Yeah, right after I posted that message I decided to try, and it builds on my Slackware 7 box just fine. It's surprising it's not included with more distributions. The only place it exists that I know of is in the FreeBSD 'ports' collection.
That means that the SA can be underclocked for even more power savings. Or are there a few dynamic registers or resources in it that impose a minimum clock frequency?
I haven't heard of anybody being foolish enough to swap out the motherboard on a working Win32 system in a long time. I do it occasionally on Windows 95 systems in the lab at work, but Windows 95 is largely just a flossy GUI layer on top of DOS. NT/W2K is much more tightly integrated with the hardware.
Criticizing an OS for not surviving a motherboard swap is certainly tangental to it's merits as a usable system.
The thing a lot of people forget or don't know is that aerospace computers have to be radiation hardened. So the latest processors just plain aren't feasible in a hostile space environment.
Isn't the StrongARM computer an experiment, in that it's not a traditional radiation hardened processor, but rather an experiment in shielding a regular chip enough to put it up in that kind of environment??
Actually, if Amazon does good with this, they'll suck all the revenue out of local stores like the one you bemoan the loss of. Then if Amazon fails, they won't just take their own hide down, they'll take down the Used Book market, too.
I'm not particularly afraid of the above happening, but I'm not the one acting like it's a big wonderful thing that Amazon is muscling into the Used Book market, either.
In fact, the price of some books actually goes up on the secondary market. I have both editions (hardback and paperback) of Piers Anthony's 'blue' novel Pornucopia . They're worth more than I paid for them because until very recently they hadn't been reprinted.
I also have one of the few copies of Stephenson's book 'The Big U' which I understand is worth a considerable amount to the more avid fans of his work. If I sell it on eBay for a lot more than the cover price, Stephenson doesn't get a dime. In fact, from what I have heard, he'd rather nobody read the book (I personally find it one of his better works- he doesn't take himself so fricking serious in it).
Keillor is worse than a fat smug Homer Simpson lookalike.
He's a mean-spirited cynical man. His whole gig is to make fun in a mean way of small town folks and their culture. It's snide yuppie cynicism at it's worst, and all wrapped up in a down-home seeming package.
A friend of mine who grew up in a small town in Minnesota once wrote a letter-to-the-editor denouncing Keillor as a hateful loser who gets his revenge on the community that rejected him (the small town that he came from) by his mean spirited antics. The response my friend got was a threatening letter from one of Keillor's attorneys.
Garrison Keillor is a creep; his down-home attitude on the air is a fraud. I listened to him going back to the time when he had the morning show on public radio, so I should know.
Used bookstores selling their goods by the Internet is an Excellent Idea . I buy a LOT of books that way. It's really nice to be able to punch in an author's name and price-shop from used bookstores all around the world.
Yes. Vapourware is a product release/marketing method pioneered at Oracle, back when Larry Ellison was a hungry businessman, not the smug guy he is today.
The Oracle salespeople would sell a new feature for their database project, then stop by the developer's shop after the sale to tell them what they had to cobble together. Oracle was built on that kind of business practice, they won out against other (more ethical) vendors in that fashion.
I've been using Windows 2000 on one of my machines since the market release. I'm glad I didn't wait for some luddite to tell me when it was 'safe' to use it, because I've gotten a lot of good use out of it. It's not crashed a single time in the months I've been using it.
It's right up there with the BSD Unices in terms of reliability for a desktop system.
I run Office 2000 (not for any really heavy tasks) on my 486DX-2 50 laptop. It's a Toshiba 2105 with 28 megs of RAM. Word and Excel run fine (under Windows 95), but I wouldn't recommend Powerpoint.
The machine also dual boots Slackware. Used to run NetBSD on it also.
The beauty is that, *maybe*, the new Star Wars trilogy will be instructive to most Americans who don't understand their history or how Republics become Empires.
What's scary is that people like you take the halfbaked political theories of entertainers like George Lucas far more seriously than anybody should.
Read some real history. Don't stare wistfully at the screen at a Science Fiction film.
Actually, yes, those 'Renaissance cats' did. Not lawyers in the sense we have them today, but actual soldiers to keep the other side from hauling away their creative output.
There are musicians everywhere who demonstrate every day that you can make a perfectly respectable living doing nothing but selling tickets to live shows
Please cite some examples. I've heard people say stuff like this over and over. Nobody ever cites any examples.
If you want a copy of Windows ME (yeah, I know...) that isn't bound to a particular OEM machine, you can go into any major store and purchase the 'Install on a New Computer' retail box version for about $180.
Or you can go into any screwdriver shop and buy a Hard drive, or a motherboard, and get an 'OEM' copy of Windows ME that's not hard-bound to a particular machine, for about $70. It's slightly more legally dubious.
The 'retail box' 'Install on a New Computer' version you are allowed to put on any single machine, anywhere, that you wish.
You instead have a very cheap (the hardware manufacturer probably paid about $30 for it) OEM license which is bound to a particular machine.
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Yeah, right after I posted that message I decided to try, and it builds on my Slackware 7 box just fine. It's surprising it's not included with more distributions. The only place it exists that I know of is in the FreeBSD 'ports' collection.
Umm, it's far easier to be happy with money than without it.
There is no 'key' to life. It's not that simple.
Screw calculators. Download the X-based Sliderule program that's in the 'packages' section of ftp.freebsd.org and build it.
Not sure if it even will build under Linux, but it builds properly under all the BSD-based free Unixes.
It's really cool.
That means that the SA can be underclocked for even more power savings. Or are there a few dynamic registers or resources in it that impose a minimum clock frequency?
If you're going with Slackware, save a few dollars and buy a $2 cheapbytes disk. Use the extra money to buy more O'Reilly books.
.iso and burn your own if you've got the bandwidth. (I do at work, anyway)
Or download a Slack
I haven't heard of anybody being foolish enough to swap out the motherboard on a working Win32 system in a long time. I do it occasionally on Windows 95 systems in the lab at work, but Windows 95 is largely just a flossy GUI layer on top of DOS. NT/W2K is much more tightly integrated with the hardware.
Criticizing an OS for not surviving a motherboard swap is certainly tangental to it's merits as a usable system.
Correction: many Linux users do not know C.
The thing a lot of people forget or don't know is that aerospace computers have to be radiation hardened. So the latest processors just plain aren't feasible in a hostile space environment.
Isn't the StrongARM computer an experiment, in that it's not a traditional radiation hardened processor, but rather an experiment in shielding a regular chip enough to put it up in that kind of environment??
a good writer concentrates on letting the thoughts fly.
What an awful way of looking at the craft of writing.
A good writer has to work at it, and only slowly becomes better. Thoughts have to be captured, sure, but then they have to be honed into shape.
Actually, if Amazon does good with this, they'll suck all the revenue out of local stores like the one you bemoan the loss of. Then if Amazon fails, they won't just take their own hide down, they'll take down the Used Book market, too.
I'm not particularly afraid of the above happening, but I'm not the one acting like it's a big wonderful thing that Amazon is muscling into the Used Book market, either.
In fact, the price of some books actually goes up on the secondary market. I have both editions (hardback and paperback) of Piers Anthony's 'blue' novel Pornucopia . They're worth more than I paid for them because until very recently they hadn't been reprinted.
I also have one of the few copies of Stephenson's book 'The Big U' which I understand is worth a considerable amount to the more avid fans of his work. If I sell it on eBay for a lot more than the cover price, Stephenson doesn't get a dime. In fact, from what I have heard, he'd rather nobody read the book (I personally find it one of his better works- he doesn't take himself so fricking serious in it).
Keillor is worse than a fat smug Homer Simpson lookalike.
He's a mean-spirited cynical man. His whole gig is to make fun in a mean way of small town folks and their culture. It's snide yuppie cynicism at it's worst, and all wrapped up in a down-home seeming package.
A friend of mine who grew up in a small town in Minnesota once wrote a letter-to-the-editor denouncing Keillor as a hateful loser who gets his revenge on the community that rejected him (the small town that he came from) by his mean spirited antics. The response my friend got was a threatening letter from one of Keillor's attorneys.
Garrison Keillor is a creep; his down-home attitude on the air is a fraud. I listened to him going back to the time when he had the morning show on public radio, so I should know.
Used bookstores selling their goods by the Internet is an Excellent Idea . I buy a LOT of books that way. It's really nice to be able to punch in an author's name and price-shop from used bookstores all around the world.
Damn! And I'm nearly finished converting all my 13 year old VHS tapes of 'The Prisoner' to VCD format....
Or MPEG-1. Is there a decent VCD player for Linux?
My DVD player is in the living room. On a shelf beneath the TV set.
;) )
(the PC connection is an analog video cord that reaches over to the computer with a Dazzle installed
Why should anybody take up a dare here on Slashdot from an Anonymous Coward?
Yes. Vapourware is a product release/marketing method pioneered at Oracle, back when Larry Ellison was a hungry businessman, not the smug guy he is today.
The Oracle salespeople would sell a new feature for their database project, then stop by the developer's shop after the sale to tell them what they had to cobble together. Oracle was built on that kind of business practice, they won out against other (more ethical) vendors in that fashion.
It's well-documented in the book The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison (God doesn't think he's Larry Ellison). If you haven't read it, you need to. Puts Larry Ellision, the king of hate-Microsoft, into proper perspective.
I've been using Windows 2000 on one of my machines since the market release. I'm glad I didn't wait for some luddite to tell me when it was 'safe' to use it, because I've gotten a lot of good use out of it. It's not crashed a single time in the months I've been using it.
It's right up there with the BSD Unices in terms of reliability for a desktop system.
It's the one where they talk about the new magnesium 'getters' in the tube's envelope. And the new Octal tube socket.
I run Office 2000 (not for any really heavy tasks) on my 486DX-2 50 laptop. It's a Toshiba 2105 with 28 megs of RAM. Word and Excel run fine (under Windows 95), but I wouldn't recommend Powerpoint.
The machine also dual boots Slackware. Used to run NetBSD on it also.
The beauty is that, *maybe*, the new Star Wars trilogy will be instructive to most Americans who don't understand their history or how Republics become Empires.
What's scary is that people like you take the halfbaked political theories of entertainers like George Lucas far more seriously than anybody should.
Read some real history. Don't stare wistfully at the screen at a Science Fiction film.
Actually, yes, those 'Renaissance cats' did. Not lawyers in the sense we have them today, but actual soldiers to keep the other side from hauling away their creative output.
Same as it ever was.
There are musicians everywhere who demonstrate every day that you can make a perfectly respectable living doing nothing but selling tickets to live shows
Please cite some examples. I've heard people say stuff like this over and over. Nobody ever cites any examples.
Except, of course, a very few hippie musicians.
If you want a copy of Windows ME (yeah, I know...) that isn't bound to a particular OEM machine, you can go into any major store and purchase the 'Install on a New Computer' retail box version for about $180.
Or you can go into any screwdriver shop and buy a Hard drive, or a motherboard, and get an 'OEM' copy of Windows ME that's not hard-bound to a particular machine, for about $70. It's slightly more legally dubious.
The 'retail box' 'Install on a New Computer' version you are allowed to put on any single machine, anywhere, that you wish.
You instead have a very cheap (the hardware manufacturer probably paid about $30 for it) OEM license which is bound to a particular machine.
Those are the breaks. Deal with it.