I thought that the new Amiga hardware had been made CHRP compliant and that the development team had been looking to the Mac for inspiration.
If I'm right then this story is no more than "Man runs an application of Yellow Dog Linux" - it's really no more exciting than me getting YDL running on my iBook.
MOL developers themselves have been striving for Mac OS X support anyway - it's not as if they've started doing this just becausee the Amiga One hardware can run it.
Also the 600Mhz G3 Amiga One board from a European vendor is 600(euros) with processor, no case, memory, video, sound, monitor, mouse, keyboard.
A 600Mhz G3 iMac - the closest system - is around 1000. So Amiga One hardware is hardly cheap. I can pick a higher spec Intel/AMD motherboard and processor combo up for half thay price.
No - Office v.X on the Mac is mostly self contained within it's own folder - many Mac products' install instructions are as simple as "Darg this folder to your hard-drive".
Office XP on Windows requires product activation and ties itself extensively into your Windows Registry.
So there's another reason to buy a Mac - software is easier to install:o)
Trevor Bayliss, the inventor of the original Windup Radio, sprung (pun intended) upon the human power idea whilst listening to or watching a programme about how the developing world was trying to spread information regarding HIV and AIDS by radio but that batteries were prohibitively expensive.
Freeplay was set up to provide these radios to the developing countries at a cost they could afford - partially subsidised by the sale of the devices in the developed world.
It is more likely that instead of this device being designed directly for the likes of you and me it has been designed for the places where mobile telephony is about the only form of telephone available and where electricity is likely to be in short supply or intermittently available.
That we can buy the devices is probably a way to subsidise the sale of them in much the same way as the radios.
Smallville - Season 1 finale - Lex is seen using a TiBook. The rest of the computers features seem to be a mixture of Imacs (Old) and iBooks (Both styles)
Doesn't Sex and the City also feature an Apple using Journalist?
How long have you been using M@? I've got over 7 years of history of that one starting with my M_at@msn.com logon. - I also assume you're using it as a contraction of 'Mat' and not 'Ma';o)
Agreed - I have the 600Mhz 100MhzFSB model and in 10.1.4 it's perfectly usable - more so than my desktop (800Mhz Duron) which hasn't been powered up seriously for about 3 weeks now.
I live in rented accomodation with a kitchen smaller than my car - I could not keep leaving towels hanging around the house to dry during winter so I bought a washer drier.
As for reliability - I bought AEG so I expect it to last a bit longer than some of the cheaper models (I also bought the most energy efficient model I could find - AAB for Wash, Rinse, Electricity for those of you that understand the European rating system).
I know I'm getting older too. There comes that certain point in life when you actually find things like furniture catalogues interesting. As a friend summed it up "I have found in me the urge to buy power tools".
I can fully sympathise with this one - I have this urge to buy all sorts of household electronic and electric devices. Sorta drummed it home when I spent £450 (That's GBP incase the symbol doesn't display) on a Washer Dryer.
Of course my idea is that eventually it all talks to each other and tells me what it all needs and prints me out a list for when I drive down the road to the nearest Wal Mart (O.K. Asda).
Yes but PC Magazine doesn't email you to tell you that your Computer Shopper subscription is almost up and that you should renew to "a magazine" through them.
Verisign are attempting to get people not to renew but to transfer - that there is a one year extension to the domain's registry period is purely a function of being an TCANN accredited registry.
They're using a feature of the system to try and get customers back by deception - that stinks.
Today I received a message from Bulkregister about this as it would appear to be because ofthem that Verisign are restricted by this injunction.
Bulkregister are collecting evidence for the forthcoming trial from Bulkregister members - if you're a member send you details including BR membership number to injunction@bulkregister.com
They may require a fax copy or affidavit but personally I think that it's worth it to show Verisign what we think.
I'm not connected with BulkRegister in any way other than being a satisfied customer of their.
Now I know that Slashdot is US oriented and that the Commander here is a Yank but the original post here references an Australian system.
It also has to do with the psychology of being connected to the "grid" so to speak. People feel so much more secure knowing they are connected to a tangible object- look at broadcast TV vs. cable, cell phones vs. lan line phones, etc.
I can't comment on Australia directly but I wouldn't be surprised if, like in the UK, broadcast satellite TV had a greater share than cable. Here we have about 2m cable subscribers and 6m satellite subscribers. Cell phones in the UK are huge - the largest of our four networks has 11m subscribers - the other 3 have similar numbers - this compares very well to the number of single line land line installations.
I think that the problem with most of these ideas for least mile (or 7km) technologies come down to marketting more than the customer's reluctance to try them - they simply don't have enough information to make an informed choice.
Canon's 90ppm high speed scanner - only problem with high speed scanning is that they need loose leaves. Any decent books you have and want to copy will need a Stanley knife taking to the spine.
Please remember to make decent backups on a long lasting madium with a high chance of recoverability. Failing that place the loose leaf versions with a document recovery firm and take their insurance for the full purchase value of the originals.
I think you're missing the point of the PVR - it's a PERSONAL Video Recorder. If you just want a hard drive recorder go see JVC - they make a recorder with HD and VHS in one unit - no real intelligence just the ability to record to HD then archive to VHS later.
The PERSONAL point comes in to play when you have something like TiVo as let it start to run your TV viewing.
I'm based in the UK and 2 years ago I would make sure that I got home by certain times to watch programmes 2 or three days a week. Many times the trains would stuff this up for me and I'd miss the beginnings.
I also relied on my flatmate recording stuff while I was out or setting the video (Back then our digital satellite receiver didn't have any way of changing channel at a specific time - come to think of it that's still not possible. Damn you Murdoch)
I often missed shows and ended up havng to wait a year for repeats of for then to arrive on the BBC before seeing what I had missed.
Now however I work until I want to leave, I go out whenever I want and I don't think I've thought about sitting down at a specific time to watch a scheduled show once in the last year or so. TiVo just records everything I want and a load of stuff I like but am not bothered about.
I couldn't tell you when half of these shows are on - I watch them when it suits me - sometimes I watch the adverts too;o)
The revolutionary thing, or TiVolutionary thing if Mr. Bullwinkle is reading, about the PVR is not that it's got a hard disk, noth that it means you can choose a programme by name rather than channel and time but that it frees you from decisions and schedules and missing stuff.
I'd not give up my TiVo now, which unfortunately limits me to living in the UK or US:o)
Er - possibly because realistic timekeeping wouldn't be possible otherwise?
Despite the throughput of these lines their latency will still be high when talking about transatlantic distances.
As far as I understood it a lot of this bandwidth will be used for real time work as well as transfer of large amounts of data - for real time you need to know latencies.
A fast line in Gbps is not necessarily a fast line in pings - 6 million modems will give you a 192Gbps connection - but the ping times will be stupid.
Because they're not being asked to pay for what everyone else is paying already - they are being asked to pay what everyone else used to pay.
How many US ISPs (Not the big international carriers like UUNet etc) do you think pay for a leased line across the pond to the UK and peering to Europe or lines to Asia etc?
They don't. They peer with people in New York and San Francisco - Asian and European networks however have to install lines at least to the US to get any decent connectivity and they have to pay for that.
Things have started to change for Europe and Asia but the African nations are no doubt forced to get leased circuits at least into Linx or one of the other big EuroNAPs before they get any decent level of connectivity.
As Africa's internet connectivity is lagging behind Asia's which has lagged behind Europe's which has lagged behind the USA's they are having to go through the same high cost expansion that European and Asian networks went through to get to the stage where they are large enough for the major carriers to be interested in peering with them in their home countries.
What is needed is the large carriers, BT, UUnet, ATT etc to fund an AfrIX (trademark) and allow African networks to peer there. AfrIX could be connected to Linx and one of the big US peering points to allow direct peers. This would cut costs across the board.
M@t:o)
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...and it's the next model up (A-04) from, the one being put into Apple boxen currently.
Obviously an IANAL comment but to me it just sounds dead wrong.
What you should do is put it as "What would Microsoft do". If you too microsoft's code and decompiled it and then changed a few names and recompiled it would they sue?
Would you company risk taking on Microsoft? If they would then tell them to go ahead and violate the GPL. If they wouldn't ask them why they feel they can get away with taking on someone smaller.
If you find another job please let us know who it is is doing this.
I clicked the link. I read 2 lines and already I found something I disagree with totally.
Although P2P computing has existed for some time as a basis for network applications such as FTP, Telnet, instant messaging, ICQ, and Microsoft's MSN Messenger Service and NetMeeting
Right, FTP is client - server, Telnet is client - server, instant messaging is client - server, ICQ is client - server, MSN Messenger is client - server. About the only one he got right out of his list of examples in NetMeeting.
Now his paper doesn't mention these examples so why include them in the introduction page.
The paper is well written and from a first skimming seems accurate and interesting - but that first paragraph on the introduction does nothing to enhance the paper.
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I thought that the new Amiga hardware had been made CHRP compliant and that the development team had been looking to the Mac for inspiration.
If I'm right then this story is no more than "Man runs an application of Yellow Dog Linux" - it's really no more exciting than me getting YDL running on my iBook.
MOL developers themselves have been striving for Mac OS X support anyway - it's not as if they've started doing this just becausee the Amiga One hardware can run it.
Also the 600Mhz G3 Amiga One board from a European vendor is 600(euros) with processor, no case, memory, video, sound, monitor, mouse, keyboard.
A 600Mhz G3 iMac - the closest system - is around 1000. So Amiga One hardware is hardly cheap. I can pick a higher spec Intel/AMD motherboard and processor combo up for half thay price.
No - Office v.X on the Mac is mostly self contained within it's own folder - many Mac products' install instructions are as simple as "Darg this folder to your hard-drive".
:o)
Office XP on Windows requires product activation and ties itself extensively into your Windows Registry.
So there's another reason to buy a Mac - software is easier to install
My first memory of Slackware was installing it off 30 odd floppies - how many does this come on?
:o)
M@T
Trevor Bayliss, the inventor of the original Windup Radio, sprung (pun intended) upon the human power idea whilst listening to or watching a programme about how the developing world was trying to spread information regarding HIV and AIDS by radio but that batteries were prohibitively expensive.
Freeplay was set up to provide these radios to the developing countries at a cost they could afford - partially subsidised by the sale of the devices in the developed world.
It is more likely that instead of this device being designed directly for the likes of you and me it has been designed for the places where mobile telephony is about the only form of telephone available and where electricity is likely to be in short supply or intermittently available.
That we can buy the devices is probably a way to subsidise the sale of them in much the same way as the radios.
Smallville - Season 1 finale - Lex is seen using a TiBook.
The rest of the computers features seem to be a mixture of Imacs (Old) and iBooks (Both styles)
Doesn't Sex and the City also feature an Apple using Journalist?
How long have you been using M@? I've got over 7 years of history of that one starting with my M_at@msn.com logon. - I also assume you're using it as a contraction of 'Mat' and not 'Ma' ;o)
:o)
M@t
Hmmmnnn - sorta takes the fun out of trying to get a decent first post now.
:o(
M@t
Agreed - I have the 600Mhz 100MhzFSB model and in 10.1.4 it's perfectly usable - more so than my desktop (800Mhz Duron) which hasn't been powered up seriously for about 3 weeks now.
I live in rented accomodation with a kitchen smaller than my car - I could not keep leaving towels hanging around the house to dry during winter so I bought a washer drier.
As for reliability - I bought AEG so I expect it to last a bit longer than some of the cheaper models (I also bought the most energy efficient model I could find - AAB for Wash, Rinse, Electricity for those of you that understand the European rating system).
Of course my idea is that eventually it all talks to each other and tells me what it all needs and prints me out a list for when I drive down the road to the nearest Wal Mart (O.K. Asda).
Yes but PC Magazine doesn't email you to tell you that your Computer Shopper subscription is almost up and that you should renew to "a magazine" through them.
Verisign are attempting to get people not to renew but to transfer - that there is a one year extension to the domain's registry period is purely a function of being an TCANN accredited registry.
They're using a feature of the system to try and get customers back by deception - that stinks.
Today I received a message from Bulkregister about this as it would appear to be because ofthem that Verisign are restricted by this injunction.
:o)
Bulkregister are collecting evidence for the forthcoming trial from Bulkregister members - if you're a member send you details including BR membership number to injunction@bulkregister.com
They may require a fax copy or affidavit but personally I think that it's worth it to show Verisign what we think.
I'm not connected with BulkRegister in any way other than being a satisfied customer of their.
M@t
I can't comment on Australia directly but I wouldn't be surprised if, like in the UK, broadcast satellite TV had a greater share than cable. Here we have about 2m cable subscribers and 6m satellite subscribers. Cell phones in the UK are huge - the largest of our four networks has 11m subscribers - the other 3 have similar numbers - this compares very well to the number of single line land line installations.
I think that the problem with most of these ideas for least mile (or 7km) technologies come down to marketting more than the customer's reluctance to try them - they simply don't have enough information to make an informed choice.
Canon's 90ppm high speed scanner - only problem with high speed scanning is that they need loose leaves. Any decent books you have and want to copy will need a Stanley knife taking to the spine.
Please remember to make decent backups on a long lasting madium with a high chance of recoverability. Failing that place the loose leaf versions with a document recovery firm and take their insurance for the full purchase value of the originals.
I think you're missing the point of the PVR - it's a PERSONAL Video Recorder. If you just want a hard drive recorder go see JVC - they make a recorder with HD and VHS in one unit - no real intelligence just the ability to record to HD then archive to VHS later.
;o)
:o)
:o)
The PERSONAL point comes in to play when you have something like TiVo as let it start to run your TV viewing.
I'm based in the UK and 2 years ago I would make sure that I got home by certain times to watch programmes 2 or three days a week. Many times the trains would stuff this up for me and I'd miss the beginnings.
I also relied on my flatmate recording stuff while I was out or setting the video (Back then our digital satellite receiver didn't have any way of changing channel at a specific time - come to think of it that's still not possible. Damn you Murdoch)
I often missed shows and ended up havng to wait a year for repeats of for then to arrive on the BBC before seeing what I had missed.
Now however I work until I want to leave, I go out whenever I want and I don't think I've thought about sitting down at a specific time to watch a scheduled show once in the last year or so. TiVo just records everything I want and a load of stuff I like but am not bothered about.
I couldn't tell you when half of these shows are on - I watch them when it suits me - sometimes I watch the adverts too
The revolutionary thing, or TiVolutionary thing if Mr. Bullwinkle is reading, about the PVR is not that it's got a hard disk, noth that it means you can choose a programme by name rather than channel and time but that it frees you from decisions and schedules and missing stuff.
I'd not give up my TiVo now, which unfortunately limits me to living in the UK or US
M@t
You're welcome.
I didn't realise it was a joke as I assumed it was penned by an American.
If you are an American you should read that as a compliment.
If any other Americans are reading then you should read this as a joke.
Er - possibly because realistic timekeeping wouldn't be possible otherwise?
Despite the throughput of these lines their latency will still be high when talking about transatlantic distances.
As far as I understood it a lot of this bandwidth will be used for real time work as well as transfer of large amounts of data - for real time you need to know latencies.
A fast line in Gbps is not necessarily a fast line in pings - 6 million modems will give you a 192Gbps connection - but the ping times will be stupid.
Because they're not being asked to pay for what everyone else is paying already - they are being asked to pay what everyone else used to pay.
:o)
How many US ISPs (Not the big international carriers like UUNet etc) do you think pay for a leased line across the pond to the UK and peering to Europe or lines to Asia etc?
They don't. They peer with people in New York and San Francisco - Asian and European networks however have to install lines at least to the US to get any decent connectivity and they have to pay for that.
Things have started to change for Europe and Asia but the African nations are no doubt forced to get leased circuits at least into Linx or one of the other big EuroNAPs before they get any decent level of connectivity.
As Africa's internet connectivity is lagging behind Asia's which has lagged behind Europe's which has lagged behind the USA's they are having to go through the same high cost expansion that European and Asian networks went through to get to the stage where they are large enough for the major carriers to be interested in peering with them in their home countries.
What is needed is the large carriers, BT, UUnet, ATT etc to fund an AfrIX (trademark) and allow African networks to peer there. AfrIX could be connected to Linx and one of the big US peering points to allow direct peers. This would cut costs across the board.
M@t
External superdrives will soon be availble...
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...and it's the next model up (A-04) from, the one being put into Apple boxen currently.
It's another formac product http://www.formac.com/html/shopformac.html?cid=sh
Obviously an IANAL comment but to me it just sounds dead wrong.
What you should do is put it as "What would Microsoft do". If you too microsoft's code and decompiled it and then changed a few names and recompiled it would they sue?
Would you company risk taking on Microsoft? If they would then tell them to go ahead and violate the GPL. If they wouldn't ask them why they feel they can get away with taking on someone smaller.
If you find another job please let us know who it is is doing this.
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:o)
Or for those of you without a nokia 6210
That's funny because I can write a message with one or two more presses and that's all!
M@t
Right, FTP is client - server, Telnet is client - server, instant messaging is client - server, ICQ is client - server, MSN Messenger is client - server. About the only one he got right out of his list of examples in NetMeeting.
Now his paper doesn't mention these examples so why include them in the introduction page.
The paper is well written and from a first skimming seems accurate and interesting - but that first paragraph on the introduction does nothing to enhance the paper.
I think it's amazing that these guys were developing all this back in '68 and it's taken 32 years before the rest of the world catches on.
Not quite Euro Only. Asia, Australia, Africa - all use 900 and 1800 Mhz GSM networks.
Performance wise how do 200 PCs stand when compared with one of these mainframe class boxes?
Also what's the differences in Power utilisation?