> In term of 'Net appliances, we're way far behind
> in some irrelevant ways: I don't know if anybody
> remembers but I think that there was a
> service by which people in Japan could access
> news, purchace stocks (maybe), and do other
> simalar things using their Nintendo (remember
> that 8-bit thing, we had as kids?) And the
> French have had something similar to that for
> decades.
You are talking about btx, which in various variations was used in western europa since 1984 and is definitly a ancestor of todays internet.
Nowaday the once biggest btx-service-providers are the biggest internet-service-providers.
Actually I heared the term "to surf" the first time in 1989, when in a scientific tv-show the moderator surfed in btx-pages with a digital isdn-64kBit-dialup-line.
Eastern Europa could easily take over most taiwanese products.
The education in technology was always quite strong in eastern europa, very obviously back in socialist times, because its a very unpolitical and secure education, and after some years of break they are back and investing respectable amounts of money into their education system.
I`ve met bulgarians, ukrainians and russians, which came to germany to earn money by working as a low-rank worker by building roads and houses, but after work they discussed technology of 8051-based computers, ham-radio and aeronautics. And they know what they are talking about.
When I tried to get quake3, I faced a weird difference in the pricing of the windows- and the linux-version. While win-q3 goes for around 40 Euro (which is quite a reasonably pricing), the linuxversion would have cost me nearly twice as much... 70 Euro...
Remembering Carmack saying "you will be able to crossupdate your linux-version to a windowsversion and visaversa in upcoming Pointreleases" I bought the Windowsversion. Sigh. He kept his word, so I am quite happy now.
(Still I am surprised that all big stores carry the linuxversion - but not one offeres the macversion:-)
Maybe the placing of q3 at the index for youth-endangering material is partly responsible for that, because then you may not advertise or publicly sell q3 and that obviously holds back competition. And this is a deathpenalty for a small plattform like linux.
Halflife showed how easy it is to avoid the index: They changed the human actors from Humans to robots and robots blood is oil and therefore green and brown. Voila, here we sell the big numbers. How many 100.000 times was Halflife sold in Germany?
Btw, the inofficial patchfile to crossupdate your german version to an international version is around 25MB and was two weeks after Halflife available:-)
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John Travolta as the star in a new hubbard-based novell - ok, everyone knew, that these are two important arms of Scientology.
But Im surprised that Warner Studio is also "involved" - and noone can tell me, that the incredibly bad stories from hubbard would be brought to cinema by a independend, sane man or studio.
Basicly the short conclussion of the story sounds like the doctrine of scientology:
The Aliens "the heretic non-scientologists" control the world, a mighty "learning machine" open the eyes of the selected one (in fact scientology already charges impressive amounts of money for use of their "learning-maschines", which are more or less boxes of random electronic components, so I guess the selected one is the stupid who bids the most:-) and leads the revolution against the heretics.
Hey, I am not against some revolution here and then. But their way of revolution would make "the order of his eternal dark shadow" look like sunday afternoons teatime, so I better continue training at www.counter-strike.net for the last stand. No smiley.
If you should happen to watch the film - it is their truth, in other words, best comparable to late nazi-propaganda where anglelike nazis save the world from bloodthirsty juds, baby-frying communists, anarchic family-structures and the tortour of free speech.
While this sounds like a big conspiracy, it is nothing at all. First, Music is not "copyrighted" material in sense of american law in germany. In fact, its perfectly legal to copy music without charge for "private, personal", non-commercial purposes. If I download 1000 CDs from the internet, I can`t be blamed. But the operator of the website can be sued, because he did deal with a anonymous person and not a personal friend or relativ. Second, music will most likely not become "copyrighted material" in germany, because then the large GEMA organisation would have to be scraped also. GEMA is a private organisation, charges quite some money on EVERY media sold in germany and distributes the revenues between the artists. Third, the internet-providers will laugh about any attempt to make them block anything. Routers, like our companys big cisco7500, cost several $100.000 and are still under hard preasure to keep up with the traffic (we use quite alot of em and we are just a small provider in southern germany). Making them filter would demand 10-100 times more power, which means raising by factor 10 or more. I know what I am talking about, I have to use filters from time to time on our core-gate and it imediately loses performance. Impossible to do this on a large scale. And last but not least law itself would intervene: You can techically only block nearly all digital media or nothing. By law you may not block in general to block a specific content and therefore a general filter is illegal.
The problem is not Unisys, they are just another predator. The problem is the law. Algorithms shouldn`t be allowed to be patented. Ah, one moment... THEY ARE NOT allowed to be patented! At least in 95% of the world:-)
But still something is terribly wrong - png is out for five years, its much better - more efficient, faster, more powerfull - than gif and completely free. It was invented to replace gif when Unisys started to rampage.
WHY THE HELL IS STILL NOONE USING PNG? (AND WHY GOT MY SHIFT-KEY HUNG?)
It took AGES for ns and ie to learn png. BAD.
Noone knows PNG. BAD.
And instead of supporting the open standard PNG ns and ms do nothing for the "open standard".
> They grabed all the tests Intel used on the PIII > to make it look good, ported 'em to G4, ran them > and beat the shit outta Intel...
You are dreaming.
They didn`t use intels tests, because they don't have access to intels sourcecodes and intel wouldn`t port em either:-)
And while the G4 is not bad, it is NOT twice as fast all the day. Basicly today speed depends on RAM/Cache-Speed and not internal bellsnwhistles. But the G4 doesn`t bring something new to the bandwidth-arena: half-speed-2nd-Level Cache, 100Mhz-RAM-Access. And even AV will not widen the RAM-Bottleneck - a P3 fills its 100Mhz/64Bit-Bus to 80% in general. As the G4 uses a similiar bus - 100Mhz/64Bit - even AV can`t push more data through the bus.
Well well, apple says G4 kicks ass... apperantly not with macos, which I would even kick away for win3.11 - but I hope for some real Operating-Systems:-)
I hope the G4 will continue the earlier success of the PPC-CPU, because the G3 terribly SUCKS. My standard-tests (bzip2, make-ing and using, pov-ray) showed a Celeron-433 to be ca. two times faster than a G3-266) - a ppc604e-180 was faster than a G3-266:-/
But the independent benchmarks for the G4 do not look to powerfull at all. Not bad, hey, even very nice, but not kicking ass. Apple may state that the fastet G4 quite beats the fastest PentiumIII-Xeon, but they shouldn`t compete with others, like K7, Alpha.
> What do you mean by "full speed?" The same as a > 68000 at 7MHz? A 68030 at 50MHz? A 604e at > 200MHz? Like many other computer systems, Amigas > don't just come in one speed:-)
Some numbers I once checked with lha and gzip under uae:
My 486dx4-160 running Linux runs about 80% of the speed of my Amiga1000.
My Dual-PentiumMMX-233 running Linux runs about half of the speed of my Amiga3000.
A PentiumIII-560 (overclocked) runs around the speed of an 68040/40.
The PET2001 aka CBM2008/3008 was build first in 1977, with a black and white monitor, tape drive and 8k RAM, running Basic1.0. I once had one of those with additional dual-floppy (each 1meg) and two external 64k-Boxes (not that big at all:-)
> Is this right? Am I allowed to "reverse > engineer", say, MS Excel's COM.idl (or.tlb) > file to produce a product that works with it?
So far I know the situation in germany and its the same in most parts of the eu:
Without permission you may not disassemble internal parts and you may not patch disassembled parts, even if you are doing necessary bugfixes.
But you have rights when buying a product and even more when renting a product (thats one reason no company rents their programs in europe). So you have the right to get a bugfixed version or get you money back within six months, from 2002 on twentyfour months. Thats not just some offer from a company, thats the law.
But you may watch the communications with the outside. And basicly every API falls under this point.
Two years ago it was nearly impossible to avoid these words for one day if you are in computer-buisness - now it is in many cases at least possible, sometimes it`s even normal.
Maybe even code doesn`t matter because if noone talks about gates anymore, he wont scare anyone anymore.
I personally disagree with the reasons for the american ethnic situation - ok, I am also just another european bystander, but from what I have seen, it is not preasure by some institutions, its much deeper - "what would people think, if I don`t follow the official ethnic?" Instead of thinking about "is it good or bad what I am doing" many think "what will others think of me?" (Or at least uncle Henry from Washington State summed it up this way:-)
Would be interesting to confront an republic american with an average commercial break in the 23:00-broadcast of german startrek, just count how many naked "ladies" are doing busy work at themself advertising for 0190/0900-phonenumbers. One could switch to another station, but you can bet most of them are just airing another porn from the 70/80... except on sunday, then they are broadcasting productions from the 90`s:-)
Did I mentioned, that some violent scenes got cutted from startrek while broadcasting in germany?
Looks like other regions also have their personal ethical problems (not to mention arabic television which REALLY pisses me of:-)
Looks like the goverments of the english-speaking world finally went nuts.?
Ok, fine for me, continental europa has in general very liberal law on encryption and this will create thousands of new jobs here.
We could discuss the word "liberal": the german ministry of inner security called "breaking encryption an act of aggression, encryption itself an act of defense." This coincidently wents along with an discussion about growing activity in spying science- and industrial secrets in germany, namely by the USA and the UK and most times even by "official" secret services.
You think that can`t be a big problem?
You are wrong! The known cases of stolen knowledge by the USA and the UK sum up to 30 Billion Dollars EACH YEAR. Makes some chinease bluecopies of uncle sam`s latest kill-o-zap look quite inexpensive:-)=
Some interesting laws are coming in germany this year and I expect encryption to become a MUST, not a MUST NOT in several cases.
BSD crumpled under the struggle of copyright in 1993 (thats was right when I switched from BSD to Linux).
BSD is rockstable (I don`t say that linux isn`t stable, but maybe a little bit less).
But now the point: BSD is boring.
Simply said I don`t run a webserver all day and I don`t type "uptime" all day.
I actually try to work (to some extend:-) and play at my machine. And here we go, the linux-folks is much more "innovative", got the straight target "world domination" instead of "high uptimes".
Beside of that both are very equal - it`s yet another *nix-lookalike. *nix is a tool, like toiletpaper. You use it, but you don`t arguee about it. But you may still prefer the pink one with funny penguins on it:-)
I have no problem to force swapping (or actually paging:-) on a 96MB-single-user-client:-)
And memory gets even more important with a multiuser-system. My personal "internet-connected" computer eg has 48mb ram, 128MB swap, 30 users and needs around 70mb swap after one week or so even without X. (ok, squid, qwsv and up to 20 screen-session eat quite a lot:-)
> the key to any OS is long-term credibility. > People have to believe that your OS will be > around in 5 years, or they > won't develop for it, they won't invest in it,
QNX has been around for 20 years and been sold several million times in emedded systems. Its been a keyplayer in industrial solution and has been stable like hell. Also you can compile lots, if not all, unix-goodies with no effort. But then again, who needs it on the Desktop in a world full of Linux and Windows...
The whole concept sounds more like DIVX than an mp3-player and, to make a weird story true, I don`t need such a thing anyway.
There will be true mp3-players from other sources, so dig Rio (or get one, while they are cool(Rio300) and not after they get lame(Rio500) ).
In some months or years every pda will do the same and I can use x11amp (or whatever they call it), amp, winamp, ce-amp and so on and simply forget about RIAA and Diamond.
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The K7 is nothing for the $2500-systems, its for BIG $x0.000-systems. It for places, where money doesn`t count. A single high-end-K7 will cost several thousand dollars alone.
> For those of you who keep talking about fat > clients with hard drives and floppies > and such, remember that they are very expencive, > in the short run they are > cheaper, but in order to stay current and > competitive with the rest of the business > world you need to upgrade about every 20 > months or so.
Why do I need to upgrade a pc-based X-Terminal?
I am running a HP-Vecta 386sx16 with 8MB RAM and a 100MB Harddisk, build nearly ten years ago, for five years as a X-Terminal with X and linux. It wasn`t always blindingly fast, but good enough for running (displaying?) KDE, Netscape and StarOffice lately.
I really can`t see why I should upgrade the old Vectra, it good enough. And I wont change anything about it until it crumbles to dust. Ok, I might add, that I put up another X-Terminal some weeks ago, a 486dx4-160/32MB-RAM/300MB-Harddrive, but its much more intelligent and even somewhat independent from the server.
As far as I know the story the law applies to exports from the US to non-secure nations.
So why bother? Sony (a japanese company) will build its game-consoles somewhere else (singapure? china? taiwan?) and export them whereever they want (iraq? serbia?).
Its just like crypto-laws: Germany has free crypto-laws, so many companies move to germany when they get into crypto-stuff.
America has free weapon-laws, so many gunman move to America. Uh. Just kiddin... but the gun-industry of america seeems to be more alive than that of japan or germany:-)
> Ubiquity. Not as many macs in the world as PCs, > but the lopsided numbers / market share I think > are misleading, since it's hard to go ten > minutes in any US city and avoid seeing either > an ad or an actual iMac / G3, not to mention > older and still humming Macs.
And thats the point: Outside the US Macs are completly unknown. Asking for a mac in munich is like asking for Prinz Andrew in a Bottle. And if you finally get one, it costs at least 30% more than in the US+import-toll. An imac for $2000?
Guess what...
thats quite sad because PCs are even cheaper than in the us (anyone needs a $500-PC?:-). Surveys showes the Mac below 1%, Linux at 4% in western-europa.
And the further you went to the east (poland, ukrainia, russia) the more you see linux around. I was amazed to see a bunch of old 386/486-systems running at a remote friends home somewhere near St.Petersburg - all linux. In those regions you can find up to 25% of all systems running linux.
Most scaringly this worked for me also quite well... if they got on my nerves, I walked away, if they continued, I didn`t notice them until they begged to much for a lesson.
But its not a general solution!! For me it worked, well on some less bloody scale, because I always have been LARGER and HEAVIER than most class-mates.
Also I generally show a quiet, slow and hard-to-anger behaviour... but only up to some degree. After that I fall or at least tend to fall into some form of rage and believe me, most didnt expect anything. So I was an unpredictable risk and they dropped me.
Would it work for YOU? Mostly, I dont think so. It made me a big lot of trouble (but in most cases, when you beat up three bullies who believes the bullies?), I know how to play my role, I know to analize a situation (attack? bad... retreat? good... surrender? BAD! wait for another day? why not?) and only failed once.
And one more thing I discovered later:
Unity makes you strong!
When I demonstrated to get along with the thugs, many less lucky guys tend to hang around somewhere around my friends and me. So I got interested: What would happen, if you put all those looney scared mices together? Well, starting with four or five guys you get a hard to impress group. Oh, you might say, fighting the gang by building your own gang? Yo, man, whats your problem?
Never embarase anyone outside the group. But when embarased:
Never tell publically what you do next. Tell Teachers. Or sometimes even better, parents. Sue em. Get them before school-court. Scare em. No fair one-on-one. No fair fights at all. But even more important: No fights at all. No revenge!
Always remember: Never ever insult anyone. And never attack. Always keep a cool head. And fight back hard when you are ready for it.
Did I mention, that this way I never ever had a problem from the nineth degree to the thirteen degree?
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> In term of 'Net appliances, we're way far behind
> in some irrelevant ways: I don't know if anybody
> remembers but I think that there was a
> service by which people in Japan could access
> news, purchace stocks (maybe), and do other
> simalar things using their Nintendo (remember
> that 8-bit thing, we had as kids?) And the
> French have had something similar to that for
> decades.
You are talking about btx, which in various variations was used in western europa since 1984 and is definitly a ancestor of todays internet.
Nowaday the once biggest btx-service-providers are the biggest internet-service-providers.
Actually I heared the term "to surf" the first time in 1989, when in a scientific tv-show the moderator surfed in btx-pages with a digital isdn-64kBit-dialup-line.
Eastern Europa could easily take over most taiwanese products.
The education in technology was always quite strong in eastern europa, very obviously back in socialist times, because its a very unpolitical and secure education, and after some years of break they are back and investing respectable amounts of money into their education system.
I`ve met bulgarians, ukrainians and russians, which came to germany to earn money by working as a low-rank worker by building roads and houses, but after work they discussed technology of 8051-based computers, ham-radio and aeronautics. And they know what they are talking about.
When I tried to get quake3, I faced a weird difference in the pricing of the windows- and the linux-version. While win-q3 goes for around 40 Euro (which is quite a reasonably pricing), the linuxversion would have cost me nearly twice as much... 70 Euro...
:-)
:-)
Remembering Carmack saying "you will be able to crossupdate your linux-version to a windowsversion and visaversa in upcoming Pointreleases" I bought the Windowsversion. Sigh. He kept his word, so I am quite happy now.
(Still I am surprised that all big stores carry the linuxversion - but not one offeres the macversion
Maybe the placing of q3 at the index for youth-endangering material is partly responsible for that, because then you may not advertise or publicly sell q3 and that obviously holds back competition. And this is a deathpenalty for a small plattform like linux.
Halflife showed how easy it is to avoid the index: They changed the human actors from Humans to robots and robots blood is oil and therefore green and brown. Voila, here we sell the big numbers. How many 100.000 times was Halflife sold in Germany?
Btw, the inofficial patchfile to crossupdate your german version to an international version is around 25MB and was two weeks after Halflife available
John Travolta as the star in a new hubbard-based novell - ok, everyone knew, that these are two important arms of Scientology.
:-) and leads the revolution against the heretics.
But Im surprised that Warner Studio is also "involved" - and noone can tell me, that the incredibly bad stories from hubbard would be brought to cinema by a independend, sane man or studio.
Basicly the short conclussion of the story sounds like the doctrine of scientology:
The Aliens "the heretic non-scientologists" control the world, a mighty "learning machine" open the eyes of the selected one (in fact scientology already charges impressive amounts of money for use of their "learning-maschines", which are more or less boxes of random electronic components, so I guess the selected one is the stupid who bids the most
Hey, I am not against some revolution here and then. But their way of revolution would make "the order of his eternal dark shadow" look like sunday afternoons teatime, so I better continue training at www.counter-strike.net for the last stand.
No smiley.
If you should happen to watch the film - it is their truth, in other words, best comparable to late nazi-propaganda where anglelike nazis save the world from bloodthirsty juds, baby-frying communists, anarchic family-structures and the tortour of free speech.
While this sounds like a big conspiracy, it is nothing at all. First, Music is not "copyrighted" material in sense of american law in germany. In fact, its perfectly legal to copy music without charge for "private, personal", non-commercial purposes. If I download 1000 CDs from the internet, I can`t be blamed. But the operator of the website can be sued, because he did deal with a anonymous person and not a personal friend or relativ. Second, music will most likely not become "copyrighted material" in germany, because then the large GEMA organisation would have to be scraped also. GEMA is a private organisation, charges quite some money on EVERY media sold in germany and distributes the revenues between the artists. Third, the internet-providers will laugh about any attempt to make them block anything. Routers, like our companys big cisco7500, cost several $100.000 and are still under hard preasure to keep up with the traffic (we use quite alot of em and we are just a small provider in southern germany). Making them filter would demand 10-100 times more power, which means raising by factor 10 or more. I know what I am talking about, I have to use filters from time to time on our core-gate and it imediately loses performance. Impossible to do this on a large scale. And last but not least law itself would intervene: You can techically only block nearly all digital media or nothing. By law you may not block in general to block a specific content and therefore a general filter is illegal.
> it takes more time than SSH but you get to have
:-)
> some real food instead of american genetically
> engineered hormone
> grown hamburgers..
And catch Captain Tripps or other funny one-time-diseases while eating british beaf?
Uhm, no thanx
The problem is not Unisys, they are just another predator. The problem is the law. Algorithms shouldn`t be allowed to be patented. Ah, one moment... THEY ARE NOT allowed to be patented! At least in 95% of the world :-)
But still something is terribly wrong - png is out for five years, its much better - more efficient, faster, more powerfull - than gif and completely free. It was invented to replace gif when Unisys started to rampage.
WHY THE HELL IS STILL NOONE USING PNG?
(AND WHY GOT MY SHIFT-KEY HUNG?)
It took AGES for ns and ie to learn png. BAD.
Noone knows PNG. BAD.
And instead of supporting the open standard PNG ns and ms do nothing for the "open standard".
> They grabed all the tests Intel used on the PIII
:-)
> to make it look good, ported 'em to G4, ran them
> and beat the shit outta Intel...
You are dreaming.
They didn`t use intels tests, because they don't have access to intels sourcecodes and intel wouldn`t port em either
And while the G4 is not bad, it is NOT twice as fast all the day. Basicly today speed depends on RAM/Cache-Speed and not internal bellsnwhistles.
But the G4 doesn`t bring something new to the bandwidth-arena: half-speed-2nd-Level Cache, 100Mhz-RAM-Access.
And even AV will not widen the RAM-Bottleneck - a P3 fills its 100Mhz/64Bit-Bus to 80% in general.
As the G4 uses a similiar bus - 100Mhz/64Bit - even AV can`t push more data through the bus.
Nothings gets eaten as hot as it was cooked.
Well well, apple says G4 kicks ass... apperantly not with macos, which I would even kick away for win3.11 - but I hope for some real Operating-Systems :-)
:-/
I hope the G4 will continue the earlier success of the PPC-CPU, because the G3 terribly SUCKS.
My standard-tests (bzip2, make-ing and using, pov-ray) showed a Celeron-433 to be ca. two times faster than a G3-266) - a ppc604e-180 was faster than a G3-266
But the independent benchmarks for the G4 do not look to powerfull at all. Not bad, hey, even very nice, but not kicking ass. Apple may state that the fastet G4 quite beats the fastest PentiumIII-Xeon, but they shouldn`t compete with others, like K7, Alpha.
>> UAE runs full speed on my P3.
:-)
:-)
> What do you mean by "full speed?" The same as a
> 68000 at 7MHz? A 68030 at 50MHz? A 604e at
> 200MHz? Like many other computer systems, Amigas
> don't just come in one speed
Some numbers I once checked with lha and gzip under uae:
My 486dx4-160 running Linux runs about 80% of the speed of my Amiga1000.
My Dual-PentiumMMX-233 running Linux runs about half of the speed of my Amiga3000.
A PentiumIII-560 (overclocked) runs around the speed of an 68040/40.
Not to bad for little optimized c-source
Four words: You are mostly wrong.
An Amiga running AmigaOS on a MC68060/50 is quite nice and very alive.
An Amiga with a 233Mhz PPC604e running Linux is really cool - and you can get nearly all new software.
But hey, I didn`t say "go and get some", these freak-systems are expensive like hell, hard to get - but they are not dead!
The PET2001 aka CBM2008/3008 was build first in 1977, with a black and white monitor, tape drive and 8k RAM, running Basic1.0. I once had one of those with additional dual-floppy (each 1meg) and two external 64k-Boxes (not that big at all :-)
Later it got a green/black-monitor and basic2.0
> Is this right? Am I allowed to "reverse .idl (or .tlb)
> engineer", say, MS Excel's COM
> file to produce a product that works with it?
So far I know the situation in germany and its the same in most parts of the eu:
Without permission you may not disassemble internal parts and you may not patch disassembled parts, even if you are doing necessary bugfixes.
But you have rights when buying a product and even more when renting a product (thats one reason no company rents their programs in europe). So you have the right to get a bugfixed version or get you money back within six months, from 2002 on twentyfour months. Thats not just some offer from a company, thats the law.
But you may watch the communications with the outside. And basicly every API falls under this point.
...microsoft, windows and bill gates
Two years ago it was nearly impossible to avoid these words for one day if you are in computer-buisness - now it is in many cases at least possible, sometimes it`s even normal.
Maybe even code doesn`t matter because if noone talks about gates anymore, he wont scare anyone anymore.
silence...
I personally disagree with the reasons for the american ethnic situation - ok, I am also just another european bystander, but from what I have seen, it is not preasure by some institutions, its much deeper - "what would people think, if I don`t follow the official ethnic?" :-)
:-)
:-)
Instead of thinking about "is it good or bad what I am doing" many think "what will others think of me?" (Or at least uncle Henry from Washington State summed it up this way
Would be interesting to confront an republic american with an average commercial break in the 23:00-broadcast of german startrek, just count how many naked "ladies" are doing busy work at themself advertising for 0190/0900-phonenumbers.
One could switch to another station, but you can bet most of them are just airing another porn from the 70/80... except on sunday, then they are broadcasting productions from the 90`s
Did I mentioned, that some violent scenes got cutted from startrek while broadcasting in germany?
Looks like other regions also have their personal ethical problems (not to mention arabic television which REALLY pisses me of
Looks like the goverments of the english-speaking world finally went nuts.?
:-)=
Ok, fine for me, continental europa has in general very liberal law on encryption and this will create thousands of new jobs here.
We could discuss the word "liberal": the german ministry of inner security called "breaking encryption an act of aggression, encryption itself an act of defense."
This coincidently wents along with an discussion about growing activity in spying science- and industrial secrets in germany, namely by the USA and the UK and most times even by "official" secret services.
You think that can`t be a big problem?
You are wrong! The known cases of stolen knowledge by the USA and the UK sum up to 30 Billion Dollars EACH YEAR. Makes some chinease bluecopies of uncle sam`s latest kill-o-zap look quite inexpensive
Some interesting laws are coming in germany this year and I expect encryption to become a MUST, not a MUST NOT in several cases.
Funny, it describes the situation quite clear:
:-) and play at my machine. And here we go, the linux-folks is much more "innovative", got the straight target "world domination" instead of "high uptimes".
:-)
BSD crumpled under the struggle of copyright in 1993 (thats was right when I switched from BSD to Linux).
BSD is rockstable (I don`t say that linux isn`t stable, but maybe a little bit less).
But now the point: BSD is boring.
Simply said I don`t run a webserver all day and I don`t type "uptime" all day.
I actually try to work (to some extend
Beside of that both are very equal - it`s yet another *nix-lookalike. *nix is a tool, like toiletpaper. You use it, but you don`t arguee about it. But you may still prefer the pink one with funny penguins on it
I have no problem to force swapping (or actually paging :-) on a 96MB-single-user-client :-)
:-)
And memory gets even more important with a multiuser-system. My personal "internet-connected" computer eg has 48mb ram, 128MB swap, 30 users and needs around 70mb swap after one week or so even without X. (ok, squid, qwsv and up to 20 screen-session eat quite a lot
> the key to any OS is long-term credibility.
> People have to believe that your OS will be
> around in 5 years, or they
> won't develop for it, they won't invest in it,
QNX has been around for 20 years and been sold several million times in emedded systems. Its been a keyplayer in industrial solution and has been stable like hell.
Also you can compile lots, if not all, unix-goodies with no effort.
But then again, who needs it on the Desktop in a world full of Linux and Windows...
Sounds like Diamond wants to kill the Rio.
The whole concept sounds more like DIVX than an mp3-player and, to make a weird story true, I don`t need such a thing anyway.
There will be true mp3-players from other sources, so dig Rio (or get one, while they are cool(Rio300) and not after they get lame(Rio500) ).
In some months or years every pda will do the same and I can use x11amp (or whatever they call it), amp, winamp, ce-amp and so on and simply forget about RIAA and Diamond.
The K7 is nothing for the $2500-systems, its for BIG $x0.000-systems. It for places, where money doesn`t count. A single high-end-K7 will cost several thousand dollars alone.
> For those of you who keep talking about fat
> clients with hard drives and floppies
> and such, remember that they are very expencive, > in the short run they are
> cheaper, but in order to stay current and
> competitive with the rest of the business
> world you need to upgrade about every 20
> months or so.
Why do I need to upgrade a pc-based X-Terminal?
I am running a HP-Vecta 386sx16 with 8MB RAM and a 100MB Harddisk, build nearly ten years ago, for five years as a X-Terminal with X and linux. It wasn`t always blindingly fast, but good enough for running (displaying?) KDE, Netscape and StarOffice lately.
I really can`t see why I should upgrade the old Vectra, it good enough. And I wont change anything about it until it crumbles to dust. Ok, I might add, that I put up another X-Terminal some weeks ago, a 486dx4-160/32MB-RAM/300MB-Harddrive, but its much more intelligent and even somewhat independent from the server.
As far as I know the story the law applies to exports from the US to non-secure nations.
:-)
So why bother? Sony (a japanese company) will build its game-consoles somewhere else (singapure? china? taiwan?) and export them whereever they want (iraq? serbia?).
Its just like crypto-laws: Germany has free crypto-laws, so many companies move to germany when they get into crypto-stuff.
America has free weapon-laws, so many gunman move to America. Uh. Just kiddin... but the gun-industry of america seeems to be more alive than that of japan or germany
> Ubiquity. Not as many macs in the world as PCs,
:-). Surveys showes the Mac below 1%, Linux at 4% in western-europa.
> but the lopsided numbers / market share I think
> are misleading, since it's hard to go ten
> minutes in any US city and avoid seeing either
> an ad or an actual iMac / G3, not to mention
> older and still humming Macs.
And thats the point: Outside the US Macs are completly unknown. Asking for a mac in munich is like asking for Prinz Andrew in a Bottle. And if you finally get one, it costs at least 30% more than in the US+import-toll. An imac for $2000?
Guess what...
thats quite sad because PCs are even cheaper than in the us (anyone needs a $500-PC?
And the further you went to the east (poland, ukrainia, russia) the more you see linux around. I was amazed to see a bunch of old 386/486-systems running at a remote friends home somewhere near St.Petersburg - all linux. In those regions you can find up to 25% of all systems running linux.
> No barking, no growling: nuclear explosion.
Most scaringly this worked for me also quite well... if they got on my nerves, I walked away, if they continued, I didn`t notice them until they begged to much for a lesson.
But its not a general solution!! For me it worked, well on some less bloody scale, because I always have been LARGER and HEAVIER than most class-mates.
Also I generally show a quiet, slow and hard-to-anger behaviour... but only up to some degree. After that I fall or at least tend to fall into some form of rage and believe me, most didnt expect anything. So I was an unpredictable risk and they dropped me.
Would it work for YOU? Mostly, I dont think so. It made me a big lot of trouble (but in most cases, when you beat up three bullies who believes the bullies?), I know how to play my role, I know to analize a situation (attack? bad... retreat? good... surrender? BAD! wait for another day? why not?) and only failed once.
And one more thing I discovered later:
Unity makes you strong!
When I demonstrated to get along with the thugs, many less lucky guys tend to hang around somewhere around my friends and me.
So I got interested: What would happen, if you put all those looney scared mices together?
Well, starting with four or five guys you get a hard to impress group. Oh, you might say, fighting the gang by building your own gang?
Yo, man, whats your problem?
Never embarase anyone outside the group. But when embarased:
Never tell publically what you do next.
Tell Teachers. Or sometimes even better, parents.
Sue em. Get them before school-court. Scare em.
No fair one-on-one.
No fair fights at all.
But even more important:
No fights at all.
No revenge!
Always remember: Never ever insult anyone.
And never attack. Always keep a cool head.
And fight back hard when you are ready for it.
Did I mention, that this way I never ever had a problem from the nineth degree to the thirteen degree?