How many techs nowadays know how to do component level repairs rather than just swap boards? Not that you can do much of that nowadays with everything being surface mount and cheap as dirt to boot.
Man, you sound old. Really old. Grizzled. How many people "nowadays" know how to use a slide rule?
If you sell GPLd software, your only guarantee is that you'll see money for the sale of *one copy*. Whoever buys your software is licensed to distribute it however they wish. You may never see another cent after that first sale.
Sure, the FSF says they're not opposed to selling software, but their GPL makes it impossible to ensure the developer will be properly compensated.
Kid pix was the software equivalent of potato cut-outs and poster paint. Kids want to be able to scribble and stamp on a canvas that doesn't scroll. Anything more than 8 colours is overkill.
Also, emacs doesn't count because it has a "buffers" model, not a "documents" model. That's counterintuitive to a mac user. Its UI is also half-baked (try resizing, closing or moving a buffer around in the window without using the keyboard or the menus).
[flamebait] Why the fuck would you run Gnome when you have Aqua? [/flamebait]
The yuppies were afraid of "lead dust" that their children might absorb through breathing. I saw news footage of people in masks carefully removing blinds and scrubbing window sills like they were covered in asbestos.
Insanity. Ignorance.
Years ago I ran a Metallica mp3 site.
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Here's an email I got from someone claiming to be Lars:
> From: "Authorized User" <XT551@worldnet.att.net> > To: <cdavison@cadvision.com> > Subject: Thanks > Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 13:14:37 -0700 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > X-Priority: 3 > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 > > Craig I just happened to be searching around and I saw a page about us. > Its great to know people like you keep the old and forgotten shit alive > > Keep on rockin > > Lars.
So, maybe we should all spam XT511@worldnet.att.net and let him know what we think of his change of heart.:)
If IE ignored Content-Type, then CGIs that return images wouldn't work at all. And auto-download-redirect-pain-in-the-ass-cnet things wouldn't work. In short, most non-static scripted content on the web would be misinterpreted by IE, and it all works, so you're wrong.
Anyway, IE only assumes a Content-Type when: 1. The type is unknown (Unknown/* IIRC) 2. The type is text/plain 3. The type is not specified
As far as I can tell, it guesses based on part of the URL and looks to the internal Win32 MIME database for patterns. I know, it's insane, but it's better than just dumping the content as text to the browser like Netscape does.
It wasn't an ugly hack at all. It was a way of sending 64k "frames" back/forth over the ISA bus to an add-on memory board. It was SLOW, but not ugly. It supported 32 MB (an arbitrary number IIRC) of RAM on a machine with a 20-bit address space (8088/8086).
Anyway, 80286 had 24-bit addressing (16 MB) out of the box but few early motherboards supported it (although my PS/2 model 30 is expandable to 16 MB), and besides the cards were a lot cheaper than SIMMs. Plus you could of course only access the full 16 MB from the 286's broken "protected mode".
EMS was also easy to use from Real Mode. Of course XMS could be used too but it was a lot less clean than the EMS API (software int 0x68?).
Do not confuse EMS with EMM386. EMM386 emulated "hardware" EMS by providing a layer over top of XMS. It wasn't nearly as slow, and used the same clean API.
However, circa DOS 5.0, people stopped using EMM386 for EMS. Since EMM386 needed to fake its own adapter space (the original adapter boards used an address like 0xE0000 for the 64k "frames"), it contained code to support UMBs (Upper Memory Blocks). You could use UMBs to allocate unused memory in the adapter space between 640k and 1024k in Real Mode.
I would consider UMBs an ugly hack (remember MemMaker? LoadHigh? DeviceHigh? InstallHigh?). They're still in use by Win95/98/ME to hold things like the Real Mode mouse driver etc.
HMA was the ultimate ugly hack. That upped the Real Mode address space from 1024k to 1088k on the 80286 and higher. I have no idea how it works, but you may notice that your Win9x virus scanner looks at a full 1088k of "conventional memory" during boot.
- Did they use dual 866s overclocked or real dual 1000s? - What exactly did they do to cool this beast? Most of the article was about modifying the slocket. No information about cooling other than it was a "powerful" solution.
Also, I've never even heard of Iwill, but they're mentioned numerous times in this article and twice right now on the hardwarecentral front page.
Anyway, if they really did use OC'd 866s, they didn't prove anything, and this article is worthless.
It'd still have to be launched from Linux. Although I guess if you mounted an ext2 filesystem from FreeBSD and used the Linux emulation layer it would work.
The article also mentions that Distiller will be available for free (beer), which would have been GREAT about a year ago when I needed to convert.ps->.pdf for every one of my essays. I could have stayed at home instead of facing lineups at the computer lab at school to do it:)
Anyway, I wonder: how does Adobe plan to make any money off their PDF format now that distiller will be free (beer)?
Wouldn't it be cool if the VCL core packages were distributed with the OS? No it wouldn't. This only means that we would be somewhat forced to use the VCL for any application we have.
You wouldn't be forced to use the library at all. You'd be forced to use their implementation of VCL, but currently, theirs is the only one in existence.
And unless it's released under GPL I wouldn't agree with this. Why do you think Microsoft didn't agree to include those packages on its own OS ? Because it would have ment to give Borland the control over a part of their OS. Of course, they weren't that stupid. Should we be instead ?
Again, that's nonsense. A library doesn't exert "control" over an OS. Libraries can sit in/usr/local/lib (or wherever) and not ever be used.
Another question : what are they going to do about the non-ANSI extensions in the BCB compiler (__property and so on) ? I agree they are actually extremely useful, but they are not ANSI. If we are going to use them, at least let's standardize them.
ANSI allows for compiler-sprcific extensions that don't violate the standard namespace. The code is still ANSI compliant, but will not compile in all ANSI compilers (something like the #pragma directive in ANSI C). I agree that the extensions will be a problem if you try to compile the VCL from source with gcc. Perhaps a --use-inprise-extensions option will be needed in gcc:)
Third question : what about Qt - on which is based KDE ? Will the VCL based on that ? Will it try to replace it ? In what conditions ?
Not a chance. The purpose of Qt is much like that of VCL- it encompasses more than just widgets. Qt has its own mechanism for event handling and provides its own container classes, etc. Since Qt and the VCL are implemented very differently, basing one on the other would be a waste of time.
On the subject of widgets, as long as Borland doesn't use Xaw or Motif, I'll be happy:)
The only similarity between the two is that the Minix filesystem was used by Linux before ExtFS (and its userland utilities like mkfs, fsck) was stable.
That, and Linus looked at the Minix source and rejected its design before writing a completely new kernel from scratch.
Zip a huge document, put it in a javascript string and package it with some javascript code to parse it and write() a document. Kind of like a shar script. You could even do wacky things like make images out of huge tables with coloured cells.
1. Plan 9 is dead. Maybe you're thinking of Hurd. 2. Hopefully nobody will be doing date-ciritical things on a 32-bit UNIX box in 30 years. How many 16-bit PDPs are in service doing useful things today?
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Man, you sound old. Really old. Grizzled. How many people "nowadays" know how to use a slide rule?
IMO your time is worth something. 'properly' means you recover in money what you spend in time.
If you sell GPLd software, your only guarantee is that you'll see money for the sale of *one copy*. Whoever buys your software is licensed to distribute it however they wish. You may never see another cent after that first sale.
Sure, the FSF says they're not opposed to selling software, but their GPL makes it impossible to ensure the developer will be properly compensated.
*That* is what the author is arguing.
How about
find -mtime 1 -name '*.html' -exec grep -i text \;
jackass? It's unreasonable to assume that there will be capital letters in html UNLESS YOUR FILESYSTEM LIKES TO YELL AT YOU.
Kid pix was the software equivalent of potato cut-outs and poster paint.
Kids want to be able to scribble and stamp on a canvas that doesn't scroll. Anything more than 8 colours is overkill.
Also, emacs doesn't count because it has a "buffers" model, not a "documents" model. That's counterintuitive to a mac user. Its UI is also half-baked (try resizing, closing or moving a buffer around in the window without using the keyboard or the menus).
[flamebait] Why the fuck would you run Gnome when you have Aqua? [/flamebait]
MAPI is the Messaging Application Programming Interface.
The yuppies were afraid of "lead dust" that their children might absorb through breathing. I saw news footage of people in masks carefully removing blinds and scrubbing window sills like they were covered in asbestos.
Insanity. Ignorance.
Here's an email I got from someone claiming to be Lars:
:)
> From: "Authorized User" <XT551@worldnet.att.net>
> To: <cdavison@cadvision.com>
> Subject: Thanks
> Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 13:14:37 -0700
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain;
> charset="iso-8859-1"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> X-Priority: 3
> X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4
>
> Craig I just happened to be searching around and I saw a page about us.
> Its great to know people like you keep the old and forgotten shit alive
>
> Keep on rockin
>
> Lars.
So, maybe we should all spam XT511@worldnet.att.net and let him know what we think of his change of heart.
If IE ignored Content-Type, then CGIs that return images wouldn't work at all. And auto-download-redirect-pain-in-the-ass-cnet things wouldn't work. In short, most non-static scripted content on the web would be misinterpreted by IE, and it all works, so you're wrong.
Anyway, IE only assumes a Content-Type when:
1. The type is unknown (Unknown/* IIRC)
2. The type is text/plain
3. The type is not specified
As far as I can tell, it guesses based on part of the URL and looks to the internal Win32 MIME database for patterns.
I know, it's insane, but it's better than just dumping the content as text to the browser like Netscape does.
Warning: long technical post ahead.
It wasn't an ugly hack at all. It was a way of sending 64k "frames" back/forth over the ISA bus to an add-on memory board. It was SLOW, but not ugly. It supported 32 MB (an arbitrary number IIRC) of RAM on a machine with a 20-bit address space (8088/8086).
Anyway, 80286 had 24-bit addressing (16 MB) out of the box but few early motherboards supported it (although my PS/2 model 30 is expandable to 16 MB), and besides the cards were a lot cheaper than SIMMs. Plus you could of course only access the full 16 MB from the 286's broken "protected mode".
EMS was also easy to use from Real Mode. Of course XMS could be used too but it was a lot less clean than the EMS API (software int 0x68?).
Do not confuse EMS with EMM386. EMM386 emulated "hardware" EMS by providing a layer over top of XMS. It wasn't nearly as slow, and used the same clean API.
However, circa DOS 5.0, people stopped using EMM386 for EMS. Since EMM386 needed to fake its own adapter space (the original adapter boards used an address like 0xE0000 for the 64k "frames"), it contained code to support UMBs (Upper Memory Blocks). You could use UMBs to allocate unused memory in the adapter space between 640k and 1024k in Real Mode.
I would consider UMBs an ugly hack (remember MemMaker? LoadHigh? DeviceHigh? InstallHigh?). They're still in use by Win95/98/ME to hold things like the Real Mode mouse driver etc.
HMA was the ultimate ugly hack. That upped the Real Mode address space from 1024k to 1088k on the 80286 and higher. I have no idea how it works, but you may notice that your Win9x virus scanner looks at a full 1088k of "conventional memory" during boot.
I can't believe this is +3.
- Did they use dual 866s overclocked or real dual 1000s?
- What exactly did they do to cool this beast? Most of the article was about modifying the slocket. No information about cooling other than it was a "powerful" solution.
Also, I've never even heard of Iwill, but they're mentioned numerous times in this article and twice right now on the hardwarecentral front page.
Anyway, if they really did use OC'd 866s, they didn't prove anything, and this article is worthless.
It'd still have to be launched from Linux.
Although I guess if you mounted an ext2 filesystem from FreeBSD and used the Linux emulation layer it would work.
How would you type two 0's in a row? Maybe a tri-state switch (0, 1, off) or two keys...
Kinda like "Slackware 7", for instance?
The article also mentions that Distiller will be available for free (beer), which would have been GREAT about a year ago when I needed to convert .ps->.pdf for every one of my essays. I could have stayed at home instead of facing lineups at the computer lab at school to do it :)
Anyway, I wonder: how does Adobe plan to make any money off their PDF format now that distiller will be free (beer)?
You wouldn't be forced to use the library at all. You'd be forced to use their implementation of VCL, but currently, theirs is the only one in existence.
And unless it's released under GPL I wouldn't agree with this. Why do you think Microsoft didn't agree to include those packages on its own OS ? Because it would have ment to give Borland the control over a part of their OS. Of course, they weren't that stupid. Should we be instead ?
Again, that's nonsense. A library doesn't exert "control" over an OS. Libraries can sit in /usr/local/lib (or wherever) and not ever be used.
Another question : what are they going to do about the non-ANSI extensions in the BCB compiler (__property and so on) ? I agree they are actually extremely useful, but they are not ANSI. If we are going to use them, at least let's standardize them.
ANSI allows for compiler-sprcific extensions that don't violate the standard namespace. The code is still ANSI compliant, but will not compile in all ANSI compilers (something like the #pragma directive in ANSI C). I agree that the extensions will be a problem if you try to compile the VCL from source with gcc. Perhaps a --use-inprise-extensions option will be needed in gcc :)
Third question : what about Qt - on which is based KDE ? Will the VCL based on that ? Will it try to replace it ? In what conditions ?
Not a chance. The purpose of Qt is much like that of VCL- it encompasses more than just widgets. Qt has its own mechanism for event handling and provides its own container classes, etc. Since Qt and the VCL are implemented very differently, basing one on the other would be a waste of time.
On the subject of widgets, as long as Borland doesn't use Xaw or Motif, I'll be happy :)
See here. From the people who brought us the review posted w/ the Athlon article earlier this week.
The only similarity between the two is that the Minix filesystem was used by Linux before ExtFS (and its userland utilities like mkfs, fsck) was stable.
That, and Linus looked at the Minix source and rejected its design before writing a completely new kernel from scratch.
"Ceci ne pas un sig."
That sentence has no verb. That's like saying "This not a sig". Should be
"Ceci n'est pas un sig."
Merci.
The PS2 accessories article has pics of the "PocketStation". What the hell is that?
Zip a huge document, put it in a javascript string and package it with some javascript code to parse it and write() a document. Kind of like a shar script. You could even do wacky things like make images out of huge tables with coloured cells.
Switch, Stitch, Rich, Kitsch, Itch, Glitch
Also Which, but that sounds like Witch
Would titch qualify as a word, given that it's slang only people over 50 use? "Move that over, just a titch."
Anyway...
The original quote went something like "I am... I think, therefore I am. I think."
In this context, we see that Descartes was a rambling drunk.
1. Plan 9 is dead. Maybe you're thinking of Hurd.
2. Hopefully nobody will be doing date-ciritical things on a 32-bit UNIX box in 30 years. How many 16-bit PDPs are in service doing useful things today?
... But we've all been through this before.