My experiences so far (ignoring installation problems with Mandrake):
It is a good desktop environment, it has lots of features, etc. If is more polished than 2.2 for sure.
However there are some new problems. Most notably form handling in Konqueror (which is much better overall now, but I need to use Mozilla to avoid the form handling problem) when using POST instead of GET (as far as I can see) fails about 40% of the time.
I can now use non-truetype fonts at the same time as truetype fonts when using anti-aliasing for KDE apps. This is great for consoles.
The monospaced font problem has been eliminated.
GIF animations in Konqueror still have not been fixed.
Yeah, that is the horrible cludgey way I have to do things now, which to be honest, is really crap.
All I want in Pine when I press ^W is to have the option to search message bodies, not just the header fields. I know it will take longer, but it would be really useful.
Although the new chip could theoretically run a lot faster (say 500MHz), the advantage of consoles is the fixed hardware over their lifespan. This means that games can be designed for the one fixed hardware platform to run on, and it will run on all PS2s ever sold.
The architecture may also not be designed to be clocked that much higher - think short pipelines, etc.
This means that the new PS2 is liable to be a lot cooler than the old PS2... and cheaper to boot with one less chip on the motherboard, and the other major chip costing less to make.
Lets just wait for the overclocks:)
There are two blackbirds shagging outside my window right this moment.
I assumed it wasn't because the article wanted it, and they had based their wants around what Outlook didn't have.
Nice to know though.
Waiting for KMail to also have some of these features - specifically the message colouring and the PIM integration. To be fair I have not installed KDE3 yet - will do that later tonight - so this may already be part of it.
I use Pine for the company email on a remote machine. Works very nicely because I know how to use it (been using it since '96) well. I just want the search to also be able to search message bodies as well...
Pine has done the colouration of emails based upon criteria for years now, and it is a most useful feature that I would like to see in other email clients.
The other points here are a checklist for current open source email clients (Evolution, KMail, Mozilla Mail, etc) - many of the features are already integrated of course. It is just Outlook that is lacking, and it will remain lacking because Microsoft take ages to upgrade software, and then only add features they think the user needs, not what the user actually needs.
One thing I hear a lot about is the Amiga email program YAM as being extremely good. It is open source as well - a Unix port would be interesting.
Of course false positives are fine - let the cat stay outside even if it doesn't have a mouse or bird.
False negatives would be a problem of course, as then you are still getting cat offerings inside the house. So if you ensure very low false negatives at the expense of getting more false positives then fine.
So yes, this situation is acceptable for a cat flap monitoring program.
It does show some false negatives though: 4th March
But pretty neat. And the site has withstood Slashdot somehow - something that bigger sites fail on regularly.
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Well, with 1394B coming RSN with support for 1600Mbps (200MB/s) I think that this is more than enough for most home systems in terms of hard disk interface speed for the next couple of years at least. Future enhancements to Firewire will, of course, push that speed up to 3200MBps, and possibly further.
Firewire could support up to 63 internal hard drives, although they would each have to share the same bus. SerialATA allows for chaining of drives, but doesn't mention how many can be chained. I imagine that motherboards will have 2 SerialATA channels late this year, and 4 at some point next year - allowing SATA RAID 5 (3+1 drives) at a combined throughput of 600MBps...
But SerialATA has one major advantage. To the OS, is looks like a standard ATA interface - no driver changes are required at all. This isn't the case with Firewire currently. Hence it will succeed in my opinion (as well as being on every motherboard come 2003).
This has been badly moderated as a Troll, but the point is valid.
By excluding previously allowed software on their systems, Microsoft are extending their monopoly over the software that runs on their system.
It is most likely that this part of the EULA would be overturned in a court ruling as being unreasonable.
In any company, to comply with the license, they must use a Microsoft remote terminal application. This is restriction of business (or product tying), as companies will comply with the license of course!)
Someone should point this out to the 9 states and the DOJ as evidence that Microsoft are *continuing* to act in a predatory monopolistic manner, and that harsh terms need to be applied in order to allow true competition in the OS and application market.
1) The authenticity of the emails is not being disputed
2) There is a substantial electronic paper trail, making forgery much less likely
3) If email sent from A matches email received by B, and vice versa, then that further validates authenticity
4) Expert witnesses can be called to say that the logs files on the relevant ISPs clearly show that the emails are valid
So, like all law, the chances are likely that even if the authenticity of the emails was challenged, the Jury would find in favour of them being authentic.
What will happen, as with all large projects, is that the design ("Super Anime BioMech Armor") will will get changed or misunderstood in the middle to be "That Japanese Cartoon Film".
American soldiers in 2020 will be fighting with "Gotta Catch'em all!" and wearing giant yellow Pokemon armor. The enemy will be expected to have long gravity defying red hair but look quite fit. Halfway through most battles, a giant ancient Pokemon from the deep sea/forest/cave/city will emerge to save the soldiers before they lose.
That is where your $200billion+ defence budget each year is ultimately going. Pokemon Armor.
The light bending will be done by the armor incorporating giant glass prisms on all sides. Liht entering from any angle will be bounced around the soldier, miraculously exiting at the exact opposite side in the correct direction. Being Prism based, some portion of the light can be split off so that the soldier can still see, albeit it dark.
These prisms are expected to weight 1 tonne each, hence the powered armor for the soldier so they can carry them. Also, guns are a problem because you have to exit the prism unit before you can fight - miraculously become visible behind the evil dictator before you shoot him.
Does the Newton have a 320x480 16-bit colour display? I thought that the Newtons were all greyscale?
The DragonBall will probably get more IPC than the StrongARM used in the Newton, so whilst not being as powerful, it isn't as far behind as the MHz would suggest.
Yup, PalmOS sucks. But it does the job, although it is nowhere near as sexy as Symbian, which is the best PDA operating system around at the moment.
The lack of PCMCIA slots is probably because the device is about as big as a couple of PCMCIA cards anyway! It does have memory stick slot, which is not just for memory, but you can also add bluetooth interfaces and more via the interface.
And how big is your Newton compared with the new Sony?
PocketPCs have a resolution of 320x240 - this has a resolution of 480x320 - twice as many pixels - i.e., much higher resultion, better character definition, etc.
Sony's previous Clies have done MP3 and ATRAC3 anyway, this isn't new on their devices. The format of the device is however, and the swivelling screen looks like a great idea.
I find it amazing that Sony can take a platform like the Palm, and turn it into something so sexy! All this thing needs is a built in GPRS mobile phone and it will combine nearly everything that a person needs on their body!
I really wish AMD would get with the program and encourage quality chipset development like Intel does. There is a reason Intel chips are so much more stable - it'd because Intel cares about the chipset market. I wish we could say the same for AMD.
Ah! But AMD yesterday announced their new 8000 series chipset devices for HyperTransport systems (i.e., Hammer initially and MIPS).
This new chipset includes the 8111 hub (a traditional southbridge (USB2, 6-channel audio, ATA133, Network, PCI, etc - similar to the nForce MCP it appears) with 800MB/s uplink via HT), the 8131 tunnel (a dual PCI-X controller with 6.4GB/s uplink and 3.2GB/s downlink) and the 8151 tunnel (an AGP 8x controller with 6.4GB/s uplink and 1.6GB/s downlink).
There are documents on AMDs website (both the press release and the technical details), and a couple of good discussions on AcesHardware forum (http://www.aceshardware.com/forum).
You can chain the devices like this:
[CPU][PCI-X][AGP][IO]
Remember the memory controller for the Hammer is on the processor itself, so there is not a traditional northbridge with memory controller on it anymore.
That would suck when your BlueRay DVD recorder craps out 2 days after its 18-month warrantry expires (or at any time, but usually it is 2 days after the warrantry expires), and the replacement cannot play your own recorded DVDs.
This sort of feature would scream class-action lawsuit. I can't see my wedding video, nor loan it to a friend to watch. I can't watch my legal backup of this film I bought. I can't watch my archive of news clips I had for my interactive project, nor play my interactive project on a player apart from the one in my PC. and so on...
And the movie will stil be cracked, even if it is cracked by someone recording the output of the video on the computer monitor and skipping the entire "crack the CD" phase.
Having the client be more than a dumb interface to the world will introduce areas where the client can be modified for cheating purposes. Security in this sense is so very important. You don't want your world to have a player who locally edits the map to have a bridge over the "chasm of death" so he can reach the "amulet of light" without fighting the "hordes of minos" do you?
In Java, I have played Dusk (dusk.wesowin.org) which is a basic graphical MUD style environment but seems to be okay and contain a reasonable amount of the basics. And Java is like C# in many areas except supporting reflection and other good ideas, unlike C#. I should mention WorldForge as well.
As I am learning to drive, I do this naturally. I haven't done the kerb crawling yet though, that comes in the advanced driving test.
Still, I don't play games anymore. I am crap at them. Very crap. Better than my younger brother in law, but still crap. I enjoyed crazy taxi and got reasonable at that (on the skill tests). I now know that if I ever become a taxi driver that there are plenty of ways to make that money quicker.
Product placement is good if placed well. You don't expect to see a Ford advert in some fantasy game, for example. However, product placement in a game like Bladerunner (or the film, Atari, ha ha!) can make things a lot more realistic. It is so sad when a film has "MegaSoft Corp." as the evil computer company, or whatever... ruins any grip on reality that might have existed.
The 2MB 250MHz DDR L3 cache (4GB/s) will really help the processor though, and make the 133MHz SDRAM less of an issue to the end application. Except in streaming data of course... or large datasets...
So they have 33MHz 64-bit PCI? Or 66MHz 32-bit PCI? So what? So do dual x86 platforms. And the AMD 760MPX has 66MHz 64-bit PCI to double the performance of the new Mac, and it too is connected by a "direct bus to the system controller". Marketing speak for "Our northbridge connects to the rest of the system via PCI, unlike on the x86 where higher speed interconnects are getting really common that do not affect PCI at all but allow other components to really shine like integrated audio to die for (nForce)".
Yes, it is a nice Mac. I bet it is a killer Photoshop platform. It is a nice filler until the Mac G5's later this year - it keeps Apple competitive enough.
But I too am underwhelmed.
And 215MB/s indeed. It is 266MB/s unless they have some seriously freaky PCI setup. Ah, it is 64-bit PCI cards. So what? There is no benefit for the casual user with these, as most cards are 32-bit. In fact, I would go as far as to say that Apples marketing is misleading to the consumer, as Apple's 64-bit PCI will not be any faster for the consumer than the "slow" 32-bit PCI busses in use on PC platforms unless they stick in an expensive 64-bit SCSI card...
Don't get me wrong, the machine looks quite nice. It just isn't enough in my opinion. Wouldn't say no to one of them though:)
Hmmm. I would choose a desktop OS (and the machine) based upon the task. So buy decent powermacs for your Flash developers, or let them be with their Windows installations.
It is about choosing the right tool for the job. When Macromedia release a Linux tool for creating Flash animations, then upgrade them to Linux. Not before.
Put Linux on the desktops of the people that can use it, or on the old Win95/Win98 desktops that are due for an upgrade anyway. Don't forget to set up NFS (or similar) to allow people to keep their documents in a central repository that is backed up every night, and allows them to hot-desk if need be.
Honestly, if Windows was a sword and Linux an arrow, you wouldn't give you cavalry the arrows to fight with would you? You would give them to the archers who need them. Your flash developers are cavalry, let them die by the sword.
KOffice will handle the first one, KDE has a good printer configuration interface, and as for the latter one, I am running KDE with subpixel antialiasing on my TFT monitor here and it looks great, much better than the windows box next to it.
The fact is, KDE has more features than Windows at the desktop level. It is easier to program. It has a proper themable interface (I am running the gorgeous liquid theme by Mosfet) and it feels more solid.
Shame it has to run on top of XFree really, although it is doing its best, and KDE is making the most use of the extensions available like RENDER.
So the only thing is that KOffice still needs a lot of work to get to the level of Office. The Gnome apps appear to be making good headway in this area though - Gnumeric especially.
Just this week two high-profile domain endings "went live" - their purpose being solely for the use of personal domains.
(In case you haven't heard, these endings were.NAME and.ME.UK).
In order to discourage domain name squatting, the registries have taken different approaches:
GNR (.NAME) are having an extensive series of pre-registration steps before domain enters the general registration period.
Nominet (.UK) went the other way, ratified it on the 11th January and launched it on the 14th (1 day before.NAME hit the headlines - coincidence? I think not). This way it hadn't gained too much "hype" momentum, general consumers being fairly unaware of its existence. Additionally, the price was set 10 times higher than normal (£50 + tax), at least initially, to discourage mass purchase of addresses. You're only meant to register your own name; and if a company registers yourdomain.me.uk, this is considered an abusive use of the system, and you should be able to challenge the registration.
Personally I've bought my own.me.uk domain name from Firevision. It may cost £64 for 2 years (about $90), but I think its worth it in the long run.
I fully agree. I am running RH7.2 with KDE and Liquid (fully antialiased everywhere) on my machine and it is wonderful. But if it wasn't for the "Helmet" font that comes with RH7.2, I would be sorely miffed. Especially as KDE seems to want to use the fantasy font "Arioso" for everything half the time without my permission. Argh! Sorted it out now because the problem was an older KDE setup on NFS when I ran it on FreeBSD and directly used the Windows truetype fonts.
Heh, "helmet". Snigger.
But how do I enable subpixel antialiasing in KDE? I have a nice TFT monitor, and it would be nice to make even more use of it!
You can overclock the G4's in the Power Macs if you know how. The multiplier is encoded by some resistors near the CPU on the CPU card, and if you know the layout, you can overclock your 800MHz G4 reliably to 933MHz or even 1GHz. I don't know if you can do the same with the new iMac2, I reckon there is a good chance of it once someone finds out where these resistors are on the motherboard.
Amigans have been overclocking their 68k series processors for years. Witness the 28MHz 68000 for the A500, or the 75MHz 68060s (instead of 50MHz), a 50% overclock easy when decent coolers are added to the equation.
It is harder to overclock the 8-bits, as the rest of the system messes up in many cases, and the video output and audio go haywire. But it has been done (Enterprise 64 in one example, upping the 5MHz Z80 by a MHz or two, or replacing it with ones that do 10's of MHz I believe. Dunno about the C64 or Atari 8-bits though.
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It is a good desktop environment, it has lots of features, etc. If is more polished than 2.2 for sure.
However there are some new problems. Most notably form handling in Konqueror (which is much better overall now, but I need to use Mozilla to avoid the form handling problem) when using POST instead of GET (as far as I can see) fails about 40% of the time.
I can now use non-truetype fonts at the same time as truetype fonts when using anti-aliasing for KDE apps. This is great for consoles.
The monospaced font problem has been eliminated.
GIF animations in Konqueror still have not been fixed.
Yeah, that is the horrible cludgey way I have to do things now, which to be honest, is really crap.
All I want in Pine when I press ^W is to have the option to search message bodies, not just the header fields. I know it will take longer, but it would be really useful.
The architecture may also not be designed to be clocked that much higher - think short pipelines, etc.
This means that the new PS2 is liable to be a lot cooler than the old PS2... and cheaper to boot with one less chip on the motherboard, and the other major chip costing less to make.
Lets just wait for the overclocks :)
There are two blackbirds shagging outside my window right this moment.
Nice to know though.
Waiting for KMail to also have some of these features - specifically the message colouring and the PIM integration. To be fair I have not installed KDE3 yet - will do that later tonight - so this may already be part of it.
I use Pine for the company email on a remote machine. Works very nicely because I know how to use it (been using it since '96) well. I just want the search to also be able to search message bodies as well...
The other points here are a checklist for current open source email clients (Evolution, KMail, Mozilla Mail, etc) - many of the features are already integrated of course. It is just Outlook that is lacking, and it will remain lacking because Microsoft take ages to upgrade software, and then only add features they think the user needs, not what the user actually needs.
One thing I hear a lot about is the Amiga email program YAM as being extremely good. It is open source as well - a Unix port would be interesting.
False negatives would be a problem of course, as then you are still getting cat offerings inside the house. So if you ensure very low false negatives at the expense of getting more false positives then fine.
So yes, this situation is acceptable for a cat flap monitoring program.
But pretty neat. And the site has withstood Slashdot somehow - something that bigger sites fail on regularly.
Firewire could support up to 63 internal hard drives, although they would each have to share the same bus. SerialATA allows for chaining of drives, but doesn't mention how many can be chained. I imagine that motherboards will have 2 SerialATA channels late this year, and 4 at some point next year - allowing SATA RAID 5 (3+1 drives) at a combined throughput of 600MBps...
But SerialATA has one major advantage. To the OS, is looks like a standard ATA interface - no driver changes are required at all. This isn't the case with Firewire currently. Hence it will succeed in my opinion (as well as being on every motherboard come 2003).
By excluding previously allowed software on their systems, Microsoft are extending their monopoly over the software that runs on their system.
It is most likely that this part of the EULA would be overturned in a court ruling as being unreasonable.
In any company, to comply with the license, they must use a Microsoft remote terminal application. This is restriction of business (or product tying), as companies will comply with the license of course!)
Someone should point this out to the 9 states and the DOJ as evidence that Microsoft are *continuing* to act in a predatory monopolistic manner, and that harsh terms need to be applied in order to allow true competition in the OS and application market.
1) The authenticity of the emails is not being disputed
2) There is a substantial electronic paper trail, making forgery much less likely
3) If email sent from A matches email received by B, and vice versa, then that further validates authenticity
4) Expert witnesses can be called to say that the logs files on the relevant ISPs clearly show that the emails are valid
So, like all law, the chances are likely that even if the authenticity of the emails was challenged, the Jury would find in favour of them being authentic.
American soldiers in 2020 will be fighting with "Gotta Catch'em all!" and wearing giant yellow Pokemon armor. The enemy will be expected to have long gravity defying red hair but look quite fit. Halfway through most battles, a giant ancient Pokemon from the deep sea/forest/cave/city will emerge to save the soldiers before they lose.
That is where your $200billion+ defence budget each year is ultimately going. Pokemon Armor.
These prisms are expected to weight 1 tonne each, hence the powered armor for the soldier so they can carry them. Also, guns are a problem because you have to exit the prism unit before you can fight - miraculously become visible behind the evil dictator before you shoot him.
Where is my $50mil?
The DragonBall will probably get more IPC than the StrongARM used in the Newton, so whilst not being as powerful, it isn't as far behind as the MHz would suggest.
Yup, PalmOS sucks. But it does the job, although it is nowhere near as sexy as Symbian, which is the best PDA operating system around at the moment.
The lack of PCMCIA slots is probably because the device is about as big as a couple of PCMCIA cards anyway! It does have memory stick slot, which is not just for memory, but you can also add bluetooth interfaces and more via the interface.
And how big is your Newton compared with the new Sony?
Sony's previous Clies have done MP3 and ATRAC3 anyway, this isn't new on their devices. The format of the device is however, and the swivelling screen looks like a great idea.
I find it amazing that Sony can take a platform like the Palm, and turn it into something so sexy! All this thing needs is a built in GPRS mobile phone and it will combine nearly everything that a person needs on their body!
[CPU]<--6.4GBps-->[PCI-X]<--3.2GBps--> [AGP]<--0.8GBps-->[IO]
Or you can have:
[CPU]<--6.4GBps-->[PCI-X]
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| (6.4GBps HT CPU interconnect)
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[CPU]<--6.4GBps-->[AGP]<--0.8GBps-->[I O]
You could even have (the graphics designer dream):
[CPU]<--6.4GBps-->[PCI-X]<--3.2GBps--> [AGP1]
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| (6.4GBps HT CPU interconnect)
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[CPU]<--6.4GBps-->[AGP2]<--0.8GBps-->[ IO]
HT enabled SCSI controllers, GigE and 10GigE NICs, etc, will also appear and will be used on HyperTransport based server motherboards.
Ah! But AMD yesterday announced their new 8000 series chipset devices for HyperTransport systems (i.e., Hammer initially and MIPS).
This new chipset includes the 8111 hub (a traditional southbridge (USB2, 6-channel audio, ATA133, Network, PCI, etc - similar to the nForce MCP it appears) with 800MB/s uplink via HT), the 8131 tunnel (a dual PCI-X controller with 6.4GB/s uplink and 3.2GB/s downlink) and the 8151 tunnel (an AGP 8x controller with 6.4GB/s uplink and 1.6GB/s downlink).
There are documents on AMDs website (both the press release and the technical details), and a couple of good discussions on AcesHardware forum (http://www.aceshardware.com/forum).
You can chain the devices like this:
[CPU][PCI-X][AGP][IO]
Remember the memory controller for the Hammer is on the processor itself, so there is not a traditional northbridge with memory controller on it anymore.
This sort of feature would scream class-action lawsuit. I can't see my wedding video, nor loan it to a friend to watch. I can't watch my legal backup of this film I bought. I can't watch my archive of news clips I had for my interactive project, nor play my interactive project on a player apart from the one in my PC. and so on...
And the movie will stil be cracked, even if it is cracked by someone recording the output of the video on the computer monitor and skipping the entire "crack the CD" phase.
In Java, I have played Dusk (dusk.wesowin.org) which is a basic graphical MUD style environment but seems to be okay and contain a reasonable amount of the basics. And Java is like C# in many areas except supporting reflection and other good ideas, unlike C#. I should mention WorldForge as well.
Still, I don't play games anymore. I am crap at them. Very crap. Better than my younger brother in law, but still crap. I enjoyed crazy taxi and got reasonable at that (on the skill tests). I now know that if I ever become a taxi driver that there are plenty of ways to make that money quicker.
Product placement is good if placed well. You don't expect to see a Ford advert in some fantasy game, for example. However, product placement in a game like Bladerunner (or the film, Atari, ha ha!) can make things a lot more realistic. It is so sad when a film has "MegaSoft Corp." as the evil computer company, or whatever... ruins any grip on reality that might have existed.
The 2MB 250MHz DDR L3 cache (4GB/s) will really help the processor though, and make the 133MHz SDRAM less of an issue to the end application. Except in streaming data of course... or large datasets...
So they have 33MHz 64-bit PCI? Or 66MHz 32-bit PCI? So what? So do dual x86 platforms. And the AMD 760MPX has 66MHz 64-bit PCI to double the performance of the new Mac, and it too is connected by a "direct bus to the system controller". Marketing speak for "Our northbridge connects to the rest of the system via PCI, unlike on the x86 where higher speed interconnects are getting really common that do not affect PCI at all but allow other components to really shine like integrated audio to die for (nForce)".
Yes, it is a nice Mac. I bet it is a killer Photoshop platform. It is a nice filler until the Mac G5's later this year - it keeps Apple competitive enough.
But I too am underwhelmed.
And 215MB/s indeed. It is 266MB/s unless they have some seriously freaky PCI setup. Ah, it is 64-bit PCI cards. So what? There is no benefit for the casual user with these, as most cards are 32-bit. In fact, I would go as far as to say that Apples marketing is misleading to the consumer, as Apple's 64-bit PCI will not be any faster for the consumer than the "slow" 32-bit PCI busses in use on PC platforms unless they stick in an expensive 64-bit SCSI card...
Don't get me wrong, the machine looks quite nice. It just isn't enough in my opinion. Wouldn't say no to one of them though :)
It is about choosing the right tool for the job. When Macromedia release a Linux tool for creating Flash animations, then upgrade them to Linux. Not before.
Put Linux on the desktops of the people that can use it, or on the old Win95/Win98 desktops that are due for an upgrade anyway. Don't forget to set up NFS (or similar) to allow people to keep their documents in a central repository that is backed up every night, and allows them to hot-desk if need be.
Honestly, if Windows was a sword and Linux an arrow, you wouldn't give you cavalry the arrows to fight with would you? You would give them to the archers who need them. Your flash developers are cavalry, let them die by the sword.
The fact is, KDE has more features than Windows at the desktop level. It is easier to program. It has a proper themable interface (I am running the gorgeous liquid theme by Mosfet) and it feels more solid.
Shame it has to run on top of XFree really, although it is doing its best, and KDE is making the most use of the extensions available like RENDER.
So the only thing is that KOffice still needs a lot of work to get to the level of Office. The Gnome apps appear to be making good headway in this area though - Gnumeric especially.
(In case you haven't heard, these endings were .NAME and .ME.UK).
In order to discourage domain name squatting, the registries have taken different approaches:
GNR (.NAME) are having an extensive series of pre-registration steps before domain enters the general registration period.
Nominet (.UK) went the other way, ratified it on the 11th January and launched it on the 14th (1 day before .NAME hit the headlines - coincidence? I think not). This way it hadn't gained too much "hype" momentum, general consumers being fairly unaware of its existence. Additionally, the price was set 10 times higher than normal (£50 + tax), at least initially, to discourage mass purchase of addresses. You're only meant to register your own name; and if a company registers yourdomain.me.uk, this is considered an abusive use of the system, and you should be able to challenge the registration.
Personally I've bought my own .me.uk domain name from Firevision. It may cost £64 for 2 years (about $90), but I think its worth it in the long run.
Heh, "helmet". Snigger.
But how do I enable subpixel antialiasing in KDE? I have a nice TFT monitor, and it would be nice to make even more use of it!
Amigans have been overclocking their 68k series processors for years. Witness the 28MHz 68000 for the A500, or the 75MHz 68060s (instead of 50MHz), a 50% overclock easy when decent coolers are added to the equation.
It is harder to overclock the 8-bits, as the rest of the system messes up in many cases, and the video output and audio go haywire. But it has been done (Enterprise 64 in one example, upping the 5MHz Z80 by a MHz or two, or replacing it with ones that do 10's of MHz I believe. Dunno about the C64 or Atari 8-bits though.