You know, every story I read about the Australian laws/trials on here, the more respect I have for their country. Not so the US - I'd expect this case to drag on far longer, and the spammer to win, based on past articles. Corporation/company vs little guy = little guy gets screwed...
In early November, under pressure from Microsoft, Compaq informed Be that it was no longer interested in licensing BeOS.
Until late last year I was working with a team using the Compaq "Clipper" devices running BeIA on a B2B project. While I'm no MS fan, in fact quite the opposite, I'm sure the pressure from the Beast of Redmond wasn't the only reason for the switch.
The BeIA OS, while impressive had serious bugs until the point we abandoned it. Calls and emails to Be went unreturned for months on end, and updates to fix bugs were few and far between. The main problem (or one of them) that we had was with the Opera browser and OS constantly leaking memory until the device would reset - losing any information in other apps. This meant having to add code to constantly save state to the flash RAM, severely shortening its life.
Curiously the browser would crash after loading 15-20 pages, then be killed and restart, but the user would be oblivious to this, since if it was running fullscreen (the default, and only option on a locked machine) then the old image of the browser would stay in the display buffer, then replaced when the browser restarted - which I thought was a cool trick!
It was far more suitable than WinCE, there's no doubt about that, but QNX was probably a more efficient system still...
My Sony Vaio is virtually silent in normal operation - I can't even hear the cooling fan unless I'm in a totally silent room. Compared to my Athlon sitting here whirring away now, it's sheer bliss. If it ran my W900 monitor at 1920x1200 I'd hook it up instead of the Athlon!
It all depends on the quality of the laptop though, I've had cheap machines that really annoyed me after a few minutes use (including a Maxdata model that I honestly couldn't bear after 10 minutes). It's worth dropping by your local PC World to give a new laptop a test run, then obviously buy it elsewhere;-)
I can fit my little Cannon flatbed scanner into my laptop case with no problems - it can scan A4 pages too. I didn't think it would fit to be honest, but it's surprising what will go in that bag, given some "encouragement".
It's USB too, so no need for external power. It weighs next to nothing (compared to the laptop, paper and other crap in there) so I tend to keep it with me - often comes in handy...
Isn't this a symptom of bipolar disorder. I have cycles like that, though not so often. I'll stay awake for 2 or 3 days and feel great, then suddenly want to sleep for like 36 hours or something... It's not that much fun, actually...
You know I'm thinking that linking to a 49MB file from the front page of one of the biggest online community sites on the web may not have been the brightest of ideas.
Someone's going to get one f*cker of a bandwidth bill this month...
Otherwise the game is a bit like watching an industrial robot beat the crap out of Mike Tyson, OK so it might be fun to watch but it is not real sport.
I think you'll find the robot's name was Lennox Lewis...
I just put RH8.0 on my Vaio GR series laptop. Custom install (basically I needed the Gnome desktop, various utils, named, httpd and mysql). Install finished, rebooted and... nothing. Kernel panic as kudzu searched for new hardware. At this point I'm guessing most newbies would give up. It wasn't a big hurdle if you realise you can switch to interactive mode and stop kudzu loading, but still.
The sound daemon in Gnome also locks up pretty often, so badly that you can't even remove the kernel modules - a reboot is the only fix - so I can't use the sound.
The display driver loaded for the Radion mobility card has no 3D acceleration, so the fix is to manually edit XF86config and modules.conf to get the unsupported 3D working (which does work pretty well, BTW!). Obviously the modem isn't going to work, but I don't need it anyway so that's not a big deal. Firewire cannot be used (I suspect this is what locks up Kudzu).
I still use it as a handy web development platform though - Mozilla + apache + PHP + Perl + MySQL are the web developers friends! If only Macromedia or Adobe would port their graphic apps to Linux I wouldn't need Windows...
Isn't it more sad for the British citizens forced into paying 100UKP a year to prop up the BBC?
Well I've said it before on/., but I used to think exactly the same until I realised just how much time Sky spend pushing products through the screen at me - it's 33% adverts on almost all channels - the vast majority of these channels show at least 90% repeats, and much of the rest is crap.
So, I think paying about 10 quid a month for 9 or 10 (or more I guess, I'm not counting the regional channels) channels, NO adverts, mostly original programming and a pretty much unbiased news service (their website has a lot more depth than you might initially think, BTW) is not a bad deal.
Oh yeah, we also get all the non commercial radio stations thrown in too - I'd hate to be forced to listen to the radio in any country where all the playlists were controlled and designed by the record companies. There must be like 20 tracks on rotation across the US?!
Well RH8.0 has a lot of GUI tools now, so you can set up most services (certainly the ones the "average" user would even consider requiring) with a few mouse clicks. Of course, setting up vhosts in apache is never going to be that easy for a newby no matter how much eye candy they slap on it.
Until the latest RH distro I'd never even considered using a GUI tool to set up anything - had bad experiences before with linuxconf screwing up my carefully hand-written conf files - and I'll probably still find it quicker to fire up vi than launch X (even if the machine has a keyboard and screen), but for the average office worker, I doubt they'd even need the terminal any more, which is a good thing in my view.
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Well I've got 3469 of the MAME ROMs on the server on the webserver on my DSL line for download;-) Not sure where the other 17 come from - I built my database by using a script to pull the game details from MAME itself, so I thought I had all of them for the latest version???
Well his site's slowing down a bit now. All it should take would be most of us to keep hitting reload and his bandwidth charges should help suck up some of his "victory" money;-)
Let's hope that no spammers pick up on his email address or mailing details:
Robert Novak - bob@petswarehouse.com
Pets Warehouse
1550 Sunrise Hwy
Copiague, ny 11726
US
Phone - 631-789-5400
Fax - 631.789.9340
Honestly though, how can a piece of sh*t like this guy keep taking up court time with these suits? Espscially with news sites that are merely reporting the proceedings of cases? It's ridiculous - I'm sure the RIAA are already sending him job application forms so he help them in their quest to crack down on freedom and the causes of freedom!
I downloaded Debian (Woody was it?) the other night since I keep hearing how great it's supposed to be. I've also tried SuSE but tend to stay with RH (I guess I just know it better after all these years).
Anyway, it was like a trip through the way-back machine - a 2.2 kernel?! Clunky install and nothing I saw would convince me to change. I guess I could have worked out how to upgrade every single package on there over the next 3 or 4 weeks, but why bother? Maybe Debian will kick some ass if they ever put out another distro, but it's hardly something I'd recomend to anyone.
RH8.0 is really sweet though - the new GUI config tools actually have me using them instead of heading straight for vi, although I think I stick with the text editor on the headless machines...
As I'm sure anyone else who's dealt with the "standard" Java API on mobile phones call attest, I hope this one follows the MIDP a bit closer than... well... all the others. This has been a nightmare for me - unless you have the emulators/hardware to test every single new phone, there's no way you can guarauntee anything about the Java implementation. The Seimens M50 resizes all image canvases to fit the screen (so, scrolling is "problematic"), the Nokia 3410 has a clipping bug, plus can't create image canvases over 255x255 pixels. The list is endless, and not helped by the various proprietory extensions that are practically mandatory if you wish to get anything done.
Phone makes trying to grab the market by twisting a standard into something non-standard? Hmm, sounds like some other company...
Or of course there is the possibility that MS believed $350m for 2-3 games a year was well priced. Let see.... 2games x $30game means they only need to sell 5 million games worldwide to break even on the purchase price (more would be good so you can conver operating expenses).
Well even discounting your slightly simplistic business model there, you have to wonder; if this is such a great deal, why would Nintendo be so eager to let Rare jump ship? Why didn't Sony bid for Rare?
Nintendo do games, that's all; nothing else. They have a pretty long history in the gaming industry, and I think they've offloaded baggage on MS (which can only be a good thing). MS are desperate to keep their dream of global media control on track, and so will do literally anything to ensure Xbox->Xbox2->Xbox3XP(Xtra Palladium) is a feature of every home in the future...
Ssh! When you find a nice fast mirror, for god's sake don't tell everyone about it on Slashdot!!!
I'm still waiting for my favourite little known one to open its doors. It always maxes out my adsl line no matter when I go there! No, I'm not telling;-)
Slashdot Mirror
The Houston Chronicle discusses the discovery of mysterious swirling patches on the surface of the planet which may be communities of bacteria
So either the RIAA have set up shop on a new planet, or evolution is starting on Venus, with lawyers...
You know, every story I read about the Australian laws/trials on here, the more respect I have for their country. Not so the US - I'd expect this case to drag on far longer, and the spammer to win, based on past articles. Corporation/company vs little guy = little guy gets screwed...
In early November, under pressure from Microsoft, Compaq informed Be that it was no longer interested in licensing BeOS.
Until late last year I was working with a team using the Compaq "Clipper" devices running BeIA on a B2B project. While I'm no MS fan, in fact quite the opposite, I'm sure the pressure from the Beast of Redmond wasn't the only reason for the switch.
The BeIA OS, while impressive had serious bugs until the point we abandoned it. Calls and emails to Be went unreturned for months on end, and updates to fix bugs were few and far between. The main problem (or one of them) that we had was with the Opera browser and OS constantly leaking memory until the device would reset - losing any information in other apps. This meant having to add code to constantly save state to the flash RAM, severely shortening its life.
Curiously the browser would crash after loading 15-20 pages, then be killed and restart, but the user would be oblivious to this, since if it was running fullscreen (the default, and only option on a locked machine) then the old image of the browser would stay in the display buffer, then replaced when the browser restarted - which I thought was a cool trick!
It was far more suitable than WinCE, there's no doubt about that, but QNX was probably a more efficient system still...
My Sony Vaio is virtually silent in normal operation - I can't even hear the cooling fan unless I'm in a totally silent room. Compared to my Athlon sitting here whirring away now, it's sheer bliss. If it ran my W900 monitor at 1920x1200 I'd hook it up instead of the Athlon!
;-)
It all depends on the quality of the laptop though, I've had cheap machines that really annoyed me after a few minutes use (including a Maxdata model that I honestly couldn't bear after 10 minutes). It's worth dropping by your local PC World to give a new laptop a test run, then obviously buy it elsewhere
Jack Valenti assures me that 50 TB of pirated movies in DivX flows through the Internet each day?
Well it didn't yesterday - I was out. How does Jack Valenti know what I'm doing anyway?! Have the RIAA been haxoring my box?!
I can fit my little Cannon flatbed scanner into my laptop case with no problems - it can scan A4 pages too. I didn't think it would fit to be honest, but it's surprising what will go in that bag, given some "encouragement".
It's USB too, so no need for external power. It weighs next to nothing (compared to the laptop, paper and other crap in there) so I tend to keep it with me - often comes in handy...
Isn't this a symptom of bipolar disorder. I have cycles like that, though not so often. I'll stay awake for 2 or 3 days and feel great, then suddenly want to sleep for like 36 hours or something... It's not that much fun, actually...
You know I'm thinking that linking to a 49MB file from the front page of one of the biggest online community sites on the web may not have been the brightest of ideas.
Someone's going to get one f*cker of a bandwidth bill this month...
Otherwise the game is a bit like watching an industrial robot beat the crap out of Mike Tyson, OK so it might be fun to watch but it is not real sport.
I think you'll find the robot's name was Lennox Lewis...
That's why I'm still running sendmail from 1996!
;-)
Could you let us know the IP address so we can all put that "swiss cheese" server in our blacklists?
I just put RH8.0 on my Vaio GR series laptop. Custom install (basically I needed the Gnome desktop, various utils, named, httpd and mysql). Install finished, rebooted and... nothing. Kernel panic as kudzu searched for new hardware. At this point I'm guessing most newbies would give up. It wasn't a big hurdle if you realise you can switch to interactive mode and stop kudzu loading, but still.
The sound daemon in Gnome also locks up pretty often, so badly that you can't even remove the kernel modules - a reboot is the only fix - so I can't use the sound.
The display driver loaded for the Radion mobility card has no 3D acceleration, so the fix is to manually edit XF86config and modules.conf to get the unsupported 3D working (which does work pretty well, BTW!). Obviously the modem isn't going to work, but I don't need it anyway so that's not a big deal. Firewire cannot be used (I suspect this is what locks up Kudzu).
I still use it as a handy web development platform though - Mozilla + apache + PHP + Perl + MySQL are the web developers friends! If only Macromedia or Adobe would port their graphic apps to Linux I wouldn't need Windows...
I will personally track down and slaughter the first person to mention a popular clustering architecture, and how one might imagine it...
Isn't it more sad for the British citizens forced into paying 100UKP a year to prop up the BBC?
/., but I used to think exactly the same until I realised just how much time Sky spend pushing products through the screen at me - it's 33% adverts on almost all channels - the vast majority of these channels show at least 90% repeats, and much of the rest is crap.
Well I've said it before on
So, I think paying about 10 quid a month for 9 or 10 (or more I guess, I'm not counting the regional channels) channels, NO adverts, mostly original programming and a pretty much unbiased news service (their website has a lot more depth than you might initially think, BTW) is not a bad deal.
Oh yeah, we also get all the non commercial radio stations thrown in too - I'd hate to be forced to listen to the radio in any country where all the playlists were controlled and designed by the record companies. There must be like 20 tracks on rotation across the US?!
Are corporations also allowed to "sponsor" judges in the US? Seems that might be a quicker way for the RIAA to help clear things up...
Well RH8.0 has a lot of GUI tools now, so you can set up most services (certainly the ones the "average" user would even consider requiring) with a few mouse clicks. Of course, setting up vhosts in apache is never going to be that easy for a newby no matter how much eye candy they slap on it.
Until the latest RH distro I'd never even considered using a GUI tool to set up anything - had bad experiences before with linuxconf screwing up my carefully hand-written conf files - and I'll probably still find it quicker to fire up vi than launch X (even if the machine has a keyboard and screen), but for the average office worker, I doubt they'd even need the terminal any more, which is a good thing in my view.
Well I've got 3469 of the MAME ROMs on the server on the webserver on my DSL line for download ;-) Not sure where the other 17 come from - I built my database by using a script to pull the game details from MAME itself, so I thought I had all of them for the latest version???
I think his petswarehouse.com site's had so much traffic over the last couple of hours it's exploded and caused a huge chain reaction ;-)
What a dope:-
login: test
password: test
Feel free to post your "comments" without having to give personal details to register!!!
Let's hope that no spammers pick up on his email address or mailing details:
Honestly though, how can a piece of sh*t like this guy keep taking up court time with these suits? Espscially with news sites that are merely reporting the proceedings of cases? It's ridiculous - I'm sure the RIAA are already sending him job application forms so he help them in their quest to crack down on freedom and the causes of freedom!
I downloaded Debian (Woody was it?) the other night since I keep hearing how great it's supposed to be. I've also tried SuSE but tend to stay with RH (I guess I just know it better after all these years).
Anyway, it was like a trip through the way-back machine - a 2.2 kernel?! Clunky install and nothing I saw would convince me to change. I guess I could have worked out how to upgrade every single package on there over the next 3 or 4 weeks, but why bother? Maybe Debian will kick some ass if they ever put out another distro, but it's hardly something I'd recomend to anyone.
RH8.0 is really sweet though - the new GUI config tools actually have me using them instead of heading straight for vi, although I think I stick with the text editor on the headless machines...
Three thumbs up for RH8.0, 2 down for Deb.
That guy's really screwed...
s/Phone makes/Phone makers/;
(must remember to preview first...)
As I'm sure anyone else who's dealt with the "standard" Java API on mobile phones call attest, I hope this one follows the MIDP a bit closer than... well... all the others. This has been a nightmare for me - unless you have the emulators/hardware to test every single new phone, there's no way you can guarauntee anything about the Java implementation. The Seimens M50 resizes all image canvases to fit the screen (so, scrolling is "problematic"), the Nokia 3410 has a clipping bug, plus can't create image canvases over 255x255 pixels. The list is endless, and not helped by the various proprietory extensions that are practically mandatory if you wish to get anything done.
Phone makes trying to grab the market by twisting a standard into something non-standard? Hmm, sounds like some other company...
Or of course there is the possibility that MS believed $350m for 2-3 games a year was well priced. Let see.... 2games x $30game means they only need to sell 5 million games worldwide to break even on the purchase price (more would be good so you can conver operating expenses).
Well even discounting your slightly simplistic business model there, you have to wonder; if this is such a great deal, why would Nintendo be so eager to let Rare jump ship? Why didn't Sony bid for Rare?
Nintendo do games, that's all; nothing else. They have a pretty long history in the gaming industry, and I think they've offloaded baggage on MS (which can only be a good thing). MS are desperate to keep their dream of global media control on track, and so will do literally anything to ensure Xbox->Xbox2->Xbox3XP(Xtra Palladium) is a feature of every home in the future...
Ssh! When you find a nice fast mirror, for god's sake don't tell everyone about it on Slashdot!!!
;-)
I'm still waiting for my favourite little known one to open its doors. It always maxes out my adsl line no matter when I go there! No, I'm not telling