I find it interesting that handspring is dropping
"organizers" to make "communicators", which, given
the convergence of organizers and cell phones, is
mostly a marketting move.
What I do find disturbing is that the treo lacks
a springboard slot, which gave handspring a reason
to exist. One can only assume that in order to
stop making "organizers" handspring will integrate
springboard modules into the treo. Otherwise, how
are they going to compete with the "cliephone",
which has to exist on somebody's drawing board.
I cannot believe they mention kerberos after their
effort to put proprietary, non interoperable data
in the kerberos protocol. Not only that, but the
fact that they rejected efforts (at least for
6 months to a year) by the kerberos standard
bearers at MIT to to keep the specification
interoperable.
They actually offered to work with microsoft to
accomodate extensions to the protocol and Microsoft wouldn't have it.
Take a look at this post from Ted Ts'o in 1997:
http://diswww.mit.edu:8008/menelaus.mit.edu/kerb er os/10954
Do you really think Microsoft has changed, especially now that they have the government on
their side?
Without knowing any of the details, I would have
to say that some sort of war is unlikely. After
reading some of the kernel mailing list about
patching leading up to 2.4, I will say that
submitting patches in big wads and essentially
doing closed development *does* annoy or even
piss off (if you can imagine such a thing) Linus.
This happened with the ISDN subsystem. There is
more likely some form of miscomunication, and
maybe the nature/frequency of the patches is
causing them to be dropped. More than likely,
we'll be able to read some article about this
somewhere soon enough.
It seems to me that embedded computing will get
easier and easier as the platform becomes more
and more powerfull, until computing is "pervasive"
like intel's vision of "quantum computers in a
ring". So, who needs a brain dead OS when the
hardware is becoming powerfull enough to run
anything we want.
-Dave
Need small, cheap, *quiet* computing! (Webpads?)
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I for one, being an SA and amateur programmer,
would like building block systems. It would be
great to be able to buy systems for $300 - $400
that could be chained together to experiment with
distributed computing. The small and quiet are
for my studio apartment. If I had resources like
this, I could play with clusters and agents or
CODA. Anyone remember the Ergo brick? This is
what we need. Even better, computing could come
transmeta "slices". How cheap would a webpad be
if it had no LCD? Need more power in your cluster?
Just plug another slice into your cluster cabinet.
How small would a webpad be without display? You
could have a VCR sized chassis with 8 machines in
it.
Actually, flash is almost necessary for good entertainment websites like the one I work for. If linux is ever going to make it on the desktop, it is going to need as many multimedia plugins as possible. Right now just about everything is released for linux much later, if at all. This has to change for users to *want* to use linux for morethan the fact that it is not microsoft.
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I find it interesting that handspring is dropping
"organizers" to make "communicators", which, given
the convergence of organizers and cell phones, is
mostly a marketting move.
What I do find disturbing is that the treo lacks
a springboard slot, which gave handspring a reason
to exist. One can only assume that in order to
stop making "organizers" handspring will integrate
springboard modules into the treo. Otherwise, how
are they going to compete with the "cliephone",
which has to exist on somebody's drawing board.
-Dave
I cannot believe they mention kerberos after their
b er os/10954
effort to put proprietary, non interoperable data
in the kerberos protocol. Not only that, but the
fact that they rejected efforts (at least for
6 months to a year) by the kerberos standard
bearers at MIT to to keep the specification
interoperable.
They actually offered to work with microsoft to
accomodate extensions to the protocol and Microsoft wouldn't have it.
Take a look at this post from Ted Ts'o in 1997:
http://diswww.mit.edu:8008/menelaus.mit.edu/ker
Do you really think Microsoft has changed, especially now that they have the government on
their side?
-Dave
Without knowing any of the details, I would have
to say that some sort of war is unlikely. After
reading some of the kernel mailing list about
patching leading up to 2.4, I will say that
submitting patches in big wads and essentially
doing closed development *does* annoy or even
piss off (if you can imagine such a thing) Linus.
This happened with the ISDN subsystem. There is
more likely some form of miscomunication, and
maybe the nature/frequency of the patches is
causing them to be dropped. More than likely,
we'll be able to read some article about this
somewhere soon enough.
-Dave
It seems to me that embedded computing will get
easier and easier as the platform becomes more
and more powerfull, until computing is "pervasive"
like intel's vision of "quantum computers in a
ring". So, who needs a brain dead OS when the
hardware is becoming powerfull enough to run
anything we want.
-Dave
I for one, being an SA and amateur programmer,
would like building block systems. It would be
great to be able to buy systems for $300 - $400
that could be chained together to experiment with
distributed computing. The small and quiet are
for my studio apartment. If I had resources like
this, I could play with clusters and agents or
CODA. Anyone remember the Ergo brick? This is
what we need. Even better, computing could come
transmeta "slices". How cheap would a webpad be
if it had no LCD? Need more power in your cluster?
Just plug another slice into your cluster cabinet.
How small would a webpad be without display? You
could have a VCR sized chassis with 8 machines in
it.
-Dave
Actually, flash is almost necessary for good
entertainment websites like the one I work for.
If linux is ever going to make it on the desktop,
it is going to need as many multimedia plugins
as possible. Right now just about everything is
released for linux much later, if at all. This
has to change for users to *want* to use linux
for morethan the fact that it is not microsoft.
-Dave