Golly, instead of using some crazy protein diet, I just quit eating so much (Most restaurant meals are 2x the food , so I would take some home, and cook for myself) and exercising. Now I have half the body fat percentage and 30 pounds less fat.:-)
Another departure from ANSI C is that Plan 9 uses a 16-bit character set called Unicode [ISO10646, Unicode]. Although we stopped short of full internationalization, Plan 9 treats the representation of all major languages uniformly throughout all its software.
Yes, the mobo in the LX50 supports LOM, and there are tools for BIOS access, etc.
Really? Nice! Can you give any more details? Is the BIOS such that I can do a Solaris or Sun Linux install 100% in console mode? Is the LOM like that of a Netra? This could be a killer selling point, esp. if they do a SunFire V100-ish calibre one -- I would heartily recommend it on this feature, if the RAID were there.
Check the prices for the HP box you're talking about...
Actually, I priced out a 1U Proliant about a week ago, the street price for a DL360 with 1 CPU (p3 1.4) and 2 18.2GB drives (built in hardware raid) came to $3000... I know Sun's "street" prices from a friendly reseller are lower than SunStore, but the LX is battling an entrenched market:-(
So... what could Sun put in as "value-add" to justify the cost of $2800 for their P3 1U server?
Open Firmware -- Sun's serial-console manageable BIOS is a/tremendous/ asset to their SPARC based systems (and the Lights-Out Management on the recent boxes is excellent too.) I see no mention of this anywhere in the product details, and assume that this is not an option.
Hot-swappable drives -- For around the same price, I can buy a 1U HP/Compaq ProLiant system whose drives are hot-swappable, and which features hardware RAID. I'm not sure about the Linux compatibility with the RAID, but it's certainly something that the competition is offering for the same price-point here. If I shell out more than build-it-yourself cost for a SCSI-based server box, I expect RAID. It's 2002 boys, c'mon.
...that you never hear of any accounting 'errors' that make the company look less wealthy than it is?
Actually, I believe Microsoft was guilty of doing just this -- under-reporting their profits when they were doing extremely well, so they could put some away to pad earnings reports in the future if they were not doing so well... I believe it was called "cookie jar" practices.
A google for "microsoft cookie jar" comes up with:
It was my understanding that the original JPEG standard (which is some ISO standard?) contains many technologies (Arithmetic coding?) that are patented, and require licensing fees / royalties for their use.
To actually further adoption of JPEG, the Independent JPEG Group was founded, headed by a man named Tom Lane I believe, who I think is now working with the PostgreSQL group. They specified the JFIF file format (which is at the header of all the images we know as 'JPEGs' today - there's a TIFF and SPIFF version of JPEG that nobody uses), which ONLY INCLUDED the technologies that were free to use without licensing / royalties. I've skimmed the JPEG FAQ about this
...so what's the deal here?? Does this company allege they own a patent that affects JFIF JPEG images, when huge megacorps on the JPEG committee (IBM, AT&T, Mitsubishi) have let this go?
I use Linux (and various kinds of Unix) for the interface. I detest the mouse.
Interesting.
I still use XP Pro on my desktop (and often IE for my browser) for exactly the same reason. I regularly (every few months) will try out the "state of affairs" on *nix desktops, but the fact remains I can get my work done faster, with less dependence on the mouse, in a Windows environment. (Though both Win and Office XP have gotten less keyboard-only-usable over the 2000 versions due to idiocy in UI decisions on MS part.)
Ratpoison is nice, but isn't a complete solution to the problem... (yes, I'm sure I could hack Xresources until I'm blue in the face to bind keyboard behaviors to the menus in Xterm / etc, but no, I don't feel like it).
Check out Mozilla bug # 142584 (it was marked a dupe of 124789) -- I'd love to go back to using Moz as my browser, but mouse-haters aren't numerous enough for bugs like this to get fixed quick.;) Hell, while you're there, make sure you create a bugzilla account and VOTE FOR THAT BUG (124789) and also 83552 while you're at it.
Firewire is a robust, multidevice, chainable solution with packet information, device tagging etc. SerialATA is simply a 2point bus to get data from drive to controller, making the elctronics simple and cheap.
Well then -- that makes sense. Still seems a bit of a shame, as I don't think the cost-per-chip to put the firewire logic on the drives could be all that high... I suspect that manufacturers are price-gouging based on the expected demographic of the bus ("If they want firewire they must have more money, so we will charge more")...
The "serial" idea has already been done, it's called FireWire. I have trouble believing that implementing FireWire more expensive, in large quantities, as the chipset-makers churn out.
I've noticed Intel (and Maxtor and Seagate) are members of the 'Serial ATA' group. Is this being done, instead of just using FireWire, because of Intel not wanting to put FireWire support into their chipsets?
Has anyone seen a site with a nonbiased side-by-side comparison of the various technologies (USB2 / Firewire / SATA / FC [?] / U160~320 ) and what drives they're available on, and what the perfomacnce is?
Doctor Fun has been published on the Internet since 19930924. For that matter Where The Buffalo Roam has been on the 'net via USENET since 1991, but Dr. Fun was Internet-only.;)
"...to recognize, reward, support, and inspire continued excellence in the field of classic animation. The Foundation awards an annual Student Excellence Scholarship to a student whose work shows great potential in advancing and expanding the character animation medium."
They're also assembling an art collection for exhibition in major museums, libraries, universities, and art galleries.
(In case of/. effect)
Send your tax deductible checks to:
The Chuck Jones Foundation 17771 Mitchell Irvine CA 92614 (949)660-7791
Actually, Bunten's "Modem Wars" was the first RTS
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Some consider Dune 2 to be the most influential real-time strategy game. Others claim it was the 1970s mainframe version of Empire that laid the groundwork for RTS games as we know them today. That debate will never be satisfactorily settled, but we can honestly say that the RTS game that deserved the title of "being ahead of its time" is Electronic Arts' Modem Wars.
(More info here on the work of Danielle Bunten, including M.U.L.E., Seven Cities of Gold, etc.)
"I've been presented with the opportunity to design... any sort of project with a technological/learning/experimental bent... involving on the order of 3000 children as participants, drawing from a multi-million dollar budget.... I'm interested in gauging the thoughts of the Slashdot community."
Given that the Macintosh and is OS have been the most easy to use and reliable system in the PC world
P.S. I'm not a Mac user...
It shows.:) I've worked with and supported Macs directly since before System 7.5. "My Mac just froze." (BONG) is a very common phrase heard from Mac users, followed by the "bong" reboot sound. Usually at least once a day.
Fortunately, the new OSX looks much more reliable, stable, and well, just plain cool (If you go to a root shell prompt and "kill 1", the gui goes away and it's a plain *nix box!;) And the OpenFirmware is sexier than any I've seen this side of a Sparc. But the Mac and it's OS being a hallmark of reliability before OSX? No.
It re-wrote my hard drive. Not only that, but it scrambled disks that were close to my computer. It recalibrated my refrigerator's coolness setting so all my ice cream went melty. It demagnetized the strips on all my credit cards, screwed up the tracking on my television and used subspace field harmonics to scratch any CD's I tried to play.
(Actually, it installed a bit nicer than Win2K, but is full of more stuff that needs turning off. I moved from 95 to NT4, so I never experienced the hell of 98/ME, but I sure don't miss it. It's no more tedious to turn off the candy stuff than the installation of any of today's media players. The Terminal Services [switch-user] stuff is pretty neat. And for $99 I grabbed Works Suite 2002 -- comes with Word XP that has neat speech-recognition stuff. The Philips Toucam Pro webcam drivers bundled still suck. The "restore point" thingy saved me a lot of hassle from a bad Intel video driver update. The ability to turn off the pagefile is neat. The new sound schemes are annoying. MSPAINT supporting GIF, JPEG, and PNG is nice.)
(ahem) Windows XP will give you Dutch Elm disease. It will leave the toilet seat up. It will make a batch of Methamphetamines in your bathtub and then leave bacon cooking on the stove while it goes out to chase gradeschoolers with your new snowblower.
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From the 1995 paper describing "Plan 9" , the OS from the authors of Unix at Bell Labs:
I recommend the Mozilla project change its mascot to another cute character ...
Something more approachable, but still computer related ... a mouse would do nicely...
Since the original name was derived from Mosaic, and the NCSA project is shelved and Spyglass is no more, "Mosaic Mouse" would do nicely...
OK, sing it with me...
Really? Nice! Can you give any more details? Is the BIOS such that I can do a Solaris or Sun Linux install 100% in console mode? Is the LOM like that of a Netra? This could be a killer selling point, esp. if they do a SunFire V100-ish calibre one -- I would heartily recommend it on this feature, if the RAID were there.
Actually, I priced out a 1U Proliant about a week ago, the street price for a DL360 with 1 CPU (p3 1.4) and 2 18.2GB drives (built in hardware raid) came to $3000 ... I know Sun's "street" prices from a friendly reseller are lower than SunStore, but the LX is battling an entrenched market :-(
So ... what could Sun put in as "value-add" to justify the cost of $2800 for their P3 1U server?
Actually, I believe Microsoft was guilty of doing just this -- under-reporting their profits when they were doing extremely well, so they could put some away to pad earnings reports in the future if they were not doing so well... I believe it was called "cookie jar" practices.
A google for "microsoft cookie jar" comes up with:
Whoops... :-)
Where:
2002/08/25 19:00MDT Old Chicago, 1102 Pearl St, Boulder, CO 80302
Who showed:
Eazolan
Ben
Wire
Ehackathorn
Hobart
O3zone
Summaries/Photos at:d erSlashdot.html
http://www.dim.com/~mackys/irregular/current/Boul
http://www.jb.org/meetup/
(The pictures being low-quality is my fault)
Where:
2002/08/25 19:00MDT Old Chicago, 1102 Pearl St, Boulder, CO 80302
Summary at:d erSlashdot.html
http://www.dim.com/~mackys/irregular/current/Boul
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong here.
It was my understanding that the original JPEG standard (which is some ISO standard?) contains many technologies (Arithmetic coding?) that are patented, and require licensing fees / royalties for their use.
To actually further adoption of JPEG, the Independent JPEG Group was founded, headed by a man named Tom Lane I believe, who I think is now working with the PostgreSQL group. They specified the JFIF file format (which is at the header of all the images we know as 'JPEGs' today - there's a TIFF and SPIFF version of JPEG that nobody uses), which ONLY INCLUDED the technologies that were free to use without licensing / royalties. I've skimmed the JPEG FAQ about this
Interesting.
I still use XP Pro on my desktop (and often IE for my browser) for exactly the same reason. I regularly (every few months) will try out the "state of affairs" on *nix desktops, but the fact remains I can get my work done faster, with less dependence on the mouse, in a Windows environment. (Though both Win and Office XP have gotten less keyboard-only-usable over the 2000 versions due to idiocy in UI decisions on MS part.)
Ratpoison is nice, but isn't a complete solution to the problem ... (yes, I'm sure I could hack Xresources until I'm blue in the face to bind keyboard behaviors to the menus in Xterm / etc, but no, I don't feel like it).
Check out Mozilla bug # 142584 (it was marked a dupe of 124789) -- I'd love to go back to using Moz as my browser, but mouse-haters aren't numerous enough for bugs like this to get fixed quick. ;) Hell, while you're there, make sure you create a bugzilla account and VOTE FOR THAT BUG (124789) and also 83552 while you're at it.
Of course, I could just be paranoid. :)
The "serial" idea has already been done, it's called FireWire. I have trouble believing that implementing FireWire more expensive, in large quantities, as the chipset-makers churn out.
I've noticed Intel (and Maxtor and Seagate) are members of the 'Serial ATA' group. Is this being done, instead of just using FireWire, because of Intel not wanting to put FireWire support into their chipsets?
Has anyone seen a site with a nonbiased side-by-side comparison of the various technologies (USB2 / Firewire / SATA / FC [?] / U160~320 ) and what drives they're available on, and what the perfomacnce is?
Doctor Fun has been published on the Internet since 19930924. For that matter Where The Buffalo Roam has been on the 'net via USENET since 1991, but Dr. Fun was Internet-only. ;)
Hmm, no one else seems to have mentioned this one...
On his official site, it looks like there is mentioned a Chuck Jones Foundation
They're also assembling an art collection for exhibition in major museums, libraries, universities, and art galleries.(In case of /. effect)
This quote, from Gamespot's own site:
(More info here on the work of Danielle Bunten, including M.U.L.E., Seven Cities of Gold, etc.)
Well, duh.
This is an excellent opportunity to implement Professor Hodgson's KIDs experiment from Lain. ;)
It shows. :) I've worked with and supported Macs directly since before System 7.5. "My Mac just froze." (BONG) is a very common phrase heard from Mac users, followed by the "bong" reboot sound. Usually at least once a day.
Fortunately, the new OSX looks much more reliable, stable, and well, just plain cool (If you go to a root shell prompt and "kill 1", the gui goes away and it's a plain *nix box! ;) And the OpenFirmware is sexier than any I've seen this side of a Sparc. But the Mac and it's OS being a hallmark of reliability before OSX? No.
Lore Sjöberg's article on video-game consoles says it best. Give it a read. ;)
I installed Windows XP Home Edition (upgrade)
It re-wrote my hard drive. Not only that, but it scrambled disks that were close to my computer. It recalibrated my refrigerator's coolness setting so all my ice cream went melty. It demagnetized the strips on all my credit cards, screwed up the tracking on my television and used subspace field harmonics to scratch any CD's I tried to play.
(Actually, it installed a bit nicer than Win2K, but is full of more stuff that needs turning off. I moved from 95 to NT4, so I never experienced the hell of 98/ME, but I sure don't miss it. It's no more tedious to turn off the candy stuff than the installation of any of today's media players. The Terminal Services [switch-user] stuff is pretty neat. And for $99 I grabbed Works Suite 2002 -- comes with Word XP that has neat speech-recognition stuff. The Philips Toucam Pro webcam drivers bundled still suck. The "restore point" thingy saved me a lot of hassle from a bad Intel video driver update. The ability to turn off the pagefile is neat. The new sound schemes are annoying. MSPAINT supporting GIF, JPEG, and PNG is nice.)
(ahem) Windows XP will give you Dutch Elm disease. It will leave the toilet seat up. It will make a batch of Methamphetamines in your bathtub and then leave bacon cooking on the stove while it goes out to chase gradeschoolers with your new snowblower.
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Note that he's the author of a book on Linux IP stacks, so interacting with /. is hardly his first interaction with this crowd. ;-)
Well said!!
Thank you!