Kind of takes most of the fun out of this project doesent it?
Im not going to make this one my self, because, well, i dont have a car... and i dont have an iPaq eather... or the harddisk and i never heard about the archos thing (will check).
But i do like assembling things like this. Especially Audio things
I am very glad that IBM makes all these breaktrougs on chip making (and on harddisks by the way) but im starting to wonder if IBM stands alone in the research of silicon properties.
Because if it keeps up just a little more like this (a few more good inventions/discoveries) you will have to ask IBM permission to produce chips soon. I mean if IBM has patents on all the things that will makes a porcessor fast, less power consumting, cooler, smaller and in the end also cheaper, there will be no compeeting and IBM will be setting the price.
Im not saying that they will be "microsoft mean" in their pricing, but one can expect features like that.
Microsoft has given some rather confusing statements from time to time regarding the office suite for linux, but in the end Balmer stated that there was plans for releasing Office for other OSs but definetly not for Linux. I don't remember where i saw the statement, but i did see it.
What other OSs he was talking about was not mentioned in the article.
Oh, really? Where does that leave OS/390, AIX, HP/UX and Solaris?
I do think that the article focuses on desktop OSs and then it is correct. The two of them must be considered the Heavy Weights of desktops. But if we were talking server i must say that i find the OS-X rather as a british lightweight (in market posission, not stabillity and features) compared to W2k.
On the rest i do agree with you
"and lots of performance and stability fixes, with over 30 of the topcrash bugs fixed"
This is really what i need to hear. While i still prefere Opera i am glad to see other alternatives comming to life (espessially for linuxppc where Operas rendering is still needing some fixes).
I do also think that it is very important to get this one working soon because, for come reason this is the program that most OSS critics judge OSS on.
I think that if you, to begin with, stay with the low maintenance features, like file/print services, simple web (or if your web-developers use cgi, also advanced web), DHCP, DNS, mail and other services, you can save alot. Most of these services are fairly simple to set up and requires very little or even no maintenance after setup, have equal to better performance compared to MS and has a fabulous price. Another great thing is that you can often sneak these products into your system (if management demand MS) without management finding out, and when the management finally comes to theire sences and want linux/xBSD systems instead of their MS, you can say 'Ehh......... ehh, we already do' and be the hero of the day
Once the wise men said that all our equipment would collect into the pc at some point, and maybe were not quite there yet, but for now it looks rather to go the other way: all our apliances gets pc funtionallity: clocks, cars, stereos, fridges, propably alot more and now the ps2.
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Actually i think im one of the 2 per cent, thank you very much.
Strange thing by the way
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Have you ever noticed that whenever you mention another OS to a Mac person, the go all red in the head and studders: "PFHFOTOSHOP runs MUCH better on a Mac than on Windows", they are right, by the way, it smokes and looks beautifull, but it seems strange to me that it seems to be their only argument. No matter what i use my computer for their argument is always PFHFOTOSHOP.
Well, it pfhunny to me at least
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I do agree that Photoshop is better than Gimp, especially on mac. It blazes everydng else away.
But damn its expensive. That alone would make me look at alternatives, plus the fact that gimp actually has all that i need.
I wount be using it on macos though, because YellowDog Linux runs smoothly on my iMac.
De Raadt send this statement on the OpenBSD mailing list:
In the last week or so we have have dealt with these license issues:
package:
ipfno modify reed removed by deraadt
yacc/test/ftp.y no modify UCB removed by deraadt
tcpwrappers no modify wietse fixed wietse & deraadt
cron/popen.c no modify UCB alternative by millert
md5(1) no modify RSA rewritten by millert
games/hunt/list.c no modify d leonard fixed by d leonard
login_fbtab no modify wietse fixed wietse & deraadt
rpc.pcnfsd may not sell sun fixed sun & deraadt
NRL code not on file NRL/craig metz fixed cmetz & deraadt
We have a whole bunch of others to fix. I have contacted the authors
of the other packages. I am optimistic that we can get most of these
issues worked out.
The ones which have particularily large problems:
the multicast tools
pppd
ppp
tcpdump
please let it work on my dear old mac
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I only run 3.3.6 on my iMac because 4.0 doesn't support Mach64, or at least i cant make it work.
hope hope hope
They, DTU/NKT/RISØ, has a long time to come up with this cable wich consists of the powder Bismuth-strontium-calcium-copperoxid also known as BiSCCO, a material used by most superconductor makers. The powder is poured into a thin silver pile wich is then pressed severel times into a thin superconducting strand. 37 of these are put into a bigger silver pipe.
The pipes are cooled to -196 degrees C.
The pipes will be able to be pulled thru old cablepipes underground, and will with their reduced heat and lesser magnetism be gentler to the environment.
The cables can transport up to 7k amps per square cm. This the article says is little over half of what the americans have in there detroit project (12k amks). While the americans can transport more power, the danish cable is more flexible, lighter and has the lowest energyloss at all.
The use of it now is to connect old powerstations to new ones during updating of powerstations.
The cables are for now only used in high power cables because they do require alot of power themselfs to keep that low temperature, but the cables do reduce the amount of energy lost in the cables with up to 40% compared to ordinarry copper cables.
The article states even though it is a major breakthrough and defenetly the americans have done some great advances too, this is still babysteps. The powder and the creation of the cables has to be perfected and simplified.
goals are to make it cheaper to make and be able to have longer cables
In denmark new taxes was added to CD-Rs in the beginning of this year. The taxes, about 30 -40 % dont remember anymore, was announced half a year before. Effects was that all shops that carried CD-Rs bought ALOT of them before the taxes was added. So many, that the prices now are lower than ever. They are 60% of the prices before the tax was added.
Of course when the stores stock of cds are emtptied the prices might skyrocket.
So what will this bring?
Propably shortterm low prices, and then some really high prices
In the short run the wine soluthion must be the best, because you emediatly will be able to run games on a linux box. But if a set of libraries could be developed that would bring the same functionallity (OpenGL?) and with same level of efficiency to ALL platforms porting would deffinetly be the best.
Yes Confuscious also said "if you go to bed with an itchy ass you wake up with a smelly finger"
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wich of them:)?:)
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I mostly use Opera, since it runs on most operating systems, and really has a small footprit, so even in my imac with 32 Megs of memory it runs great, just not all good rendering in the ppc linux port.
I am right now compiling mozilla for the ppc linux. so sad that it doesent come precompiled for this platform. right now its in the second hour fo compiling, nearing third
After reading all these little cries, complaints and statements I am wondering... Is anything being done about it?
Are the fixes being added?
Are any improvements being made?
I just want this to work. Will it, and when?
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Kind of takes most of the fun out of this project doesent it? Im not going to make this one my self, because, well, i dont have a car... and i dont have an iPaq eather... or the harddisk and i never heard about the archos thing (will check). But i do like assembling things like this. Especially Audio things
I am very glad that IBM makes all these breaktrougs on chip making (and on harddisks by the way) but im starting to wonder if IBM stands alone in the research of silicon properties. Because if it keeps up just a little more like this (a few more good inventions/discoveries) you will have to ask IBM permission to produce chips soon. I mean if IBM has patents on all the things that will makes a porcessor fast, less power consumting, cooler, smaller and in the end also cheaper, there will be no compeeting and IBM will be setting the price. Im not saying that they will be "microsoft mean" in their pricing, but one can expect features like that.
Microsoft has given some rather confusing statements from time to time regarding the office suite for linux, but in the end Balmer stated that there was plans for releasing Office for other OSs but definetly not for Linux. I don't remember where i saw the statement, but i did see it.
What other OSs he was talking about was not mentioned in the article.
Oh, really? Where does that leave OS/390, AIX, HP/UX and Solaris?
I do think that the article focuses on desktop OSs and then it is correct. The two of them must be considered the Heavy Weights of desktops. But if we were talking server i must say that i find the OS-X rather as a british lightweight (in market posission, not stabillity and features) compared to W2k. On the rest i do agree with you
"and lots of performance and stability fixes, with over 30 of the topcrash bugs fixed"
This is really what i need to hear. While i still prefere Opera i am glad to see other alternatives comming to life (espessially for linuxppc where Operas rendering is still needing some fixes). I do also think that it is very important to get this one working soon because, for come reason this is the program that most OSS critics judge OSS on.
I think that if you, to begin with, stay with the low maintenance features, like file/print services, simple web (or if your web-developers use cgi, also advanced web), DHCP, DNS, mail and other services, you can save alot. Most of these services are fairly simple to set up and requires very little or even no maintenance after setup, have equal to better performance compared to MS and has a fabulous price. Another great thing is that you can often sneak these products into your system (if management demand MS) without management finding out, and when the management finally comes to theire sences and want linux/xBSD systems instead of their MS, you can say 'Ehh... ... ... ehh, we already do' and be the hero of the day
Once the wise men said that all our equipment would collect into the pc at some point, and maybe were not quite there yet, but for now it looks rather to go the other way: all our apliances gets pc funtionallity: clocks, cars, stereos, fridges, propably alot more and now the ps2.
Actually i think im one of the 2 per cent, thank you very much.
Have you ever noticed that whenever you mention another OS to a Mac person, the go all red in the head and studders: "PFHFOTOSHOP runs MUCH better on a Mac than on Windows", they are right, by the way, it smokes and looks beautifull, but it seems strange to me that it seems to be their only argument. No matter what i use my computer for their argument is always PFHFOTOSHOP.
Well, it pfhunny to me at least
I do agree that Photoshop is better than Gimp, especially on mac. It blazes everydng else away. But damn its expensive. That alone would make me look at alternatives, plus the fact that gimp actually has all that i need.
I wount be using it on macos though, because YellowDog Linux runs smoothly on my iMac.
ipfno modify reed removed by deraadt
yacc/test/ftp.y no modify UCB removed by deraadt
tcpwrappers no modify wietse fixed wietse & deraadt
cron/popen.c no modify UCB alternative by millert
md5(1) no modify RSA rewritten by millert
games/hunt/list.c no modify d leonard fixed by d leonard
login_fbtab no modify wietse fixed wietse & deraadt
rpc.pcnfsd may not sell sun fixed sun & deraadt
NRL code not on file NRL/craig metz fixed cmetz & deraadt
We have a whole bunch of others to fix. I have contacted the authors of the other packages. I am optimistic that we can get most of these issues worked out. The ones which have particularily large problems:
the multicast tools
pppd
ppp
tcpdump
I only run 3.3.6 on my iMac because 4.0 doesn't support Mach64, or at least i cant make it work. hope hope hope
They, DTU/NKT/RISØ, has a long time to come up with this cable wich consists of the powder Bismuth-strontium-calcium-copperoxid also known as BiSCCO, a material used by most superconductor makers. The powder is poured into a thin silver pile wich is then pressed severel times into a thin superconducting strand. 37 of these are put into a bigger silver pipe. The pipes are cooled to -196 degrees C. The pipes will be able to be pulled thru old cablepipes underground, and will with their reduced heat and lesser magnetism be gentler to the environment. The cables can transport up to 7k amps per square cm. This the article says is little over half of what the americans have in there detroit project (12k amks). While the americans can transport more power, the danish cable is more flexible, lighter and has the lowest energyloss at all. The use of it now is to connect old powerstations to new ones during updating of powerstations. The cables are for now only used in high power cables because they do require alot of power themselfs to keep that low temperature, but the cables do reduce the amount of energy lost in the cables with up to 40% compared to ordinarry copper cables. The article states even though it is a major breakthrough and defenetly the americans have done some great advances too, this is still babysteps. The powder and the creation of the cables has to be perfected and simplified. goals are to make it cheaper to make and be able to have longer cables
In denmark new taxes was added to CD-Rs in the beginning of this year. The taxes, about 30 -40 % dont remember anymore, was announced half a year before. Effects was that all shops that carried CD-Rs bought ALOT of them before the taxes was added. So many, that the prices now are lower than ever. They are 60% of the prices before the tax was added. Of course when the stores stock of cds are emtptied the prices might skyrocket. So what will this bring? Propably shortterm low prices, and then some really high prices
In the short run the wine soluthion must be the best, because you emediatly will be able to run games on a linux box. But if a set of libraries could be developed that would bring the same functionallity (OpenGL?) and with same level of efficiency to ALL platforms porting would deffinetly be the best.
Yes Confuscious also said "if you go to bed with an itchy ass you wake up with a smelly finger"
wich of them :)?:)
I mostly use Opera, since it runs on most operating systems, and really has a small footprit, so even in my imac with 32 Megs of memory it runs great, just not all good rendering in the ppc linux port. I am right now compiling mozilla for the ppc linux. so sad that it doesent come precompiled for this platform. right now its in the second hour fo compiling, nearing third
After reading all these little cries, complaints and statements I am wondering... Is anything being done about it? Are the fixes being added? Are any improvements being made? I just want this to work. Will it, and when?