A: Mac-on-Linux lets you run MacOS under Linux/ppc. MOL runs natively on the processor, i.e. it is very fast. Unlike most mac emulators, MOL can run MacOS 8.6 and later WITHOUT A ROM IMAGE.
I'm guessing that the requirement to have a ROM image available was lifted in MacOS 8.6. What you say used to be true, but I do not think that it is true anymore....
A: It does. MOL runs for instance on the Pegasos board, the Teron board and on AmigaOne hardware. In short, MOL should run on any PowerPC hardware (with the except of 601-based systems). However, the EULA of MacOS prohibits its usage on non-Apple hardware (it is of course perfectly legal to use MOL to boot a second Linux though).
This means it might be technically possible to run MACOS on this thing, but it is also technically illegal!
Why isn't Sistina's LVM making it into the kernel? SUSE has been including it as standard in their distribution for some time.
According to thesearticles LVM2 has made it into the 2.5 development series, as of 2.5.45. Thus, it is likely to also be in 2.6.....
Car-rental extras...
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As mentioned in the article the car-rental business is famous for it's extras. Here are the ones that they mentioned
extra local taxes
the hard-sell "collision damage waiver,"
the charge for an extra driver
the ever-popular "refueling charge" should you not fill up the tank.
At the San Francisco airport a $12 surcharge helps pay for the car-rental shuttle bus
a state-mandated $10 at Boston's Logan Airport helps fund the city's new convention center
last month, also in Boston, Dollar Rent a Car slapped on a $1.84 daily "peak-season" fee
I am renting a car in the near future, where they also threw on a "Premium Station Surcharge" for picking the car up from the airport instead of a local station. That comes to around 20USD. Plus, often, you have limited kilometres, so you had better count on adding on a few dollars if you go too far....
This is nothing to do with tracking mobile phones.
Rather what it does is to transform all of the telephone masts into "radar platforms". So, it cannot identify you, but it can tell you that there is something in a particular location....
It was always interesting to me as well. The problems with the "lack of buzz" around the terapin mine are entirely their own fault. Here is a shortlist:
No known updates (or ways to update) the linux based OS. And they are not GPL friendly, in that you can't get their mods to the OS.
Bluetooth would not of helped them any. Theoretically, you could plug a bluetooth PCMCIA card into the mine and it would do it as well (runs linux inside) so it should work. I would seriously consider it if these issues could be resolved....
Re: Heard of it before...
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Although I'm sure that I've heard of this somewhere before,
The really funny thing is that it is slower than going into the shop to buy stuff. The really great thing is that it is open 24x7, which the shops are not. The queues on a Sunday afternoon for this thing is normally 5-6 people long...
Basically, patenting something in software and then GPLing it means you're the only one who can write the code that does that, but anyone can modify and redistribute what you've done. Kind of confusing, but basically it means that a certain method of doing something in software can now only be done if it's under the GPL - interesting.
Sadly, I believe that you are wrong.
Disclaimer: IANAL
Unisys allowed patented code (LZW) to be used in GPL products. The GIF format was largely scuppered because of this patent. Just being GPL does not protect you from patents.
You claim that they can write the code, which is true. But just placing the code under GPL does not protect you from further patent attacks, unless of course you are claiming prior art, which this is not. It is work based on the patent, you are free to modify it, and to redistribute it, except that they can still come and shut you down as a derivative work, since your work is based on the patent. This is what people are worried about.
When using a mobile while on the move, one frequently finds oneself changing from cell to cell. In order to ensure that the conversation is not cut off, GSM mobile phones detect the nearest antennae and automatically trigger the changeover from one to the next, according to what is known as a "hand-over" mechanism. This transfer uses up more energy than an ordinary call. If many such hand-overs are called for, because the caller is travelling at high speed, there is a risk that the battery will wear out quickly. Not only that, but the risk of being cut off increases with the number of hand-overs, of course. In addition to that, when travelling at over 300km/h, this mechanism is more complex than at 50 km/h. In order to overcome these problems and to ensure that cover is efficient in high speed transport, a specific version of the GSM standard has been created, called GSM-R (R for Railway). Most high speed rail links in Europe are already fitted with this system, which is in fact a network specific to the rail line in question and which is a complement to the network which covers the whole of the area through which the train runs.
What this boils down to, is that as you install these things, you also need special GSM networks. This almost certainly holds true for GPRS, etc, as well...
As was clearly stated at the PalmSource conference back in February, the OS is equally suited to a 640x640 display or even the odd resolutions like 320x480 (like the NR70).
However, as was clearly shown on the OS datasheet pages it does not support arbitrary resolutions:
Palm OS 5 incorporates a set of high-density APIs that double the screen resolution of a Palm Powered device -- from 160 x 160 pixels to 320x320 pixels.
While what you say may well be true (I sure hope so!), the specs from the manufacturer do not make this clear at all....
Reuters is carrying an interesting story about Hong Kong's Octopus smart card system, which serves as a mass-transit fare card and is now being accepted by merchants for small purchases. A magazine cover story from last year goes more into depth. Interesting to note that the system started off anonymous, and is now being converted into a personally-trackable system.
*Disclaimer* I worked on the product, I have not read the article...
When I was working on this project, three years ago, there were two types of cards available. The first was completely anonymous, the card could be tracked, but it could not be linked to anyone. It was sold over the counter, without identification, and had way of associating itself with it's user.
The second type of card was personalised. This card could also be linked to your savings account, and when your travel card got low on funds could automatically top itself up. You had to request this specifically! Lots of people did, because it is incredibly convenient, since you never have to buy a ticket ever again. And, since the cards are contactless you never even needed to take it out of your wallet/purse.
So, unless they have changed the system quite dramatically in the last three years, then there is no difference, and it has not been "converted", and you can still be anonymous if you wish.
Apparently neither IBM, nor the German government think so... from the article:
While the software itself is free to download from the internet, companies - such as SuSE, the German distributor whose version of Linux IBM is using - can still charge for technical support and other services.
Of course, SuSE is German, and they don't yet distribute United Linux, but....
My thoughts on this are simple. I trust red hat to honour their word on this. Yes, they could change their mind, but I don't think that they will.
However, what if Red Hat go bankrupt? One of the things that will be up for sale will be the patents that Red Hat own. What happens if Unisys(for example) buys these patents, does anyone really want to see another GIF debacle?
the House Majority whip said yesterday, "In a time of war, we can not concern ourselfs about the constitutional problems when passing laws"
Do you have a reference for this? This would be great to have as a quote from the times or whatever, it stands up a lot more with people I know than some "random quote" from slashdot:-)
OK, so smart cards are not tamper resistant. I don't see that any attack based around stealing a smart card is anything to worry about, assuming the card itself only stores dumb information like a sum of money or an id number.
And herein lies the problem. Smart cards don't only store "dumb information". In particular, from the article (which I assume you read?):
Some of the information stored in the card is in the form of a number composed of ones and zeros that cryptographers refer to as a "private key." That key is part of a two-key system that is used to encode and decode information. The security of such systems is compromised if the private key is revealed.
In particular, here in the Netherlands (and I believe elsewhere in Europe), you can get online access to your account (with most banks) by using your ATM card. This is accomplished since each ATM card has a smart card on the card. If you can get the secret key out of the card, then you can login to someone elses banking site. No you can't do this with the card alone, since you need to know the cards PIN to access the smart card functionality.
*Sigh* I know I am only responding to flamebait, but it has been modded "insightful" so...
Look at your Spanish history before the Spanish Inquisitions. Before the inquisitions there were Jewish, Muslim and Christian cities in Spain. Or more precisely, city states.
During the growth of the Spanish empire, Spain took most of these cities over, however, they were still not properly integrated into one kingdom, they were a little bit more like the UN is today. Still, to some extent, autonomous but beholden to the Spanish crown.
One of the things that Queen Isabella did to change this was to impose a state religion (Roman Catholic), and then later to cause the inquistions to enforce the crowns will. This was done with the knowledge and encouragement of the state church (which was at this time, not Muslim).
[The Muslim religion] should be excluded from the global debate on how to make the world a better place because it has a truly horrific history
And your argument is that the christian religion better on the history stakes? Or should I mention the crusades as well? Those wars to fight the "infidel Muslim", in which the goal was to retake Jerusalem, and reduce the influence of the Turk (Islam) powers.
What the hell are you talking about? Major open-source components? Which? Last I checked, (I have the Websphere Studio download sitting here, right from IBM's partner site - and I see nothing about open source anything. Is java open source? Or XML?
Sadly, they are true, have a look at what is included with WebSphere:
Apache
XAlan
Xerces
Having said this, I agree that the opensource bit is a little overstated, since the major part of WebSphere is not opensource at all, but how would it get onto/. if they didn't mention opensource!:-)
Try looking at the Dimage 5/7/7i from Minolta. I have the 7 and it does time lapse photography. You can set it to do 1 photo a minute up to 1 photo an hour (from memory, I don't have the manual here...) and you can take as many photos as fit into your compact flash...which with a 1Gb microdrive is a lot, even at 2500*2000(rougly 500 images). At 640*480 it just goes into the realms of stupid....
I would almost consider paying for a subscription if slashdot had fewer (far fewer!) repeat articles.
Maybe you can have a plum option, "don't bother showing me repeat articles, cause if I wasn't interested once, I'm not interested now"?
This for me is the biggest reason I won't pay for slashdot. Don't get me wrong, I think slashdot is great, and definitely worth what I pay for it, just not worth a whole lot more.... If I really want to see repeats, I can quickyl enough browse the 1/2 dozen sites that slashdot get most of their stories from anyway...
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Laugh, damn you! Laugh!
- extra local taxes
- the hard-sell "collision damage waiver,"
- the charge for an extra driver
- the ever-popular "refueling charge" should you not fill up the tank.
- At the San Francisco airport a $12 surcharge helps pay for the car-rental shuttle bus
- a state-mandated $10 at Boston's Logan Airport helps fund the city's new convention center
- last month, also in Boston, Dollar Rent a Car slapped on a $1.84 daily "peak-season" fee
I am renting a car in the near future, where they also threw on a "Premium Station Surcharge" for picking the car up from the airport instead of a local station. That comes to around 20USD. Plus, often, you have limited kilometres, so you had better count on adding on a few dollars if you go too far....Rather what it does is to transform all of the telephone masts into "radar platforms". So, it cannot identify you, but it can tell you that there is something in a particular location....
- Despite promising a developer kit, it is at least 9 months late
- It is expensive. More than an Ipod.
- No known updates (or ways to update) the linux based OS. And they are not GPL friendly, in that you can't get their mods to the OS.
Bluetooth would not of helped them any. Theoretically, you could plug a bluetooth PCMCIA card into the mine and it would do it as well (runs linux inside) so it should work. I would seriously consider it if these issues could be resolved....Maybe it was here....
And even with the slashdot 128mb we still can't take out more than 25 sites a second...
*sigh* life imitates art again :-)
Please?
Disclaimer: IANAL
Unisys allowed patented code (LZW) to be used in GPL products. The GIF format was largely scuppered because of this patent. Just being GPL does not protect you from patents.
You claim that they can write the code, which is true. But just placing the code under GPL does not protect you from further patent attacks, unless of course you are claiming prior art, which this is not. It is work based on the patent, you are free to modify it, and to redistribute it, except that they can still come and shut you down as a derivative work, since your work is based on the patent. This is what people are worried about.
When I was working on this project, three years ago, there were two types of cards available. The first was completely anonymous, the card could be tracked, but it could not be linked to anyone. It was sold over the counter, without identification, and had way of associating itself with it's user.
The second type of card was personalised. This card could also be linked to your savings account, and when your travel card got low on funds could automatically top itself up. You had to request this specifically! Lots of people did, because it is incredibly convenient, since you never have to buy a ticket ever again. And, since the cards are contactless you never even needed to take it out of your wallet/purse.
So, unless they have changed the system quite dramatically in the last three years, then there is no difference, and it has not been "converted", and you can still be anonymous if you wish.
However, what if Red Hat go bankrupt? One of the things that will be up for sale will be the patents that Red Hat own. What happens if Unisys(for example) buys these patents, does anyone really want to see another GIF debacle?
And herein lies the problem. Smart cards don't only store "dumb information". In particular, from the article (which I assume you read?):
In particular, here in the Netherlands (and I believe elsewhere in Europe), you can get online access to your account (with most banks) by using your ATM card. This is accomplished since each ATM card has a smart card on the card. If you can get the secret key out of the card, then you can login to someone elses banking site. No you can't do this with the card alone, since you need to know the cards PIN to access the smart card functionality.
Look at your Spanish history before the Spanish Inquisitions. Before the inquisitions there were Jewish, Muslim and Christian cities in Spain. Or more precisely, city states.
During the growth of the Spanish empire, Spain took most of these cities over, however, they were still not properly integrated into one kingdom, they were a little bit more like the UN is today. Still, to some extent, autonomous but beholden to the Spanish crown.
One of the things that Queen Isabella did to change this was to impose a state religion (Roman Catholic), and then later to cause the inquistions to enforce the crowns will. This was done with the knowledge and encouragement of the state church (which was at this time, not Muslim).
And your argument is that the christian religion better on the history stakes? Or should I mention the crusades as well? Those wars to fight the "infidel Muslim", in which the goal was to retake Jerusalem, and reduce the influence of the Turk (Islam) powers.
- Apache
- XAlan
- Xerces
Having said this, I agree that the opensource bit is a little overstated, since the major part of WebSphere is not opensource at all, but how would it get ontoCheers, Paul
Maybe you can have a plum option, "don't bother showing me repeat articles, cause if I wasn't interested once, I'm not interested now"?
This for me is the biggest reason I won't pay for slashdot. Don't get me wrong, I think slashdot is great, and definitely worth what I pay for it, just not worth a whole lot more.... If I really want to see repeats, I can quickyl enough browse the 1/2 dozen sites that slashdot get most of their stories from anyway...