tony.maro.net Have you ever wished there were a more functional FREE (as in GPL) personal finance program available for Linux? I know I always said there were two things keeping me from dumping Windows entirely
#1 A good Pascal development environment #2 A financial management package that does scheduled payments and balance forecasts
# Import / Export QIF files (I imported all my old Microsoft Money 2002 data) # Balances account # Import OFX file for automatic balancing (online banking!) # Balance history graph # Sort by date or transaction number # Category spending piechart # Supports split transactions # Prints checks # Autocomplete # Scheduled bill pay # Balance forecasts # Balance forecast graph # Autofill entire transaction based on previous # Has sound # No required libraries (other than GTK+) # It's SMALL! About 2 MB! # It's fast! Informal tests shows 10 times faster than MS Money with same data! # Compresses data - a years worth of data takes up about 31k (same data in MS Money takes 3.6 MB) # It's usable - I'm using it myself now...
Sun embracing C#?;-) who knows maybe they will embrace.net model and they let other languages to be used with jvm . I mean real support from sun for perl, freepascal, python, php . Not all programmers want java dictature . It could be nice for sun to sponsor a c# for jvm just to make angry the microsoft hehe:) , just for fun
Prediction: Apple Computer Corp. will switch to Intel processors within the next 12 to 18 months.
Counter-Prediction: You're a moron, and here's why...
The story starts with January's Intel sales conference. The surprise keynote speaker was Steve Jobs. And then, in the front row of Steve Jobs's keynote address at the last Macworld Expo were top Intel executives. Shortly thereafter, Pixar announced that it would become an Intel shop. That was all step one. Step two is coming.
So what? Intel has long realised that as a marketing company, Apple is bar-none the best one out there. If Intel exec were in the audience, it was more to learn from Steve "Sno-blowing" Jobs than anything else. Anyone have a count of how many shares Intel has in Apple? In regards to Pixar, it was a logical step. Use of their entirely antiquated systems from sgi, et al. forced the move more than anything else. Ever heard of TCO? By moving to a commodity processing platform Pixar is able to cut operating losses in off-seasons and dynamically increase their performance...
Apple has been concerned about Motorola dragging its heels in the processor wars and failing to achieve clock speeds that are even half of what AMD and Intel are achieving. Apple has attempted to rationalize clock-speed issues, but the company knows that it cannot do this forever. Worse is the feud between Motorola and Apple, which began after Apple suddenly pulled the plug on the license it gave Motorola to clone the Mac.
Thats the first intelligent (but already stagnant) idea you've written in recent times.
Change is good. Apple has a unique ability to get away with changing processors radically. It has used the 6502, then the 68K, and now the PowerPC. Each transition happened almost flawlessly. On the PC side of the fence, no Z-80 maker survived even the transition to the 8080. Apple has also cultivated a fanatical following, who have long since accepted the fact that Apple eschews long-term backward compatibility. The legacy concept does not hold the power over Apple users that it does in the PC universe.
That's more a testament to Jobs', et al. stubborness in the face of ever-shrinking margins. A "price cut" to Apple amounts to a maximum of 5% off the top of their systems. Compare this to the whopping cuts you see from AMD and Intel and you get the picture.
Apple's only concern is cannibalization. It cannot change architectures with a pipeline full of PowerPC products. So expect a slow transition that will start with the high-end workstations. Apple's concern is that Motorola may muddy the situation, so Jobs will have to convince Motorola and customers that the PowerPC will not be phased out but will remain as part of a dual-processor architecture.
How the heck are they going to do that? You're already building a pay-as-you-go OS on top of the FreeBSD/Unix operating system. Gee, how many x86 ports are out there? Motorola has already moved on. There is more money to be made in the consumer electronic market than there is in Apple's kludgedom. And, I would shy away from calling anything that Apple makes "high-end".
Scenario. Apple will announce its Intel initiative by showing a transition machine that uses both the Intel and Motorola processors. "So current Mac owners will not have to worry." This will be a high-end machine optimized to run Photoshop. Apple is adept at creating dual-processor architectures, so this won't be too radical. We've heard rumors of this kind of scenario for some time, under the code name Marklar.
Amen bro' ! In my country people buy more amd (60%) than intel(40%) because they are cheaper and offer a better ratio price/performance. My next upgrade will be an Barton (2500++) because it screams at overclocking (2.4ghz is piece of pie..) and yes it have greater cache good for compiling and databases Who cares about the magical number 3.0 ghz or 3000++ The same apply to video cards too.Yeah Radeon 9700 pro does 300+ fps in q3 and it's better than GeForceFx.But who cares.I can't play q3 on a duron @900 and LeeForce2MX400 because it's too fast !!! but who needs. C3 are cool (real cool) wonder if can build a cluster of them for my linux projects heheh They are real cheap and my God they will release the next version with multiprocessor suport. At the end of the year axp64 will do the difference in the world of cpus. Maybe i'll buy one or 2 next year when they are cheaper and tell my friends : look i got a 64 bits processor yours is only 32:) Barton it's not the best processor out there but is good enough (middle class) the same apply to nv 30 aka GeForceFx.
From a 10000m high. Maybe it's Microsft atempt to destroy JAVA. Well java have some problems but if you write good your code it works prety well : I give only one example http://jedit.sf.net or Jboss or Tomcat or... I have crappy aplications too to say but let's forget about them. Emulation is always slow but with time the virtual machine become better.Do you remember V86 from the intel386 (It emulates in hardware a 8086). or the fx!32 http://www.support.compaq.com/amt/fx32/fx-white.ht ml There are chips that accelerate java (www.arm.com) maybe in next years there will be on high end processors hardware java vm. I saw that transmeta can execute!! java and x86 instructions from http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/cpujihad.shtml: Before I leave this, there is the thought that somehow the Transmeta chip would be able to execute other instruction sets in a different configuration or perhaps more interestingly simultaneously with an x86. The presentation seemed to steer towards the direction of "we are only emulating x86's". However, public statements made by Transmeta employees lead to a different possibility: "There was a TM3120 running Doom on Linux. Doom was compiled mostly to x86, except for the inner loop, which was compiled to picoJava using Steve Chamberlain's picoJava back-end. The whole program was linked together using a magic linker. When the program had to enter the inner loop, it executed a reserved x86 opcode which jumped to picoJava mode. The inner loop then executed picoJava bytecode until it was done, and re-entered x86 mode."
This is very suggestive, at least to me, that they will support Java (or perhaps just picoJava) on their CPUs that would likely be substantially faster than the current crop of x86 based Java virtual machines.
Always you read the the last on./ And by the way that is not a full interview Here http://www.nordichardware.se/artiklar/Intervjuer/E nglish/nVidia/index.php
Look at the emails of the peoples: 2 from ibm and one from AMD . It seems amd is looking at intel boxes ?? "The architecture used for the majority of this work is IA-32 (in other words, x86), from one to eight processors. We also study the issues associated with future use of non-uniform memory access (NUMA) IA-32 and NUMA IA-64 architectures." Hmm i am shure the next hammers could do the NUMA maybe they try do do it better in linux.
They tell us that inside will be the same logic way of building chips .
No smart one just a bunch of logic array (1 billion of them ) no fuZZy logic at all
Look around even a bird have immense AI+3D power so it does real time
proceessing of the world.What we have : an machine that can't deal with
2D images (movies),and Mp3 in real time,i mean encoding them .
So we got the Klippy the smartest thing in the world more anoying that enything .
In the new WinNt(Xperimental Programming from Micro$$oft) the clippy
"help" you to clean the desktop of icons what a krappp!!!
Even with 1Thz computer the Microsoft programmers will code with a lot
of NOOP so your hardware to look old and to throw it in the Recyle Bin
let's write an web browser in pure
assembler (mozuki) then
small and dangerous like opera is
there is an project asmbuilder or something like
that and i saw some examples of
win32 appz made with masm (iczelion demo)
we could do the same things on linux of course
i think they have made the benchmarks only on paper
before actualy itanium was out so they
have made those specs in Excel or something
coze i don't belive titanicum is so good
for one reason the risc machines(aka sun ultra or mips ) any of them have the prformance
twice at the same clock of intel conterfait part (wich i we divide with 2 (if) when is to much heat
when we play quake or compile the kernel or browse with moZZilla)
or they have took a risc machine from HP (stolen the plans from the engineers there
remember the M$$ practice) and they tell us that this is x86 if we run
the emulgators and all the salt.So Linux so good made even realized that inside
is a risc lady (64 core ) so run without a glinch (linuzze is portable )
so maybe titanicum is good for browsing and for the console" The integrated ATI graphics adapter delivers affordable and convenient 2D visualization and console administration"
so is how SGI says it is :
Good for 2d activity.Poor guyz at intel maybe Sgi offered them a chance to
keep the jobs coze this is not an workstation...
they looose 150$ for every Xbox selled so if you build an farm of xBoxes and put linux on that thing you have an advantage coze if you buy 300 xboxes you steal 300x150 =45000$ directly from M$ house If you happen to render some movies for a film you need 3d power horses like nVidia have yet another steal. Xbox is a good thing cozze you could build cheaper an cluster. Let's do something nasty for M$$ Corp.;)
they looose 150$ for every Xbox selled
so if you build an farm of xBoxes
and put linux on that thing you have an
advantage coze if you buy 300 xboxes
you steal 300x150 =45000$ directly from M$ house
If you happen to render some movies for a film
you need 3d power horses like nVidia have
yet another steal.
Xbox is a good thing cozze you could build cheaper an cluster.
Let's do something nasty for M$$ Corp.;)
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Have you ever wished there were a more functional FREE (as in GPL) personal finance program available for Linux? I know I always said there were two things keeping me from dumping Windows entirely
#1 A good Pascal development environment
#2 A financial management package that does scheduled payments and balance forecasts
# Import / Export QIF files (I imported all my old Microsoft Money 2002 data)
# Balances account
# Import OFX file for automatic balancing (online banking!)
# Balance history graph
# Sort by date or transaction number
# Category spending piechart
# Supports split transactions
# Prints checks
# Autocomplete
# Scheduled bill pay
# Balance forecasts
# Balance forecast graph
# Autofill entire transaction based on previous
# Has sound
# No required libraries (other than GTK+)
# It's SMALL! About 2 MB!
# It's fast! Informal tests shows 10 times faster than MS Money with same data!
# Compresses data - a years worth of data takes up about 31k (same data in MS Money takes 3.6 MB)
# It's usable - I'm using it myself now...
Sun embracing C#? ;-) .net model and they let other languages to be used with jvm . I mean real support from sun for perl, freepascal , :) , just for fun
who knows maybe they will embrace
python, php . Not all programmers want java dictature . It could be nice for sun to sponsor
a c# for jvm just to make angry the microsoft hehe
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,939886,00.asp
by John C. Dvorak
Prediction: Apple Computer Corp. will switch to Intel processors within the next 12 to 18 months.
Counter-Prediction: You're a moron, and here's why...
The story starts with January's Intel sales conference. The surprise keynote speaker was Steve Jobs. And then, in the front row of Steve Jobs's keynote address at the last Macworld Expo were top Intel executives. Shortly thereafter, Pixar announced that it would become an Intel shop. That was all step one. Step two is coming.
So what? Intel has long realised that as a marketing company, Apple is bar-none the best one out there. If Intel exec were in the audience, it was more to learn from Steve "Sno-blowing" Jobs than anything else. Anyone have a count of how many shares Intel has in Apple? In regards to Pixar, it was a logical step. Use of their entirely antiquated systems from sgi, et al. forced the move more than anything else. Ever heard of TCO? By moving to a commodity processing platform Pixar is able to cut operating losses in off-seasons and dynamically increase their performance...
Apple has been concerned about Motorola dragging its heels in the processor wars and failing to achieve clock speeds that are even half of what AMD and Intel are achieving. Apple has attempted to rationalize clock-speed issues, but the company knows that it cannot do this forever. Worse is the feud between Motorola and Apple, which began after Apple suddenly pulled the plug on the license it gave Motorola to clone the Mac.
Thats the first intelligent (but already stagnant) idea you've written in recent times.
Change is good. Apple has a unique ability to get away with changing processors radically. It has used the 6502, then the 68K, and now the PowerPC. Each transition happened almost flawlessly. On the PC side of the fence, no Z-80 maker survived even the transition to the 8080. Apple has also cultivated a fanatical following, who have long since accepted the fact that Apple eschews long-term backward compatibility. The legacy concept does not hold the power over Apple users that it does in the PC universe.
That's more a testament to Jobs', et al. stubborness in the face of ever-shrinking margins. A "price cut" to Apple amounts to a maximum of 5% off the top of their systems. Compare this to the whopping cuts you see from AMD and Intel and you get the picture.
Apple's only concern is cannibalization. It cannot change architectures with a pipeline full of PowerPC products. So expect a slow transition that will start with the high-end workstations. Apple's concern is that Motorola may muddy the situation, so Jobs will have to convince Motorola and customers that the PowerPC will not be phased out but will remain as part of a dual-processor architecture.
How the heck are they going to do that? You're already building a pay-as-you-go OS on top of the FreeBSD/Unix operating system. Gee, how many x86 ports are out there? Motorola has already moved on. There is more money to be made in the consumer electronic market than there is in Apple's kludgedom. And, I would shy away from calling anything that Apple makes "high-end".
Scenario. Apple will announce its Intel initiative by showing a transition machine that uses both the Intel and Motorola processors. "So current Mac owners will not have to worry." This will be a high-end machine optimized to run Photoshop. Apple is adept at creating dual-processor architectures, so this won't be too radical. We've heard rumors of this kind of scenario for some time, under the code name Marklar.
Prove it. How are you going to saddle two
My main concern, same with the P800, is the unpopular OS
Hmm yes is less visible than windows but in the
scools and geekhouses i think is popular
Amen bro' ! .Yeah Radeon 9700 pro .But who cares .I can't play q3 on a duron @900 . . . :) .
In my country people buy more amd (60%) than intel(40%) because they are cheaper and offer a
better ratio price/performance. My next upgrade will
be an Barton (2500++) because it screams at
overclocking (2.4ghz is piece of pie..) and yes it
have greater cache good for compiling and databases
Who cares about the magical number 3.0 ghz or 3000++
The same apply to video cards too
does 300+ fps in q3 and it's better than GeForceFx
and LeeForce2MX400 because it's too fast !!!
but who needs
C3 are cool (real cool) wonder if can build a
cluster of them for my linux projects heheh
They are real cheap and my God they will release
the next version with multiprocessor suport
At the end of the year axp64 will do the difference in the world of cpus
Maybe i'll buy one or 2 next year when they are cheaper and tell my friends : look i got a 64 bits
processor yours is only 32
Barton it's not the best processor out there but
is good enough (middle class) the same apply to
nv 30 aka GeForceFx
From a 10000m high . ... . .Do you remember V86 fromt ml:
Maybe it's Microsft atempt to destroy JAVA.
Well java have some problems but if you write good your code it works prety well : I give only
one example http://jedit.sf.net or Jboss or
Tomcat or
I have crappy aplications too to say but let's forget about them
Emulation is always slow but with time the virtual
machine become better
the intel386 (It emulates in hardware a 8086).
or the fx!32 http://www.support.compaq.com/amt/fx32/fx-white.h
There are chips that accelerate java (www.arm.com)
maybe in next years there will be on high end processors hardware java vm. I saw that transmeta
can execute!! java and x86 instructions from http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/cpujihad.shtml
Before I leave this, there is the thought that somehow the Transmeta chip would be able to execute other instruction sets in a different configuration or perhaps more interestingly simultaneously with an x86. The presentation seemed to steer towards the direction of "we are only emulating x86's". However, public statements made by Transmeta employees lead to a different possibility: "There was a TM3120 running Doom on Linux. Doom was compiled mostly to x86, except for the inner loop, which was compiled to picoJava using Steve Chamberlain's picoJava back-end. The whole program was linked together using a magic linker. When the program had to enter the inner loop, it executed a reserved x86 opcode which jumped to picoJava mode. The inner loop then executed picoJava bytecode until it was done, and re-entered x86 mode."
This is very suggestive, at least to me, that they will support Java (or perhaps just picoJava) on their CPUs that would likely be substantially faster than the current crop of x86 based Java virtual machines.
Pretty strange but is ok if you did as you said .
sorry bad linkv juer/E nglish/nVidia/index.php ./
http://www.nordichardware.se/artiklar/Inter
It could be cool to edit your own posts here on
Always you read the the last on ./E nglish/nVidia/index.php
And by the way that is not a full interview
Here http://www.nordichardware.se/artiklar/Intervjuer/
Look at the emails of the peoples : .
2 from ibm and one from AMD . It seems amd is
looking at intel boxes ?? "The architecture used for the majority of this work is IA-32 (in other words, x86), from one to eight processors. We also study the issues associated with future use of non-uniform memory access (NUMA) IA-32 and NUMA IA-64 architectures."
Hmm i am shure the next hammers could do the NUMA maybe they try do do it better in linux
They tell us that inside will be the same logic way of building chips . No smart one just a bunch of logic array (1 billion of them ) no fuZZy logic at all Look around even a bird have immense AI+3D power so it does real time proceessing of the world .What we have : an machine that can't deal with
2D images (movies),and Mp3 in real time ,i mean encoding them .
So we got the Klippy the smartest thing in the world more anoying that enything .
In the new WinNt(Xperimental Programming from Micro$$oft) the clippy
"help" you to clean the desktop of icons what a krappp!!!
Even with 1Thz computer the Microsoft programmers will code with a lot
of NOOP so your hardware to look old and to throw it in the Recyle Bin
let's write an web browser in pure assembler (mozuki) then small and dangerous like opera is there is an project asmbuilder or something like that and i saw some examples of win32 appz made with masm (iczelion demo) we could do the same things on linux of course
yes and then control the robot over a wireless network from your home it's cool how small it is .
i think they have made the benchmarks only on paper before actualy itanium was out so they have made those specs in Excel or something coze i don't belive titanicum is so good for one reason the risc machines(aka sun ultra or mips ) any of them have the prformance twice at the same clock of intel conterfait part (wich i we divide with 2 (if) when is to much heat when we play quake or compile the kernel or browse with moZZilla) or they have took a risc machine from HP (stolen the plans from the engineers there remember the M$$ practice) and they tell us that this is x86 if we run the emulgators and all the salt .So Linux so good made even realized that inside
is a risc lady (64 core ) so run without a glinch (linuzze is portable )
so maybe titanicum is good for browsing and for the console" The integrated ATI graphics adapter delivers affordable and convenient 2D visualization and console administration"
so is how SGI says it is :
Good for 2d activity .Poor guyz at intel maybe Sgi offered them a chance to
keep the jobs coze this is not an workstation ...
they looose 150$ for every Xbox selled so if you build an farm of xBoxes and put linux on that thing you have an advantage coze if you buy 300 xboxes you steal 300x150 =45000$ directly from M$ house If you happen to render some movies for a film you need 3d power horses like nVidia have yet another steal. Xbox is a good thing cozze you could build cheaper an cluster. Let's do something nasty for M$$ Corp.;)
they looose 150$ for every Xbox selled so if you build an farm of xBoxes and put linux on that thing you have an advantage coze if you buy 300 xboxes you steal 300x150 =45000$ directly from M$ house If you happen to render some movies for a film you need 3d power horses like nVidia have yet another steal. Xbox is a good thing cozze you could build cheaper an cluster. Let's do something nasty for M$$ Corp.;)