I'm using a Logitech Trackman Marble FX in Linux right now, works like a normal PS/2 trackball, except that the little red button below the middle button isn't functional - but I can live with only three mouse buttons.
Actually, the fbcon X server has been working on the VisWS for quite a while now.
The new 1400L seems to be quite different than the VisWS, enough that I wouldn't call it a VisWS biled as a server - This one doesn't have the Cobalt graphis (of course), it has integrated SCSI, an emergency management port (monitoring stuff in some way), three hot swappable power supplies, and of course it installs RH as "server" by default:)
It's probably built with the same core UMA (Unified Memory Access) chips as the VisWS, but if you call it a rebranded VisWS, then I guess Compaq et al does the same thing, since their servers aren't that different from their high-end workstations - they use the same intel 440 GX chipset and such. /El Niño
I've found that Win95 based infokiosks are pretty easy to fuck up, though. We had a few of those outside our school, and we just tapped the screen at different locations simultaneously until it gave us an error message and allowed us to start the windows painting program and leave a little message...
Of course, installing all the accessories with win95 on a kiosk isn't very smart... /El Niño
Some of our customers are willing to shell out lots of money to change working, stable IRIX/Linux systems for NT, just because they want everything to be Microsoft. I just don't see the point of this myself. I can see why someone with no expertise would think that Microsoft is the way to go when they're doing something new, since "everybody else is using it", but you would think the concept of not fixing it if it ain't broke is pretty easy to understand...
/El Niño
Re:This is the sort of market Linux should do well
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It seems many of these users are migrating to NT in the form of SGI's Visual Workstations, since it offers easy integration into existing UN*X networks (NFS mounting and stuff).
In my experience most UN*X workstation users in CAD don't know jack shit about unix - they know their CAD program, and that's it. I spent like 30 minutes over the phone the other day to help a Pro/REFLEX user install Netscape 4.6 on an Indy - a matter of gunzip, untar, and./install.
The EDA guys I suppose are way more technical. /El Niño
From what I've read about the new Australian censorship law, it seems that if some government agency says that a web site is to be censored, an ISP is required to block that site. The ISP isn't required to find out which sites are "harmful" itself. IIRC it only applies to web sites, which means DCC, FTP, ICQ file transfer, hotline servers, kermit file transfers et cetera are allowed to be as nasty as they wanna be. (Sorry, 2 Live Crew...) /El Niño
Okej, the RACIST link went to a separate page with more quotes, but I still think most of those first quotes doesn't show JP to so very terrible.
Also, please understand that I'm not defending JP in any way for being an asshole, which it seems he is, I just think that _first_ quote page wasn't very good for conveying that. /El Niño
"Quotes that show the real AntiOnline"? http://www.attrition.org/negation/quotes.html
Now most of these are taken out of context, and they mostly show that 1. JP has a sense of humor. 2. JP isn't very polite. 3. JP made one insensitive quote about albanians - don't know if that makes him a RACIST (sic!)
Disclaimer: I don't know JP, he might be a rapist KKK member eating children for breakfast as far as I know, but pulling those quotes out of context doesn't really makes me certain that he is...
I don't know what you're talking about, but here in Sweden Pepsi Max is a sugar free pepsi that's supposed to taste like real pepsi, but doesn't. (Not that real pepsi taste so good either). It does not contain very much caffeine, perhaps a bit more than regular pepsi, but not more than Jolt.
It uses the slogan "Maximum Taste - No Sugar". The taste is mostly aspartam, as far as I can tell. /El Niño
I visited the site before the transfer from AOL, at the time of the first/. posting, and it was the African-America OnLine Search at that point. /El Niño
It doesn't seem to be better... Less memory, slower CPU, worse graphics, smaller HD.
I don't see the point in buying brand name computers anyway, at least not PC computers. SGI PC machines are pretty nice though, albeit a bit slow in Q3Test. /El Niño
Please define "natural law". Just because most animals have sex only for procreation, does that make it a natural law? If most people "choose" to use a proprietary OS, does that make it a natural law?
If I like having sex for non-procreational purposes, who are you, or anyone else, to tell me that is wrong? Yeah, define "wrong" while you're at it. If you mean wrong as in "not the way god intended it", then I'll be happy to disregard that argument, unless you can convince me that god created sex first.
Pleasure is not a side effect of sex - sex as a means of procreation wouldn't be viable without pleasure.
I don't believe Compaq is required by the GPL to release the kernel, since they're not distributing this device. Nothing forces you to release the source to something you're not releasing in binary/at all. /El Niño
I don't know much about US law, being Swedish, but if a company advertises features that a product hasn't got then that's illegal in Sweden. It's called false marketing. Surely you must have similar laws over there.. There a lawsuit in the US against Origin re: Ultima Online promising without delivering, was that something similar? /El Niño
NT does work on MIPS, though not very good and not on SGI boxen. There was a port made, now unsupported, to some obscure MIPS R3K/R4K workstations made by Acer, Olivetti and such.
/El Niño
None of the mirrors seem to have it yet.
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There will probably be one att ftp://linux.engr.uark.edu/pub/linux/ in a while, they have 5.2 ISO images.
Also mirrored at ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/redhat. iso/ for us Swedes. /El Niño
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I'm using a Logitech Trackman Marble FX in Linux right now, works like a normal PS/2 trackball, except that the little red button below the middle button isn't functional - but I can live with only three mouse buttons.
/etc/X11/XF86Config
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Section "Pointer"
Protocol "PS/2"
Device "/dev/mouse"
SampleRate 100
Resolution 200
Buttons 3
EndSection
/El Niño
Actually, the fbcon X server has been working on the VisWS for quite a while now.
:)
The new 1400L seems to be quite different than the VisWS, enough that I wouldn't call it a VisWS biled as a server - This one doesn't have the Cobalt graphis (of course), it has integrated SCSI, an emergency management port (monitoring stuff in some way), three hot swappable power supplies, and of course it installs RH as "server" by default
It's probably built with the same core UMA (Unified Memory Access) chips as the VisWS, but if you call it a rebranded VisWS, then I guess Compaq et al does the same thing, since their servers aren't that different from their high-end workstations - they use the same intel 440 GX chipset and such.
/El Niño
It's a more violent, primitive game, at least.
/El Niño
Shouldn't lots of RAM should be up to the user?
They'll probably use their own hideously expensive proprietary memory, though, like the SGI PCs...
/El Niño
I've found that Win95 based infokiosks are pretty easy to fuck up, though. We had a few of those outside our school, and we just tapped the screen at different locations simultaneously until it gave us an error message and allowed us to start the windows painting program and leave a little message...
Of course, installing all the accessories with win95 on a kiosk isn't very smart...
/El Niño
Some of our customers are willing to shell out lots of money to change working, stable IRIX/Linux systems for NT, just because they want everything to be Microsoft. I just don't see the point of this myself. I can see why someone with no expertise would think that Microsoft is the way to go when they're doing something new, since "everybody else is using it", but you would think the concept of not fixing it if it ain't broke is pretty easy to understand...
/El Niño
It seems many of these users are migrating to NT in the form of SGI's Visual Workstations, since it offers easy integration into existing UN*X networks (NFS mounting and stuff).
./install.
In my experience most UN*X workstation users in CAD don't know jack shit about unix - they know their CAD program, and that's it. I spent like 30 minutes over the phone the other day to help a Pro/REFLEX user install Netscape 4.6 on an Indy - a matter of gunzip, untar, and
The EDA guys I suppose are way more technical.
/El Niño
From what I've read about the new Australian censorship law, it seems that if some government agency says that a web site is to be censored, an ISP is required to block that site. The ISP isn't required to find out which sites are "harmful" itself. IIRC it only applies to web sites, which means DCC, FTP, ICQ file transfer, hotline servers, kermit file transfers et cetera are allowed to be as nasty as they wanna be. (Sorry, 2 Live Crew...)
/El Niño
Okej, the RACIST link went to a separate page with more quotes, but I still think most of those first quotes doesn't show JP to so very terrible.
Also, please understand that I'm not defending JP in any way for being an asshole, which it seems he is, I just think that _first_ quote page wasn't very good for conveying that.
/El Niño
"Quotes that show the real AntiOnline"?
http://www.attrition.org/negation/quotes.html
Now most of these are taken out of context, and they mostly show that
1. JP has a sense of humor.
2. JP isn't very polite.
3. JP made one insensitive quote about albanians - don't know if that makes him a RACIST (sic!)
Disclaimer: I don't know JP, he might be a rapist KKK member eating children for breakfast as far as I know, but pulling those quotes out of context doesn't really makes me certain that he is...
/El Niño
I don't know what you're talking about, but here in Sweden Pepsi Max is a sugar free pepsi that's supposed to taste like real pepsi, but doesn't. (Not that real pepsi taste so good either). It does not contain very much caffeine, perhaps a bit more than regular pepsi, but not more than Jolt.
It uses the slogan "Maximum Taste - No Sugar". The taste is mostly aspartam, as far as I can tell.
/El Niño
I visited the site before the transfer from AOL, at the time of the first /. posting, and it was the African-America OnLine Search at that point.
/El Niño
What he says is essentially "I got annoyed so I didn't care to review it".
/El Niño
It doesn't seem to be better... Less memory, slower CPU, worse graphics, smaller HD.
I don't see the point in buying brand name computers anyway, at least not PC computers. SGI PC machines are pretty nice though, albeit a bit slow in Q3Test.
/El Niño
Please define "natural law". Just because most animals have sex only for procreation, does that make it a natural law? If most people "choose" to use a proprietary OS, does that make it a natural law?
If I like having sex for non-procreational purposes, who are you, or anyone else, to tell me that is wrong? Yeah, define "wrong" while you're at it. If you mean wrong as in "not the way god intended it", then I'll be happy to disregard that argument, unless you can convince me that god created sex first.
Pleasure is not a side effect of sex - sex as a means of procreation wouldn't be viable without pleasure.
/El Niño
I don't believe Compaq is required by the GPL to release the kernel, since they're not distributing this device. Nothing forces you to release the source to something you're not releasing in binary/at all.
/El Niño
WorldForge is a project to develop a free GPL'd online RPG Game/engine.
/El Niño
I don't know much about US law, being Swedish, but if a company advertises features that a product hasn't got then that's illegal in Sweden. It's called false marketing. Surely you must have similar laws over there.. There a lawsuit in the US against Origin re: Ultima Online promising without delivering, was that something similar?
/El Niño
Wasn't Civ II miles above Civ?
Nope.
/El Niño
NT does work on MIPS, though not very good and not on SGI boxen. There was a port made, now unsupported, to some obscure MIPS R3K/R4K workstations made by Acer, Olivetti and such.
/El Niño
There will probably be one att ftp://linux.engr.uark.edu/pub/linux/ in a while, they have 5.2 ISO images.
. iso/ for us Swedes.
Also mirrored at ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/redhat
/El Niño
Not sure about X11. It might, but why would you want it to, when the MacOS GUI is much better?
Possibly because there are lots of X11 apps out there that could be ported a lot easier if you didn't have to remake the GUI?
/El Niño
I have to admit that the same thought crossed my mind... How will your robot recognise the footprint though?
/El Niño
In Sweden a CD is called "a CD disc"...
/El Niño
Linux is user-friendly, it's just not beginner/idiot-friendly. (No, I don't mean Linux newbies are idiots)
/El Niño