There is also an S/390 emulator for the Psion 5mx! I found it while browsing through the last issue of LinuxFormat in the newsstand. Thought it was pretty damned cool, however insane it may be.
Unfortunately, I completely forgot the name and web site for this puppy. I'll google it.
Not that this post is on topic to yours, Thomas, I just want to say thank you for making ROX what it is. I'm not able to fully enjoy the ROX Desktop (due to space constraints, no Python or PyGTK), but the ideas you have going on for you are great! Please keep up with your work, and happy hacking. ROX has been the only file manager I've ever had installed on this box, and I will make sure that will always be true.:)
ROX is one of the main elements of my Linux distribution, since the appdirs mechanism is the most flawless I've ever seen (sources at http://phatboydesigns.net/devel/0sys/0sys.tar.bz2, 360K or so download). I'm particularly interested in the potential it has to being a killer file manager on small devices.
(Shameless plug) For those of you who are too lazy to get PyGTK or can't have it, check out my Linux distribution's souces--There are some rather interesting goodies in desk/ written in Bourne shell, using some of my own Gtk+ apps as a scriptable replacement to the PyGTK-based ROX library. Warning: My distribution is a little sparse on documentation, but there are manual pages in there for some things.
You know, there is only one thing that human kind can do to prevent many more losses of lives. It's something that far supercedes any weapon that kills, any device that circumvents, any tool that hinders. It's called trust.
Trusting is like a chain reaction. If the terrorists trusted us (*gasp*) to not attack their people and to not interrupt their way of life, then we can trust them to not attack us. Then, perhaps we could trust that our mail would not be contaminated with irradiation or anthrax, then we could trust the United States Postal Service to safely deliver our packages.
Though, we must keep in mind that trust is a two-way thing. To be trusted, one must trust.
Our only problem is that it will be a very long time for us to achieve such a thing.
Although xTunes cannot communicate with an iPod, it is a rather accurate representation of the iTunes interface, and has the same good feel to it. However, I wasn't quite pleased with the requirements for getting it to compile--I was forced to use Gtkmm, had to download MAD (I primarily use mpg123), and could not get either MAD or LAME to crank out shared libraries (eventually, I just plunked all of the objects from the static libraries and linked them as a shared library).
Do you honestly think that it would take any less effort to move your mouse to the top of the screen, as opposed to the left or right, or even the bottom? However, it might be useful near the top if using programs with menubars at the top.
However, a counterpoint to this would be the ease of accessibility of the Window Maker root menu. For example, if one was using a fully maximised Mozilla window, and wanted to access something quickly on the root menu, he/she would have to minimise or move the window (and any additional windows below it) in order to reach the desktop, in order to access the root menu.
Neither solution is inherently better than the other. A solution to both is to have a special key dedicated to accessing the menu (Windows and Window Maker both have one).
So, in other words, I don't see what all of this flaming is about.
You hit the nail right on the head. If ANY 'compression scheme' were to 'compress' 1MB of data to a single byte...How would it go about decompressing it? One byte is DEFINATELY not enough space to store proper information about the compressed data on how to decompress it. (Though I'm sure by the time I post, somebody will have already said this.)
So, any way one could put it, Zeo's claim is as much bullshit as their buzzword-compliant site.
Why not pick up an SH4 cross-compilation toolchain, and build AbiWord for the Dreamcast? Easy for a geek to do, but the market has no interest in the Dreamcast. Bad idea on my part.:'(
And, why would that be? Well, the range is an entire whopping half of a mile! I wonder if this could be done on the entire neighborhood's power grid...
It would be nice if the root DNS servers maintained not only a list of existing entries pointing to sites (like, the regular yahoo.com), but also...Canonical names pointing to a site, generated based on information such as location, etc.
I think it would be spiffy if I could find the nearest Radio Shack around (if, say, I were new to my area) with a system like this. I could try radioshack.dallas.tx.us.com, and instantly see a site on the locations in Dallas. But--What if there were no Radio Shacks in Dallas? Ya don't suppose I could hit radioshack.index.tx.us.com, and I'd instantly see an index of all Radio Shack locations in Texas?
Sorry. Just more speculation from yet another convenience nut.
It would be very neat if this were provided as a free service that acts as a front-end to an existing POP3 account. Simply sign up, provide info like your username, POP3 host (but not password; that can be passed from the service to your POP3 server on log-in for safety reasons). Then, point your favourite mail client at the service's POP3 server, and...voila. Same e-mail, minus the spam.
Nothing truly insightful here, just speculation from a convenience freak.
I remember almost a year ago when GNOME was ported to Windows, running on top of AT&T's POSIX.DLL.
Enough about that. Imagine an entire kernel running as a process in Windows--Imagine an X server that interfaced with the Windows kernel to gain hardware access. Wouldn't life be great?
Since when did a forum like Slashdot make us talk ONLY about the things mentioned in the story? Threads deviate just like everyday conversation. One small thing is mentioned, and then entire conversations spawn on top of them. Just like threads.
I guess you'll have to mod me down.
But, hey, to add something on topic, the guys at QSSL (the ones responsible for QNX) do a fine job at this with Photon. Excuse me for pointing out the obvious, but all it would take would be an intermediate layer between the client and server that would proxy info sent back and forth...via TCP/IP.
But you can't have a 2.4.15-post without a 2.4.15-firstpost!
Gtk+ -- My toolkit of choice.
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Gtk+, as many other things, may have a bit of a learning curve (somewhat of an understatement). With "unrememberable" calls like gtk_button_new_with_label() and such scattered about, it makes Gtk+ an unmaintainable hodge-podge.
Or not...
Gtk+ is actually much more organised and beautiful than many other toolkits I've seen in my day. It is well maintained, and the object-oriented design on top of C is actually quite consistient throughout. Standards such as using g_ for prefixing Glib calls, gtk_ for Gtk+ calls, gdk_ for Gdk calls, and Gtk for Gtk+ datatypes (the same for Gdk, but just a 'g' for Glib) help keep things organised.
The signal and callback model of Gtk+ is also a winner, in my opinion. Using gtk_signal_func() to attach a function to a widget when a given signal is emitted also keeps things organised.
On the other hand, Gtk+ programs generally take a few more lines to write than Qt apps. Even so, even the simplest of Qt 'hello world' programs outweighs one of Gtk+ by many kilobytes of RAM.
Although Gtk+ isn't quite as cross-platform as Qt (Gtk+ makes it possible using the Gdk layer), Gtk+ is still a definant winner in my opinion, in terms of performance, stability, and consistiency.
Have fun. It works well enough for me. It does not use VNC or anything at all--It connects to any X Window server, and displays your Windows desktop. Very nifty.
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> Sega Dreamcast - SH4 cpu, (SH3 for sound? heh)
StrongARM, actually.
Why did you post anonymously? At least show some spine in your arguments.
There is also an S/390 emulator for the Psion 5mx! I found it while browsing through the last issue of LinuxFormat in the newsstand. Thought it was pretty damned cool, however insane it may be.
Unfortunately, I completely forgot the name and web site for this puppy. I'll google it.
ROX is one of the main elements of my Linux distribution, since the appdirs mechanism is the most flawless I've ever seen (sources at http://phatboydesigns.net/devel/0sys/0sys.tar.bz2, 360K or so download). I'm particularly interested in the potential it has to being a killer file manager on small devices.
(Shameless plug) For those of you who are too lazy to get PyGTK or can't have it, check out my Linux distribution's souces--There are some rather interesting goodies in desk/ written in Bourne shell, using some of my own Gtk+ apps as a scriptable replacement to the PyGTK-based ROX library. Warning: My distribution is a little sparse on documentation, but there are manual pages in there for some things.
I'm quite surprised Torvalds hasn't talked with this guy yet ;)
Trusting is like a chain reaction. If the terrorists trusted us (*gasp*) to not attack their people and to not interrupt their way of life, then we can trust them to not attack us. Then, perhaps we could trust that our mail would not be contaminated with irradiation or anthrax, then we could trust the United States Postal Service to safely deliver our packages.
Though, we must keep in mind that trust is a two-way thing. To be trusted, one must trust.
Our only problem is that it will be a very long time for us to achieve such a thing.
Just a few thoughts.
Although xTunes cannot communicate with an iPod, it is a rather accurate representation of the iTunes interface, and has the same good feel to it. However, I wasn't quite pleased with the requirements for getting it to compile--I was forced to use Gtkmm, had to download MAD (I primarily use mpg123), and could not get either MAD or LAME to crank out shared libraries (eventually, I just plunked all of the objects from the static libraries and linked them as a shared library).
Perhaps you should read a little more carefully. And yes, I'm well aware, thank you.
However, a counterpoint to this would be the ease of accessibility of the Window Maker root menu. For example, if one was using a fully maximised Mozilla window, and wanted to access something quickly on the root menu, he/she would have to minimise or move the window (and any additional windows below it) in order to reach the desktop, in order to access the root menu.
Neither solution is inherently better than the other. A solution to both is to have a special key dedicated to accessing the menu (Windows and Window Maker both have one).
So, in other words, I don't see what all of this flaming is about.
You hit the nail right on the head. If ANY 'compression scheme' were to 'compress' 1MB of data to a single byte...How would it go about decompressing it? One byte is DEFINATELY not enough space to store proper information about the compressed data on how to decompress it. (Though I'm sure by the time I post, somebody will have already said this.)
So, any way one could put it, Zeo's claim is as much bullshit as their buzzword-compliant site.
Why not pick up an SH4 cross-compilation toolchain, and build AbiWord for the Dreamcast? Easy for a geek to do, but the market has no interest in the Dreamcast. Bad idea on my part. :'(
QNX, actually. And it's still available for sale, AFAIK.
Geez, I'm convinced! The man doesn't even exist on the Web!?
And, why would that be? Well, the range is an entire whopping half of a mile! I wonder if this could be done on the entire neighborhood's power grid...
(For the humour-deprived, this was, well, a joke.)
Not to mention, my Psion 5mx would have no choice but to be clogged with spam. :(
I think it would be spiffy if I could find the nearest Radio Shack around (if, say, I were new to my area) with a system like this. I could try radioshack.dallas.tx.us.com, and instantly see a site on the locations in Dallas. But--What if there were no Radio Shacks in Dallas? Ya don't suppose I could hit radioshack.index.tx.us.com, and I'd instantly see an index of all Radio Shack locations in Texas?
Sorry. Just more speculation from yet another convenience nut.
Nothing truly insightful here, just speculation from a convenience freak.
Enough about that. Imagine an entire kernel running as a process in Windows--Imagine an X server that interfaced with the Windows kernel to gain hardware access. Wouldn't life be great?
Since when did a forum like Slashdot make us talk ONLY about the things mentioned in the story? Threads deviate just like everyday conversation. One small thing is mentioned, and then entire conversations spawn on top of them. Just like threads.
I guess you'll have to mod me down.
But, hey, to add something on topic, the guys at QSSL (the ones responsible for QNX) do a fine job at this with Photon. Excuse me for pointing out the obvious, but all it would take would be an intermediate layer between the client and server that would proxy info sent back and forth...via TCP/IP.
But you can't have a 2.4.15-post without a 2.4.15-firstpost!
Or not...
Gtk+ is actually much more organised and beautiful than many other toolkits I've seen in my day. It is well maintained, and the object-oriented design on top of C is actually quite consistient throughout. Standards such as using g_ for prefixing Glib calls, gtk_ for Gtk+ calls, gdk_ for Gdk calls, and Gtk for Gtk+ datatypes (the same for Gdk, but just a 'g' for Glib) help keep things organised.
The signal and callback model of Gtk+ is also a winner, in my opinion. Using gtk_signal_func() to attach a function to a widget when a given signal is emitted also keeps things organised.
On the other hand, Gtk+ programs generally take a few more lines to write than Qt apps. Even so, even the simplest of Qt 'hello world' programs outweighs one of Gtk+ by many kilobytes of RAM.
Although Gtk+ isn't quite as cross-platform as Qt (Gtk+ makes it possible using the Gdk layer), Gtk+ is still a definant winner in my opinion, in terms of performance, stability, and consistiency.
Then again...Photon isn't that bad... ;)
It seems our moderators need to ease up on their high horses.
On a different note, an installer should NOT remove files...Maybe except /tmp files that are of their own.
Kind of nifty. Much easier to do than:
So I guess there's a bit of a lesson we all learn.
Not your parent post, but I sure as hell am. A cool project on Freshmeat I found a few days ago: http://freshmeat.net/projectx/xwinx/
Have fun. It works well enough for me. It does not use VNC or anything at all--It connects to any X Window server, and displays your Windows desktop. Very nifty.