Wine version: 0.0.20010510-3
WMP version: 6.01.05.0217 (stock w/ Win98, may be SE. I don't boot into it, only use it for wine).
on a Debian 2.2 (unstable) system.
The only libraries that are "native" instead of "builtin" are "mciavi.drv" and "mcianim.drv". I don't think that I customized this setup very much.
I generally have to run it as root, which SUCKS, IMHO. Other than that, most stuff works for me, except the "favorites" menu and I haven't tried to upgrade it. But hitting a URL or watching a dl'd movie are both fine. I don't use it very much, so I can't say that I've tested it extensively...
Well, there's another, more important, piece of work going on according to the article. They're trying to get QuickTime working as well! This is much more important than (bad, security flawed) activeX. Being able to watch movie trailers, streaming media from more sources, etc. is much more fun and useful than shockwave.
Wine is good, but I can't get it to run QuickTime, though I try with every revision. I can reliably get Windows Media Player to run under Wine, but that's not good enough. This is one place where Linux sucks; we'll never get decent streaming multimedia support (Real doesn't cut it!) until someone licenses the codecs and releases a product (which will cause all the GPL freaks to scream because they'll want to charge for it; you may think I'm flaming, but every damn time I read something about good comercial software here, most people just complain that it's not free!).
Some people in the world opt-out of the 'cool-seeking' drive that you're talking about. I don't believe that that behavior is inescapable or part of human nature or "... part of being human." While you might think that "We all like to play this game a little, some of us a little too much maybe.", I don't think that it's necessary to cave to corporations' consumeristic pressures, or the pressures of your peer group.
I tend to believe that other people's opinions are basically worthless to oneself in a practical point of view. Although it feels nice when people like you, you should live your life the way that YOU think is right and good, and forget what anyone else is telling you to do or how they want you to behave. If people choose to ignore you, then so what? You might think that "few things are less cool than being ignored", but really, what happens when you're ignored? You're alone, maybe? So what. That just gives you time to do what you want to be doing! If the people that you hang out with ignore you just because you're not doing "cool" things, then you're hanging out with a bunch of shallow dilletantes. You should pay attention to yourself and feel secure in what you're doing. If you hang out with people that are "cool" just so some of it rubs off on you, then you're pathetic, not "cool".
I'm not saying that you should be anti-establishment or isolationist. I don't think that you should shun things just because they're considered "cool". BUT you should look at the actual value of the thing you are going to buy/use (or the person you want to be friends with) and make your choice on the merits of the object (or person). I think way too many people get burned and hurt by trying to be "cool" or make something "cool" that isn't worth what they're making it out to be. Linux, for example, is a decent operating system that has decent tools. It's nice that it's free, and has lots of free applications, but it has its problems, too. Companies may try to push Linux products becuase Linux is "cool", but when those companies can't make any money because their value-add isn't making money, then people get hurt (fired, lose money, etc.).
"Cool" is so hard to define because it's terribly subjective and illusory. You shouldn't base your decisions on something like that.
I'd have to say these iBooks are actually worth the hype that was generated by the first round if iBooks (better late than never). I was always disappointed with the 32MB RAM/4 GB HD/no video out/no firewire configuration that the original iBooks came with. Now, these new ones look good:
o 466 MHz G3 (No G4, but these are the consumer portables, but who needs AltiVec for wordprocessing?)
o 64 MB RAM stock (up to 320!)
o 10 GB HD stock (up to 20 GB avail)
o composite video out (Well, not VGA, but good for the...)
o DVD-ROM drive stock with graphite/key lime
o 1 firewire port
o 1 USB port
o 56K modem & 10BaseT ethernet internal
All for ~$1800. If I wanted to get a comparable VAIO, I'd spend ~$2600. While the VAIO is ~2.25 lbs. lighter, the iBook is still kickin' its butt in about every other area.
So what if it comes in different colors. ICGAFF. But, the hardware looks VERY nice to run LinuxPPC or YellowDog on. Yes, the first thing I'd do with one of these is throw OS 9 off of there, since I hate Mac OS [7-9]. But, I'd consider getting OS X, if it's cool. And meanwhile, I'd have a nice Linux box!
I think I'm onna get me one of 'ese! (Unless Crusoe laptops are as cool (and cheap!) as hell)
Sorry to say, but corporations are individuals in the eyes of the US Gov't, and have the full rights as individuals (free speech, etc.). See this insightful article for details, but basically, since about 1886, corporations have been granted the rights of individuals. Therefore, the country, in protecting it's corporations, _is_ protecting it's citizens.
Just another way that the ultra-rich (and their families) are kept that way. I don't see that this is such a shock; perhaps you just didn't realize this before...
Even if you remove the "few brilliant individuals" from history, we would still have technology +/- a few years. "Necessity is the mother of invention", remember? How many things have been discoverd in parallel by independant groups (e.g. calculus)?
I think that technology develops at the time it does because the world is ripe (that is, the state of the art for many different areas of knowledge are sufficient) for that discovery to occur.
Also: why is it sad if we are the only civilisation in the universe at this or any time? Does it really impact _our_ existance? Sure, there's a lot of space out there, but it doesn't give or take any meaning from our existance (not that we have ANY meaning in this existance, just that ET civilisations are independant of our existance).
Ok, I don't know if this would work or not, but most people's complaints about this seem to be that this resolution is too small to be usable. Well, how about using a fresnel lens like this? I guess that it might interfere a little with image quality, but you do still gain desktop space. Of course, you'd have to come up with some support mechanism other than a styrofoam box, but I'm sure that enterprising geeks could come up with something.
You've got to admit that the gameplay in something like Quake III Arena (single player, even) is a whole lot better than from Doom. The run-around-and-bash-the-spacebar-looking-for-secre ts aspect of Doom, Doom II and Quake was never very appealing. The bots in Quake III are a much more challenging kill than 10,000 screetching demons.
Also, games like Civ:CTP && Diablo II blow the old turn-based strategy games like the original Civ/Master of Orion/Master of Magic away. Well, ok, not Master of Orion... That game rocks. =) Anyways, that's only about 7-10 years ago. 20 years ago, Nobody even had PCs. And except for rouge-likes and wumpus, what computer games were there that people could play?
Now, with games like Quake III Arena being produced for Linux, we have pretty decent 3d acceleration support from 3dfx and (shudder) nVidia. But what about the *BSDs? I don't think that I've seen anyone (including utah-glx, which is what I use) claim to support *BSD. I wonder who will step forward first to add 3d acceleration support (I'm imagining that the hardware vendors will have to at least help out a bit...).
The Century software press release looks pretty darn interesting:
Century Software Embedded Technologies, a leader in open source applications technologies for embedded Linux, today announced the availability of a Linux-based windowing system and graphical development environment for the new Compaq iPAQ handheld computer.
[SNIP...]
The environment includes the well-known Microwindows graphical windowing system for embedded Linux, along with the recently introduced ViewML Internet browser, and the Fast Light Tool Kit (FLTK) applications framework. A stroke-based character-recognition technology, based on Scribble, provides the basis for handwriting recognition. The Microwindows graphical windowing system was chosen because of it's extremely compact size, and it's support of the ViewML browser.
One thing that I've been missing on my Palm III is a powerful, useful, on board development environment (PocketC just doesn't cut it for me...). I'd love to have Python or Perl on my handheld, as I frequently think of interesting problems that I could/would solve if I could write a quick script. If Century's system allows you to use a really small C environment with FLTK on board, that'd be worth having.
Various devices have been tested in the CF and PCMCIA expansion packs, including:
o The IBM 340 MB model DMDM-10340 works
o the Socket LP-E ethernet compact flash ethernet works
o The Toshiba 2GB PCM CIA disk works in the PCMCIA expansion pack
o The Compaq 802.11b wireless PCMCIA card is working.
Rob, looks like you missed this blurb on the handhelds.org 8/7/2000 update... Now you've got to buy one! =)
Linux is a clone of Unix whose programming instructions can be modified -- which is the reason IBM chose the operating system for the project
I know that IBM has been working for decades trying to modify the mystical "programming instructions" for AIX, and have been unsuccessful to date. Even multi-billion dollar companies have been unable to change their own operating systems. =)
_THE_ Race? You're ignoring the real geek pissing contests:
o CPU speed (or even better, % overclocked) o MB of MP3s o # of OSes on your home PC o # of patches to Linux Kernel and the #1 geek pissing contest: o # of cool-yet-practically-useless electronic gadgets
Why people use WinNT as a server platform is beyond me. Something like 65% of web-site defacements listed at Attrition.org are WinNT based. That's insane. Linux is something like 20%. I was very surprised at HOW MANY sites are hacked. The internet's infrastructure needs to be improved, sure. But how about securing your system properly?! Argus has even announced a Linux port for their products; it's the only TOS that I've seen even mention Linux. And, maybe someone should push the Linux Kernel developers to finish implementing the Capabilities and ACL stuff that at least partially exists in the kernel (or in patches); this would allow application coders to write non-suid programs that would still have some of the root capabilities (just the ones they need).
I'm not saying that the sys admins are to blame. These decisions are generally not simple technical ones. However, everyone needs to be educated about the products that are available to protect themselves and others (in the case of DDoS's). If you're a sys admin, educate yourself and pass it on to your boss. They may not get it, but you should at least try.
I want 700 MHz crusoe processor beowulf cluster embedded in my skull that uses the glucose and caffine in my blood as a power source that directly patches into my retina for video output and cochlea for audio output, muscle twitch text input, a bioport simstim interface for upgrades and 'wares, and builtin PCS network interface for global roaming wireless GHz ethernet... well, then I'd be a borg.
Reading the article reveals that it has a 22 MB/sec transfer rate (assuming they mean for the SCSI-2 interface and not the ATAPI). So, it still would take 2.66 hours to fill the whole 9.4 GB, but hey, that's 9.4 GB!
I'm at work, and I've brought my home PC in to do some work. It's 2 AM, and I'm getting ready to go home. So, I start carrying my PC to my car. (Someone at this point calls the police, thinking I'm stealing some PC from work.) I go back inside and when I come out, there's a cop there, but I don't see him. I get in my car to drive away, and I can't hear the cop shouting to me to get out of the car. I start the car and begin pulling out.
Does the cop have the authority to start shooting at me? I think not. However, you seem to think that he should, since it appears that I'm 'stealing the hard work of others'. And, if you think that my story is too hard to belive, then there are a million other, more plausible scenarios someone could come up with (e.g. I've had to break into my own house before because I've been locked out late at night). I didn't think that criminals were guilty until they were seen in court and given due process. But, then again, IANAL.
But I do have to say that your line of reasoning is very scary in its consequences.
More about Magic Sysrq on RH6.1+ and maybe others
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Also, I found that in RH6.1, the/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit was killing my magic sysrequest key:
# Turn off sysrq if [ -f/proc/sys/kernel/sysrq -a "$MAGIC_SYSRQ" = "no" ]; then echo "0" >/proc/sys/kernel/sysrq action "Turning off Magic SysRq key"/bin/true fi
So, you can just set the $MAGIC_SYSRQ variable to "yes" at top of the script (it doesn't currently exist, but you can add it) or comment out this section. Otherwise, a '0' will get catted to/proc/sys/kernel/sysrq which will shut off the magic sysrq functionality!
Of course, if you had a Palm Pilot, you could probably write a Linux daemon to listen to an IR port and retrieve IR packets, acting as a remote control. In fact, someone may have already written one... (checking Freshmeat... AH!) Ok, you actually don't even need a Palm Pilot. Take a look at the pix-IR-remote project's home page . It looks like you could develop a small script or program to grab the bytecodes from an IR remote and use them to drive your DVD. I've not tried it, but you could and let us know.... That is, I'm assuming that the laptop has an IR port...
This story was posted and commented upon. I guess, at least, people should read the comments already posted about this. Emmett, man, do a search on Slashdot before you post a new story that contains such an old URL. It says right at the bottom of the page on sendmail.net that this article is from late January. I don't mean to flame you, but if you do that search, it'll probably save you a lot of hateful email in your INBOX. Now, the hundred other people who are going to flame emmett, just save it.
So this is a 600 MHz RISC processor using.25 micron fabrication processes; that should be pretty fast. However, it consumes 75W power? AND the 750 MHz will consume an estimated 90W power (at.25 micron)?!?!
WOW! And people think that Intel chips (and Alphas) consume a lot of power! The heat dissipation of these puppies will be monsterous! If you had a dual CPU workstation with 2 600MHz US-3s, the CPUs alone would require (at most) 150W of power. What sort of power supply would that need? 300W+, right? I'd really rather not have one of these sitting under my desk, considering the fan noise from the power supply, case and CPU fans.
Why can't they use a smaller die size (which should reduce the power reqs and heat dissipation)? Is it just Sun's fabs, or is there some architechtural reason? Or are the power consumption specs they quote just OFF?
Seems like a lot of BlueTooth devices are being demo'd at CeBIT 2000. This Yahoo report talks about Palm Computing's demo of a BlueTooth module for their Palm devices. It's a snap-on module, and would allow for wireless syncing (well, data transfer in general) between it and other BlueTooth-enabled machines (like the laptops this article talks about).
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it's a feature. This way, the US can actively reduce both nuclear stockpiles without the hassle of a treaty. =)
Here's my set up:
Wine version: 0.0.20010510-3
WMP version: 6.01.05.0217 (stock w/ Win98, may be SE. I don't boot into it, only use it for wine).
on a Debian 2.2 (unstable) system.
The only libraries that are "native" instead of "builtin" are "mciavi.drv" and "mcianim.drv". I don't think that I customized this setup very much.
I generally have to run it as root, which SUCKS, IMHO. Other than that, most stuff works for me, except the "favorites" menu and I haven't tried to upgrade it. But hitting a URL or watching a dl'd movie are both fine. I don't use it very much, so I can't say that I've tested it extensively...
Well, there's another, more important, piece of work going on according to the article. They're trying to get QuickTime working as well! This is much more important than (bad, security flawed) activeX. Being able to watch movie trailers, streaming media from more sources, etc. is much more fun and useful than shockwave.
Wine is good, but I can't get it to run QuickTime, though I try with every revision. I can reliably get Windows Media Player to run under Wine, but that's not good enough. This is one place where Linux sucks; we'll never get decent streaming multimedia support (Real doesn't cut it!) until someone licenses the codecs and releases a product (which will cause all the GPL freaks to scream because they'll want to charge for it; you may think I'm flaming, but every damn time I read something about good comercial software here, most people just complain that it's not free!).
Some people in the world opt-out of the 'cool-seeking' drive that you're talking about. I don't believe that that behavior is inescapable or part of human nature or "... part of being human." While you might think that "We all like to play this game a little, some of us a little too much maybe.", I don't think that it's necessary to cave to corporations' consumeristic pressures, or the pressures of your peer group.
I tend to believe that other people's opinions are basically worthless to oneself in a practical point of view. Although it feels nice when people like you, you should live your life the way that YOU think is right and good, and forget what anyone else is telling you to do or how they want you to behave. If people choose to ignore you, then so what? You might think that "few things are less cool than being ignored", but really, what happens when you're ignored? You're alone, maybe? So what. That just gives you time to do what you want to be doing! If the people that you hang out with ignore you just because you're not doing "cool" things, then you're hanging out with a bunch of shallow dilletantes. You should pay attention to yourself and feel secure in what you're doing. If you hang out with people that are "cool" just so some of it rubs off on you, then you're pathetic, not "cool".
I'm not saying that you should be anti-establishment or isolationist. I don't think that you should shun things just because they're considered "cool". BUT you should look at the actual value of the thing you are going to buy/use (or the person you want to be friends with) and make your choice on the merits of the object (or person). I think way too many people get burned and hurt by trying to be "cool" or make something "cool" that isn't worth what they're making it out to be. Linux, for example, is a decent operating system that has decent tools. It's nice that it's free, and has lots of free applications, but it has its problems, too. Companies may try to push Linux products becuase Linux is "cool", but when those companies can't make any money because their value-add isn't making money, then people get hurt (fired, lose money, etc.).
"Cool" is so hard to define because it's terribly subjective and illusory. You shouldn't base your decisions on something like that.
I ran my first marathon last year, and I thought chip timing was really cutting edge! =)
Seriously, I don't think that I would have wanted my picture taken when I finished; I was crying with relief!
I'd have to say these iBooks are actually worth the hype that was generated by the first round if iBooks (better late than never). I was always disappointed with the 32MB RAM/4 GB HD/no video out/no firewire configuration that the original iBooks came with. Now, these new ones look good:
o 466 MHz G3 (No G4, but these are the consumer portables, but who needs AltiVec for wordprocessing?)
o 64 MB RAM stock (up to 320!)
o 10 GB HD stock (up to 20 GB avail)
o composite video out (Well, not VGA, but good for the...)
o DVD-ROM drive stock with graphite/key lime
o 1 firewire port
o 1 USB port
o 56K modem & 10BaseT ethernet internal
All for ~$1800. If I wanted to get a comparable VAIO, I'd spend ~$2600. While the VAIO is ~2.25 lbs. lighter, the iBook is still kickin' its butt in about every other area.
So what if it comes in different colors. ICGAFF. But, the hardware looks VERY nice to run LinuxPPC or YellowDog on. Yes, the first thing I'd do with one of these is throw OS 9 off of there, since I hate Mac OS [7-9]. But, I'd consider getting OS X, if it's cool. And meanwhile, I'd have a nice Linux box!
I think I'm onna get me one of 'ese! (Unless Crusoe laptops are as cool (and cheap!) as hell)
Sorry to say, but corporations are individuals in the eyes of the US Gov't, and have the full rights as individuals (free speech, etc.). See this insightful article for details, but basically, since about 1886, corporations have been granted the rights of individuals. Therefore, the country, in protecting it's corporations, _is_ protecting it's citizens.
Just another way that the ultra-rich (and their families) are kept that way. I don't see that this is such a shock; perhaps you just didn't realize this before...
Even if you remove the "few brilliant individuals" from history, we would still have technology +/- a few years. "Necessity is the mother of invention", remember? How many things have been discoverd in parallel by independant groups (e.g. calculus)?
I think that technology develops at the time it does because the world is ripe (that is, the state of the art for many different areas of knowledge are sufficient) for that discovery to occur.
Also: why is it sad if we are the only civilisation in the universe at this or any time? Does it really impact _our_ existance? Sure, there's a lot of space out there, but it doesn't give or take any meaning from our existance (not that we have ANY meaning in this existance, just that ET civilisations are independant of our existance).
Ok, I don't know if this would work or not, but most people's complaints about this seem to be that this resolution is too small to be usable. Well, how about using a fresnel lens like this? I guess that it might interfere a little with image quality, but you do still gain desktop space. Of course, you'd have to come up with some support mechanism other than a styrofoam box, but I'm sure that enterprising geeks could come up with something.
What do you guys think?
You've got to admit that the gameplay in something like Quake III Arena (single player, even) is a whole lot better than from Doom. The run-around-and-bash-the-spacebar-looking-for-secre ts aspect of Doom, Doom II and Quake was never very appealing. The bots in Quake III are a much more challenging kill than 10,000 screetching demons.
Also, games like Civ:CTP && Diablo II blow the old turn-based strategy games like the original Civ/Master of Orion/Master of Magic away. Well, ok, not Master of Orion... That game rocks. =) Anyways, that's only about 7-10 years ago. 20 years ago, Nobody even had PCs. And except for rouge-likes and wumpus, what computer games were there that people could play?
Now, with games like Quake III Arena being produced for Linux, we have pretty decent 3d acceleration support from 3dfx and (shudder) nVidia. But what about the *BSDs? I don't think that I've seen anyone (including utah-glx, which is what I use) claim to support *BSD. I wonder who will step forward first to add 3d acceleration support (I'm imagining that the hardware vendors will have to at least help out a bit...).
Anyone know (or care to guess)?
The Century software press release looks pretty darn interesting:
Century Software Embedded Technologies, a leader in open source applications technologies for embedded Linux, today announced the availability of a Linux-based windowing system and graphical development environment for the new Compaq iPAQ handheld computer.
[SNIP...]
The environment includes the well-known Microwindows graphical windowing system for embedded Linux, along with the recently introduced ViewML Internet browser, and the Fast Light Tool Kit (FLTK) applications framework. A stroke-based character-recognition technology, based on Scribble, provides the basis for handwriting recognition. The Microwindows graphical windowing system was chosen because of it's extremely compact size, and it's support of the ViewML browser.
One thing that I've been missing on my Palm III is a powerful, useful, on board development environment (PocketC just doesn't cut it for me...). I'd love to have Python or Perl on my handheld, as I frequently think of interesting problems that I could/would solve if I could write a quick script. If Century's system allows you to use a really small C environment with FLTK on board, that'd be worth having.
Various devices have been tested in the CF and PCMCIA expansion packs, including:
o The IBM 340 MB model DMDM-10340 works
o the Socket LP-E ethernet compact flash ethernet works
o The Toshiba 2GB PCM CIA disk works in the PCMCIA expansion pack
o The Compaq 802.11b wireless PCMCIA card is working.
Rob, looks like you missed this blurb on the handhelds.org 8/7/2000 update... Now you've got to buy one! =)
I know that IBM has been working for decades trying to modify the mystical "programming instructions" for AIX, and have been unsuccessful to date. Even multi-billion dollar companies have been unable to change their own operating systems. =)
_THE_ Race? You're ignoring the real geek pissing contests:
o CPU speed (or even better, % overclocked)
o MB of MP3s
o # of OSes on your home PC
o # of patches to Linux Kernel
and the #1 geek pissing contest:
o # of cool-yet-practically-useless electronic gadgets
=)
Script kiddies don't have enough bandwidth to DoS a major provider, so they use rootkits to crack systems and then use the cracked system as a launchpad for their DDoS attacks, right? Well, maybe a solution is for companies to use a Trusted OS like Argus PitBull, Trusted BSD, (admittedly incomplete) OB1, Trusted Solaris, HP's virtual vault, or find a better match for yourself.
/dev/null 2>&1
Why people use WinNT as a server platform is beyond me. Something like 65% of web-site defacements listed at Attrition.org are WinNT based. That's insane. Linux is something like 20%. I was very surprised at HOW MANY sites are hacked. The internet's infrastructure needs to be improved, sure. But how about securing your system properly?! Argus has even announced a Linux port for their products; it's the only TOS that I've seen even mention Linux. And, maybe someone should push the Linux Kernel developers to finish implementing the Capabilities and ACL stuff that at least partially exists in the kernel (or in patches); this would allow application coders to write non-suid programs that would still have some of the root capabilities (just the ones they need).
I'm not saying that the sys admins are to blame. These decisions are generally not simple technical ones. However, everyone needs to be educated about the products that are available to protect themselves and others (in the case of DDoS's). If you're a sys admin, educate yourself and pass it on to your boss. They may not get it, but you should at least try.
Just my $0.02.
$ flames >
I guess my < SARCASTIC > tags didn't make it through to your browser...
I want 700 MHz crusoe processor beowulf cluster embedded in my skull that uses the glucose and caffine in my blood as a power source that directly patches into my retina for video output and cochlea for audio output, muscle twitch text input, a bioport simstim interface for upgrades and 'wares, and builtin PCS network interface for global roaming wireless GHz ethernet... well, then I'd be a borg.
;)
Reading the article reveals that it has a 22 MB/sec transfer rate (assuming they mean for the SCSI-2 interface and not the ATAPI). So, it still would take 2.66 hours to fill the whole 9.4 GB, but hey, that's 9.4 GB!
Ok. How about this scenario?
I'm at work, and I've brought my home PC in to do some work. It's 2 AM, and I'm getting ready to go home. So, I start carrying my PC to my car. (Someone at this point calls the police, thinking I'm stealing some PC from work.) I go back inside and when I come out, there's a cop there, but I don't see him. I get in my car to drive away, and I can't hear the cop shouting to me to get out of the car. I start the car and begin pulling out.
Does the cop have the authority to start shooting at me? I think not. However, you seem to think that he should, since it appears that I'm 'stealing the hard work of others'. And, if you think that my story is too hard to belive, then there are a million other, more plausible scenarios someone could come up with (e.g. I've had to break into my own house before because I've been locked out late at night). I didn't think that criminals were guilty until they were seen in court and given due process. But, then again, IANAL.
But I do have to say that your line of reasoning is very scary in its consequences.
Also, I found that in RH6.1, the /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit was killing my magic sysrequest key:
/proc/sys/kernel/sysrq -a "$MAGIC_SYSRQ" = "no" ]; then /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq /bin/true
/proc/sys/kernel/sysrq which will shut off the magic sysrq functionality!
# Turn off sysrq
if [ -f
echo "0" >
action "Turning off Magic SysRq key"
fi
So, you can just set the $MAGIC_SYSRQ variable to "yes" at top of the script (it doesn't currently exist, but you can add it) or comment out this section. Otherwise, a '0' will get catted to
Of course, if you had a Palm Pilot, you could probably write a Linux daemon to listen to an IR port and retrieve IR packets, acting as a remote control. In fact, someone may have already written one... (checking Freshmeat... AH!) Ok, you actually don't even need a Palm Pilot. Take a look at the pix-IR-remote project's home page . It looks like you could develop a small script or program to grab the bytecodes from an IR remote and use them to drive your DVD. I've not tried it, but you could and let us know.... That is, I'm assuming that the laptop has an IR port...
This story was posted and commented upon. I guess, at least, people should read the comments already posted about this.
Emmett, man, do a search on Slashdot before you post a new story that contains such an old URL. It says right at the bottom of the page on sendmail.net that this article is from late January. I don't mean to flame you, but if you do that search, it'll probably save you a lot of hateful email in your INBOX.
Now, the hundred other people who are going to flame emmett, just save it.
So this is a 600 MHz RISC processor using .25 micron fabrication processes; that should be pretty fast. However, it consumes 75W power? AND the 750 MHz will consume an estimated 90W power (at .25 micron)?!?!
WOW! And people think that Intel chips (and Alphas) consume a lot of power! The heat dissipation of these puppies will be monsterous! If you had a dual CPU workstation with 2 600MHz US-3s, the CPUs alone would require (at most) 150W of power. What sort of power supply would that need? 300W+, right? I'd really rather not have one of these sitting under my desk, considering the fan noise from the power supply, case and CPU fans.
Why can't they use a smaller die size (which should reduce the power reqs and heat dissipation)? Is it just Sun's fabs, or is there some architechtural reason? Or are the power consumption specs they quote just OFF?
Will BlueTooth become ubiquitous?