Prior art will get them in the end... I doubt they could successfully defend this patent if needed, considering even DOSemu is basically a Virtual Platform-type thing.
Personally, I see your promotion of the Freemware (which makes no sense.. FreeMachineWare?) project as a way to push your pseudo-commercial Bochs emulator... GPL Bochs so we have some code to go with, and I'll help where I can (however, I am not a coder).
Blah.. I MEANT to say, if only there were drivers for my PBTV5 card, I'd be in Linux 99% of the day on this box. I'm tempted to offer some kernel hackers telnet access to this box to see what they can find out about it.
I'd even ship the card to them if it would make a difference (if they could be trusted to send it back), but it of course relies on crap on the MB (along with the onboard S3 ViRGE DX)...
Idea: Any chance in hell VMware would get this thing running in a virtual Windows 98 session? I don't know if the PBTV software requires direct access to the hardware or not. I think it does...
I'd wager a guess at a slowdown of between %20 and %30... I've run a couple tests on my (rediculously underpowered for VMware) P200, and it performed around the speed of a P133.
What I'm more interested in is what hardware specs have the largest effect on this.. Would a K7 with a full load of cache (8mb max) be faster than a K7 with 512kb because the emulation code is more likely to be in cache, or is it more a brute CPU speed problem?
It performs astonishingly well for me, when you consider what it's doing. I'm definatley forking out $99 for it when I GET $99. If only there were drivers for my PBTV5 card in Linux (No, the PBTV3 and 4 drivers don't work. The PBTV5 aparently relies on some hardware on the motherboard to decode the video signal...)
I used to use MailExcite for my domains due to the spam I KNEW I would get (do a whois on my domain, the-corridor.com, for example). Also, they're a privacy oriented company, it's only natural for them to use public mail servers for e-mail.
I believe you miunderstood the previous poster. He meant you can't use a POP3 client to read mail, which almost no free e-mail services offer, while you are refering to using Hotmail or Yahoo! to retrieve POP3 mail, which practically any free e-mail service under the sun offers.
Alan is up to something like 2.0.38pre17 now... 2.0.38 will probably be close to the end for the 2.0 series after this, as things seem to go. Let's hope this one turns out to be as stable as I hear 1.2.13 is (I jumped into Linux at 2.0.30 myself...)
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Then we'd end up filtering out about %10 of the posts to slashdot. I agree with the original poster, of the ~10 articles a day posted, I don't want one, no less two, to be wasted by new kernel releases. That's what we have Freshmeat for.
I'd consider using the Slash code to set up a competing site, but I'm not very good at running a project. But if anyone else would bother to pick up the ball, I'd help you run with it by submitting stories and such.
If only Rob would get around to releasing Slash 0.3... Maybe this very thing is the reason he hasn't?
I've run it on a 386DX/33 with 4MB of RAM and -NO- hard drive, a 486SX/33 with 4MB RAM and a 204MB hard drive, a 486DX2/50 with 4MB of RAM and a 400MB hard drive... No problems ever. 2.0.34, 2.0.36, 2.2.1, 2.2.5.
5 port 10mbps 10baseT hub, $50 with 2 PCI NE2000-compliant NICs. 2 years later, still going strong, with an average of around 650kbytes/sec transfer (acceptable for what I use it for)...
It's basically a classic Carlin rant about how you can't say certain words on TV because the FCC decided that television and radio are the only two mediums NOT covered by the First Ammendment to the United States Constitution.
I'll try hunting down an MP3 of it. e-mail me if you want a copy (if I find one)
I live in Las Vegas, and Carlin is here nearly every other month for 2 weeks.. I should go see him live...
Perhaps there were no OS/2 www, news or ftp servers on the boxen they surveyed? And as for DOS and Win31... I'd suspect there's practically no such thing as a webserver running DOS or Win31 that can be categorized as something other than a "because I can" project.
I have a 486DX2/50 in my bedroom playing mp3s for me. Running the precompiled binary of mpg123, with the flags -z2m. It plays 128kbps fine but I have the bitrate at 64kbps (my ears aren't exactly sensitive)...
On an unrelated note, anyone know what would make klogd become a runaway process? I have to kill it because it keeps my load average at 1.00...
Damn it people, Slackware DOES have a package system. Unless pkgtool is a figment of the imagination of Slackware users everywhere. I get so tired of hearing people say there isn't package management for Slackware, when there most certainly is...
I don't know about 4.0, but it shouldn't be any harder than 3.6, which I managed to get installed on a 386 (and a 486 as well) with 4 megs of RAM. Just be sure to setup your swap space first, and follow the low memory install documentation Patrick includes. (Using/slakware/rootdsks/obsolete is probably best, since it's much nicer on memory). And this was over a LAN. With a CD drive things should be a bit easier.
Installing in 8 should be quite easy. 12 is flawless.
At the bottom of their press release, we find again:
Open Source is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.
They appear to have added the Open Source thing to their templates... What can we do about it? Do they actually own a trademark on the term Open Source somehow?
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Prior art will get them in the end... I doubt they could successfully defend this patent if needed, considering even DOSemu is basically a Virtual Platform-type thing.
Personally, I see your promotion of the Freemware (which makes no sense.. FreeMachineWare?) project as a way to push your pseudo-commercial Bochs emulator... GPL Bochs so we have some code to go with, and I'll help where I can (however, I am not a coder).
Blah.. I MEANT to say, if only there were drivers for my PBTV5 card, I'd be in Linux 99% of the day on this box. I'm tempted to offer some kernel hackers telnet access to this box to see what they can find out about it.
I'd even ship the card to them if it would make a difference (if they could be trusted to send it back), but it of course relies on crap on the MB (along with the onboard S3 ViRGE DX)...
Idea: Any chance in hell VMware would get this thing running in a virtual Windows 98 session? I don't know if the PBTV software requires direct access to the hardware or not. I think it does...
I'd wager a guess at a slowdown of between %20 and %30... I've run a couple tests on my (rediculously underpowered for VMware) P200, and it performed around the speed of a P133.
What I'm more interested in is what hardware specs have the largest effect on this.. Would a K7 with a full load of cache (8mb max) be faster than a K7 with 512kb because the emulation code is more likely to be in cache, or is it more a brute CPU speed problem?
It performs astonishingly well for me, when you consider what it's doing. I'm definatley forking out $99 for it when I GET $99. If only there were drivers for my PBTV5 card in Linux (No, the PBTV3 and 4 drivers don't work. The PBTV5 aparently relies on some hardware on the motherboard to decode the video signal...)
I used to use MailExcite for my domains due to the spam I KNEW I would get (do a whois on my domain, the-corridor.com, for example). Also, they're a privacy oriented company, it's only natural for them to use public mail servers for e-mail.
Now, if they were at aol.com, I'd be nervous.
I believe you miunderstood the previous poster. He meant you can't use a POP3 client to read mail, which almost no free e-mail services offer, while you are refering to using Hotmail or Yahoo! to retrieve POP3 mail, which practically any free e-mail service under the sun offers.
In other words, you both are correct.
Alan is up to something like 2.0.38pre17 now... 2.0.38 will probably be close to the end for the 2.0 series after this, as things seem to go. Let's hope this one turns out to be as stable as I hear 1.2.13 is (I jumped into Linux at 2.0.30 myself...)
Then we'd end up filtering out about %10 of the posts to slashdot. I agree with the original poster, of the ~10 articles a day posted, I don't want one, no less two, to be wasted by new kernel releases. That's what we have Freshmeat for.
I'd consider using the Slash code to set up a competing site, but I'm not very good at running a project. But if anyone else would bother to pick up the ball, I'd help you run with it by submitting stories and such.
If only Rob would get around to releasing Slash 0.3... Maybe this very thing is the reason he hasn't?
I've run it on a 386DX/33 with 4MB of RAM and -NO- hard drive, a 486SX/33 with 4MB RAM and a 204MB hard drive, a 486DX2/50 with 4MB of RAM and a 400MB hard drive... No problems ever. 2.0.34, 2.0.36, 2.2.1, 2.2.5.
Western Digital Caviar 20.4 GB IDE drive gets 10.8 MBytes/sec raw reads on my box (P200, 96 megs RAM), and 33.3MBytes/sec from cache.
But to WRITE that fast is another issue entirely.
5 port 10mbps 10baseT hub, $50 with 2 PCI NE2000-compliant NICs. 2 years later, still going strong, with an average of around 650kbytes/sec transfer (acceptable for what I use it for)...
At the risk of this being moderated, here's the words I remember:
Cock, Cunt, Piss, Shit, Motherfucker, *Thinks* I don't remember the other two.
I think he changed it to motherfucker from fuck so he could do his "there's a lot going on there" thing.
It's basically a classic Carlin rant about how you can't say certain words on TV because the FCC decided that television and radio are the only two mediums NOT covered by the First Ammendment to the United States Constitution.
I'll try hunting down an MP3 of it. e-mail me if you want a copy (if I find one)
I live in Las Vegas, and Carlin is here nearly every other month for 2 weeks.. I should go see him live...
Perhaps there were no OS/2 www, news or ftp servers on the boxen they surveyed? And as for DOS and Win31... I'd suspect there's practically no such thing as a webserver running DOS or Win31 that can be categorized as something other than a "because I can" project.
I have a 486DX2/50 in my bedroom playing mp3s for me. Running the precompiled binary of mpg123, with the flags -z2m. It plays 128kbps fine but I have the bitrate at 64kbps (my ears aren't exactly sensitive)...
On an unrelated note, anyone know what would make klogd become a runaway process? I have to kill it because it keeps my load average at 1.00...
They're back... Grrr... Personally, I don't find the "joke" funny at all...
I'm still running 2.2.1 on my machines, and I'm wondering if there's any compelling reasons to upgrade to 2.2.5.
I'm not having problems with 2.2.1, so I'm not going to upgrade unless I need to for some reason.
I would like to see not only rejected stories, but also ones that the authors (or whatever they should be called) haven't looked at yet.
Perhaps allow everyone to be able to vote on the unread stories, as someone above me already commented on...
Personally, I'm enjoying being able to read through the comments and not get the crap posts. Threshold set to 2 seems to be great...
Damn it people, Slackware DOES have a package system. Unless pkgtool is a figment of the imagination of Slackware users everywhere. I get so tired of hearing people say there isn't package management for Slackware, when there most certainly is...
I just don't care to use it, myself...
Try Slackware-Current. Comes with KDE 1.1 as an option (in the main distrib, not contribs)...
I don't know about 4.0, but it shouldn't be any harder than 3.6, which I managed to get installed on a 386 (and a 486 as well) with 4 megs of RAM. Just be sure to setup your swap space first, and follow the low memory install documentation Patrick includes. (Using /slakware/rootdsks/obsolete is probably best, since it's much nicer on memory). And this was over a LAN. With a CD drive things should be a bit easier.
Installing in 8 should be quite easy. 12 is flawless.
Please note that the flamers are not a good representation of the mentality of the Linux community as a whole...
Hm.. I disable everything but Apache on my Linux box. Now, bring it down.
Thank you, drive through.
At the bottom of their press release, we find again:
Open Source is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.
They appear to have added the Open Source thing to their templates... What can we do about it? Do they actually own a trademark on the term Open Source somehow?
Hehehe.. I was wondering for a moment why the link appeared in Netscape and Lynx, but I too highlight as I read, so...