Im sorry , I appear to have put the wrong link, trouble is i couldnt find the link it was supposed to be. Any way i found this amongst the press releases from that site.
Interesting thought popped when i read your post, there is a current trend towards cramming as much storage into something the size of a 3in Hard drive.
I wonder why they dont make larger harddrives in the physical sense? A hard drive the size of a washing machine using todays technology would store a phenomenal amount of stuff, but whatabout something more reasonable like a hard drive merely twice the physical size of todays. how much more storage could you get just by scaling up the platters? anyone here good at math . Hard drives today must be up to 200-250gb.
Anyone know what happened to that bloke at keele who invented a way of cramming 3 Terrabytes on a credit card. Apparently it would have cost about 35 pounds to manufacture. this was a couple of years ago, why hasnt it happened yet?
Surely something like this is the real future of storage ?
Do you have any products / cdrom books that have taken your advice and produced these cdroms with the open office on the disk?
Other than that, its a damn good idea , and next time i come accross a book with a cdrom containing certain files I might just take your advice. Might as well send em a burn of OpenOffice with the letter too !
Dont get me wrong , plugin's are the bane of my life and websites that use obscene amounts of flash purely for some poxy unituitive navigation I abhore.
So far as I am concerned the web is an information repositary, and information should be accessible by anybody. In fact the less plugins used for stuff the better.
I take your point about bloatage, Maybe we should all stick to lynx:)
Just wondering do images (gif's and jpgs) also constitute a plugin ? what about fonts?
We have the source code for our browsers, and most of the plug-ins. Why not just ditch the plugin system and merge the code from the various plugins into the tree for the browser. And into the browser binary. Hey presto same functionality but no plugins required.
Oh and it would be a shed load easier to install, no screwing about trying to make sure everything is in the right place etc.
Re:Linux on PS2 NOT really crippled
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Actually its surprisingly not crippled Sony have pretty much opened up most of the hardware , infact they supply a lot of sourcecode and examples on how to program the VU unit and other bits of hardware, There are even complete developer kit reference manuals in pdf's on the CD's that come with the thing. The PS2 Linux kit is the closest you are going to get to a professional PS2 Development kit, only it costs under 200 quid as oppose to the 20,000 odd it will cost you for the kind of thing a software house gets.
The only thing that Sony dont provide is documentation on the encryption stuff and / or reading the CDROM drive.
It is possible to get around this by using an USB cdrom drive. And there are also ways to bypass the linux kernel by writing code that will boot directly from the Memory Card.
All in all I think Sony have done a sterling job in serving the Linux and open source community in this way. I have one of these linux kits and I have been very happy with it.
I for one have more respect for Sony for doing this, and there continuing enthusiasm for linux.
Maybe this is google's response to Google bombing. Since weblogs seem to be the breeding ground for google bombs, maybe having more control over them might be the solution to cutting down instances.
Those fileswap results only show that people download and listen to the same crap that you hear on the radio.
So the argument that people use P2P filesharing to "discover" new bands or download "decent" music is a fallacy according to that website.
i am truly surprised i didnt find some decent music to from the artists listed on that page.
People should be looking for indie artists who are bypassing the RIAA completely. It used to be the indie labels that grabbed most of the talent. Now the big labels have bought up all the indie labels that started during the early nineties. Artists have the Internet and can distribute there stuff without the hassle of the Big Boys...
Hang on a minute, the family Paid for the service, so far as they are concerned what they are doing is perfectly alright. The people they should be suing is Kazaa for selling stuff illegally.
Need I say more, I downloaded my gentoo from the web for free, compiled it on my SMP machine I built myself, cheaper than an OEM box with the M$ Tax. And I have all the software I could possibly want including industry standard tools such as FilmGIMP and Blender, and Industry standard web services such as Apache, MySQL, PHP and much much more. All this cost me diddley squat cept the price of a blank CD and the Machine I built.
And even IF SCO are right and I had to pay the SCO tax, jsut pricing up the rest of the tools, I would require on a windoze box... Win2003 enterprise $4000 (includes many of the features that are standard on a linux distro, DHCP server DNS server "Command Line Interface scripting" remote admin etc. Then add the cost of office software, ooh shit, I've gone over budget, even with the illegal SCO Tax...
nick (dont take this too seriously its a bit over the top but do a feature for feature comparison and you will see that Linux is actually a considerable amount cheaper)
I only trade small chunks of files, like most people, we're not trading entire files, so the blame can not be put on a single person. Isnt that the whole point of most new p2p system, napster was fundamentally flawed, and a couple of other systems after that, but with the more recent p2p progs, the files do'nt exsist in a central place, instead they exist in the "ether" of p2p space ?
LOL, Yeah , the design sucks, I admit, but Im one of these people who gives functionality a higher priority than looks. I cant justify the extra hundred and fifty quid for what is essentially a nicer screen and a nicer case. At the end of the day they are both boxes with small hard drives in side. An Ipod would be nicer than my Treo, but not at the extorionate prices apple are selling them for.
OS9 Is crap, the list of things that are crap about it are endless. OSX is the Sole reason I am now considering buying an apple laptop, OS9 die hards would know what a proper unix was let alone the many benefits it has of OS9. OSX has a proper terminal, it has proper multitasking, it has the mature stability of a BSD *nix, and the nicest gui I've ever seen on any *nix (although IMHO its a bit heavy weight) OSX can run industry standard web applications such as APACHE MySQL and PHP and half decent email servers. OS9'ers are stuck with the atrocities of EIM's, Webstar and god knows what else.
Windows is superior to OS9 in many ways I dont care what you say, But OSX pisses all over it.
Anyway thats my informative rant . I use 100% Gentoo Linux at the moment btw , And when I do get a nice Apple Laptop it will dual boot into Yellow Dog..
I've had a 15gb Treo ( a lot cheaper than the ipod) , I've had it for 6 months or so, and I've only filled up about 3gb, having said that I have probably filled 5gb of my Linux box'es hard drive with MP3 and thats according to xmms about 800 songs. My CD Collection is around 300cd's If my calculations are correct I ould be able to fit my entire CD collection on the thing. (give or take bitrates etc )
I nearly laughed so much I fell off my chair, then I looked to see If it was April 1st. Are M$ for real, Wooo Hoo, now M$ really are sounding like SCO...
The complaint filed by Be basically centres around the fact that they had a number of manufacturers willing to distribute Beos as a dual boot System. In particular it describes how they had an agreement with Hitatchi to distribute Beos Pre-installed alongside windows. Apparently Microsofts big wigs turned up at Hitachi and gave them a good ticking off, apparently the OEM license prohibits Windows being installed in a dual boot configuration with any other operating system.Hitachi got a right royal bollocking from the big boys... and eventaully offered be the option of allowing the customer to boot and install manually via a floppy disk (which as you can imagine is a waste of time idea !)
As If you needed to be reminded about just how much Microsoft are evil bastards one more time the pdf, makes a good case.
That press release BTW is a microsoft one, Its only natural that they would'nt admit any wrong doing.
will someone who has this film please torrent it and post on suprnova.org , If the tossers are going to lock everyone out from the site except M$ Windoze users they should bloody well expect the file to be p2p'd
It makes me really fucking sick locking people in like that, come to think of it why should I even want to watch the thing if I have to go to so much trouble to watch the bloody thing .
Slashdot Mirror
Yep and what about the thousands of hosting companies and ISP's that sell linux accounts and virtual hosting ?
How can government be democratic if its systems are dictated by Someone with a big house in Redmond ?
Im sorry , I appear to have put the wrong link,
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trouble is i couldnt find the link it was supposed to be.
Any way i found this amongst the press releases from that site.
Terrabyte credit card
nick
Interesting thought popped when i read your post,
there is a current trend towards cramming as much storage into something the size of a 3in Hard drive.
I wonder why they dont make larger harddrives in the physical sense? A hard drive the size of a washing machine using todays technology would store a phenomenal amount of stuff, but whatabout something more reasonable like a hard drive merely twice the physical size of todays. how much more storage could you get just by scaling up the platters? anyone here good at math . Hard drives today must be up to 200-250gb.
Anyone know what happened to that bloke at keele who
invented a way of cramming 3 Terrabytes on a credit card. Apparently it would have cost about 35 pounds to manufacture. this was a couple of years ago, why hasnt it happened yet?
Surely something like this is the real future of storage ?
Terrabyte on a credit card
Do you have any products / cdrom books that have taken your advice and produced these cdroms with the open office on the disk?
Other than that, its a damn good idea , and next time i come accross a book with a cdrom containing certain files I might just take your advice. Might as well send em a burn of OpenOffice with the letter too !
Now that Would look like the WOPR !
r rev/warpages/joshua.html
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http://www.calarts.edu/~nstrum/macmame/reviews/wa
Which is just what I have always desired, to complete my world domination plans
Dont get me wrong , plugin's are the bane of my life and websites that use obscene amounts of flash purely for some poxy unituitive navigation I abhore.
:)
...
So far as I am concerned the web is an information repositary, and information should be accessible by anybody. In fact the less plugins used for stuff the better.
I take your point about bloatage, Maybe we should all stick to lynx
Just wondering do images (gif's and jpgs) also constitute a plugin ? what about fonts?
nick
We have the source code for our browsers, and most of the plug-ins. Why not just ditch the plugin system and merge the code from the various plugins into the tree for the browser. And into the browser binary. Hey presto same functionality but no plugins required.
Oh and it would be a shed load easier to install, no screwing about trying to make sure everything is in the right place etc.
Actually its surprisingly not crippled Sony have pretty much opened up most of the hardware , infact they supply a lot of sourcecode and examples on how to program the VU unit and other bits of hardware, There are even complete developer kit reference manuals in pdf's on the CD's that come with the thing. The PS2 Linux kit is the closest you are going to get to a professional PS2 Development kit, only it costs under 200 quid as oppose to the 20,000 odd it will cost you for the kind of thing a software house gets.
The only thing that Sony dont provide is documentation on the encryption stuff and / or reading the CDROM drive.
It is possible to get around this by using an USB cdrom drive. And there are also ways to bypass the linux kernel by writing code that will boot directly from the Memory Card.
All in all I think Sony have done a sterling job in serving the Linux and open source community in this way. I have one of these linux kits and I have been very happy with it.
I for one have more respect for Sony for doing this, and there continuing enthusiasm for linux.
Well done Sony ! Lets show Microsoft who rocks !
Maybe this is google's response to Google bombing. Since weblogs seem to be the breeding ground for google bombs, maybe having more control over them might be the solution to cutting down instances.
Those fileswap results only show that people download and listen to the same crap that you hear on the radio.
So the argument that people use P2P filesharing to "discover" new bands or download "decent" music is a fallacy according to that website.
i am truly surprised i didnt find some decent music to from the artists listed on that page.
People should be looking for indie artists who are bypassing the RIAA completely. It used to be the indie labels that grabbed most of the talent. Now the big labels have bought up all the indie labels that started during the early nineties. Artists have the Internet and can distribute there stuff without the hassle of the Big Boys...
Hang on a minute, the family Paid for the service, so far as they are concerned what they are doing is perfectly alright. The people they should be suing is Kazaa for selling stuff illegally.
I find the terminology
"Microsoft's alternative"
rather amusing...
Need I say more, I downloaded my gentoo from the web for free, compiled it on my SMP machine I built myself, cheaper than an OEM box with the M$ Tax. And I have all the software I could possibly want including industry standard tools such as FilmGIMP and Blender, and Industry standard web services such as Apache, MySQL, PHP and much much more. All this cost me diddley squat cept the price of a blank CD and the Machine I built.
...
And even IF SCO are right and I had to pay the SCO tax,
jsut pricing up the rest of the tools, I would require on a windoze box... Win2003 enterprise $4000 (includes many of the features that are standard on a linux distro, DHCP server DNS server "Command Line Interface scripting" remote admin etc. Then add the cost of office software, ooh shit, I've gone over budget, even with the illegal SCO Tax
nick (dont take this too seriously its a bit over the top but do a feature for feature comparison and you will see that Linux is actually a considerable amount cheaper)
I only trade small chunks of files, like most people, we're not trading entire files, so the blame can not be put on a single person. Isnt that the whole point of most new p2p system, napster was fundamentally flawed, and a couple of other systems after that, but with the more recent p2p progs, the files do'nt exsist in a central place, instead they exist in the "ether" of p2p space ?
I thought the code in question was for SMP versions. Isnt a single cpu license a bit of a non sequitur.
Does anybody know how I can make these sounds myself?
...
I would like to perform these experiments in the comfort of my own room
LOL, Yeah , the design sucks, I admit, but Im one of these people who gives functionality a higher priority than looks. I cant justify the extra hundred and fifty quid for what is essentially a nicer screen and a nicer case. At the end of the day they are both boxes with small hard drives in side. An Ipod would be nicer than my Treo, but not at the extorionate prices apple are selling them for.
OS9 Is crap, the list of things that are crap about it are endless. OSX is the Sole reason I am now considering buying an apple laptop, OS9 die hards would know what a proper unix was let alone the many benefits it has of OS9. OSX has a proper terminal, it has proper multitasking, it has the mature stability of a BSD *nix, and the nicest gui I've ever seen on any *nix (although IMHO its a bit heavy weight) OSX can run industry standard web applications such as APACHE MySQL and PHP and half decent email servers. OS9'ers are stuck with the atrocities of EIM's, Webstar and god knows what else.
Windows is superior to OS9 in many ways I dont care what you say, But OSX pisses all over it.
Anyway thats my informative rant . I use 100% Gentoo Linux at the moment btw , And when I do get a nice Apple Laptop it will dual boot into Yellow Dog..
I've had a 15gb Treo ( a lot cheaper than the ipod) , I've had it for 6 months or so, and I've only filled up about 3gb, having said that I have probably filled 5gb of my Linux box'es hard drive with MP3 and thats according to xmms about 800 songs. My CD Collection is around 300cd's If my calculations are correct I ould be able to fit my entire CD collection on the thing. (give or take bitrates etc )
They just dont want Microsoft Software looking after there nuclear missile SILO's , very sensible if you ask me :)
I nearly laughed so much I fell off my chair, then I looked to see If it was April 1st. Are M$ for real, Wooo Hoo, now M$ really are sounding like SCO ...
... poor billy boy gates ...
Come to daddy
The complaint filed by Be basically centres around the fact that they had a number of manufacturers willing to distribute Beos as a dual boot System. In particular it describes how they had an agreement with Hitatchi to distribute Beos Pre-installed alongside windows. Apparently Microsofts big wigs turned up at Hitachi and gave them a good ticking off, apparently the OEM license prohibits Windows being installed in a dual boot configuration with any other operating system.Hitachi got a right royal bollocking from the big boys ... and eventaully offered be the option of allowing the customer to boot and install manually via a floppy disk (which as you can imagine is a waste of time idea !)
As If you needed to be reminded about just how much Microsoft are evil bastards one more time the pdf, makes a good case.
That press release BTW is a microsoft one, Its only natural that they would'nt admit any wrong doing.
will someone who has this film please torrent it and post on suprnova.org , If the tossers are going to lock everyone out from the site except M$ Windoze users they should bloody well expect the file to be p2p'd
It makes me really fucking sick locking people in like that, come to think of it why should I even want to watch the thing if I have to go to so much trouble to watch the bloody thing .