Eh, in Win9x versions of Notepad, there were no keyboard shortcuts, so you had to use Alt (or F10) to access the menu. NT-based versions of Notepad had keyboard shortcuts.
Interesting to see that Harvey Mudd is 21, and Pomona College is 82, seeing as how they're both Claremont Colleges, and pretty much their campuses overlap. (Also note the omission of any other Claremont College.) Who knows, tho... Although it is nice to see that my school is up there at 12 (UCR), but I was intrigued by CalTech's not making the list. Probably the older buildings.
It's a shame they're using RSS, as it's a good idea with a bad implementation. There are currently 9 different versions of RSS, and all of them incompatible with one another. It ought to be replaced with a better technology like Atom. However, this does look like an interesting project, nonetheless.
Not only is Mr. Toad's Wild Ride no longer at Disneyworld, but it's slated to be taken out from Disneyland, too. Sucks, because that's one of my fav rides there!
Speaking on a prescriptive grammar level, the "t" or "d" between two unstressed vowels is pronounced the same. And, depending on how fast you say it, the final "z" sound in does can lose its voicing. So yes, "Trust us" and "Trust does" can sound exactly the same.
Actually, it's the cross-quarter day that occurs exactly half-way between winter solstice and vernal equinox. It varies from year to year, and is usually May 1, Beltaine. It's a tie to their pagan heritage.
Well, as far as I can recall (going back before R3), BeOS never *required* a boot disk. The instance in which a boot disk was being mentioned was to access the VFS installation on a FAT32 parition for BeOS Personal Edition on Intel/x86.
All PPC versions, IIRC, installed a boot-loader in the MBR.
BeOS never required a boot disk. The installation CD boots, and lets you manage your paritions from there before installation. You can also do a fully-booting installation from an BeOS partition to another (well, a booting one at least). As for the remark regarding BELO (what's that), BeOS's boot loader was called bootman, and was usually installed in the MBR. Far easier than LILO to set up. Run bootman, select the partitions to want to show up in the boot menu, give them labels, choose a defualt, and click OK. Couldn't be easier. I use it for Win2K, Win98, BeOS, and Linux.
Actually, the BeBox has dual 603e PowerPC processors, running at either 66 or 133 MHz. I have a revision 6 motherboard BeBox set up in my room right now. 3 PCI slots, 6 ISA, 3 MIDI, 2 stereo audio out, 1 stereo in, SCSI, PS/2, and an old-school-style keyboard plug. It has 8 slots for 72 pin 60ns non-parity RAM SIMMs. (It will take parity RAM, but the BIOS doesn't do parity-checking, so it doesn't matter. EDO RAM has been reported to work in some cases, but it won't boot with it in mine. The theoretical max of RAM I've heard is 1GB.)
The original BeBox ran 8 hobbit processors from AT&T, but when they found out they were EOLing the hobbit, they switched to PPC. It also has processor-load LEDs on the front that show real-time CPU usuage.
There's a port of Linux/PPC for the BeOS, and I believe they also had mklinux running on it. I don't know, as I personally run BeOS 5.0.3 Professional on it. There's a lack of software and drivers, but it has Mozilla, Gobe Productive (awesome office suite from the guys that originally did Claris Works, and was recently open sourced... there are Windows and Linux versions, too), and gads of utilities at BeBits, including the best audio player anywhere, SoundPlay; it was the first to play an MP3 backwards in real time without skipping.
Just some info, and thought I'd clear the air. But BeOS definitely isn't dead as an operating system, only BeOS, Inc. is.
The idea of moving away from X IIRC was using a framebuffer, which would allow programs using GNOME-libs the ability to write directly to the vid-card, going around X completely. This is ideal for embedded situations, like PDAs, etc. I also believe TrollTech has QT/Embedded, which writes to the framebuffer. (Okay, that was a little offtopic, but who cares.)
If I read the claims correctly, they are referring to "hard-coded" theming capabilities. Is this different from the theming capabilities of GTK? Aren't GTK theme engines (plain, pixmap, and maybe others) dynamically loadable? If that's the case, then Linux really has nothing to worry about. It looks, as everyone else has already stated, that this is merely Apple trying to protect themselves from Microsoft, and the theming capabilities they want to put in XP. IANAL, but that's what it looks like it's saying (I'll consult a patent lawyer later today, and see what he says about it).
Yes, this news is old. QNX RTP has been available since mid-November IIRC. I've been using it without problem on two different desktops, and had no problems whatsoever. I was even able to swap harddrives between the machines, without any configuration problems -- and yes, both systems were very different. The RTP is similar to many other *nix, but also different.
Also, this is not QNX's flagship product. The RTP uses the Neutrino microkernel, as opposed to the BSD-based (I believe, but I'm probably wrong) QNX 4, which is the one someone mentioned earlier as AT&T using on their systems. QNX has been used for quite a while in the embedded and medical industries. The floppy disk demo people keep referring to is QNX proper, not the RTP that is is.
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Eh, in Win9x versions of Notepad, there were no keyboard shortcuts, so you had to use Alt (or F10) to access the menu. NT-based versions of Notepad had keyboard shortcuts.
Interesting to see that Harvey Mudd is 21, and Pomona College is 82, seeing as how they're both Claremont Colleges, and pretty much their campuses overlap. (Also note the omission of any other Claremont College.) Who knows, tho ... Although it is nice to see that my school is up there at 12 (UCR), but I was intrigued by CalTech's not making the list. Probably the older buildings.
It's a shame they're using RSS, as it's a good idea with a bad implementation. There are currently 9 different versions of RSS, and all of them incompatible with one another. It ought to be replaced with a better technology like Atom. However, this does look like an interesting project, nonetheless.
Not only is Mr. Toad's Wild Ride no longer at Disneyworld, but it's slated to be taken out from Disneyland, too. Sucks, because that's one of my fav rides there!
Speaking on a prescriptive grammar level, the "t" or "d" between two unstressed vowels is pronounced the same. And, depending on how fast you say it, the final "z" sound in does can lose its voicing. So yes, "Trust us" and "Trust does" can sound exactly the same.
You can modify the settings .plist file with your own colors for syntax highlighting, as well as create your own .plists for new syntaxes.
I just had to add this ...
... Samara, from _The Ring_. How's that for an eerie girl's voice.
A search on the IMDB reveals that the voice actor for Sen/Chihiro is none other than
Actually, it's the cross-quarter day that occurs exactly half-way between winter solstice and vernal equinox. It varies from year to year, and is usually May 1, Beltaine. It's a tie to their pagan heritage.
mwcc is the Metrowerks C Compiler. It's also the same compiler that is used for BeOS PPC (BeOS x86 uses gcc).
Well, as far as I can recall (going back before R3), BeOS never *required* a boot disk. The instance in which a boot disk was being mentioned was to access the VFS installation on a FAT32 parition for BeOS Personal Edition on Intel/x86.
All PPC versions, IIRC, installed a boot-loader in the MBR.
BeOS never required a boot disk. The installation CD boots, and lets you manage your paritions from there before installation. You can also do a fully-booting installation from an BeOS partition to another (well, a booting one at least). As for the remark regarding BELO (what's that), BeOS's boot loader was called bootman, and was usually installed in the MBR. Far easier than LILO to set up. Run bootman, select the partitions to want to show up in the boot menu, give them labels, choose a defualt, and click OK. Couldn't be easier. I use it for Win2K, Win98, BeOS, and Linux.
Actually, the BeBox has dual 603e PowerPC processors, running at either 66 or 133 MHz. I have a revision 6 motherboard BeBox set up in my room right now. 3 PCI slots, 6 ISA, 3 MIDI, 2 stereo audio out, 1 stereo in, SCSI, PS/2, and an old-school-style keyboard plug. It has 8 slots for 72 pin 60ns non-parity RAM SIMMs. (It will take parity RAM, but the BIOS doesn't do parity-checking, so it doesn't matter. EDO RAM has been reported to work in some cases, but it won't boot with it in mine. The theoretical max of RAM I've heard is 1GB.)
... there are Windows and Linux versions, too), and gads of utilities at BeBits, including the best audio player anywhere, SoundPlay; it was the first to play an MP3 backwards in real time without skipping.
The original BeBox ran 8 hobbit processors from AT&T, but when they found out they were EOLing the hobbit, they switched to PPC. It also has processor-load LEDs on the front that show real-time CPU usuage.
There's a port of Linux/PPC for the BeOS, and I believe they also had mklinux running on it. I don't know, as I personally run BeOS 5.0.3 Professional on it. There's a lack of software and drivers, but it has Mozilla, Gobe Productive (awesome office suite from the guys that originally did Claris Works, and was recently open sourced
Just some info, and thought I'd clear the air. But BeOS definitely isn't dead as an operating system, only BeOS, Inc. is.
The idea of moving away from X IIRC was using a framebuffer, which would allow programs using GNOME-libs the ability to write directly to the vid-card, going around X completely. This is ideal for embedded situations, like PDAs, etc. I also believe TrollTech has QT/Embedded, which writes to the framebuffer. (Okay, that was a little offtopic, but who cares.)
--Rob
If I read the claims correctly, they are referring to "hard-coded" theming capabilities. Is this different from the theming capabilities of GTK? Aren't GTK theme engines (plain, pixmap, and maybe others) dynamically loadable? If that's the case, then Linux really has nothing to worry about. It looks, as everyone else has already stated, that this is merely Apple trying to protect themselves from Microsoft, and the theming capabilities they want to put in XP. IANAL, but that's what it looks like it's saying (I'll consult a patent lawyer later today, and see what he says about it).
--Rob
Thanks for clearing that up.
--Rob--Rob
My sig is not jibberish, but rather contractions more often associated with argot. Without any contractions it comes out to:
Il n'y a jamais des choses qu'on ne peut pas se débrouiller; juste laisse-moi t'aider!
Which translates to: "There's nothing you cannot handle; just let me help you!"
--Rob--Rob
They use their own windowing system, the Photon microGUI. They have an X server as well (and it runs XFreee86, IIRC). Some screenshots are here.
--Rob--Rob
Except the floppy disk demo that QNX offers is not for their RTP ... (completely) different operating system.
--Rob--Rob
Yes, this news is old. QNX RTP has been available since mid-November IIRC. I've been using it without problem on two different desktops, and had no problems whatsoever. I was even able to swap harddrives between the machines, without any configuration problems -- and yes, both systems were very different. The RTP is similar to many other *nix, but also different.
Also, this is not QNX's flagship product. The RTP uses the Neutrino microkernel, as opposed to the BSD-based (I believe, but I'm probably wrong) QNX 4, which is the one someone mentioned earlier as AT&T using on their systems. QNX has been used for quite a while in the embedded and medical industries. The floppy disk demo people keep referring to is QNX proper, not the RTP that is is.
--Rob--Rob