I have a A7m266-D, with two XP1900+ working just fine. (On the other hand, they get *real* hot, and the fans make an awful lot of noise trying to get that double heat to something feasible - incredibly more so than with my old dual p3 1Ghz).
Still, I wonder: Is or is it not possible to run the 2600 in such a dual board?
Sorry, stupid Q: What is an ABI?
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It seems I was too busy in my work to miss this acronym. I know "API", but "ABI"? No, really, its no joke, I don't really know.
So, I look at www.acronymfinder.com only to find it could well mean "Acquired Brain Injury" or "Asociación de Bienestar Infantil (Association of Infant Well-Being, Guatemala)"
Some Mac site says: "An ABI is an "application binary interface" and describes binary-level conventions for applications running on a particular system". If that is what it is - why not just call it a "calling convention" (__cdecl / __pascal in Windows, __System in OS/2)?
[OT: I remember a flamewar with linux programmers about how calling conventions are "a broken concept" - as generally everything windows does and linux not is considered "a broken concept" - things like exception handling, and event semaphores (not that broken SystemV crap)...]
FOLDOC says, its "The interface by which an application program gains access to operating system and other services. It should be possible to run the same compiled binary applications on any system with the right ABI.". Now, why is that not an API? because of *calling conventions*? Duh. And to break the compiler for THAT...
> The only shell feature I miss from my Amiga days is being able to type the name of a directory to change to said directory.
The first thing I miss is the ASSIGN command. That was one heck of a good feature!
Assign, for those that don't (know|remember), assigns a name to a set of arbitrary directories. Like, say "ls bin:" lists (and locates files in) both/bin,/usr/bin,/usr/local/bin etc. etc transparently to all applications.
[Also nice, but way offtopic: a resetsafe ramdisk - something I haven't seen on PCs for ages.]
Besides, the case-sensitivity thing should not be something religious but something you can choose if so you desire. After all, having Linux is about having a choice for the OS - so why not have a choice for the FS, too?
Tom Cowles - a personal encounter
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This poor "ethikul buznizman" Tom Cowles send out several thousands of spam mails with forged senders - generated names from our domain. We are a small company of 6 people - he generated several hundred bogus names for "sender". (No, the mails were not sent using our domain - they were sent from some open proxy in asia).
On some of the worst days, we got well over 1.000 (one thousand) bounces!!! (that is: spam that *did not* go through to the recipient). So, his frickin spam did cost *us* money, plus reputation - because all the hatemail that bastard complains about went to *us* not to his sorry ass (like a 1mb hires jpeg with a "fuck you spammer" message - great, we didn't send that out, thank you very much).
And, being in europe there is hardly much I can do against a US spammer.
Luckily, after three weeks he stopped (he is probably misusing some other small companys name right now). I really hope this guy gets shut down for good. (There is hope - he is on criminal trial says' his "stalkers" website:
strindberg: inferno (strindberg is considered to have been clinically mad)
louis-ferdinand celine: Journey to the End of the (quote from review: Journey to the End of the Night is a novel of savage, exultant misanthropy, full of cynical humour and of the blackest pessimism in respect of humanity.)
Scite is just a frontend for scintilla. Now, scite rocks, but scintilla is one heck of a great editor component! It is used in Pythonwin, and part of the wxWindows framework (wxStyledTextCtrl). Great piece of software, that...
In my experience, Linux works great on hw that has been around a year or so, but sucks at brand new hardware.
See, I have a fairly bleeding-edge machine: a dual AMD XP1900, with GeForce4 and Soundblaster Audigy. I installed Windows 2000, works out of the box.
Linux (that is: Suse 7.3, and Mandrake 8.2) doesn't install in VGA mode on that card - just a blank screen and everything stops. Why is it that damn xfree cannot do normal VGA, when a two years old Windows 2000 can do that? Did they make their own variant of VGA mode that "is right" as opposed to the "wrong" VGA mode that comes with W2K?
It is this attitude that is familiar from the mozilla guys: The spec says X, so we do X, and don't care if the rest of the world does Y. Well duh, specs can have mistakes too you know, I want my machine to *work*, not to conform to some spec some group of dufus armchair scientists have come up with while debating obsolete points.
I won't even go into the fact that neither OSS nor ALSA will support my already *outdated* soundcard model (Soundblaster Audigy) - at least not until now.
> It's kinda sad to see how uninformed some people are about what.Net actually is.
The good thing about.NET is that its so undefined that if someone complains, you can always claim he or she is "uninformed about what.NET *really* actually truly is".
Some Quotes from Bill Gates' Speak on Hailstorm (http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/speeches/2001/ 03-19hailstorm.asp):
"""We're excited to have this chance to talk about a key piece of our.NET strategy.... So today is a milestone for us... This is what we call a.NET building block service. In fact, it's probably the most important.NET building block service."""
"""Q: How big should my stacksize be? A: It is critical to avoid stack sizes where byte 2 has a value of 2 or 4, e.g.: * 0x00020000 (128k) * 0x00040000 (256k) * 0x33023678 * 0x11041111 Otherwise, when executing under OS/2 2.0GA there may be various and always differing runtime error behaviors. """
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I think a portable C64 emulation would be a real cool thing:
- its oldskool,
- you'd have tons of old games ready to play
- and at the same time its a brand new toy
Not that "Color Gameboy" shit.
I have a A7m266-D, with two XP1900+ working just fine. (On the other hand, they get *real* hot, and the fans make an awful lot of noise trying to get that double heat to something feasible - incredibly more so than with my old dual p3 1Ghz).
Still, I wonder: Is or is it not possible to run the 2600 in such a dual board?
It seems I was too busy in my work to miss this acronym. I know "API", but "ABI"? No, really, its no joke, I don't really know.
So, I look at www.acronymfinder.com only to find it could well mean "Acquired Brain Injury" or "Asociación de Bienestar Infantil (Association of Infant Well-Being, Guatemala)"
Some Mac site says: "An ABI is an "application binary interface" and describes binary-level conventions for applications running on a particular system". If that is what it is - why not just call it a "calling convention" (__cdecl / __pascal in Windows, __System in OS/2)?
[OT: I remember a flamewar with linux programmers about how calling conventions are "a broken concept" - as generally everything windows does and linux not is considered "a broken concept" - things like exception handling, and event semaphores (not that broken SystemV crap)...]
FOLDOC says, its "The interface by which an application program gains access to operating system and other services. It should be possible to run the same compiled binary applications on any system with the right ABI.". Now, why is that not an API? because of *calling conventions*? Duh. And to break the compiler for THAT...
> The only shell feature I miss from my Amiga days is being able to type the name of a directory to change to said directory.
/bin, /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin etc. etc transparently to all applications.
The first thing I miss is the ASSIGN command. That was one heck of a good feature!
Assign, for those that don't (know|remember), assigns a name to a set of arbitrary directories. Like, say "ls bin:" lists (and locates files in) both
[Also nice, but way offtopic: a resetsafe ramdisk - something I haven't seen on PCs for ages.]
Besides, the case-sensitivity thing should not be something religious but something you can choose if so you desire. After all, having Linux is about having a choice for the OS - so why not have a choice for the FS, too?
This poor "ethikul buznizman" Tom Cowles send out several thousands of spam mails with forged senders - generated names from our domain. We are a small company of 6 people - he generated several hundred bogus names for "sender". (No, the mails were not sent using our domain - they were sent from some open proxy in asia).
On some of the worst days, we got well over 1.000 (one thousand) bounces!!! (that is: spam that *did not* go through to the recipient). So, his frickin spam did cost *us* money, plus reputation - because all the hatemail that bastard complains about went to *us* not to his sorry ass (like a 1mb hires jpeg with a "fuck you spammer" message - great, we didn't send that out, thank you very much).
And, being in europe there is hardly much I can do against a US spammer.
Luckily, after three weeks he stopped (he is probably misusing some other small companys name right now). I really hope this guy gets shut down for good. (There is hope - he is on criminal trial says' his "stalkers" website:
http://www.toledocybercafe.com/ivtg/
back to the oldskool:
strindberg: inferno (strindberg is considered to have been clinically mad)
louis-ferdinand celine: Journey to the End of the (quote from review: Journey to the End of the Night is a novel of savage, exultant misanthropy, full of cynical humour and of the blackest pessimism in respect of humanity.)
bret easton ellis: american psycho (nuff said)
Scite is just a frontend for scintilla. Now, scite rocks, but scintilla is one heck of a great editor component! It is used in Pythonwin, and part of the wxWindows framework (wxStyledTextCtrl). Great piece of software, that...
In my experience, Linux works great on hw that has been around a year or so, but sucks at brand new hardware.
See, I have a fairly bleeding-edge machine: a dual AMD XP1900, with GeForce4 and Soundblaster Audigy. I installed Windows 2000, works out of the box.
Linux (that is: Suse 7.3, and Mandrake 8.2) doesn't install in VGA mode on that card - just a blank screen and everything stops. Why is it that damn xfree cannot do normal VGA, when a two years old Windows 2000 can do that? Did they make their own variant of VGA mode that "is right" as opposed to the "wrong" VGA mode that comes with W2K?
It is this attitude that is familiar from the mozilla guys: The spec says X, so we do X, and don't care if the rest of the world does Y. Well duh, specs can have mistakes too you know, I want my machine to *work*, not to conform to some spec some group of dufus armchair scientists have come up with while debating obsolete points.
I won't even go into the fact that neither OSS nor ALSA will support my already *outdated* soundcard model (Soundblaster Audigy) - at least not until now.
They use GNU/Linux
> It's kinda sad to see how uninformed some people are about what .Net actually is.
.NET is that its so undefined that if someone complains, you can always claim he or she is "uninformed about what .NET *really* actually truly is".
/ 03-19hailstorm.asp):
.NET strategy.... So today is a milestone for us... This is what we call a .NET building block service. In fact, it's probably the most important .NET building block service."""
.NET really is: SLOW
The good thing about
Some Quotes from Bill Gates' Speak on Hailstorm (http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/speeches/2001
"""We're excited to have this chance to talk about a key piece of our
My opionion on what
From "The OS/2 Programming FAQ"
"""Q: How big should my stacksize be?
A: It is critical to avoid stack sizes where byte 2 has a value of 2 or 4, e.g.:
* 0x00020000 (128k)
* 0x00040000 (256k)
* 0x33023678
* 0x11041111
Otherwise, when executing under OS/2 2.0GA there may be various and always differing runtime error behaviors. """