Hi all, this is Jason Haas, one of the co-founders of LinuxPPC Inc. I'm mostly famous for alost having been killed by this drunk fuck in a massive SUV back in March.;-)
LinuxPPC is not making any claims about Apple. We are not making any claims about our alleged "superiority" over Apple. We're thousands of times smaller than Apple, for one thing. Linux _might_ be superior to the MacOS, performance-wise, but Linux in general still has a ways to go before ease of use becomes more standard. We never compare ourselves to Apple. Never have, don't plan on doing that in the future.
Second, we're not announcing the SMP support. It will soon be on our FTP server, however.
Third, AFAIK, AltiVec (a.k.a. "Velocity Engine") has kernel support in some kernels, and Motorola has released patches for gcc, though I don't know if they've been intergrated yet.
Personally, I think it has a limited future. What would it help under Linux, anyway?;-) (I honestly don't know!)
Last, I am doing much better despite Jerk Boy's efforts to kill me (literally). He didn't try hard enough.;-)
Best,
Haaz: Co-founder, LinuxPPC Inc., making Linux for PowerPC since 1996.
Ok, so, I don't like commercials. Generally. Does TiVo do anything to commercials, or does it have the ability to discriminate between a TV show and a commercial?
I'm -from- KC, and I didn't go.. Partially because right now, I'd be as useless as a Windoze box at a Linux show.;) (Just had surgery.) But largely because of one or two big reasons: there are already a _ton_ of shows (IMO), and there are way too many to go to, at least, on a reasonable budget. Perhaps someone with lots of IPOs or outside support (hey, Apple...), but not us. (I work for LinuxPPC Inc., if you didn't know.)
Here are the ones I try to make: Macworld NY snd San Fran, which are in July and January of each year. So, that's two chunks of the year eaten by trade shows. BIG trade shows. And expensive. Anyway, there's also the Atlanta Linux Showcase, which is on my "must go" list. That's in October. OK, January, July, and October.. I did the ALS right before I got married, so I guess that's OK.. but I missed my wife's 30th birthday because of Macworld SF..
...and then there's the LinuxWorldExpos, which I think are in April and... I can't remember if there's another one. So, that's 4 or 5. Then there's international shows: one of ours guys just went to Korea for some show. Ouch. We could go to Europe or maybe Mexico, as there's definately shows in Europe. (I'd be into an Italian show, myself.)
So, basically, the whole year could be dominated by trade shows. Easily. I'd also be exhausted, and that is me in the state I was in _before_ the accident!
IMNSHO, there are too many trade shows. In one year, I think we did two Macworlds, two LinuxWorlds, a Comdex, and ALS. Ohmy. That was definately too many -- and those were just the US shows! Also, we make _free_ software. As in, we don't have M$'s massive profits to pay for us to go to a show and spend billions on it. That'd be nice, but it's not how it is. Zo.
I do feel kinda bad that a show in KC didn't do well -- I'm from there, originally. Wouldn't mind visiting some time, and was tempted to when I heard there was a show that was going to happen there. But, the accident saw to it that I didn't go anywhere (except the hospital for a few weeks), so for us, it would've been kinda bad. Even so, it would've been Another Trade Show, which I'm already pretty tired of doing. I know it's part of the computer business now, but for someone who lives in an odd corner of the US, it's not good. But, that's just my opinion. Too many shows. Yeah.
(I hope this isn't "another" post -- I was on a Windoze box earlier, which has the unstable and unreliable Internet Exploder.. bleh!)
It's good stuff. We've been doing it for years. It used to be the only native Linux on the PowerPC. (MkLinux goes through the Mach microkernel, which slows it down. I think OS X does, too.)
We've been at it for years, as I've said, and we've done generally good work. We just released a new version of Netscape Communicator, which should improve user's security and general experiences.
And if you knew how badly Apple treated us, you'd probably feel better about supporting us -- and mad at Apple! (It's just a few people, really. but still...)
LinuxPPC simply rocks. It's faster than the MacOS, and more stable. And it can run the Mac OS now.
I just have one question: will Mac OS X be available as a free download? I doubt it.:) LinuxPPC always _has_ been available that way, and always will be! Enjoy.
Maybe it's just my accident-affected memory, but I don't remember anything about Planet Starbucks from Fight Club.,, which I thought was an excellent film, BTW.:)
I don't know if this is related or not, but it would be interesting to some people.
They're going to do an operation on my eye next Thursday. In case you're not up-to-date on my life, read HaazNet's "The last seven months", which documents how the last seven months have been for me. (Not good...)
On Thursday, they will be:
- Removing a buckle from my left eye. I believe the buckle helped the retina re-attach itself. - Possibly removing the oil from the left eye, also retina-related.
Currently, I have a bit of double vision (right eye sees fine, left eye sees a blurry version of the world that's not aligned with the right eye's input), and the left eye can actually see better than my right eye -- when I don't have my glasses on. My glasses make my left eye see worse!
So, that's what's up. Let's hope all the operations go OK!
Yowza. 20K. That's twice as many employees as I had thought they had... but my figures are probably just from the 1980s.;-p
I was wondering if they'd try to "escape" somehow, and it makes sense (for them) to try and do so. Still, justice is hard to escape. (I'm making sure of that in my troubles, and just wish I could make sure of that with MS!)
Let me tell you, it is much better being back at home than at the hospital.:) Having a beautiful wife helps, too. (Add her super-literacy and other undiscussable things, and.. yeah!)
I can now use a computer for at least two hours, and that's only with one good eye! Who knows what I'll be up to when they give me a new lens for my left eye.;)
BTW, FYI, there are progress updates on the www.linuxppc.com web page.:>
Apple's been renaming just about everything they throw in their computers nowdays. First, the PowerPC 750 became the PowerPC G3 processor, then the 7400 became the G4. And the 7400 has the AltiVec unit on it, which Apple renamed.. Velocity Engine! Woohoo!
I will say that G4 sounds a heck of a lot cooler than 7400. 7400 sounds like the name of a Volvo.;-)
I'm typing this on my Kinesis keyboard. I don't leave home without it, literally, on long trips where I'm going to be typing a lot.
Here's my deal. Nearly 20 years of computer use have taken their toll. I remember having wrist pain when I was 12 after playing Ultima IV for waaaay too long one day. By the time I was 22, it'd become a chronic problem. Finally, last year, I started investigating ways to deal with it, as it was simply becoming debilitating and too painful to deal with. I was having trouble picking things up sometimes. Bad news.
Thinking fast, I looked up this topic on/. Found the old discussion on the same topic. Found Kinesis recommendations. Went to their site, read endorsements from people I knew. Was impressed. Conned company into buying keyboard for me. It arrived....
...and wow. Two weeks of using it as directed (it comes with a manual you should definately read, and advise that you should definately follow), my wrist pain had eased tremendously. I can now do push-ups with only a hint of discomfort. Before, my wrists would have buckled.
One of our developers has his plugged into his G4, which has no ADB ports -- it's USB only. Happily, the keyboard's "natural" port is a PS/2 keyboard port, which can easily be adapted to Apple ADB, or to USB. This is good, as sooner or later I'm going to have more USB hardware.
I also got a good three-button mouse. Being a PowerPC (read: Apple hardware) user, my computers shipped with one-button mice. Having a three-button mouse with Linux is darn near necessary, and I was tired of using our keyboard shortcuts for the mouse buttons. The new mouse (USB, plugged in via a PCI USB card) helped a lot. Less keystrokes == good.
Other things: I bought the foot switch for the Kinesis along with the kbd. I got the 2-btn switch, which is programmable (like the keyboard). It mostly does the shift key for me. It's nice. I should use it.;-)
Other: Customize.bashrc heavily. I have lots of little aliases that save me from typing things like "vi index.ph3pf" or "cd/home/httpd/com/" dozens of times per day. More macros == good, as long as they're well designed.
So, Kinesis in my experience has turned my life around, insofar as my computing life. I get pain when I have to use other keyboards for a long time, like when my hard disk crashed and I had to use her iMac. (It's got LinuxPPC and the MacOS installed.;) I like the feel of the little iMac kbd, but after a few days, it was killing my wrists again.
Exercise also helps. We geeks probably don't get enough. But anyway. Kinesis. I'd endorse 'em for the company. Do you hear me, Kinesis?;)
BootX is definately easier for new users. I now have my 1998 PowerBook G3 set up to boot directly from the/boot partition on its hard drive, though.
It's sweet. Push the power button, see Tux appear, watch kernel load, log in. Yes!
This works on all supported (PCI) power macs AFAIK. The pre-iMac machines use a system called miBoot, which is a little less flexible than the yaboot program the iMac/BlueG3/G4/iBook/ Lombard PBG3 can use. But it works.
I wish! No, the partitioner will only do what pdisk can do -- create, destroy, rename, plus a few tricks it can't do like change partition type. There's nothing that can dynamically repartition for MacOS AFAIK. (Hey FWB!;-)
I wish! No, the partitioner will only do what pdisk can do -- create, destroy, rename, plus a few tricks it can't do like change partition type. There's nothing that can dynamically repartition for MacOS AFAIK. (Hey FWB!;-)
Why no alphabetical listing of distros?
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Notice that the listing of ports is not in alphabetical order, as it reasonably should be. Rather, TSS is listed first for some reason. LinuxPPC second, and then goes on to Debian which should be listed first if striving for alphabetical order. SuSE's forthcoming version isn't even listed.
It's no secret that Terra Soft gets preferential treatment by Apple, and it's reflected on this page. This is most unfortunate politics played out on what looks to be an official Apple web site.
There's a Big 10 university (upper midwestern U.S.) whose phone system is run off a generic Linux/PowerPC system, and apparently has been for several years at this point. Cool stuff.
A little nmap in my life A little portscan and I'm all right nmap number five...
[root@athens jhaas]# nmap -sS -O www.algore.com -v Remote operating system guess: Linux 2.2.0-pre6 - 2.2.2-ac5
Wow, Al might be running Linux! Maybe he really did invent the Internet. OK, let's try Bill Bradley, my favorite..
Remote operating system guess: Solaris 2.6 - 2.7
Hmm... robust, enterprise level Solaris. OK, it's UNIX at least. I can respect that. It doesn't look like they're actually running it, which also makes sense.
I made the shocking (shocking!) discovery that George W. Bush laughs the same way as his dear old dad, that weird, stuttered giggle. Unfortunately he's probably going to win.
Initiating SYN half-open stealth scan against www-01.georgewbush.com (206.104.218.130)
It's going incredibly slowly, so I'll come back to that later. As you can tell, I am an 31337 h4x0r, and I own these b0x3s. Let's move on to the aliens from outer space candidates, Keyes and Bauer..
Woah! George W's just finished.. no wonder it took so long -- there's scads of ports open.
Sequence numbers: 25507B62 25507CFC 25507F35 255081B8 255083EC 2550866D Remote operating system guess: Windows NT4 / Win95 / Win98
Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 465 seconds
Hah! Point for me. No surprise there that George W's campaign would probably be running NT or something icky like that. It just figures, you know? I suspect if Bradley's campaign was running their own box, it'd have Linux on it. And stiff old Gore would have Solaris or SCO or something like that. Anyway.. on to the space men..
Bauer doesn't seem to have a site up yet, according to bauer2000.com. nmap thinks it's running:
Remote operating system guess: BSDI BSD/OS 3.0
Hmm. Ok. Keyes... scan is going slowly.. maybe I'll do Hatch's for fun and giggles while that grinds away. Much better. Ooh, rail on the administration's abuses, Orrin. You go with your bad self.
Remote operating system guess: Solaris 2.6 - 2.7
No big surprise there. A buttoned down UNIX, if there is such a thing. Who thinks Hatch knows what a UNIX is?
Keyes server has shown us that port 80 is open (which I hadn't already figured out by going there with Netscape..), and is going about as quickly as Bush's. So we'll just ignore that, just like the voters will...
And last, Mr. Flat Tax himself, Steve Forbes. Solaris again. Hmm. Well, interesting. Gore and Bradley were reversed in my mind. Oh -- McCain.. nmap didn't know what to make of that one, so I'll be sending in the fingerprints. Hmm!
Amazing what you can learn while you're supposed to be beta testing something else.
It's kind of annoying to hear about TiVo under fire -- they're probably the largest manufacturers of Linux/PowerPC hardware right now, not that anyone really knows that. I just love knowing that in every Best Buy in the world, there's a PPC box... makes me want a TiVo even more.
I have no idea what this company is actually suing over, but I have this very protective streak when it comes to PPC-based products.;)
Read a little more closely. Their LinuxMac "product" sounds like Linux's kernel HFS support with a GUI tacked on. Wow, that's incredible. Drag and drop./me starts gmc. Copy files to and from HFS volumes...
LinuxOne now has a PowerPC product. One of their people showed up at Macworld Expo, at our booth. We were stunned -- an actual person! And he took one of our CDs and wandered off. (The CDs were free.) We were too stunned to say anything... but they may be making an announcement any day now about a PowerPC port.;)
"Many people make the mistake of using a cloning utility, such as Ghost, in order make copies of Windows NT for their network computers. The problem is that every Windows NT installation has a unique number, a security identifier (SID)....
"The trouble is that if you need support from Microsoft on a system that has been cloned, you're out of luck. They won't help you."
(unwritten: So buy lots of copies and keep making Bill rich.)
Or unlimited copies of Linux and never have that problem. Or, problems, I suppose, as NT presents many problems. The expensive licenses being just one.
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Hi all, this is Jason Haas, one of the co-founders of LinuxPPC Inc. I'm mostly famous for alost having been killed by this drunk fuck in a massive SUV back in March. ;-)
;-) (I honestly don't know!)
;-)
LinuxPPC is not making any claims about Apple. We are not making any claims about our alleged "superiority" over Apple. We're thousands of times smaller than Apple, for one thing. Linux _might_ be superior to the MacOS, performance-wise, but Linux in general still has a ways to go before ease of use becomes more standard. We never compare ourselves to Apple. Never have, don't plan on doing that in the future.
Second, we're not announcing the SMP support. It will soon be on our FTP server, however.
Third, AFAIK, AltiVec (a.k.a. "Velocity Engine") has kernel support in some kernels, and Motorola has released patches for gcc, though I don't know if they've been intergrated yet.
Personally, I think it has a limited future. What would it help under Linux, anyway?
Last, I am doing much better despite Jerk Boy's efforts to kill me (literally). He didn't try hard enough.
Best,
Haaz: Co-founder, LinuxPPC Inc., making Linux for PowerPC since 1996.
Ok, so, I don't like commercials. Generally. Does TiVo do anything to commercials, or does it have the ability to discriminate between a TV show and a commercial?
An NPR listener, I am,
I'm -from- KC, and I didn't go.. Partially because right now, I'd be as useless as a Windoze box at a Linux show. ;) (Just had surgery.) But largely because of one or two big reasons: there are already a _ton_ of shows (IMO), and there are way too many to go to, at least, on a reasonable budget. Perhaps someone with lots of IPOs or outside support (hey, Apple...), but not us. (I work for LinuxPPC Inc., if you didn't know.)
Here are the ones I try to make: Macworld NY snd San Fran, which are in July and January of each year. So, that's two chunks of the year eaten by trade shows. BIG trade shows. And expensive. Anyway, there's also the Atlanta Linux Showcase, which is on my "must go" list. That's in October. OK, January, July, and October.. I did the ALS right before I got married, so I guess that's OK.. but I missed my wife's 30th birthday because of Macworld SF..
...and then there's the LinuxWorldExpos, which I think are in April and... I can't remember if there's another one. So, that's 4 or 5. Then there's international shows: one of ours guys just went to Korea for some show. Ouch. We could go to Europe or maybe Mexico, as there's definately shows in Europe. (I'd be into an Italian show, myself.)
So, basically, the whole year could be dominated by trade shows. Easily. I'd also be exhausted, and that is me in the state I was in _before_ the accident!
IMNSHO, there are too many trade shows. In one year, I think we did two Macworlds, two LinuxWorlds, a Comdex, and ALS. Ohmy. That was definately too many -- and those were just the US shows! Also, we make _free_ software. As in, we don't have M$'s massive profits to pay for us to go to a show and spend billions on it. That'd be nice, but it's not how it is. Zo.
I do feel kinda bad that a show in KC didn't do well -- I'm from there, originally. Wouldn't mind visiting some time, and was tempted to when I heard there was a show that was going to happen there. But, the accident saw to it that I didn't go anywhere (except the hospital for a few weeks), so for us, it would've been kinda bad. Even so, it would've been Another Trade Show, which I'm already pretty tired of doing. I know it's part of the computer business now, but for someone who lives in an odd corner of the US, it's not good. But, that's just my opinion. Too many shows. Yeah.
'nuff said.
(He says after typing for 10 minutes...)
(I hope this isn't "another" post -- I was on a Windoze box earlier, which has the unstable and unreliable Internet Exploder.. bleh!)
:) LinuxPPC always _has_ been available that way, and always will be! Enjoy.
It's good stuff. We've been doing it for years. It used to be the only native Linux on the PowerPC. (MkLinux goes through the Mach microkernel, which slows it down. I think OS X does, too.)
We've been at it for years, as I've said, and we've done generally good work. We just released a new version of Netscape Communicator, which should improve user's security and general experiences.
And if you knew how badly Apple treated us, you'd probably feel better about supporting us -- and mad at Apple! (It's just a few people, really. but still...)
LinuxPPC simply rocks. It's faster than the MacOS, and more stable. And it can run the Mac OS now.
I just have one question: will Mac OS X be available as a free download? I doubt it.
That's my question. And the answer? No.
Will you be able to? Maybe. But not likely.
LinuxPPC 2000? Heck yeah! ftp.linuxppc.org, baybee!
Maybe it's just my accident-affected memory, but I don't remember anything about Planet Starbucks from Fight Club.,, which I thought was an excellent film, BTW. :)
Thanks,
I don't know if this is related or not, but it would be interesting to some people.
They're going to do an operation on my eye next Thursday. In case you're not up-to-date on my life, read HaazNet's "The last seven months", which documents how the last seven months have been for me. (Not good...)
On Thursday, they will be:
- Removing a buckle from my left eye. I believe the buckle helped the retina re-attach itself.
- Possibly removing the oil from the left eye, also retina-related.
Currently, I have a bit of double vision (right eye sees fine, left eye sees a blurry version of the world that's not aligned with the right eye's input), and the left eye can actually see better than my right eye -- when I don't have my glasses on. My glasses make my left eye see worse!
So, that's what's up. Let's hope all the operations go OK!
Yowza. 20K. That's twice as many employees as I had thought they had... but my figures are probably just from the 1980s. ;-p
I was wondering if they'd try to "escape" somehow, and it makes sense (for them) to try and do so. Still, justice is hard to escape. (I'm making sure of that in my troubles, and just wish I could make sure of that with MS!)
Let me tell you, it is much better being back at home than at the hospital. :) Having a beautiful wife helps, too. (Add her super-literacy and other undiscussable things, and.. yeah!)
;)
:>
I can now use a computer for at least two hours, and that's only with one good eye! Who knows what I'll be up to when they give me a new lens for my left eye.
BTW, FYI, there are progress updates on the www.linuxppc.com web page.
Take care,
Apple's been renaming just about everything they throw in their computers nowdays. First, the PowerPC 750 became the PowerPC G3 processor, then the 7400 became the G4. And the 7400 has the AltiVec unit on it, which Apple renamed.. Velocity Engine! Woohoo!
;-)
I will say that G4 sounds a heck of a lot cooler than 7400. 7400 sounds like the name of a Volvo.
I'm typing this on my Kinesis keyboard. I don't leave home without it, literally, on long trips where I'm going to be typing a lot.
/. Found the old discussion on the same topic. Found Kinesis recommendations. Went to their site, read endorsements from people I knew. Was impressed. Conned company into buying keyboard for me. It arrived....
;-)
.bashrc heavily. I have lots of little aliases that save me from typing things like "vi index.ph3pf" or "cd /home/httpd/com/" dozens of times per day. More macros == good, as long as they're well designed.
;) I like the feel of the little iMac kbd, but after a few days, it was killing my wrists again.
;)
Here's my deal. Nearly 20 years of computer use have taken their toll. I remember having wrist pain when I was 12 after playing Ultima IV for waaaay too long one day. By the time I was 22, it'd become a chronic problem. Finally, last year, I started investigating ways to deal with it, as it was simply becoming debilitating and too painful to deal with. I was having trouble picking things up sometimes. Bad news.
Thinking fast, I looked up this topic on
...and wow. Two weeks of using it as directed (it comes with a manual you should definately read, and advise that you should definately follow), my wrist pain had eased tremendously. I can now do push-ups with only a hint of discomfort. Before, my wrists would have buckled.
One of our developers has his plugged into his G4, which has no ADB ports -- it's USB only. Happily, the keyboard's "natural" port is a PS/2 keyboard port, which can easily be adapted to Apple ADB, or to USB. This is good, as sooner or later I'm going to have more USB hardware.
I also got a good three-button mouse. Being a PowerPC (read: Apple hardware) user, my computers shipped with one-button mice. Having a three-button mouse with Linux is darn near necessary, and I was tired of using our keyboard shortcuts for the mouse buttons. The new mouse (USB, plugged in via a PCI USB card) helped a lot. Less keystrokes == good.
Other things: I bought the foot switch for the Kinesis along with the kbd. I got the 2-btn switch, which is programmable (like the keyboard). It mostly does the shift key for me. It's nice. I should use it.
Other: Customize
So, Kinesis in my experience has turned my life around, insofar as my computing life. I get pain when I have to use other keyboards for a long time, like when my hard disk crashed and I had to use her iMac. (It's got LinuxPPC and the MacOS installed.
Exercise also helps. We geeks probably don't get enough. But anyway. Kinesis. I'd endorse 'em for the company. Do you hear me, Kinesis?
BootX is definately easier for new users. I now have my 1998 PowerBook G3 set up to boot directly from the /boot partition on its hard drive, though.
It's sweet. Push the power button, see Tux appear, watch kernel load, log in. Yes!
This works on all supported (PCI) power macs AFAIK. The pre-iMac machines use a system called miBoot, which is a little less flexible than the yaboot program the iMac/BlueG3/G4/iBook/ Lombard PBG3 can use. But it works.
Loving life,
I wish! No, the partitioner will only do what pdisk can do -- create, destroy, rename, plus a few tricks it can't do like change partition type. There's nothing that can dynamically repartition for MacOS AFAIK. (Hey FWB! ;-)
I wish! No, the partitioner will only do what pdisk can do -- create, destroy, rename, plus a few tricks it can't do like change partition type. There's nothing that can dynamically repartition for MacOS AFAIK. (Hey FWB! ;-)
Notice that the listing of ports is not in alphabetical order, as it reasonably should be. Rather, TSS is listed first for some reason. LinuxPPC second, and then goes on to Debian which should be listed first if striving for alphabetical order. SuSE's forthcoming version isn't even listed.
It's no secret that Terra Soft gets preferential treatment by Apple, and it's reflected on this page. This is most unfortunate politics played out on what looks to be an official Apple web site.
Most sincerely,
There's a Big 10 university (upper midwestern U.S.) whose phone system is run off a generic Linux/PowerPC system, and apparently has been for several years at this point. Cool stuff.
A little nmap in my life
A little portscan and I'm all right
nmap number five...
[root@athens jhaas]# nmap -sS -O www.algore.com -v
Remote operating system guess: Linux 2.2.0-pre6 - 2.2.2-ac5
Wow, Al might be running Linux! Maybe he really did invent the Internet. OK, let's try Bill Bradley, my favorite..
Remote operating system guess: Solaris 2.6 - 2.7
Hmm... robust, enterprise level Solaris. OK, it's UNIX at least. I can respect that. It doesn't look like they're actually running it, which also makes sense.
I made the shocking (shocking!) discovery that George W. Bush laughs the same way as his dear old dad, that weird, stuttered giggle. Unfortunately he's probably going to win.
Initiating SYN half-open stealth scan against www-01.georgewbush.com (206.104.218.130)
It's going incredibly slowly, so I'll come back to that later. As you can tell, I am an 31337 h4x0r, and I own these b0x3s. Let's move on to the aliens from outer space candidates, Keyes and Bauer..
Woah! George W's just finished.. no wonder it took so long -- there's scads of ports open.
TCP Sequence Prediction: Class=random positive increments
Difficulty=85 (Medium)
Sequence numbers: 25507B62 25507CFC 25507F35 255081B8 255083EC 2550866D
Remote operating system guess: Windows NT4 / Win95 / Win98
Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 465 seconds
Hah! Point for me. No surprise there that George W's campaign would probably be running NT or something icky like that. It just figures, you know? I suspect if Bradley's campaign was running their own box, it'd have Linux on it. And stiff old Gore would have Solaris or SCO or something like that. Anyway.. on to the space men..
Bauer doesn't seem to have a site up yet, according to bauer2000.com. nmap thinks it's running:
Remote operating system guess: BSDI BSD/OS 3.0
Hmm. Ok. Keyes... scan is going slowly.. maybe I'll do Hatch's for fun and giggles while that grinds away. Much better. Ooh, rail on the administration's abuses, Orrin. You go with your bad self.
Remote operating system guess: Solaris 2.6 - 2.7
No big surprise there. A buttoned down UNIX, if there is such a thing. Who thinks Hatch knows what a UNIX is?
Keyes server has shown us that port 80 is open (which I hadn't already figured out by going there with Netscape..), and is going about as quickly as Bush's. So we'll just ignore that, just like the voters will...
And last, Mr. Flat Tax himself, Steve Forbes. Solaris again. Hmm. Well, interesting. Gore and Bradley were reversed in my mind. Oh -- McCain.. nmap didn't know what to make of that one, so I'll be sending in the fingerprints. Hmm!
Amazing what you can learn while you're supposed to be beta testing something else.
It's kind of annoying to hear about TiVo under fire -- they're probably the largest manufacturers of Linux/PowerPC hardware right now, not that anyone really knows that. I just love knowing that in every Best Buy in the world, there's a PPC box... makes me want a TiVo even more.
;)
I have no idea what this company is actually suing over, but I have this very protective streak when it comes to PPC-based products.
Absoft makes MacOS, Linux x86/PPC, NT and Win32 compilers. Mostly Fortran, but there's C/C++ in there. Just a thought.
Read a little more closely. Their LinuxMac "product" sounds like Linux's kernel HFS support with a GUI tacked on. Wow, that's incredible. Drag and drop. /me starts gmc. Copy files to and from HFS volumes...
/dev/sdb7 /mnt/mac -t hfs /home/jhaas/propaganda/q3.txt /mnt/mac
mount
cp
WOW. Try harder next time, guys.
LinuxOne now has a PowerPC product. One of their people showed up at Macworld Expo, at our booth. We were stunned -- an actual person! And he took one of our CDs and wandered off. (The CDs were free.) We were too stunned to say anything... but they may be making an announcement any day now about a PowerPC port. ;)
1024 by 768. And "Kawasaki". Embarrasing, considering I'm always fixing other people's spellings. ;p
I can't tell from IBM's web site what sort of processor(s) these beasts use. It just says "S/390 capable processor." eh? Anyone know?
We've made Linux on PowerPC popular. Don't make me make it a graphics platform too. ;)
I mean, it's never been a graphics platform, and that's not the point. You gotta know your limitations..
"10. Cloning Windows NT
...
"Many people make the mistake of using a cloning utility, such as Ghost, in order make copies of Windows NT for their network computers. The problem is that every Windows NT installation has a unique number, a security identifier (SID).
"The trouble is that if you need support from Microsoft on a system that has been cloned, you're out of luck. They won't help you."
(unwritten: So buy lots of copies and keep making Bill rich.)
Or unlimited copies of Linux and never have that problem. Or, problems, I suppose, as NT presents many problems. The expensive licenses being just one.