Most of the Apple hardcore loyalists would drop Apple like it had a big nasty worm.
I doubt Jobs would sell Apple. And IBM getting rid of their PC division because it has no profit potential. I doubt they would be able to better manage Apple than Apple can by itself.
Back when I was working at a large southeastern university, the Math/CS dept. ordered a SC2000 from Sun. It was shipped by FedEx (w/o insurance) and it was delivered by one FedEx guy who tried to roll it on the truck lift. As it was going down it tipped over and fell onto the ground. It was crushed by its own weight.
It took about a month of negotiations before Sun would replace it with a new one. Mainly because there was no FedEx shipping. After that all shipments came via Viking in the US. I wonder why?
I am just glad Da Taco accepted my article submission. I've tried to submit articles two ore three times previous and they got rejected. Whoya thunk it? Merry Christmas!
Broadcasters don't have their act together now and probably won't for a while. I suggest getting the display now, tuner later. Many sets can just act as monitors and that is a good thing since the tuner adds a big cost to the set. However, movie DVD playback is where it's at right now. Get a set for $3000-$5000 and a $500 DVD player is a great combo, esp. if you already have a good audio setup.
If you got the money to burn, the real winner right now is the Panasonic PT-42PD3-P and the PT-50PD3-P. One is 42" diag. and the other is 50". I recently saw "A Bug's Life" on the 50" model at Fry's and it blew me away. Of course, the price tag of $14999.95 is a bit steep, but it is only 2.5" deep and puts out no heat!
Haven't you heard of a lil thing called OpenBOOT?
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It seems to me that any independant effort would be wasted writing a new BIOS-like system. My I suggest implementing IEEE Standard 1275-1994 (aka OpenBOOT). Works on Suns, and Macs, it should work for PCs too!
In my case, I would prefer CDE over GNOME. CDE is just lighter that GNOME and requires less of my workstation that GNOME does.
That is so sad, I remember those same arguments for Openlook. Openlook is, of course, completely gone in Solaris 9. I think it will take about five releases before they can yank CDE out as well.
I have a professor friend who has a CL9 remote control and I want one too. The design is so powerful (even being 6502 based) which still blows most everything else in the market. Is there ANY hope of getting them back in limited production?
I have remote controll needs!!!:)
Also, What is your opinion on all of the homages in the cartoon series Futurama. Example is an episode where they X-ray benders brain and find a 6502.
What is all of this bitching about? First, Solaris is not a Sun creation. It is the derived work of many other companies (AT&T/Lucent, SCO, and even Microsoft!). In order to go open source, Sun not only has to change its license, but convince the other owners to do the same. I can bet you now that is not likely to happen anytime soon. Second, the whole open source announcement was a mistake from a unknown veep within Sun. It seems that one veep was quoted that Sun was going to give away source, then the other veeps in the compnay started parroting the same thing to not look like fools. So for a mistake decision, it is a pretty good implementation.
What Sinclair is worried about is silly. How many people still get their TV by the airwaves in the US?
Also, my understanding is that Sinclair used set top rabbit ears, which the FCC has said won't cut it.
What the FCC should have done is required cable companies to transmit the HDTV signal over their broadband. That way we would not be caring about multipathing and more people would have HDTV sets.
The Woz made the ultimate IR remote a few years back, called the "Cloud 9", it could learn any other remote and was fully programmable. Of course, it was 65C02 based.
A rare find indeed, the market was not ready for that much remote.
We need immediate emergency rent control and a rent roll back measures on the 2000 ballot.
I want a 10% rent reduction on all units and limit rent increases to the inflation rate (which is currently about 3%) every 12 months.
So a $1500 apartment would be $1350 and the next year it would be $1390. That is fair and reasonable.
When I moved into my Mountain View apartment, I was paying 1425, then they increasted it to 1550 (8.8% increase), then to 1675 (again 8%). That is insane!
STOP THE INSANITY, ASK FOR A BALLOT MEASURE TO KEEP RENTS LOW!
Much of Atlanta's low income housing residents are on welfare, not because they are engineers or city workers who have to pay 1650 on a 1000sqft 2-bedroom apartment in a crappy Mountain View neighborhood.
IA64 is intended for high end servers, not personal computers or workstations. The first reason being cost. I suspect they will be shipping at around US$5000. The second is the fact that the IA32 emulator will be slower than a genuine P3, at least initially.
Oracle can use either a file or a partition for its datastore. In recent versions of Solaris, Oracle will put the file in a mode which can bypass the VFS layer of the OS to get near raw partition speeds.
The inside scoop was that, because eBay did not install the latest kernel patch to Solaris 2.5.1, they ran into a bug where if you have a kernel core dump of more than 2GB, it will piss all over your disks. I suspect they do not have root or swap under Vertias control.
So when the machine panic'd, it overwrote most of root (the core dump starts from the end of swap back to the beginning, many users have root just before swap on their disk).
So they not only had to restore Solaris, they had to restore their configuration. Not something that can occur quickly, esp. when the CEO of a company is breathing down your back. It is also my understanding that the eBay database itself was okay and didn't have any data corruption.
There is one and only one HDTV standard (which specifies several video formats). The Federal Communications Commission determines which signal formats are allowed to be transmitted over the air waves.
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Most of the Apple hardcore loyalists would drop Apple like it had a big nasty worm.
I doubt Jobs would sell Apple. And IBM getting rid of their PC division because it has no profit potential. I doubt they would be able to better manage Apple than Apple can by itself.
I say this is a speculative unlikelyhood.
cfs
Back when I was working at a large southeastern university, the Math/CS dept. ordered a SC2000 from Sun. It was shipped by FedEx (w/o insurance) and it was delivered by one FedEx guy who tried to roll it on the truck lift. As it was going down it tipped over and fell onto the ground. It was crushed by its own weight.
It took about a month of negotiations before Sun would replace it with a new one. Mainly because there was no FedEx shipping. After that all shipments came via Viking in the US. I wonder why?
-hh
I am just glad Da Taco accepted my article submission. I've tried to submit articles two ore three times previous and they got rejected. Whoya thunk it? Merry Christmas!
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Well, I preferred to jerk off to Counselor Troi.
cfs
What do you mean back to 1991? SunOS dates back to 1982!
Broadcasters don't have their act together now and probably won't for a while. I suggest getting the display now, tuner later. Many sets can just act as monitors and that is a good thing since the tuner adds a big cost to the set. However, movie DVD playback is where it's at right now. Get a set for $3000-$5000 and a $500 DVD player is a great combo, esp. if you already have a good audio setup.
If you got the money to burn, the real winner right now is the Panasonic PT-42PD3-P and the PT-50PD3-P. One is 42" diag. and the other is 50". I recently saw "A Bug's Life" on the 50" model at Fry's and it blew me away. Of course, the price tag of $14999.95 is a bit steep, but it is only 2.5" deep and puts out no heat!
It seems to me that any independant effort would be wasted writing a new BIOS-like system. My I suggest implementing IEEE Standard 1275-1994 (aka OpenBOOT). Works on Suns, and Macs, it should work for PCs too!
cfs
In my case, I would prefer CDE over GNOME. CDE is just lighter that GNOME and requires less of my workstation that GNOME does.
That is so sad, I remember those same arguments for Openlook. Openlook is, of course, completely gone in Solaris 9. I think it will take about five releases before they can yank CDE out as well.
Well since the Model 100 had a 8085 in it, I doubt your Z80 code would do very much.
Well, Microsoft's Word XP grammar checker seems to think that "its" is possessive, while "it's" is an abbreviation of "it is."
That seems to jive with my grade school lessions on the subject.
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I have a professor friend who has a CL9 remote control and I want one too. The design is so powerful (even being 6502 based) which still blows most everything else in the market. Is there ANY hope of getting them back in limited production?
:)
I have remote controll needs!!!
Also, What is your opinion on all of the homages in the cartoon series Futurama. Example is an episode where they X-ray benders brain and find a 6502.
Praise be the Woz.
What is all of this bitching about? First, Solaris is not a Sun creation. It is the derived work of many other companies (AT&T/Lucent, SCO, and even Microsoft!). In order to go open source, Sun not only has to change its license, but convince the other owners to do the same. I can bet you now that is not likely to happen anytime soon. Second, the whole open source announcement was a mistake from a unknown veep within Sun. It seems that one veep was quoted that Sun was going to give away source, then the other veeps in the compnay started parroting the same thing to not look like fools. So for a mistake decision, it is a pretty good implementation.
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-- "You have been absolved."
What Sinclair is worried about is silly. How many people still get their TV by the airwaves in the US?
Also, my understanding is that Sinclair used set top rabbit ears, which the FCC has said won't cut it.
What the FCC should have done is required cable companies to transmit the HDTV signal over their broadband. That way we would not be caring about multipathing and more people would have HDTV sets.
The Woz made the ultimate IR remote a few years back, called the "Cloud 9", it could learn any other remote and was fully programmable. Of course, it was 65C02 based.
A rare find indeed, the market was not ready for that much remote.
The Queen of England can not affort UltraSPARCs? She must be hurting for cash.
-hh
Well if that isn't a case of the snake sallowing itself, then I don't know what is.
You have been absolved.
I bought a BT-958 and it was great. It even had "Solaris" support on the box. However, the driver broke in Solaris 7 and Mylex owns the driver.
Why won't they open source the sucker!
Praise be to me!
We need immediate emergency rent control and a rent roll back measures on the 2000 ballot.
I want a 10% rent reduction on all units and limit rent increases to the inflation rate (which is currently about 3%) every 12 months.
So a $1500 apartment would be $1350 and the next year it would be $1390. That is fair and reasonable.
When I moved into my Mountain View apartment, I was paying 1425, then they increasted it to 1550 (8.8% increase), then to 1675 (again 8%). That is insane!
STOP THE INSANITY, ASK FOR A BALLOT MEASURE TO KEEP RENTS LOW!Much of Atlanta's low income housing residents are on welfare, not because they are engineers or city workers who have to pay 1650 on a 1000sqft 2-bedroom apartment in a crappy Mountain View neighborhood.
double
raise_rent(double rent)
{
if (no_people > no_homes)
rent *= rent;
return (rent);
}
IA64 is intended for high end servers, not
personal computers or workstations. The first
reason being cost. I suspect they will be
shipping at around US$5000. The second is
the fact that the IA32 emulator will be slower
than a genuine P3, at least initially.
Oracle can use either a file or a partition for its datastore. In recent versions of Solaris, Oracle will put the file in a mode which can bypass the VFS layer of the OS to get near raw partition speeds.
The inside scoop was that, because eBay did not install the latest kernel patch to Solaris 2.5.1, they ran into a bug where if you have a kernel core dump of more than 2GB, it will piss all over your disks. I suspect they do not have root or swap under Vertias control.
So when the machine panic'd, it overwrote most of root (the core dump starts from the end of swap back to the beginning, many users have root just before swap on their disk).
So they not only had to restore Solaris, they had to restore their configuration. Not something that can occur quickly, esp. when the CEO of a company is breathing down your back. It is also my understanding that the eBay database itself was okay and didn't have any data corruption.
Right on brother. Long live Newton!
There is one and only one HDTV standard (which specifies several video formats). The Federal Communications Commission determines which signal formats are allowed to be transmitted over the air waves.