SGI has one of the sweetest LCD panels available. It has 1600x1000 resolution and I think digital interconnects. Problem is, it is tied to a crappy number 9 video card. And it costs 2.6 K$.
Apple has a sweet Apple Cinema Display. A little bigger than the SGI, but I think they are at the same resolution. The beast costs 4K$ and comes "bundled" with a G4. I have never run Linux on a Mac. I wonder if it runs on the G3 G4 series... II bet it does.
I have to agree. This is one of the funniest pages I have seen in quite some time. Someone at/. should have run this as a real story, or at least a quickie.
On another note, I am glad the moderators moderated this up. Maybe they do have a clue.
Ontopic- I dislike this idea that you retain rights to your comments after you post to a open forum. As long as someone doesn't modify your content, it should be free to rebroadcast, IMHO. Maybe I am missing the point here.
Sorry about forgetting what a mole is. That is pretty sad on my part.
You are correct that you could miss an important sequence. I said that here but nobody picked it up. Moderators should browse everything...
This DNA computing is basically enumeration of all solutions in parallel. If I remember correctly, the solution time scales linearly with the number of variables. The resulting problem is, each step can take a long time (hours?). So even though it scales nicely, it takes forever.
I think the article said it solved a problem in a week for a problem with 512 possible answers. That is 2^9, 9 variables. About day/variable, assuming linear scaling.
I think people are working on ways to extend DNA computing so that larger problems can be handled, and steps can be accomplished more quickly. But I have no good refs...
How it works (I think...)
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I have see a couple of presentations on this DNA computing thing. As far as I understand it...
DNA helix- two strands. We can use the 4 base pairs GATC (remember GATTACA the movie...) to make a single strand. There should exist a mate to the single strand, like a photo negative.
You pose the problem by making a strand that only a valid solution can pair with. Then you expose the solution DNA strand to a mixture of random solutions. Only the correct solutions can attach to the single strand solution. Then you examine your mix and figure out what a solution to the problem is.
Becaue you are relying on chemical steps, you sometimes get the wrong answer. You also cannot verify that you really have a random set of potential solutions (the single answer may not actually be in your flask..) And each chemical step takes time to process, and there are multiple steps.
So basically it is brute force, but a fairly good attempt at brute force, much better than using computers we have today. The molecules are moderate size, bigger than atoms but smaller than polymers or cells. basically a protien. Each base pair is made up of a few atoms, I think. The molecules don't move fast like gas molecules cause they are in solution, but they are still move a lot.
Quantum computing seems like a much cooler way to do these problems.
DNA/RNA computing still limited...
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There are some great advantages in DNA/RNA computing, but some limitations too. From some of the stuff I have seen, you can pose a problem chemically, then use random sequences of DNA to see if any solutions are found. This effectively lets billions and trillions of potential answers be attempted in parallel. This complete ennumeration scheme is better than using computers, but still limited.
If you talk about searching a space of n binary variables, there will be 2^n potential solutions. Say n=1000, 2^n~=1e300. If I remember the number of molecules in a mole of something is around 3e23. You can get a bigger pot of random DNA (more moles) but this is still a limitation for DNA computing as far as I know right now.
For big traveling salesman (Non-Polynomial) problems, the size can easily reach n=1,000,000. DNA computing is cool, but only useful in some specific applications.
And while we are at it, extending the current solution algorthms to parallel computing versions doesn't always help. Doubling the number of processors (or doubling the speed of each processor) in the best case only helps you solve one more binary variable.. 2^n=>2^(n+1)
People seem to think the point of/. is to bash Ms and support OSS, and I'm not sure where they got that idea./. was created to basically give an outlet for people to express "unpopular" opinions
I really don't think that/. was set up as a discussion outlet for "unpopular opinion". I think the quote is "News for Nerds", and the result may be popular or not so popular.
/. is becoming more mainstream and therefore less selective. People are posting that have no clue about Unix (a traditional nerd essential). They sometimes don't have the capacity to deal with a command line. Some have made poor decisions to go with the MS solution and must be pro-MS or they get burned.
Old school/. discussion was more pure and focused. People now seem paranoid when they see pro-MS posts because most of us have had terrible problems using MS products. We know that anyone defending MS must be either confused, clueless, or up to something.
MS flamewars are not what we need ( Although the "old school"/. GNOME vs. KDE were tons of fun.)
Just wanted to say/. is not about popularity or bashing MS or even linux. News for nerds. Most nerds I know just happen to be unpopular, bash MS, and like Linux.
Another idea/option for moderation is to have a preference availalbe so that people could replace standard moderation values with a specified moderator's (or a group of moderator's) values.
This would be sorta like the "employee's picks" section at video rental places.
Maybe I want to trust a group of "M$ hAterZ" picks and preferences more than the standard. You wouldn't need M2 for these postings. Give anyone in the goup unlimited group moderation points (which would not affect the real moderation scheme). Ideally, let anyone view the moderation history of a group.
This way comunities could form within a comunity. I could chose to read slashdot with a anti M$ view. You could even have a "Natalie Portman Hot grits petrified spargle MEEPT first post" group with any such post moderated up to 5...
Remember they have billions and billions, so why not have a few stooges post online to help keep their stock prices up? Seems like a good idea to me, if I were in their shoes.
If I am not mistaken, at one time there was a web browser developed for the Palm platform that surfed through a proxy. You would send a request to your unix box, the unix box could go grab the page and render it appropriately for your platform (no color, limited fonts, limited screen) and send it out to you. I should go look up the reference. I use AvantGo for cached sites and it seems to do something similar.
Also, why not use lynx and extend it to let you see images when you need to (maps, photos, etc.). Maybe webmasters would make their sites lynx friendly.
Could somone point me to some pirate radio station information? I mean real radio, not web cast. And yes, I saw the article on/. about UK pirates "stealing" your car radio.
Back in the '80s at Georgia Tech some guys put together a "small" bradcast in Techwood dorm. Supposedly people from all over the city could listen in. They tried to get a real license, but apparently the FCC requires detailed schematics of the equipment, and these guys had hacked it all together so the project died.
Eventually we'll get broadband wireless web, but 'til then we wait.
I was thinking the same thing! I have bough a few ID products, but now I feel like I need to get more.
What does Q2/Q3 have that Q1 doesn't? Q1 was real 3D and had GL support- Quakeworld had decent network support for online gaming. There are a ton of mods and tournament play games out there.
Plus, being GPL, RedHat (Debian, etc...) can drop it in their distros...
I just got a Palm Pilot and I have used OmniRemote from PacificNeoTek.com. It learns commands from your old IR remotes. The software is very configurable. I have used it with my IR keyboard to run MP3s and DVDs on my PC. Pretty slick stuff.
Sorry to interrupt the discussion. Ontopic: I want a Tivo too! Plus it runs Linux! Howard Stern says the Tivo is the bomb, so it must be cool.
We had a bunch of Sun reps at our university come tout their products a month ago. One guy stated that when SGI bought Cray, Sun bought the one part of Cray that was still making money. They bought a group that was producing this crossbar architecture using Sparc chips.
The architecture is different from the 3000/4000/etc line to the 10000 line.
Apparently the new upcoming 10000s are super sweet. More than 64 procs (128+?) The starfire (10000) also has some nice advantages, like dynamically allocating processors to multiple "virtual" machines running in one single box...
The radio shack wuper-duper remote is terrific. I have used a few of them...
It is RF and IR, so it can send RF signals to the base (which relays as IR to your stuff) even when you are in another room (or out sitting on the crapper)
The base can relay X-10 signals to your equipment, but you are limited to 9 at a time.
The universal support is good. Most everything works. It has standard features like overriding VCR/CBL so you could control three different TVs. The last time I tried, there were some undocumented features, like assigning a TV vol buttong to be vol when in VCR mode.
It has a couple of macro buttons....So the complex routines of startup and shutdown can be automated.
The new models have LCD and back lighting.
It is a bitch to program. I spent a few hours with mine.
The only problem I found is that some buttons may crap out after heavy use... Maybe the new ones are better.
Only $50 on sale, may $80 regular...
BTW- I set mine up where the remote thinks my amp is the TV button, and I use the VCR to change channels. This way, in VCR moode, since VCR doesn't have a volume it uses the TV mode volume (which is the now the amp) The remote thinks the CBL is the TV, so to turn on the TV, I hit CBL on...
Definitely not the intelligent give and take discussion that I usually (sometimes) see on/.
Seems like every friggen nerd in the entire world has something to say about star trek. And since they all read slapdash, they have to post their 5 paragraphs of drivel for all to read. But nobody but me reads this tripe, and nobody responds to the others crap.
I actually tried to read through a stack or articles (I gave up the usenet star trek groups years ago, now I remember why) Waste of time.
Hard tech topics at least have a more definite right/wrong (my cpu is faster than yours, etc.) Cloning, startrek, privacy are all nice topics, but the comments they provoke are sad.
I have a sweet little IR keyboard with a little stick mouse in one corner. Found it for only $25 bucks, and it is about the size of a Happy Hacker keyboard (Not too big, but slightly bigger than the GoType Palm Keyboard).
So I wonder if it is possible or how hard it would be to make the Palm/TRG/Handspring grab the IR keyboard signals?
Exactly. SMP should buy us another decade or two. The problem is that SMP is hard. Effectively sharing resources is hard. Effectively programming for SMP is hard.
I was wondering? Is Moore's law about doubling transistor density every 1.5 years, or about doubling capacity/$ every 1.5 years?
Once we hit the physical limit on a single chip, string a bunch togheter. SGI makes 512 proc machines now. That is 2^9, or 9 doubling periods, 12 years. Now making them cost $1,500 would be a trick...
I would love to see comparisons of Hard drive price/performance and Memory price over the last two decades.
We bought some Ultra 5s, realized that they were really slow, then traded them in on "improved" ultra 10s. The ultra 10s we got have better video and slightly faster chips.
From our benchmarking on Matlab, the Ultra 10s (and 5s) are not worth the money. You can run much faster on cheaper x86 hardware. More expansion is availalable.
The SunPCI card does kick some butt. You can boot up powerpoint while still running solaris. I just wish sun would sell this with x86 drivers so that Linux users could boot into windows inside their machine. It is like vmware, but there is no emulation in software and it is snappy in response. Sun apparently doesn't want to do this, but someone should. A PCI card with a cheap AMD shouldn't be more than 300 bucks, and people would like it.
Anyway, don't get these things unless you are stuck with Sparc binaries and really really like sun stuff.
When I put Solaris on my x86 machine, Netscape and Matlab were not available (the two apps I use constantly). Plus I couldn't get decent video drivers. VGA on a 21 inch monitor is silly.
The installation tool for Sol x86 at the time was terrible.
I know about the recent lxrun for running linux binaries on solaris, but is it really worth the trouble?
It might be nice to run a partially homogeneous (in the OS sense) system. We have ultra 10s and enterprise servers here. Solaris x86 just is not worh the associated problems.
Too bad Sparc and x86 are not binary compatible. Maybe the Transmeta chip will solve all of our problems... (G3 and Alpha would be nice too!) That could solve tons of problems.
BTW, there was an article on the OXYGEN project promoting configurable computing. basically letting PDAs change to suit the needs of a certain job. Maybe that relates to Transmeta too...
The package from Cygnus including gcc works with many different unix packages on NT platforms. Sometimes you can just type make to compile the package. It includes a nice bash shell with unix commands and utilities like tar and gzip.
You still need an X server on your machine to display the window locally. Exceed makes a good stable one but is expensive. I think a company named Star make x-win32 which is free for 2 hour sessions (and supports wheeled mice).
I have even started an exceed telnet daemon on my NT box. Users could log into a shell account. They could also start X11 apps and view them from the remote machine (no win32 apps though). I did not leave telnet up because of security concerns.
We didn't explore the this configuration, but it seemed at least partially workable. Watch out for this. M$ can easily release something with some unix functionality rolled into it. A decent free x-server would be nice, and it could be considered part of the operating system...
I assume Xinerama lets you drag windows across multihead boundaries. (I also assume that without Xinerama you have to start things on different heads DISPLAY:0 or:1)
Should Xinerama work with two different display resolutions? I eventually want to run 1600x1200 on my big head and xga on my little head/s?
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SGI has one of the sweetest LCD panels available. It has 1600x1000 resolution and I think digital interconnects. Problem is, it is tied to a crappy number 9 video card. And it costs 2.6 K$.
Apple has a sweet Apple Cinema Display. A little bigger than the SGI, but I think they are at the same resolution. The beast costs 4K$ and comes "bundled" with a G4. I have never run Linux on a Mac. I wonder if it runs on the G3 G4 series... II bet it does.
ed
I have to agree. This is one of the funniest pages I have seen in quite some time. Someone at /. should have run this as a real story, or at least a quickie.
On another note, I am glad the moderators moderated this up. Maybe they do have a clue.
Ontopic- I dislike this idea that you retain rights to your comments after you post to a open forum. As long as someone doesn't modify your content, it should be free to rebroadcast, IMHO. Maybe I am missing the point here.
Again- check out slashgrits. very funny.
ed
Sorry about forgetting what a mole is. That is pretty sad on my part.
You are correct that you could miss an important sequence. I said that here but nobody picked it up. Moderators should browse everything...
This DNA computing is basically enumeration of all solutions in parallel. If I remember correctly, the solution time scales linearly with the number of variables. The resulting problem is, each step can take a long time (hours?). So even though it scales nicely, it takes forever.
I think the article said it solved a problem in a week for a problem with 512 possible answers. That is 2^9, 9 variables. About day/variable, assuming linear scaling.
I think people are working on ways to extend DNA computing so that larger problems can be handled, and steps can be accomplished more quickly. But I have no good refs...
I have see a couple of presentations on this DNA computing thing. As far as I understand it...
DNA helix- two strands. We can use the 4 base pairs GATC (remember GATTACA the movie...) to make a single strand. There should exist a mate to the single strand, like a photo negative.
You pose the problem by making a strand that only a valid solution can pair with. Then you expose the solution DNA strand to a mixture of random solutions. Only the correct solutions can attach to the single strand solution. Then you examine your mix and figure out what a solution to the problem is.
Becaue you are relying on chemical steps, you sometimes get the wrong answer. You also cannot verify that you really have a random set of potential solutions (the single answer may not actually be in your flask..) And each chemical step takes time to process, and there are multiple steps.
So basically it is brute force, but a fairly good attempt at brute force, much better than using computers we have today. The molecules are moderate size, bigger than atoms but smaller than polymers or cells. basically a protien. Each base pair is made up of a few atoms, I think. The molecules don't move fast like gas molecules cause they are in solution, but they are still move a lot.
Quantum computing seems like a much cooler way to do these problems.
There are some great advantages in DNA/RNA computing, but some limitations too. From some of the stuff I have seen, you can pose a problem chemically, then use random sequences of DNA to see if any solutions are found. This effectively lets billions and trillions of potential answers be attempted in parallel. This complete ennumeration scheme is better than using computers, but still limited.
If you talk about searching a space of n binary variables, there will be 2^n potential solutions. Say n=1000, 2^n~=1e300. If I remember the number of molecules in a mole of something is around 3e23. You can get a bigger pot of random DNA (more moles) but this is still a limitation for DNA computing as far as I know right now.
For big traveling salesman (Non-Polynomial) problems, the size can easily reach n=1,000,000. DNA computing is cool, but only useful in some specific applications.
And while we are at it, extending the current solution algorthms to parallel computing versions doesn't always help. Doubling the number of processors (or doubling the speed of each processor) in the best case only helps you solve one more binary variable.. 2^n=>2^(n+1)
Where can you get the fast wireless Lucent cards?
How much are they for the different speeds?
I have seen people saying Lucent makes 8Mbs and 11Mbs. Is this true?
Do you need 1 card and a port? How much is that?
Can you get by with 2 pc cards, 1 in a non-mobile laptop attached to a ground line?
What is the range?
Thanks for the info-
Ed
People seem to think the point of /. is to bash Ms and support OSS, and I'm not sure where they got that idea. /. was created to basically give an outlet for people to express "unpopular" opinions
/. was set up as a discussion outlet for "unpopular opinion". I think the quote is "News for Nerds", and the result may be popular or not so popular.
/. discussion was more pure and focused. People now seem paranoid when they see pro-MS posts because most of us have had terrible problems using MS products. We know that anyone defending MS must be either confused, clueless, or up to something.
/. GNOME vs. KDE were tons of fun.)
/. is not about popularity or bashing MS or even linux. News for nerds. Most nerds I know just happen to be unpopular, bash MS, and like Linux.
I really don't think that
/. is becoming more mainstream and therefore less selective. People are posting that have no clue about Unix (a traditional nerd essential). They sometimes don't have the capacity to deal with a command line. Some have made poor decisions to go with the MS solution and must be pro-MS or they get burned.
Old school
MS flamewars are not what we need ( Although the "old school"
Just wanted to say
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Another idea/option for moderation is to have a preference availalbe so that people could replace standard moderation values with a specified moderator's (or a group of moderator's) values.
This would be sorta like the "employee's picks" section at video rental places.
Maybe I want to trust a group of "M$ hAterZ" picks and preferences more than the standard. You wouldn't need M2 for these postings. Give anyone in the goup unlimited group moderation points (which would not affect the real moderation scheme). Ideally, let anyone view the moderation history of a group.
This way comunities could form within a comunity. I could chose to read slashdot with a anti M$ view. You could even have a "Natalie Portman Hot grits petrified spargle MEEPT first post" group with any such post moderated up to 5...
Maybe I am on crack. Yeah, that's the ticket.
You say that you dont think MS is behind the pro-MS postings here. You then support this by saying that MS would be too embarrassed if caught.
Embarassment didn't seem to stop them here:
Microsoft Admits to Secretly Paying for Independent Ads
Remember they have billions and billions, so why not have a few stooges post online to help keep their stock prices up? Seems like a good idea to me, if I were in their shoes.
If I am not mistaken, at one time there was a web browser developed for the Palm platform that surfed through a proxy. You would send a request to your unix box, the unix box could go grab the page and render it appropriately for your platform (no color, limited fonts, limited screen) and send it out to you. I should go look up the reference. I use AvantGo for cached sites and it seems to do something similar.
Also, why not use lynx and extend it to let you see images when you need to (maps, photos, etc.). Maybe webmasters would make their sites lynx friendly.
ed
Could somone point me to some pirate radio station information? I mean real radio, not web cast. And yes, I saw the article on
Back in the '80s at Georgia Tech some guys put together a "small" bradcast in Techwood dorm. Supposedly people from all over the city could listen in. They tried to get a real license, but apparently the FCC requires detailed schematics of the equipment, and these guys had hacked it all together so the project died.
Eventually we'll get broadband wireless web, but 'til then we wait.
ed
I thought this was extremely funny.
/. been PC?
Just looking at the headline, it fits right in with the excitement about Quake going GPL.
And anyway, since when has
Lighten up, buddy.
ed
I was thinking the same thing! I have bough a few ID products, but now I feel like I need to get more.
What does Q2/Q3 have that Q1 doesn't? Q1 was real 3D and had GL support- Quakeworld had decent network support for online gaming. There are a ton of mods and tournament play games out there.
Plus, being GPL, RedHat (Debian, etc...) can drop it in their distros...
Ed
I just got a Palm Pilot and I have used OmniRemote from PacificNeoTek.com. It learns commands from your old IR remotes. The software is very configurable. I have used it with my IR keyboard to run MP3s and DVDs on my PC. Pretty slick stuff.
Sorry to interrupt the discussion. Ontopic: I want a Tivo too! Plus it runs Linux! Howard Stern says the Tivo is the bomb, so it must be cool.
ed
We had a bunch of Sun reps at our university come tout their products a month ago. One guy stated that when SGI bought Cray, Sun bought the one part of Cray that was still making money. They bought a group that was producing this crossbar architecture using Sparc chips.
The architecture is different from the 3000/4000/etc line to the 10000 line.
Apparently the new upcoming 10000s are super sweet. More than 64 procs (128+?) The starfire (10000) also has some nice advantages, like dynamically allocating processors to multiple "virtual" machines running in one single box...
anyway, the Sun rep backs up your statement.
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The radio shack wuper-duper remote is terrific. I have used a few of them...
It is RF and IR, so it can send RF signals to the base (which relays as IR to your stuff) even when you are in another room (or out sitting on the crapper)
The base can relay X-10 signals to your equipment, but you are limited to 9 at a time.
The universal support is good. Most everything works. It has standard features like overriding VCR/CBL so you could control three different TVs. The last time I tried, there were some undocumented features, like assigning a TV vol buttong to be vol when in VCR mode.
It has a couple of macro buttons....So the complex routines of startup and shutdown can be automated.
The new models have LCD and back lighting.
It is a bitch to program. I spent a few hours with mine.
The only problem I found is that some buttons may crap out after heavy use... Maybe the new ones are better.
Only $50 on sale, may $80 regular...
BTW- I set mine up where the remote thinks my amp is the TV button, and I use the VCR to change channels. This way, in VCR moode, since VCR doesn't have a volume it uses the TV mode volume (which is the now the amp) The remote thinks the CBL is the TV, so to turn on the TV, I hit CBL on...
So I just loaded the threads for this article.
/.
Definitely not the intelligent give and take discussion that I usually (sometimes) see on
Seems like every friggen nerd in the entire world has something to say about star trek. And since they all read slapdash, they have to post their 5 paragraphs of drivel for all to read. But nobody but me reads this tripe, and nobody responds to the others crap.
I actually tried to read through a stack or articles (I gave up the usenet star trek groups years ago, now I remember why) Waste of time.
Hard tech topics at least have a more definite right/wrong (my cpu is faster than yours, etc.) Cloning, startrek, privacy are all nice topics, but the comments they provoke are sad.
But look at me, surfing at 2:00 on a friday...
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I love good old ET. Drank many a cervesa there in Atlanta. In fact, I had my fist gallon night there. 4x32oz=1 usg
Glad to know some other nerds dig El Torro's too.
ed
I have a sweet little IR keyboard with a little stick mouse in one corner. Found it for only $25 bucks, and it is about the size of a Happy Hacker keyboard (Not too big, but slightly bigger than the GoType Palm Keyboard).
So I wonder if it is possible or how hard it would be to make the Palm/TRG/Handspring grab the IR keyboard signals?
ed
Exactly. SMP should buy us another decade or two. The problem is that SMP is hard. Effectively sharing resources is hard. Effectively programming for SMP is hard.
I was wondering? Is Moore's law about doubling transistor density every 1.5 years, or about doubling capacity/$ every 1.5 years?
Once we hit the physical limit on a single chip, string a bunch togheter. SGI makes 512 proc machines now. That is 2^9, or 9 doubling periods, 12 years. Now making them cost $1,500 would be a trick...
I would love to see comparisons of Hard drive price/performance and Memory price over the last two decades.
Ed
We bought some Ultra 5s, realized that they were really slow, then traded them in on "improved" ultra 10s. The ultra 10s we got have better video and slightly faster chips.
From our benchmarking on Matlab, the Ultra 10s (and 5s) are not worth the money. You can run much faster on cheaper x86 hardware. More expansion is availalable.
The SunPCI card does kick some butt. You can boot up powerpoint while still running solaris. I just wish sun would sell this with x86 drivers so that Linux users could boot into windows inside their machine. It is like vmware, but there is no emulation in software and it is snappy in response. Sun apparently doesn't want to do this, but someone should. A PCI card with a cheap AMD shouldn't be more than 300 bucks, and people would like it.
Anyway, don't get these things unless you are stuck with Sparc binaries and really really like sun stuff.
ed
When I put Solaris on my x86 machine, Netscape and Matlab were not available (the two apps I use constantly). Plus I couldn't get decent video drivers. VGA on a 21 inch monitor is silly.
The installation tool for Sol x86 at the time was terrible.
I know about the recent lxrun for running linux binaries on solaris, but is it really worth the trouble?
It might be nice to run a partially homogeneous (in the OS sense) system. We have ultra 10s and enterprise servers here. Solaris x86 just is not worh the associated problems.
Too bad Sparc and x86 are not binary compatible. Maybe the Transmeta chip will solve all of our problems... (G3 and Alpha would be nice too!) That could solve tons of problems.
BTW, there was an article on the OXYGEN project promoting configurable computing. basically letting PDAs change to suit the needs of a certain job. Maybe that relates to Transmeta too...
enough!
ed
The package from Cygnus including gcc works with many different unix packages on NT platforms. Sometimes you can just type make to compile the package. It includes a nice bash shell with unix commands and utilities like tar and gzip.
You still need an X server on your machine to display the window locally. Exceed makes a good stable one but is expensive. I think a company named Star make x-win32 which is free for 2 hour sessions (and supports wheeled mice).
I have even started an exceed telnet daemon on my NT box. Users could log into a shell account. They could also start X11 apps and view them from the remote machine (no win32 apps though). I did not leave telnet up because of security concerns.
We didn't explore the this configuration, but it seemed at least partially workable. Watch out for this. M$ can easily release something with some unix functionality rolled into it. A decent free x-server would be nice, and it could be considered part of the operating system...
Just wondering where I could get a portable ATX power supply?
I am not much with wires, but simple wiring might also be an option.
And how long would a desktop run off of a motorcycle battery?
I assume Xinerama lets you drag windows across multihead boundaries. (I also assume that without Xinerama you have to start things on different heads DISPLAY :0 or :1)
Should Xinerama work with two different display resolutions? I eventually want to run 1600x1200 on my big head and xga on my little head/s?
Where can I get more info on Xinerama?
Ed