in linux. DVDs could be copied before DeCSS.
I have an inkling Ayn Rand will survive, she'll be seen as an exaggerrated form of 20th century philosiphy.
I want to see Douglas Coupland survive, I've always connected with his books, even as a pre-teen, as a demonstration of the alienation that is the root of the GenX/latter-half-of-the-century culture.
There's more, but I have an AP US history test to study for.
Willing to bet you're in 16 bit color, winamp 3 alpha 1 needs 24 or 32 bpp. This is stated in the README.
--dave
Going to school in lower manhattan, I immediatley thought of the stench down there. I go to Stuy, and I need to walk over the Tribeca bridge to get to school. It's the cutoff point for how far south you can go in manhattan. The smell is awful, death and burnt plastic, and bsut steel, and dust and mold and fire. That may not have been the intent, but that's how I took it.
that's bad logic, you can run a linux system without "Apache, Perl, Python, vim, etc..", you can't run it without gcc, g++, *libc*, binutils, bash, gzip, less, ncurses, readline, *shellutils*.
All gnu tools. They are vital to a linux system booting, apache is not.
--dave
Most RPMs can simply be converted to deb format with 'alien', and a little bit of elbow grease figuring out what libs need to be installed. I've dealt with numerous packages including win4lin (can't think of any others at the moment, but there have been lots).
--dave
Stuy is 65-100, everything below a 65 is a special code (if I remember from the back of my last report card correctly). It was a mroe general statement about grades & stuy.
--dave
Your GPA at stuy depends a lot on the teachers you get. There are a lot of bad teachers,a lot of easy ones. THere are easy courses, kids who don't take APs, kids who tailor schedules to maximum GPA, minimum work. Stuy has issues living up to it's reputation.
There's a wonderful thing called a UFT transfer. Where a teacher in the system who's been etaching long enough can transfer into a position to stuy, regardless of whether or not they are qualified to etach APs or even gifted students. Sometimes budding, wonderful new teahcers, who still enjoy thier work get bumped by a UFT transfer.
Our principal is a non-confrontational jerk, who refuses to fight the battles that need to be fought. The CS department gets no respect, we're still classified as math classes.
That's a pessimistic look @ stuy from inside. At least we have knowledgable CS people I can learn from, and student have lots of power. Thanks god we just upgraded to webserver to a PIII-700 penguin box, don't think the old p-pro could have handled it. The layout is new, If you don't like it, don't blame me, I maintain and install the servers, not the content.
--dave
they really don't. Most people have fun with them. i know I have. They're simple arcade games. Most of the stuff you play on a palm pilot comes from atari concepts. Pong is simple. Pong is fun. Pong is addictive. Same for pacman, space invaders, maybe you're looking through smoky lenses. Atari started the platform game.
--dave
Can anyone who's recently been in China describe how internet access is really like? Who are the ISPs run by? is there a government run firewall? where does that firewall sit? Are there ways to circumvent it?
thanks,
--dave
He already made the VC pitch, and a VC firm listened. Linux Global Partners. They're really a great bunch of VCs, who are really with it.
--dave