Re:Umm... maybe that's why most of us use linux?
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Sinclair Does Linux
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I'm perfectly happy with the P200MMX I'm using to write this... of course, it had IE on it for all of about 3 hours once it came out of the box. One of the reasons that I use Linux is that it runs fine on not only my P200, but also my P166. This is not to say that even some Linux programs aren't bloated, but those are mostly commercial offering like Navigator and WP. Once those have been superseded by open source stuff, you'll be able to keep using that P200. Of course, if you are still using windows, well... I can't help you there. ~luge
Yeah. I hate to shoot this guy down, but there are some very serious folks doing some very serious work at this URL. It was mentioned a couple of days ago at linuxtoday. I'll try to find the URL for the actual announcemnt there. Anyway, the gist of is that they are not just doing a repository (which is what this appears to be.) Rather, they are trying to coordinate (through CVS) the writing of actual documentation, not just a collection of tips. This is sorely needed- if you have serious time and writing skills, go help them out. I know I will as soon as exams are over...
With the new 600 Mhz strongARMs, and a port already available, this could easily be a prime opportunity for someone to step up and produce an incredibly high speed/long life laptop. Sinclair has the track record in design- maybe this time he'll have someone other than the brits manufacture it! ~luge P.S. Does anyone know if the NetWinder/HCC/"rebel" folks have looked at a laptop? I mean, I'd still laugh in their faces, but I might also hand them a check if they offered a netwinder laptop with a new strongARM...
Does anyone know when the K7 will hit the market? Tom's is not more specific than 1H99, and that is in an article from October. Ars Technica (as far as I can tell) has no articles on the K7 at all. So- does anyone know anything about a release date? Speculation and wild rumours welcome... ~luge
Interesting point. However, I wonder exactly how many resources a DA is going to commit to pursuing a claim made by "a bunch of longhairs," especially if it was (for example) a DA in Redmond who might be depending on M$ for re-election support. Of course, if such a thing were actually to happen, I'm sure Redhat and VA (not to mention IBM and others) would ride in to the financial rescue- they'd all love to catch MS (or any other company slimy enough to violate GPL) with its pants down. ~luge
Cost of 6.0 (or, supporting GNOME)
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RedHat 6.0 is Out
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I bought 5.1 from RedHat because I think they do great things for the community, and because 39.95 really isn't a huge hit in the wallet for what is essentially a contribution to GNOME, Enlightenment, and some of the other cool stuff that comes out of RHAD Labs. I was planning on making a similar "contribution" for 6.0 and the assembled documentation.
Going to RedHat's pages, though, shows that the only packages currently available are $299 or more. No way can I afford that. So: (since I know some of you Redhat folks must be reading this): are there any plans for a cheaper copy of 6.0? Or are we all going to migrate to Cheapbytes, Debian, or FTP? I'd love to keep helping out, but this is ridiculous. ~luge (P.S. Since metalab actually gives me a faster data transfer rate than my CD-ROM, this is not just an idle threat...)
The article mentions that people will "simultaneously" be able to buy tickets in person. Does this mean that we can actually get in line to buy them at the theater on May 12th? Alternately, is Moviefone completely automated, or do you have to speak to an operator? I have a feeling I'll be typing in info on the web site (which I'm sure will be swamped) and calling with the other hand, and buying with whichever lets me put in a credit card number first... ~luge
I don't have the URL offhand, but people have built lego plotters that actually scrape the design into a piece of toast. Very interesting:-) and certainly not hard to modify for an actual pen and paper. ~luge
Contrary to some other posts on the list, you can use the RCX with Linux. Markus Noga and some others have written replacement firmware, which allows full control of the motors, IR, and sensors. It's in C, with C++ support. Check it out at http://www.multimania.com/legos/. there is also a mailing list/bulletin board system at: http://www.lugnet. com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos Finally, I've written a brief HOWTO (still very, very beta) at: http://arthurdent.dorm.duke. edu/legos/HOWTO/HOWTO.html It's not much, but hopefully between the three of those the rest of you can figure out where to start. ~luge
Actually, that's not the case. It's sort of complex to explain, but basically: in the real world, you focus on the location where an object appears to be. In these types of 3d goggles, your eyes are focused on an image which appears to be several feet away, but is actually only inches away. This can lead to really severe eyestrain, and there is a niggling bit of research to suggest that it could even cause developmental problems in children who use such devices for too many hours each day. Until that question is definitely answered, don't expect too many of these on the market, for fear of lawsuits. ~luge
Yes, Melinda Gates went to school here (BS in CS, MBA). But they have actually given the school relatively little money- a single lump sum gift of about $5 million, IIRC, given to a specific scholarship program.
Considering that Duke's endowment is about 1/10 of Harvard's, and significantly smaller than many other schools with similar academic ambitions (i.e., it is smaller than any of the Ivies) the school is investing serious time and effort in kissing Bill and Melissa's butts. She's even been named a "young trustee" in recognition of her "accomplishments in the technology field." So far, though, no payoff. ~tieguy
That's why I said AFAIK. My mistake. I assumed that since he was not using his old stuff (esp. the mouse) it was because there was no ADP support. I guess there is another reason, but maybe not. ~luge (who really does like apple and drools over the thought of a chip not burdened by 8088 compatibility and a MB mounted so that you can actually access it)
I drooled at the machine's internals, but since I have neither ADP nor USB anything, I didn't bother to look at the back. My mistake.
As far as running on the iMac, I understood the same but at the time, the advice on linuxPPC if you wanted to run on a B&W was something along the lines of "good luck." At the moment it still seems like a pretty ugly hack. Particularly since my friend has invested a good deal of money in a USB scanner and multi-button mouse (which according to the ppc-linux-user mailing list is still unsupported) this is not going to be his first Linux experience. ~luge
A good friend got a brand new Yosemite box (G3, 300 mhz) and turns around to me THAT DAY and says "now that it is up and running, can you help me put linux on it?" I had to tell him no- because every peripheral on the machine is USB based. No keyboard means no install. Until that gets changed (and I understand that project is moving very slowly) there will be no linux on the new macs. ~luge P.S. Of course, this could be a huge opportunity for Apple to prove themselves to the community after the APSL bungling. Imagine if they hired a team of guys to write a USB module? The PR value would be huge. Of course, don't hold your breath...
Whether they sell them on the 19th or the 12th or the 1st, the hard-core folks will just re-arrange their schedules and camp out earlier. All this would do is add in the opportunity for a profit motive, adding a different type of "hard-core" to the mix already there. Bad move on Lucas's part, I say.
This is a really good piece from the Merc about the whole thing. It includes some suggestions about what Al should do instead to actually gain support from tech-heads like us, instead of just using buzzwords he clearly knows next to nothing about. ~Luge
Who knows? Maybe this'll be the straw that breaks ESR's back. The fact that MS can legitimately talk about "open sourcing" any part of their code raises a lot of questions about what open source actually means, and exactly who benefits. It is already a little bit ridiculous to claim that in some way, the APSL benefits the community as a whole. The blatant absurdity of the position will become obvious once MS applies to use the Open Source trademark. ~luge
Hmm. As I'm sure you've grokked from others here, this is aimed almost directly at the OSI's approval of the APSL. There is almost certainly no rapport being established between the two, particularly now that it has become such a personal battle between Perens, ESR, and RMS. -luge
To clarify: it is the FSF that has always been the primary pusher of free as free speech, not free beer. the free beer advocates are ESR and the OSI, most definitely not the FSF.
Again- my point was that the system- all the installation tools and the like written by Redhat- are still GPL. Any closed-source types can run whatever apps they want on top of RedHat. Since nothing about the OS itself (unlike YAST!) is proprietary, I don't need to worry. I can borrow from RedHat anything I want or need to use those programs, without paying RedHat. When that changes, and I need to pay RedHat to use their code, then I'm concerned. -luge
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I'm perfectly happy with the P200MMX I'm using to write this... of course, it had IE on it for all of about 3 hours once it came out of the box. One of the reasons that I use Linux is that it runs fine on not only my P200, but also my P166. This is not to say that even some Linux programs aren't bloated, but those are mostly commercial offering like Navigator and WP. Once those have been superseded by open source stuff, you'll be able to keep using that P200. Of course, if you are still using windows, well... I can't help you there.
~luge
Yeah. I hate to shoot this guy down, but there are some very serious folks doing some very serious work at this URL. It was mentioned a couple of days ago at linuxtoday. I'll try to find the URL for the actual announcemnt there. Anyway, the gist of is that they are not just doing a repository (which is what this appears to be.) Rather, they are trying to coordinate (through CVS) the writing of actual documentation, not just a collection of tips. This is sorely needed- if you have serious time and writing skills, go help them out. I know I will as soon as exams are over...
With the new 600 Mhz strongARMs, and a port already available, this could easily be a prime opportunity for someone to step up and produce an incredibly high speed/long life laptop. Sinclair has the track record in design- maybe this time he'll have someone other than the brits manufacture it!
~luge
P.S. Does anyone know if the NetWinder/HCC/"rebel" folks have looked at a laptop? I mean, I'd still laugh in their faces, but I might also hand them a check if they offered a netwinder laptop with a new strongARM...
Has anyone noticed that slashdot now has it's own URL within wired? Anyone have any details on when/why this happened? Just curious...
~luge
Does anyone know when the K7 will hit the market? Tom's is not more specific than 1H99, and that is in an article from October. Ars Technica (as far as I can tell) has no articles on the K7 at all. So- does anyone know anything about a release date? Speculation and wild rumours welcome...
~luge
Interesting point. However, I wonder exactly how many resources a DA is going to commit to pursuing a claim made by "a bunch of longhairs," especially if it was (for example) a DA in Redmond who might be depending on M$ for re-election support. Of course, if such a thing were actually to happen, I'm sure Redhat and VA (not to mention IBM and others) would ride in to the financial rescue- they'd all love to catch MS (or any other company slimy enough to violate GPL) with its pants down.
~luge
I bought 5.1 from RedHat because I think they do great things for the community, and because 39.95 really isn't a huge hit in the wallet for what is essentially a contribution to GNOME, Enlightenment, and some of the other cool stuff that comes out of RHAD Labs. I was planning on making a similar "contribution" for 6.0 and the assembled documentation.
Going to RedHat's pages, though, shows that the only packages currently available are $299 or more. No way can I afford that. So: (since I know some of you Redhat folks must be reading this): are there any plans for a cheaper copy of 6.0? Or are we all going to migrate to Cheapbytes, Debian, or FTP? I'd love to keep helping out, but this is ridiculous.
~luge
(P.S. Since metalab actually gives me a faster data transfer rate than my CD-ROM, this is not just an idle threat...)
The article mentions that people will "simultaneously" be able to buy tickets in person. Does this mean that we can actually get in line to buy them at the theater on May 12th? Alternately, is Moviefone completely automated, or do you have to speak to an operator? I have a feeling I'll be typing in info on the web site (which I'm sure will be swamped) and calling with the other hand, and buying with whichever lets me put in a credit card number first...
~luge
I don't have the URL offhand, but people have built lego plotters that actually scrape the design into a piece of toast. Very interesting :-) and certainly not hard to modify for an actual pen and paper.
~luge
It has already been done. See my post (LegOS and Linux) further down on the page.
~luge
Contrary to some other posts on the list, you can use the RCX with Linux. Markus Noga and some others have written replacement firmware, which allows full control of the motors, IR, and sensors. It's in C, with C++ support. Check it out at
http://www.multimania.com/legos/.
there is also a mailing list/bulletin board system at:
http://www.lugnet. com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos
Finally, I've written a brief HOWTO (still very, very beta) at:
http://arthurdent.dorm.duke. edu/legos/HOWTO/HOWTO.html
It's not much, but hopefully between the three of those the rest of you can figure out where to start.
~luge
Actually, that's not the case. It's sort of complex to explain, but basically: in the real world, you focus on the location where an object appears to be. In these types of 3d goggles, your eyes are focused on an image which appears to be several feet away, but is actually only inches away. This can lead to really severe eyestrain, and there is a niggling bit of research to suggest that it could even cause developmental problems in children who use such devices for too many hours each day. Until that question is definitely answered, don't expect too many of these on the market, for fear of lawsuits.
~luge
Yes, Melinda Gates went to school here (BS in CS, MBA). But they have actually given the school relatively little money- a single lump sum gift of about $5 million, IIRC, given to a specific scholarship program.
Considering that Duke's endowment is about 1/10 of Harvard's, and significantly smaller than many other schools with similar academic ambitions (i.e., it is smaller than any of the Ivies) the school is investing serious time and effort in kissing Bill and Melissa's butts. She's even been named a "young trustee" in recognition of her "accomplishments in the technology field." So far, though, no payoff.
~tieguy
No problem :-)
just in case, AFAIK is As Far As I Know.
If you want a secure system, wouldn't you be avoiding NT like the plague anyway? :)
Seriously, what are the ramifications of widelinks=yes? What is the security threat posed by this? Just curious...
~luge
That's why I said AFAIK. My mistake. I assumed that since he was not using his old stuff (esp. the mouse) it was because there was no ADP support. I guess there is another reason, but maybe not.
~luge (who really does like apple and drools over the thought of a chip not burdened by 8088 compatibility and a MB mounted so that you can actually access it)
I drooled at the machine's internals, but since I have neither ADP nor USB anything, I didn't bother to look at the back. My mistake.
As far as running on the iMac, I understood the same but at the time, the advice on linuxPPC if you wanted to run on a B&W was something along the lines of "good luck." At the moment it still seems like a pretty ugly hack. Particularly since my friend has invested a good deal of money in a USB scanner and multi-button mouse (which according to the ppc-linux-user mailing list is still unsupported) this is not going to be his first Linux experience.
~luge
AFAIK, the hardware no longer supports ADB.
~luge
A good friend got a brand new Yosemite box (G3, 300 mhz) and turns around to me THAT DAY and says "now that it is up and running, can you help me put linux on it?" I had to tell him no- because every peripheral on the machine is USB based. No keyboard means no install. Until that gets changed (and I understand that project is moving very slowly) there will be no linux on the new macs.
~luge
P.S. Of course, this could be a huge opportunity for Apple to prove themselves to the community after the APSL bungling. Imagine if they hired a team of guys to write a USB module? The PR value would be huge. Of course, don't hold your breath...
Whether they sell them on the 19th or the 12th or the 1st, the hard-core folks will just re-arrange their schedules and camp out earlier. All this would do is add in the opportunity for a profit motive, adding a different type of "hard-core" to the mix already there. Bad move on Lucas's part, I say.
This is a really good piece from the Merc about the whole thing. It includes some suggestions about what Al should do instead to actually gain support from tech-heads like us, instead of just using buzzwords he clearly knows next to nothing about.
~Luge
Who knows? Maybe this'll be the straw that breaks ESR's back. The fact that MS can legitimately talk about "open sourcing" any part of their code raises a lot of questions about what open source actually means, and exactly who benefits. It is already a little bit ridiculous to claim that in some way, the APSL benefits the community as a whole. The blatant absurdity of the position will become obvious once MS applies to use the Open Source trademark.
~luge
Hmm. As I'm sure you've grokked from others here, this is aimed almost directly at the OSI's approval of the APSL. There is almost certainly no rapport being established between the two, particularly now that it has become such a personal battle between Perens, ESR, and RMS.
-luge
To clarify: it is the FSF that has always been the primary pusher of free as free speech, not free beer. the free beer advocates are ESR and the OSI, most definitely not the FSF.
Again- my point was that the system- all the installation tools and the like written by Redhat- are still GPL. Any closed-source types can run whatever apps they want on top of RedHat. Since nothing about the OS itself (unlike YAST!) is proprietary, I don't need to worry. I can borrow from RedHat anything I want or need to use those programs, without paying RedHat. When that changes, and I need to pay RedHat to use their code, then I'm concerned.
-luge