I once tried to get those big loose sheafs of paper advertising that come in the mail stopped. It's annoying when a bunch of lose crap is mixed in and potentially important mail could be in the middle, so we're forced to sift through it.
I send in the address card that accompanies the mess.
I continued to get the sheaf of loose paper.
I never got another card with my address on it.
(IOW- the postal workers stuff that crap in every mailbox with or without the address card)
I wasn't amused, but now I didn't even have a return address to complain to. It's not a good idea to nark on your postal carrier, particularly if you order a lot of stuff online.
I shouldn't make fun of the Mac Portable in any case. I was once the owner of an IBM PC Convertable. That's the machine that grows progressively longer and heavier as you plug more modules onto the back. There's a printer module, etc. and in the end you have a machine that's thre or four feet long. With two floppy drives and no hard disk, and rarely more than 512K of RAM. What a sweetheart of a machine that was....
I had to ignore that feature on most of the CDs that I played that popped it up. Because the CDs I have like that are vinyl albums I recorded to WAV and burned a CD audio version of. I guess it'd be cool to enter them, but since I'd have the only copy of the CD at best it would be a waste of bandwidth, at worst it would throw the publisher of the vinyl version into a rage.
Well, obviously when you define a term (Free Software) to be a quasi trademark you can define it to mean whatever you want.
I maintain that the connectivity revolution that the Internet represented, along with the proliferation of cheap hardware, made it inevitable that a family of Freenixes would emege, with or without the GNU organisation out there claiming credit.
My intent was sarcasm. Why would the peak versus average power a hard drive consumes have anything to do with the peak/average power a motherboard consumes.
The old Mac portable. I remember that. They couldn't call it a laptop because of the skeletal damage anybody who tried to use it on their lap suffered.
Building a personal computer from parts was no harder in 1995 that it is today. Small integrators (who purchase most of the loose x86 mainboards, not hobbyists) were just as prevelant back then.
Did you even read what he said up there? There were no operating systems except Windows NT to run on the PPC motherboards back then. That was the main reason he gave and you skipped right over it somehow.
You're right. Gamers update their 3-D accelerator cards at least once a year. But they update their processors every couple of years too. Heck, I'm not a gamer, but I edit video and stuff like that, and with the market these days I update every couple of months (keeping the old machines for background tasks on my ever-growing-bigger home network, of course.)
I tested my electric hair drier, and it consumed 3000 watts steady, even though it was specified as a 'peak' value. Why is it any more or less relevant to a discussion of the power requirements of an Athlon motherboard than a hard drive??
Blank writable DVD media is only avaiable, in a form where the specific zone on the disk that contains the decryption information on it is blank (no media layer present to write to). So a digitally perfect copy of the DVD disk can be made, minus that important spot on the disk. Therefore no COTS DVD player will be able to play the content.
They're fighting to prevent there from being red 'make a decrypted copy' and 'burn a DVD-R copy' buttons on software DVD players a year from now.
'The other side' is so busy throwing up scarecrow arguments ('free speech', 'fair use') and avoiding the fact that the MPAA is mainly trying to keep the camel's nose out of the tent at this point in time.
It's not uncommon for power supplies to be off enough that the cheap multimeter they sell at the auto parts store will show your 5 volt rail running at 4.6 or 5.3. Which matters a lot, actually.
I guess this site is losing it's nerd core. People are ridiculed for suggesting an oscilloscope. Hell, I wanted an oscilloscope from the age of 12. I didn't get one till a few years later. These days kids want the latest gameboy cartridge.
It's amazing how few people have hooked up an Oscilloscope, or even a plain voltmeter, to their computer's power supply rails to assess it's quality. The cheaper 'clone' power supplies are a nightmare and nobody should rely on a system powered by them.
I think the previous commenter was parodying the mis-use of 'X Windows', taking it literally to be something else from Xerox. Just to detract from the subject being discussed. Not very responsible, and off-topic, but perhaps that's part of his dodge of the issue.
To try to get the discussion back on track:
The point is, tons of Free Software isn't released under the GPL. If Linux hadn't happened along, the BSD system would have filled it's role, without the GPL. The past decade has seen tons of hardware made available to hackers. The availability of cheap computing equipment with memory management hardware is the cause for the growth of the Freenix movement, not Linux itself, nor the GPL. BSD could have filled the same shoes, and indeed it does where it's used. The GPL didn't 'cause' anything, nor was it the spark of a 'revolutionary Free Software Movement.'
If anything, Microsoft forcing the obsolescence of billions of dollars worth of equipment (boxes that no longer run the latest, greatest bloatware from Microsoft) has given geeks everywhere cheap/free gear to play with. It could even be postulated that Microsoft-driven forced obsolescence has been a greater spur for freenix development than the GPL.
It's definitely a reach to credit the 'Freenix revolution' to the GPL, which some would say is a side factor.
More likely you're doing something wrong, i.e. underflowing the write buffer to the CDR during the write process. Are you running a lot of other processes on a slowish ( less than 200 MHz) processor while writing? I agree, and don't use any no-brand media any more, but the cheap brand-name spindles I have had no problems with. I had my worst luck with the CompUSA generics, but that was back on my 1998-era 2x6 Mitsumi drive.
If what Glenn did in his second trip to space (also known as 'the world's first space junket') qualifies as research, we should have sent somebody more neutral. Any old coot would have done, it shouldn't have been somebody with a glaring conflict of interest. Conflicts of interest don't make good science, ya know.
There's a Free Binary License for Solaris 8. However, it imposes a 64MB RAM minimum. And I've bought Sparc hardware off eBay. Most of them came without hard drives. I've then bought used narrow SCSI hard drives to put in them. The hard drives not specifically labelled 'SUN' somewhere in the string a PC SCSI card returns (i.e. any drive not OEM Sun hardware), Solaris has refused to install on. The installer just silently refused to find the drive. NetBSD installs on those drives without any difficulty at all. I'd LIKE to run Solaris on my SparcStation 10SX, as it has the dual framebuffer option, and two 16 MB VDIMMs, so I could be running two 24-bit displays on it. Alas there's not good cgthirteen support in NetBSD yet.
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I once tried to get those big loose sheafs of paper advertising that come in the mail stopped. It's annoying when a bunch of lose crap is mixed in and potentially important mail could be in the middle, so we're forced to sift through it.
I send in the address card that accompanies the mess.
I continued to get the sheaf of loose paper.
I never got another card with my address on it.
(IOW- the postal workers stuff that crap in every mailbox with or without the address card)
I wasn't amused, but now I didn't even have a return address to complain to. It's not a good idea to nark on your postal carrier, particularly if you order a lot of stuff online.
How can you be a Monty Python fan if you've never seen that skit? Next you'll be telling us that:
1. You've never seen the Dead Parrot skit.
2. You expect the Spanish Inquisition.
I shouldn't make fun of the Mac Portable in any case. I was once the owner of an IBM PC Convertable. That's the machine that grows progressively longer and heavier as you plug more modules onto the back. There's a printer module, etc. and in the end you have a machine that's thre or four feet long. With two floppy drives and no hard disk, and rarely more than 512K of RAM. What a sweetheart of a machine that was....
I had to ignore that feature on most of the CDs that I played that popped it up. Because the CDs I have like that are vinyl albums I recorded to WAV and burned a CD audio version of. I guess it'd be cool to enter them, but since I'd have the only copy of the CD at best it would be a waste of bandwidth, at worst it would throw the publisher of the vinyl version into a rage.
No, it wouldnt really be _worth_ a patent because you've obviously already thought about the idea.
Umm, nope. You have to patent an implementation of an idea, not just an idle thought. At least in the olden days, you had to have a working model.
Well, obviously when you define a term (Free Software) to be a quasi trademark you can define it to mean whatever you want.
I maintain that the connectivity revolution that the Internet represented, along with the proliferation of cheap hardware, made it inevitable that a family of Freenixes would emege, with or without the GNU organisation out there claiming credit.
My intent was sarcasm. Why would the peak versus average power a hard drive consumes have anything to do with the peak/average power a motherboard consumes.
The old Mac portable. I remember that. They couldn't call it a laptop because of the skeletal damage anybody who tried to use it on their lap suffered.
Building a personal computer from parts was no harder in 1995 that it is today. Small integrators (who purchase most of the loose x86 mainboards, not hobbyists) were just as prevelant back then.
Did you even read what he said up there? There were no operating systems except Windows NT to run on the PPC motherboards back then. That was the main reason he gave and you skipped right over it somehow.
You're right. Gamers update their 3-D accelerator cards at least once a year. But they update their processors every couple of years too. Heck, I'm not a gamer, but I edit video and stuff like that, and with the market these days I update every couple of months (keeping the old machines for background tasks on my ever-growing-bigger home network, of course.)
You can always underclock it, to keep it from burning up, and to protect the bearings on your home's power meter from wearing out prematurely.
I tested my electric hair drier, and it consumed 3000 watts steady, even though it was specified as a 'peak' value. Why is it any more or less relevant to a discussion of the power requirements of an Athlon motherboard than a hard drive??
No, the Tektronix 475 Gameboy cartridge came out last year, so it's not the latest cart any longer.
Blank writable DVD media is only avaiable, in a form where the specific zone on the disk that contains the decryption information on it is blank (no media layer present to write to). So a digitally perfect copy of the DVD disk can be made, minus that important spot on the disk. Therefore no COTS DVD player will be able to play the content.
They're fighting to prevent there from being red 'make a decrypted copy' and 'burn a DVD-R copy' buttons on software DVD players a year from now.
'The other side' is so busy throwing up scarecrow arguments ('free speech', 'fair use') and avoiding the fact that the MPAA is mainly trying to keep the camel's nose out of the tent at this point in time.
No problem. Glad to see you're so easily amused.
It's not uncommon for power supplies to be off enough that the cheap multimeter they sell at the auto parts store will show your 5 volt rail running at 4.6 or 5.3. Which matters a lot, actually.
I guess this site is losing it's nerd core. People are ridiculed for suggesting an oscilloscope. Hell, I wanted an oscilloscope from the age of 12. I didn't get one till a few years later. These days kids want the latest gameboy cartridge.
It's amazing how few people have hooked up an Oscilloscope, or even a plain voltmeter, to their computer's power supply rails to assess it's quality. The cheaper 'clone' power supplies are a nightmare and nobody should rely on a system powered by them.
I thought Richard Stallman wanted it to be called Lignux.
The X Window system is as you describe it.
I think the previous commenter was parodying the mis-use of 'X Windows', taking it literally to be something else from Xerox. Just to detract from the subject being discussed. Not very responsible, and off-topic, but perhaps that's part of his dodge of the issue.
To try to get the discussion back on track:
The point is, tons of Free Software isn't released under the GPL. If Linux hadn't happened along, the BSD system would have filled it's role, without the GPL. The past decade has seen tons of hardware made available to hackers. The availability of cheap computing equipment with memory management hardware is the cause for the growth of the Freenix movement, not Linux itself, nor the GPL. BSD could have filled the same shoes, and indeed it does where it's used. The GPL didn't 'cause' anything, nor was it the spark of a 'revolutionary Free Software Movement.'
If anything, Microsoft forcing the obsolescence of billions of dollars worth of equipment (boxes that no longer run the latest, greatest bloatware from Microsoft) has given geeks everywhere cheap/free gear to play with. It could even be postulated that Microsoft-driven forced obsolescence has been a greater spur for freenix development than the GPL.
It's definitely a reach to credit the 'Freenix revolution' to the GPL, which some would say is a side factor.
Well, Freedom is a bedrock of commerce. I don't know why you slipped 'openness' in there, or what your rationale for doing so was.
More likely you're doing something wrong, i.e. underflowing the write buffer to the CDR during the write process. Are you running a lot of other processes on a slowish ( less than 200 MHz) processor while writing? I agree, and don't use any no-brand media any more, but the cheap brand-name spindles I have had no problems with. I had my worst luck with the CompUSA generics, but that was back on my 1998-era 2x6 Mitsumi drive.
Thanks for the tip. That's what I didn't do.
If what Glenn did in his second trip to space (also known as 'the world's first space junket') qualifies as research, we should have sent somebody more neutral. Any old coot would have done, it shouldn't have been somebody with a glaring conflict of interest. Conflicts of interest don't make good science, ya know.
A real hardliner knows that it's supposed to be called lignux , ya know.
There's a Free Binary License for Solaris 8. However, it imposes a 64MB RAM minimum. And I've bought Sparc hardware off eBay. Most of them came without hard drives. I've then bought used narrow SCSI hard drives to put in them. The hard drives not specifically labelled 'SUN' somewhere in the string a PC SCSI card returns (i.e. any drive not OEM Sun hardware), Solaris has refused to install on. The installer just silently refused to find the drive. NetBSD installs on those drives without any difficulty at all. I'd LIKE to run Solaris on my SparcStation 10SX, as it has the dual framebuffer option, and two 16 MB VDIMMs, so I could be running two 24-bit displays on it. Alas there's not good cgthirteen support in NetBSD yet.
I can run Debian on my Macintosh SE/30 machines?
News to me. Maybe I'll look into it.