Your post betrays a poor understanding of psychology, game theory and human nature. In a trade where your productivity is a direct function of the number of hours on the job, such as flipping burgers and slinging lattes, it's approximately true, expecially as you can at least hope to make some of it up in tips for having a good attitude. In a trade where productivity varies wildly, such as computer programming, and is a direct function of ability and motivation, it's vital to keep people motivated. Which is why good employers tend to pay 20% over the going rate, and issue share options. 20% is a small price to pay for 50% extra productivity.
The O/S that Xerox used at PARC was called Pilot, which was written in the Mesa programming language, a high-level language with some similarities to Modula II, to run on Xerox' proprietary D-machine architecture. The operating system ran to some 24,000 lines of code, supporting the WIMP metaphor, shared memory, virtual memory, streams, threads and monitors, and XNS networking and Courier RPC. It came with a built in debugger (called Co-pilot, naturally), which you trapped into in the event of a serious error, at which point you could debug the source. It was released in 1980, the year before the IBM PC and MS/DOS.
Is there a HOWTO somewhere that describes how to do this? I actually have a legitimate reason to want to do this (bought a language learning course on audiocassette, no CD available, want to practice when using my computer at home/work).
Wal-mart recently acquired ASDA, a UK supermarket chain with the same "pile it high, sell it cheap" philosophy. It's a while since I've been in the UK, never mind an ASDA store, but I'm fairly sure they sold some household appliances, and they even sold cars in-store at one point, sorta like CostCo, but without the membership. ObTrivia: ASDA was an abbreviation for ASsociated DAiries.
Where I work we had a requirement to use a KVM switch with a bunch of Sun servers. IT had installed an Apex Outlook, and it just did not work. Out of 5 machines, only two would bring up a video display at all, and one on of those the top two inches of the display was line-skewed so badly it was unreadable. The vendor sent us a second Outlook, and when that wasn't any better, I did some research and we ended up ditching the Apex and buying a Rose Electronics Omniview. The build quality of the Rose system made the Apex look like shit, and, most importantly, it actually works as advertised. USB wasn't an issue for us, and we don't actually use the multi platform capability, since we only need the Suns on this switch, (to give Apex some credit, their regular switches work fine on the NT machines), but Rose claim to support it, and I'd be inclined to trust them. The Rose cabling system is a dream compared to the Outlook as well, with a single multi-tailed cable per machine with a proprietary D-25 plug at the switch and video/keyboard/mouse connectors at the other. Rose equipment is the shit. The only downside is the cost, about $1500 for a twelve-way switch, as I recall, plus $75 per CPU cable. When I consider how much of my fucking time I wasted trying to get the damned Outlook to work, though, it was well worth it to get a solution that actually functions as advertised.
Orwell's working title for his book was "The Last Man In Europe". The title wasn't settled until January 1949, and was as much Frederic Warburg, the publisher's, choice as Orwell's. The American publisher, Harcourt Brace, did not like the title, and Orwell was perfectly amenable to changing it for American readers. He flat refused, by contrast, to make any changes to the text, even had it cost him his 40,000 pounds Sterling advance from the US Book-of-the-Month Club, a huge sum for him. To quote from Michael Sheldon's definitive biography: "The year was an arbitrary choice, and despite the fact that many people in the Fifties, Sixties, Seventies and early Eighties took it seriously as a dreaded year, Orwell did not mean for it to represent anything other than a general date in the future, conveniently switching the last two digits of the year in which he completed the book -- 1948". In your parenthetical remark you are sneering at the whimsical choice of a dying man who wasn't even trying to be "clever", unlike yourself. And you miss the point of his novel in any case. The dystopia is merely the setting. "1984" is a love story.
CVSup was broken, period, not just on FreeBSD. The OpenBSD folks apparently discovered it first, according to the XFree86 developer mailing list. The author, John Polstra, who happens to be a FreeBSD developer, has made fixed binary packages available for FreeBSD 2.2, 3.5 and 4.x in pkg_add format here, along with fixed binaries for Red Hat linux 6.2 and Debian GNU/Linux, requiring a manual install, and the source for those with other OSes.
There are binary packages available for FreeBSD 4.x, 3.5 and 2.2, Red Hat Linux 6.2 (reported to work on 7.1 also), and Debian GNU/Linux potato(?)here(all i386), as well as the fixed source for CVSup for those running other O/Ses. I'm sure the maintainers would appreciate donated packages for additional platforms if you build your own from source.
Article II of the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 expressly forbids property clains to outer space, including the moon. In any case, the russians were first to get a flag there -- they crashed several of the Luna probes onto the moon, first in '59 and later in '65. At least one of these was filled with lots of little Soviet flags which were intended to spill out on impact. The Soviets also made several soft landings, and were first to land a lunar rover.
The Luna Mission Profile is available online.
If you live in the Bay Area, a contemporary copy of the customs declaration (probably required in triplicate) can be seen on USS Hornet, the aircraft carrier (now a floating museum in Alameda) that hauled many of the Apollo capsules out of the Pacific and took them to Hawaii. It was clearly done as a tongue in cheek thing by US Customs, and possibly to cop a little reflected glamour from the moon shot. Incidentally, there was a very real concern about the astronauts bringing "moon bugs" back with them. The capsule and astronauts were soused with disinfectant foam, and subsequently put in quarantine for weeks.
Practically every assertion you make above is false. BSD is a complete O/S implementation, userland and kernel. Porting applications from Linux to BSD is trivial, since they implement the same system calls. FreeBSD can even run Linux (and SCO, and SVR4) binaries directly in emulation mode (essentially, the kernal is aware of the "brand" of the binary being run and remaps the system call vector accordingly). The BSD kernel isn't based on Mach, it's based on BSD 4.4, from the Computer Science Research Group (CSRG) at UC Berkeley. Mach was developed at Carnegie Mellon U, and the NeXT O/S was layered on Mach 2.0, as is the Darwin kernel, with features from Mach 3.0 thrown in. The Darwin "userland" utilities are all FreeBSD, with Apple custom stuff for network authentication, et al. As to Linux running on Mach, it's been done -- see http://www.mklinux.org -- an effort that seems to have been superseded by Darwin\O/S X, pitching Linux in favour of FreeBSD, presumably for licensing reasons. I don't know where you're getting your information from, but it's patently a crock.
Just the facts,
Sweeney.
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Your post betrays a poor understanding of psychology, game theory and human nature. In a trade where your productivity is a direct function of the number of hours on the job, such as flipping burgers and slinging lattes, it's approximately true, expecially as you can at least hope to make some of it up in tips for having a good attitude. In a trade where productivity varies wildly, such as computer programming, and is a direct function of ability and motivation, it's vital to keep people motivated. Which is why good employers tend to pay 20% over the going rate, and issue share options. 20% is a small price to pay for 50% extra productivity.
Tony.
Interview in The Onion AV club. No mention of Von Braun, Herr or Frau.
Tony.
The O/S that Xerox used at PARC was called Pilot, which was written in the Mesa programming language, a high-level language with some similarities to Modula II, to run on Xerox' proprietary D-machine architecture. The operating system ran to some 24,000 lines of code, supporting the WIMP metaphor, shared memory, virtual memory, streams, threads and monitors, and XNS networking and Courier RPC. It came with a built in debugger (called Co-pilot, naturally), which you trapped into in the event of a serious error, at which point you could debug the source. It was released in 1980, the year before the IBM PC and MS/DOS.
Tony.
Uh, the bay bridge isn't a suspension bridge -- you're thinking of the Golden Gate.
Is there a HOWTO somewhere that describes how to do this? I actually have a legitimate reason to want to do this (bought a language learning course on audiocassette, no CD available, want to practice when using my computer at home/work).
Tony.
Wal-mart recently acquired ASDA, a UK supermarket chain with the same "pile it high, sell it cheap" philosophy. It's a while since I've been in the UK, never mind an ASDA store, but I'm fairly sure they sold some household appliances, and they even sold cars in-store at one point, sorta like CostCo, but without the membership.
ObTrivia: ASDA was an abbreviation for ASsociated DAiries.
Tony.
Was it "f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgrmmng."?
Enquiring minds &c.
Tony.
Where I work we had a requirement to use a KVM switch with a bunch of Sun servers. IT had installed an Apex Outlook, and it just did not work. Out of 5 machines, only two would bring up a video display at all, and one on of those the top two inches of the display was line-skewed so badly it was unreadable. The vendor sent us a second Outlook, and when that wasn't any better, I did some research and we ended up ditching the Apex and buying a Rose Electronics Omniview. The build quality of the Rose system made the Apex look like shit, and, most importantly, it actually works as advertised. USB wasn't an issue for us, and we don't actually use the multi platform capability, since we only need the Suns on this switch, (to give Apex some credit, their regular switches work fine on the NT machines), but Rose claim to support it, and I'd be inclined to trust them. The Rose cabling system is a dream compared to the Outlook as well, with a single multi-tailed cable per machine with a proprietary D-25 plug at the switch and video/keyboard/mouse connectors at the other. Rose equipment is the shit. The only downside is the cost, about $1500 for a twelve-way switch, as I recall, plus $75 per CPU cable. When I consider how much of my fucking time I wasted trying to get the damned Outlook to work, though, it was well worth it to get a solution that actually functions as advertised.
Tony.
Orwell's working title for his book was "The Last Man In Europe". The title wasn't settled until January 1949, and was as much Frederic Warburg, the publisher's, choice as Orwell's. The American publisher, Harcourt Brace, did not like the title, and Orwell was perfectly amenable to changing it for American readers. He flat refused, by contrast, to make any changes to the text, even had it cost him his 40,000 pounds Sterling advance from the US Book-of-the-Month Club, a huge sum for him. To quote from Michael Sheldon's definitive biography: "The year was an arbitrary choice, and despite the fact that many people in the Fifties, Sixties, Seventies and early Eighties took it seriously as a dreaded year, Orwell did not mean for it to represent anything other than a general date in the future, conveniently switching the last two digits of the year in which he completed the book -- 1948". In your parenthetical remark you are sneering at the whimsical choice of a dying man who wasn't even trying to be "clever", unlike yourself. And you miss the point of his novel in any case. The dystopia is merely the setting. "1984" is a love story.
Tony.
CVSup was broken, period, not just on FreeBSD. The OpenBSD folks apparently discovered it first, according to the XFree86 developer mailing list. The author, John Polstra, who happens to be a FreeBSD developer, has made fixed binary packages available for FreeBSD 2.2, 3.5 and 4.x in pkg_add format here, along with fixed binaries for Red Hat linux 6.2 and Debian GNU/Linux, requiring a manual install, and the source for those with other OSes.
Hope this helps.
Tony.
There are binary packages available for FreeBSD 4.x, 3.5 and 2.2, Red Hat Linux 6.2 (reported to work on 7.1 also), and Debian GNU/Linux potato(?) here (all i386), as well as the fixed source for CVSup for those running other O/Ses. I'm sure the maintainers would appreciate donated packages for additional platforms if you build your own from source.
Hope this helps.
Tony.
Article II of the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 expressly forbids property clains to outer space, including the moon. In any case, the russians were first to get a flag there -- they crashed several of the Luna probes onto the moon, first in '59 and later in '65. At least one of these was filled with lots of little Soviet flags which were intended to spill out on impact. The Soviets also made several soft landings, and were first to land a lunar rover. The Luna Mission Profile is available online.
Tony.
If you live in the Bay Area, a contemporary copy of the customs declaration (probably required in triplicate) can be seen on USS Hornet, the aircraft carrier (now a floating museum in Alameda) that hauled many of the Apollo capsules out of the Pacific and took them to Hawaii. It was clearly done as a tongue in cheek thing by US Customs, and possibly to cop a little reflected glamour from the moon shot. Incidentally, there was a very real concern about the astronauts bringing "moon bugs" back with them. The capsule and astronauts were soused with disinfectant foam, and subsequently put in quarantine for weeks.
Practically every assertion you make above is false. BSD is a complete O/S implementation, userland and kernel. Porting applications from Linux to BSD is trivial, since they implement the same system calls. FreeBSD can even run Linux (and SCO, and SVR4) binaries directly in emulation mode (essentially, the kernal is aware of the "brand" of the binary being run and remaps the system call vector accordingly). The BSD kernel isn't based on Mach, it's based on BSD 4.4, from the Computer Science Research Group (CSRG) at UC Berkeley. Mach was developed at Carnegie Mellon U, and the NeXT O/S was layered on Mach 2.0, as is the Darwin kernel, with features from Mach 3.0 thrown in. The Darwin "userland" utilities are all FreeBSD, with Apple custom stuff for network authentication, et al. As to Linux running on Mach, it's been done -- see http://www.mklinux.org -- an effort that seems to have been superseded by Darwin\O/S X, pitching Linux in favour of FreeBSD, presumably for licensing reasons. I don't know where you're getting your information from, but it's patently a crock. Just the facts, Sweeney.