from your link: PowerPC 601-based machines
The PowerMac 7200 series machines and original 7500 machines are powered by a PowerPC 601 microprocessor. The rest of the chipset is essentially the same as the other early PCI PowerMacs. Right now, there is no PPC601 support in the kernel. Once someone adds this, these models should "just work".
but I haven't any points. I'll just throw out the Compaq Aero series as another MIPS arch that was very quickly made useless. Not to say it was ever very useful. We bought five but the sync process was so shitty that we never used them.
this article, which may shed some light on what they plan to do with this and why OSX is a requirement. Does anybody know anything more about protein crystallography and why it would require "stereo" video cards?
To all the slashdotters who keep talking about proxies and firewalls:
This person wants to give out unfettered internet access without endangering the libraries local network. They obviously don't care about whether little johnny looks at pron or somebody uses it for spam or whatnot. It is not the duty of the library to protect people from the internet or vice-versa. That is all.
I know it's easy, but it's such an elegant problem. I remember doing this for the first time in the fourth grade. I'm sure it will take your students back to try a kids' problem from a mathematical perspective.
The question, though, is whether your right to profit outweighs society's interest in being able to exchange data without paying outrageous prices for software, the most obvious example being Word doc files.
This is a tired method of judicial analysis. It basically goes something like this:
1) Assume "society" or government is able to have (individual) rights.
OR
2) Assume an individual has "rights" he does not have. (copy"right")
3) Proceed to "weigh" these rights against each other, with the net effect of
(if 1) infringing actual individual rights in favor of fictional "societal" rights, since the "society" must always come before the individual,
OR
(if 2) granting to the individual priviledges under the guise of "right", which he then complains bitterly about when these priviledges are terminated,
OR
(if both 1 & 2) creating a logical no-man's-land in which it is utterly impossible to come to a conclusion since both premises are false.
It's basically a way for tyrrannical governments to get around the dual requirements of civil rights and equal protection.
Routers and AP seem more interested in "breaking the story first" than actually spell-checking. I like how most of the paragraphs are exactly one sentence long.
After all, if "organic" farming is so much more efficient (get a load of how they caculated that!) why do they cost more at the store!?
The same way a car that is more "fuel-efficient" costs more than one that is not. The study used efficiency in the proper, (energy-input)/(product output) sense. This has nothing to do with economics, it's called "science". Go read a highschool physics textbook and get back to us.
I think a major point of the organic movement is to effect a change in the perception of value of food. Most people see a 1 lb apple and think it is of great quality. Or they see a shiny, bright red apple as opposed to a dull one and think it is better. Ag-companies have played upon these misconceptions for years to sell more products and put smaller growers out of business. As the article hinted, organic foods are generally higher in nutritional value than non-organic. There is a fundamental economic problem with the way farmers are paid per pound of crop, instead of taking quality into account. As the article said, organic methods may only produce 80% of the yields of conventional farming, but the higher quality of the food more than makes up for this loss.
Has anyone, as alluded to in this article, booted Linux on an XBox? I don't care if it requires a mod chip. The xbox-linux project seems to be concentrating on a purely software solution, but I want Linux NOW!
The country was built on the premise that the government will not adopt a state religion, and this seems to be rapidly coming to an end.
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but the US has had a "state religion" for some time now. It is called secular humanism. It is a religion according to the Supreme Court. It is taught exclusively in government schools. A priesthood of humanists has been created and is funded from public monies. And, guess what, the religion of secular humanism supports stem-cell research. Imagine that! Seriously, if the humanists would do what they say they do and question the existing moral authority, they would have to stop believing their own hype.
tenants leaving because your half-assed communist plan won't scale.
I refuse to live in an apartment because the last one decided that it would become a commune and divide everyone's water bills up by, what else, square footage of rented space. One person living in a large apartment paid as much as four Mexicans sharing an economy. When your bosses get the brilliant idea of making this a *requirement*, and everyone's still sharing 11Mb of bandwidth, expect to get sued several times over.
* Begin by replacing the expensive Office Software on Windows with a cheaper yet functional alternative like maybe Sun's Star Office 6. Check.
* Analyse the mail situation... are they using all the functions of Outlook (are they even *using* Outlook?) Replace with a reliable alternative like maybe Netscape 6.2.x mail. Using NS6 or Mozilla can quickly bog down an under-par machine. Believe me, you'll get sick of hearing "Explorer was faster" and having to explain the intricacies of OS design to your users. Before switching from the integrated IE, make sure your computers are relatively (500mhz Celeron) up-to-date. Whatever you do, USE the Quick Launch feature to give Mozilla/NS6 a fighting chance against the integrated Explorer. Also look into a complete webmail package. You can end up adding group collaboration tools while centralizing administration in an Intranet webpage. Features such as easy access from home are an added plus.
* While yer at it, replace the use of Internet Explorer with Netscape 6.2.x and encourage the use of Netscape Mail and the Address book functionality included. Use the argument that when Internet Explorer crashes, it can bring the whole operating system down. Good argument, but unfortunately, most users don't see it that way. When Explorer crashes, they blame it on the OS. If you replace Explorer with something else, they'll bitch because they still EXPECT the OS to randomly crash, even though it won't as often. Also, disable Active Desktop immediately. This causes more headache than benefit. When users complain that Mozilla or NS6 are slower than IE, show them benchmark sites that compare page load times for both browsers. Point out that while IE starts loading page elements before Gecko, the total times are equal. Tell them it's an optical illusion and they'll feel stupid enough not to question your judgement again.
* Install Sun Java on the user's machines and encourage the use and development of Java programs for the company's business. Again, good idea. But also, there is a performance cost. Make sure everyone has up-to-date hardware FIRST.
* Begin replacing Window's Servers with Linux/Unix servers on the backend and migrate to a crossplatform database like maybe MySQL or PostGreSQL or even Oracle or DB/2 for Unix. Replace Exchange with Sendmail or something and use BIND and other UNIX style server software. Justify with stability and lower price for most items. If you haven't done this yet, I feel for you. I'd hate to be running an NT Server the day MS loses an antitrust ruling and decides to stop supporting Windows. This should, as many have said, be done first. Linux is a far superior server OS to NT.
For SQL services, you can migrate data from MS SQL to any myriad of free SQL servers available from Linux. Just make sure that your SQL statements are ANSI compliant.
I tried doing this once with Goldmine and got nowhere. Do you know of any good Howtos for something like this? I've seen articles that say that "ANSI compliant" doesn't mean squat, because there are so many different "ANSI compliant" implementations. If you have actually done this before, what MS SQL apps have you migrated and what SQL server did you run in Linux? I've had no problems replacing NT Server with Samba & setting up internet access, but getting around this proprietary SQL stuff seems to be a sticking point.
As the author of Transcode explained to me, using a binary Divx encoder with PVM/MPI/Mosix is impossible. I don't know what state open source Divx encoders are in, but I agree this would be a much better solution than chopping up a DVD and encoding all the pieces separately.
The article refers to the fact that, on the day Star Wars comes out, people will avoid *producing* goods/services and instead sit around and be entertained. More than likely, they'll be standing in line instead of working.
I'd say this is a low estimate, assuming that geeks/techies make more than the "average" salary and tend to be the only people whose work actually serves to increase the productivity of other workers. The multiplicative effects of the tech industry taking a day off "en masse" could be truly staggering.
On the other hand, it isn't accurate to say Star Wars *hurts* the economy, only that it slows the growth of the economy. Destruction such as 9/11 actually *hurts* the economy. Star Wars just rules.
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PowerPC 601-based machines
The PowerMac 7200 series machines and original 7500 machines are powered by a PowerPC 601 microprocessor. The rest of the chipset is essentially the same as the other early PCI PowerMacs. Right now, there is no PPC601 support in the kernel. Once someone adds this, these models should "just work".
I should buy one now and *hope* someone succeeds in porting Linux to it OR wait until it happens and *hope* MS hasn't raised the prices by then?
Dad, he's speaking English...
here you go.
So does this mean that this will never work in Linux, or what?
but I haven't any points. I'll just throw out the Compaq Aero series as another MIPS arch that was very quickly made useless. Not to say it was ever very useful. We bought five but the sync process was so shitty that we never used them.
this article, which may shed some light on what they plan to do with this and why OSX is a requirement. Does anybody know anything more about protein crystallography and why it would require "stereo" video cards?
Is this cost-competitive with generic x86 clusters?
Does this offer any advantages over generic x86 clusters?(rendering software, I assume?)
What is a technical university going to do with this that requires Apple graphics software?
To all the slashdotters who keep talking about proxies and firewalls:
This person wants to give out unfettered internet access without endangering the libraries local network. They obviously don't care about whether little johnny looks at pron or somebody uses it for spam or whatnot. It is not the duty of the library to protect people from the internet or vice-versa. That is all.
I know it's easy, but it's such an elegant problem. I remember doing this for the first time in the fourth grade. I'm sure it will take your students back to try a kids' problem from a mathematical perspective.
This is a tired method of judicial analysis. It basically goes something like this:
1) Assume "society" or government is able to have (individual) rights.
OR
2) Assume an individual has "rights" he does not have. (copy"right")
3) Proceed to "weigh" these rights against each other, with the net effect of
(if 1) infringing actual individual rights in favor of fictional "societal" rights, since the "society" must always come before the individual,
OR
(if 2) granting to the individual priviledges under the guise of "right", which he then complains bitterly about when these priviledges are terminated,
OR
(if both 1 & 2) creating a logical no-man's-land in which it is utterly impossible to come to a conclusion since both premises are false.
It's basically a way for tyrrannical governments to get around the dual requirements of civil rights and equal protection.
why don't we encourage people like this to experiment on other, lifeless planets before messing up this one?
you thought wrong
You could tell your boss that the University up the road turns out CS majors who are taught Unix from their freshman year.
Routers and AP seem more interested in "breaking the story first" than actually spell-checking. I like how most of the paragraphs are exactly one sentence long.
The same way a car that is more "fuel-efficient" costs more than one that is not. The study used efficiency in the proper, (energy-input)/(product output) sense. This has nothing to do with economics, it's called "science". Go read a highschool physics textbook and get back to us.
I think a major point of the organic movement is to effect a change in the perception of value of food. Most people see a 1 lb apple and think it is of great quality. Or they see a shiny, bright red apple as opposed to a dull one and think it is better. Ag-companies have played upon these misconceptions for years to sell more products and put smaller growers out of business. As the article hinted, organic foods are generally higher in nutritional value than non-organic. There is a fundamental economic problem with the way farmers are paid per pound of crop, instead of taking quality into account. As the article said, organic methods may only produce 80% of the yields of conventional farming, but the higher quality of the food more than makes up for this loss.
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but the US has had a "state religion" for some time now. It is called secular humanism. It is a religion according to the Supreme Court. It is taught exclusively in government schools. A priesthood of humanists has been created and is funded from public monies. And, guess what, the religion of secular humanism supports stem-cell research. Imagine that! Seriously, if the humanists would do what they say they do and question the existing moral authority, they would have to stop believing their own hype.
I refuse to live in an apartment because the last one decided that it would become a commune and divide everyone's water bills up by, what else, square footage of rented space. One person living in a large apartment paid as much as four Mexicans sharing an economy. When your bosses get the brilliant idea of making this a *requirement*, and everyone's still sharing 11Mb of bandwidth, expect to get sued several times over.
Check.
* Analyse the mail situation... are they using all the functions of Outlook (are they even *using* Outlook?) Replace with a reliable alternative like maybe Netscape 6.2.x mail.
Using NS6 or Mozilla can quickly bog down an under-par machine. Believe me, you'll get sick of hearing "Explorer was faster" and having to explain the intricacies of OS design to your users. Before switching from the integrated IE, make sure your computers are relatively (500mhz Celeron) up-to-date. Whatever you do, USE the Quick Launch feature to give Mozilla/NS6 a fighting chance against the integrated Explorer. Also look into a complete webmail package. You can end up adding group collaboration tools while centralizing administration in an Intranet webpage. Features such as easy access from home are an added plus.
* While yer at it, replace the use of Internet Explorer with Netscape 6.2.x and encourage the use of Netscape Mail and the Address book functionality included. Use the argument that when Internet Explorer crashes, it can bring the whole operating system down.
Good argument, but unfortunately, most users don't see it that way. When Explorer crashes, they blame it on the OS. If you replace Explorer with something else, they'll bitch because they still EXPECT the OS to randomly crash, even though it won't as often. Also, disable Active Desktop immediately. This causes more headache than benefit. When users complain that Mozilla or NS6 are slower than IE, show them benchmark sites that compare page load times for both browsers. Point out that while IE starts loading page elements before Gecko, the total times are equal. Tell them it's an optical illusion and they'll feel stupid enough not to question your judgement again.
* Install Sun Java on the user's machines and encourage the use and development of Java programs for the company's business.
Again, good idea. But also, there is a performance cost. Make sure everyone has up-to-date hardware FIRST.
* Begin replacing Window's Servers with Linux/Unix servers on the backend and migrate to a crossplatform database like maybe MySQL or PostGreSQL or even Oracle or DB/2 for Unix. Replace Exchange with Sendmail or something and use BIND and other UNIX style server software. Justify with stability and lower price for most items.
If you haven't done this yet, I feel for you. I'd hate to be running an NT Server the day MS loses an antitrust ruling and decides to stop supporting Windows. This should, as many have said, be done first. Linux is a far superior server OS to NT.
I tried doing this once with Goldmine and got nowhere. Do you know of any good Howtos for something like this? I've seen articles that say that "ANSI compliant" doesn't mean squat, because there are so many different "ANSI compliant" implementations. If you have actually done this before, what MS SQL apps have you migrated and what SQL server did you run in Linux? I've had no problems replacing NT Server with Samba & setting up internet access, but getting around this proprietary SQL stuff seems to be a sticking point.
As the author of Transcode explained to me, using a binary Divx encoder with PVM/MPI/Mosix is impossible. I don't know what state open source Divx encoders are in, but I agree this would be a much better solution than chopping up a DVD and encoding all the pieces separately.
It's called "Linux". Use it. Learn it. Know it.
I'd say this is a low estimate, assuming that geeks/techies make more than the "average" salary and tend to be the only people whose work actually serves to increase the productivity of other workers. The multiplicative effects of the tech industry taking a day off "en masse" could be truly staggering.
On the other hand, it isn't accurate to say Star Wars *hurts* the economy, only that it slows the growth of the economy. Destruction such as 9/11 actually *hurts* the economy. Star Wars just rules.