I think CheapBytes and such should stock 1.5.1 pretty soon. About your Solaris/NetBSD question. Unless you have a good reason to run Solaris (e.g. you need some Solaris specific stuff) you'll get much more from NetBSD. Solaris shines on the big iron but I've found it to be really bloated for small machines. I used it every day for a year on a Sun Ultra5 and many times I wished I could just dump it and put another OS on it, just I wasn't allowed to.
Sorry couldn't resist:)
"(Z80 at 0.4 MHz with 48K RAM!)"
What a bunch it would have been at that speed, It's Z80 actually ran at a blazing 3.59Mhz IIRC.
C64's cpu did run at something around the Mhz.
I used to have a Psion Series5 and absolutely loved it. The keyboard felt great, there is excellent software for the platform (yes even Doom;) and EPOC is a much better OS than PalmOS. The thing I found annoying was lack of free development tools. OPL was nice but I'd have loved to have a free C++ compiler for it.
My guess is in a market flooded with PalmOS devices and WindowsCE products they weren't doing very well? Does anyone know what market share Psion actually has?
"No C= computer did."
Except that the famous Commodore Amiga series used most of the 68000 series. A500,A1000 and A2000 used the 68000. A3000 used 68030 and 68040 (A3000T), and A4000 used 68030 and 68040. Later revisions once C= went down the drain were sold with 68060 as well, a ver elegan chip if I you ask me.
Talking FreeBSD here, haven't tried other *BSDs.
The purpose of having the ports system (at least one of them) is that you can regularly cvsup your ports tree and get the latest version of a certain application. You don't have to compile everything, that's what packages are for, precompiled ports that you can install either from your release CD or via remote ftp. If you use ports you can fine tune them for your system (e.g. -march=pentiumpro for gcc) and customize them to your needs.
I compiled KDE 2.1.0 from ports, don't remember how long it took but it wasn't that much time anyway.
The i686 was released a long time ago, it's called the Pentium Pro, on which core both Pentium II and III are based.
i386 usually refers to the platform, go download some debian iso and look at the name, contain's "i386" for the intel version doesn't it?
Compaq killed the Alpha, Sun has just released UltraSparcIII 900Mhz, so their cpus are far from dead. The problem is those babys are damn expensive, partly because of low volume sales, partly because of Sun's margin on hardware. I've always wondered why Sun's parts are so expensive, hard disks and memory specially. Sure hard disks contain custom firmware, but other stuff like scsi controllers are ridiculous expensive.
I've owned a Sega Genesis, Sega GameGear, Atari Lynx, Nintendo Gameboy & Snes, and Sony PSX and PS2 and neved saw any of those crash.
And sometimes I've kept them running on for days. Maybe you had faulty hardware.
Sorry, I just messed it up. What the DVD Recorder will do when copying is to set a "no more copies allowed" bit in the dvd-r you create. The watermark will remain there, ofcourse. Attempting to copy you dvd-r will fail.
If you read the article the purpose of watermarking is to allow only 1st generation copy, like minidisc does. A dvd-r unit should remove the watermark when recording the dvd, therefore, if you try to copy that dvd-r you just made, it will fail. That, of course, will be bypassed pretty soon.
This is just going nuts, what's next, oh yes. You go camping with your friends and some of them bring a guitar. Night comes, and you decide to make fire and sing some stuff. Suddenly a pair of RIAA agents appear from nowhere and sue all of you for copyright violation.
Seeing this makes me think of other protocols that I haven't seen implemented yet such as IP over snail mail or IP over Tam Tam (maybe using a morse encoding), even tcp/ip over voice, so you could use VoIP and then IPoV recursively.
Every time there's and AOL vs GAIM article the same comments arise. Mod this down if you want but AOL has no oligation of playing nice with the OSS community.
While software can be free (beer) hardware seldom is. Someone has to pay for it, and in this case is the ads in the AIM client. Now imagine: AOL says, ok go and write an open source client. Someone makes it and puts de ad routine in the code, e.g. show_ad_banner();
Nothing can stop me from nuking that code away and remove the banner in the client.
On the other hand you may argue that the number of linux/bsd users compared to Windows users is really small, so AOL might well allow linux/bsd users in their servers. If you ask me I don't think ther resource drain is that big, but as I said before AOL has no obligation at all to provide a service for free. They could allow it if you were inside their network, but how many unix users connect to the net with AOL? Guess not many.
To finish, a quote from the article: "It's not the resources that are the issue; and if it were, TOC would be blocked out"
I don't agree, maybe they want someone using and old client to be able to still use the service.
I wonder if having more resolution will break some apps that assume normal Palm/Handspring screen sizes.
Appart from that the 'echo' function in graffiti seems nice, at least when you are learning. Yeah, you can launch graffiti tutorial on a Palm, but is nice to have it there anyway.
I know drivers will get better but I found really disappointing that a $500 card is so slow doing something as simple as 2D graphics. Hope they get it better.
I bet most of/.ers have read this book, and what comes to my mind is that his like for the japanese-esque society fits the cyberpunk dark world very very well, I mean, I could not imagine it being in a different/better way, but then, that book made a really big impression on me the first time I read it.
Remember what the first batch of psx games looked like? Tekken 1, when Tekken 2 came out Tekken 1 looked like crap. When Tekken 3 was released people could not believe their eyes. It takes time to master the hardware, even for gurus like Namco.
About the vram limitation, if you read some of the articles about the architecture you are supposed to use all that bandwidth to feed texture bits to the GS, unlike a pc where you have obscene amounts of DDR memory to play with because the bus speed is still a joke.
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"3) make |& less feeds stdout and and stdin into less, shorter than make 2>&1 | less "
From the article:
"No more smelly fumes at the gas station. No more polluting C02 emissions. Far less dependence on uneven supplies of fossil fuels."
I find this really debatable for this reason: most (if not all) hydrogen comes from water. To obtain it a lot of electricity is needed which comes from one of those sources anyway, in some cases nuclear energy, but in many others no. So the argument that this a clean energy is not valid for me. Add to that the fact that there is a risc when working with such a volatile gas.
Games making use of OpenGL acceleration will still require X/glx but those 2D games would run pretty nice with this library with the added plus that coding for gtk is really nice. One question that some might answer, how do you manage keyboard/mouse events with the linuxfb?
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I think CheapBytes and such should stock 1.5.1 pretty soon. About your Solaris/NetBSD question. Unless you have a good reason to run Solaris (e.g. you need some Solaris specific stuff) you'll get much more from NetBSD. Solaris shines on the big iron but I've found it to be really bloated for small machines. I used it every day for a year on a Sun Ultra5 and many times I wished I could just dump it and put another OS on it, just I wasn't allowed to.
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Ok, s/bunch/bunch of crap/
Yeah I remember all those programs, but for me the best software to ever come out from them was the superb Match Point. I loved that game.
Sorry couldn't resist :)
"(Z80 at 0.4 MHz with 48K RAM!)"
What a bunch it would have been at that speed, It's Z80 actually ran at a blazing 3.59Mhz IIRC.
C64's cpu did run at something around the Mhz.
I used to have a Psion Series5 and absolutely loved it. The keyboard felt great, there is excellent software for the platform (yes even Doom ;) and EPOC is a much better OS than PalmOS. The thing I found annoying was lack of free development tools. OPL was nice but I'd have loved to have a free C++ compiler for it.
My guess is in a market flooded with PalmOS devices and WindowsCE products they weren't doing very well? Does anyone know what market share Psion actually has?
"No C= computer did."
Except that the famous Commodore Amiga series used most of the 68000 series. A500,A1000 and A2000 used the 68000. A3000 used 68030 and 68040 (A3000T), and A4000 used 68030 and 68040. Later revisions once C= went down the drain were sold with 68060 as well, a ver elegan chip if I you ask me.
Talking FreeBSD here, haven't tried other *BSDs.
The purpose of having the ports system (at least one of them) is that you can regularly cvsup your ports tree and get the latest version of a certain application. You don't have to compile everything, that's what packages are for, precompiled ports that you can install either from your release CD or via remote ftp. If you use ports you can fine tune them for your system (e.g. -march=pentiumpro for gcc) and customize them to your needs.
I compiled KDE 2.1.0 from ports, don't remember how long it took but it wasn't that much time anyway.
The i686 was released a long time ago, it's called the Pentium Pro, on which core both Pentium II and III are based.
i386 usually refers to the platform, go download some debian iso and look at the name, contain's "i386" for the intel version doesn't it?
Compaq killed the Alpha, Sun has just released UltraSparcIII 900Mhz, so their cpus are far from dead. The problem is those babys are damn expensive, partly because of low volume sales, partly because of Sun's margin on hardware. I've always wondered why Sun's parts are so expensive, hard disks and memory specially. Sure hard disks contain custom firmware, but other stuff like scsi controllers are ridiculous expensive.
Perhaps moderators could check the links before modding as informative, as allas.de has very little to do with http://defaced.alldas.de
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I've owned a Sega Genesis, Sega GameGear, Atari Lynx, Nintendo Gameboy & Snes, and Sony PSX and PS2 and neved saw any of those crash.
And sometimes I've kept them running on for days. Maybe you had faulty hardware.
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Sorry, I just messed it up. What the DVD Recorder will do when copying is to set a "no more copies allowed" bit in the dvd-r you create. The watermark will remain there, ofcourse. Attempting to copy you dvd-r will fail.
If you read the article the purpose of watermarking is to allow only 1st generation copy, like minidisc does. A dvd-r unit should remove the watermark when recording the dvd, therefore, if you try to copy that dvd-r you just made, it will fail. That, of course, will be bypassed pretty soon.
This is just going nuts, what's next, oh yes. You go camping with your friends and some of them bring a guitar. Night comes, and you decide to make fire and sing some stuff. Suddenly a pair of RIAA agents appear from nowhere and sue all of you for copyright violation.
Seeing this makes me think of other protocols that I haven't seen implemented yet such as IP over snail mail or IP over Tam Tam (maybe using a morse encoding), even tcp/ip over voice, so you could use VoIP and then IPoV recursively.
Every time there's and AOL vs GAIM article the same comments arise. Mod this down if you want but AOL has no oligation of playing nice with the OSS community.
While software can be free (beer) hardware seldom is. Someone has to pay for it, and in this case is the ads in the AIM client. Now imagine: AOL says, ok go and write an open source client. Someone makes it and puts de ad routine in the code, e.g. show_ad_banner();
Nothing can stop me from nuking that code away and remove the banner in the client.
On the other hand you may argue that the number of linux/bsd users compared to Windows users is really small, so AOL might well allow linux/bsd users in their servers. If you ask me I don't think ther resource drain is that big, but as I said before AOL has no obligation at all to provide a service for free. They could allow it if you were inside their network, but how many unix users connect to the net with AOL? Guess not many.
To finish, a quote from the article: "It's not the resources that are the issue; and if it were, TOC would be blocked out"
I don't agree, maybe they want someone using and old client to be able to still use the service.
Just my 2c
I wonder if having more resolution will break some apps that assume normal Palm/Handspring screen sizes.
Appart from that the 'echo' function in graffiti seems nice, at least when you are learning. Yeah, you can launch graffiti tutorial on a Palm, but is nice to have it there anyway.
I know drivers will get better but I found really disappointing that a $500 card is so slow doing something as simple as 2D graphics. Hope they get it better.
I bet most of /.ers have read this book, and what comes to my mind is that his like for the japanese-esque society fits the cyberpunk dark world very very well, I mean, I could not imagine it being in a different/better way, but then, that book made a really big impression on me the first time I read it.
Why has this been filed under "hardware"? :-)
:)
Love is the software part and sex is hardware. That's also why most people prefer them to go together.
Stability of Windows with the applications of Linux?
:-)
Stability of Windows, this must be a joke
Remember what the first batch of psx games looked like? Tekken 1, when Tekken 2 came out Tekken 1 looked like crap. When Tekken 3 was released people could not believe their eyes. It takes time to master the hardware, even for gurus like Namco.
About the vram limitation, if you read some of the articles about the architecture you are supposed to use all that bandwidth to feed texture bits to the GS, unlike a pc where you have obscene amounts of DDR memory to play with because the bus speed is still a joke.
"3) make |& less feeds stdout and and stdin into less, shorter than make 2>&1 | less "
You really meant stdout and stderror didn't you?
Nvidia is pure shit because you can't use their cards under FreeBSD with XF86 4.0+ :-(
From the article:
"No more smelly fumes at the gas station. No more polluting C02 emissions. Far less dependence on uneven supplies of fossil fuels."
I find this really debatable for this reason: most (if not all) hydrogen comes from water. To obtain it a lot of electricity is needed which comes from one of those sources anyway, in some cases nuclear energy, but in many others no. So the argument that this a clean energy is not valid for me. Add to that the fact that there is a risc when working with such a volatile gas.
Games making use of OpenGL acceleration will still require X/glx but those 2D games would run pretty nice with this library with the added plus that coding for gtk is really nice. One question that some might answer, how do you manage keyboard/mouse events with the linuxfb?