I have a DVD-RAM disk in my Apple PowerMac G4. It can read DVD-ROM just fine. If you use a single-sided, 2.6 Gig disk, you can actually pop the disk out of the cartridge and read it in any DVD-ROM drive. I've done this to share stuff with my DVD-ROM-using coworkers.
I believe [although I've never tested this] that DVD-RAM is not compatible with consumer DVD players. DVD-R [not the same thing as DVD-RAM] is compatible with consumer DVD players [see Apple's superdrive].
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Darwin (The BSD-ish layer of OSX) is open, and supposedly compiling on x86.
I don't know about compiling, but it certainly *runs* on x86. There are moderately severe hardware restrictions, though [esp. w.r.t. VESA 2.0 compliance]. Here is the
screenshot. Grab the Virtual PC disk image here.
is the GUI integrated into the OS? If you're running X on it, will you need to load Apple's GUI (for lack of a better term), as well as X? Can you forego a GUI entirely?
The OSX install CDs will probably not have a CLI only install option.
Note that [currently in DP4 at least] you can log in to Mac OS X as "console", with no passwd to kill the Aqua window manager and get a text console with a "login:" prompt.
I do this when I want to run X Windows [Hm, "X Windows" and "OS X" can get a bit confusing]. It would be nice if there was some way to run xdm instead of Apple's login window. For now, after I log in, Si simply type "startx".
Too bad. They were the premiere developer of Mac gaming titles. At least they got the source code for old games like Marathon out before they were bought..
Is there anywhere I can get nice and easy rpm's to install? I tried using the tarball recently, but because of all the nefarious Perl module dependancies, I was unsuccessful.
Are there ever rpm's of Perl modules? Does it even make sense? Is this an unsolvable problem with Perl modules? CPAN only goes so far in solving this problem.
The TV stations being broadcast by iCraveTV sent a "cease and desist" order. iCraveTV is ordered to cease broadcasting at 5pm today; hoever, iCraveTV sez they won't do it. Some relevant articles:
When I was at the University of Toronto in the early 80's, they had this system that ran Unix under VM. It was called BICS [Basic Interactive Camel System], and it was awful. There was a test-input line that was always on the bottom of the screen, and text would be drawn on the rest of the screen, until it got ful,, at which point the scree cleared and would start drawing from the top. It was kind of like running every single command through 'more', or 'less'.
I hope this new effort doesn't have any of these limitations. I remember how creepy it was to have a Unix command called "vmpunch", which submitted JCL files to the VM system. Ug.
Um, no. Their job is to increase shareholder value, which is not necessarily the same thing. It could be that becoming part of the Linux/Open Source/GNU/GmOne movement will mean increased long term profits, even at the expense of short term profits.
Companies are supposed to be fairly long-sighted entities. If they're not, it's bad news.
if chipset it standard, effort to port is minimal
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During the "Genki" beta [was that for R4.5?] there was a kernel produced [genki7] that ran on Apple G3's. I think it was done by an intern who then left, so the code wasn't supported and got axed.
So, given the following qualifications:
the IBM platform uses standard, well-known chipsets
it's easy to port the Be kernel to PPC variants
then it stands to reason, that it *would* be in Be's best interest to support the IBM PPC platform [does it have a name? Is it CHRP? PREP? NuCHRP?:-)], since their cost to do so is minimal and can only grow revenue.
Now one thing Be really has to do to be a real presence on PPC is to move to the same development environment [compilers] as the x86 side -- GNU cc. Otherwise, they have to do tons of software support, which ups the cost of supporting the platform. This bullet should have been bitten in R4 at the same time as it was for x86.
BeOS running on a quad-G4, each of which has a dual CPU core -- hey, I can dream, can't I?:-)
Look is interesting -- they're trying to sell digital video via microwave instead of cable. Note that you only get the $29.95*** price if you are a video subscriber as well as a data subscriber. Their video home page is www.look.ca
The bad news is in the fine print:
Can I stay logged on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week?
While our service provides unlimited use, to prevent abuse of the system and potential bottlenecks, if a user has been logged on for 6 consecutive hours or the computer has sat idle for over 30 minutes we will disconnect the user. If you are disconnected you can log on immediately afterwards.
Feh.
*** Keep in mind, those are *Candian* dollars; multiply by 2/3 to get $US [i.e., it's about $20]
Using "their" with "someone" conincides with the gradual replacement of the first-person masculine pronoun "he" with the third-person plural pronoun "they" as the generic neuter pronoun in spoken english.
"'Nuff said" is an allusion to Stan Lee's famous signoff line in Marvel Comics, which itself is probably an allusion to something older.
Don't do this kind of thing online, okay? It's really a waste of time. I'm wasting time right now. But I'm the exception to the rule.:-P
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>It seems like the OS is just a toy with no real complexity.
You may not have heard of Mac OS X [X as in ten, not X Windows], which is 4.4 BSD with a Mac UI on top. Not more stinkin' toy OS. Free at last, free at last, free at last. I've seen reports that Apple may just embrace FreeBSD instead of maintaining their own BSD variant.
The first alpha [Apple called it Developer Release 1] was distributed to thousands of developers at the World Wide Developer Conference in May of this year. I have it installed on a PowerMac 8500 right here. On the 7300 I have Yellow Dog Linux. Then there's my Linux box. And on here I am running BeOS 4.5.
Speaking as a former member of the Maya team [I left Alias/Wavefront in June of 1997], and current commercial BeOS developer [MGI VideoWave II for BeOS] I would say that it would not be too difficult to port Maya to BeOS. It would be more difficult than porting to an X-based OpenGL system, so I would expect Maya/Linux to appear before Maya/BeOS.
However, Maya's code base was designed to be portable across OSs and CPUs [thus Maya/NT], and in fact may still have a little bit of MacOS support in it. Now, since I left they may have added all sorts of non-portable cruft, but I doubt it.
Being a Canuck Shaw customer, I guess I'm safe from the Microsoft threat.:-)
But ignoring the emotionally-loaded phrases like "Microsoft technology" and "investment", what cool things could you do with a TV that has a 4 Mbps internet connection? It's a pretty awesome setup, surely some good could come of it? Here is some stuff off the top of my head; use your to add more:
streaming video from any IP -- 2^32 channels, or 2^128 for IPv6 We would want MPEG or something open, MS will use some proprietary crap like RA or their own [okay, okay, RA is adopting some open stuff, but you get the idea]
instantaneous monitoring of consumer channel surfing preferences we would want this [really] as long as it's securely anonymous, MS will want to know who everyone is and how much money they make, plus their postal address so they can send targeted marketing junk mail based on viewing habits
cool, up-to-date TV guide thing as is already available via digital cable and satellite it better have *at least* this, or it's all a complete waste of time
digital VCR technology able to pause live TV for up to 2 Gigs of disk space..:-)
CONTENT, CONTENT, CONTENT!! I want to watch episode 32 of Babylon 5.. NOW.
last but not least, I want to watch the currently ongoing Quake3 tournament at BeatDown
Well, I can dream, can't I? Is it so far-fetched? Really?
CD-R MP3 with *no* *OS* please
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All the CD-R MP3 players I've seen use Linux. Do we really need linux? Can't we have something dumber that fits in an EPROM that just reads an ISO CD and plays all the mp3's it finds? Maybe a few programmability bells and whistles, but really, I don't think we need an entire OS in there.
Slashdot Mirror
I believe [although I've never tested this] that DVD-RAM is not compatible with consumer DVD players. DVD-R [not the same thing as DVD-RAM] is compatible with consumer DVD players [see Apple's superdrive].
Just wanted to clear up some FUD.
No hyphen, but I definitely think there is a colon.
I think we should name it "dot com" in honour of all those who perished on the stock market.
I don't know about compiling, but it certainly *runs* on x86. There are moderately severe hardware restrictions, though [esp. w.r.t. VESA 2.0 compliance]. Here is the screenshot. Grab the Virtual PC disk image here.
Lots of Darwin info is available at:
Too bad. They were the premiere developer of Mac gaming titles. At least they got the source code for old games like Marathon out before they were bought..
National Post general story
NFL tells iCraveTV to back off
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0169951
I hope this new effort doesn't have any of these limitations. I remember how creepy it was to have a Unix command called "vmpunch", which submitted JCL files to the VM system. Ug.
You can find more info about the book "Tensor Calculus" by John Lighton Synge, and A. Schild at amazon.com.
I just bought the CD-ROM edition for $49... Canadian. That's like $33 US. Maybe it wasn't selling so well after all?
Just another factoid.
Um, no. Their job is to increase shareholder value, which is not necessarily the same thing. It could be that becoming part of the Linux/Open Source/GNU/GmOne movement will mean increased long term profits, even at the expense of short term profits.
Companies are supposed to be fairly long-sighted entities. If they're not, it's bad news.
So, given the following qualifications:
- the IBM platform uses standard, well-known chipsets
- it's easy to port the Be kernel to PPC variants
then it stands to reason, that it *would* be in Be's best interest to support the IBM PPC platform [does it have a name? Is it CHRP? PREP? NuCHRP?Now one thing Be really has to do to be a real presence on PPC is to move to the same development environment [compilers] as the x86 side -- GNU cc. Otherwise, they have to do tons of software support, which ups the cost of supporting the platform. This bullet should have been bitten in R4 at the same time as it was for x86.
BeOS running on a quad-G4, each of which has a dual CPU core -- hey, I can dream, can't I? :-)
>I'll get one as soon as they get into Canada (1 month).
... LOL
This from someone with an email address @usa.net
Reid
Check out www.internet.look.ca/package.html for more info.
Look is interesting -- they're trying to sell digital video via microwave instead of cable. Note that you only get the $29.95*** price if you are a video subscriber as well as a data subscriber. Their video home page is www.look.ca
The bad news is in the fine print:
Feh.*** Keep in mind, those are *Candian* dollars; multiply by 2/3 to get $US [i.e., it's about $20]
"'Nuff said" is an allusion to Stan Lee's famous signoff line in Marvel Comics, which itself is probably an allusion to something older.
Don't do this kind of thing online, okay? It's really a waste of time. I'm wasting time right now. But I'm the exception to the rule. :-P
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It is based on C++ and has a much nicer API. Unfortunately, though, its license has been a subject of controversy:
Red Hat's Marc Ewing speaks out on Qt License
QT Goes OpenSource
It doesn't hurt that the BeOS native compiler is EGCS [which will soon (already?) become the official gcc compiler].
You may not have heard of Mac OS X [X as in ten, not X Windows], which is 4.4 BSD with a Mac UI on top. Not more stinkin' toy OS. Free at last, free at last, free at last. I've seen reports that Apple may just embrace FreeBSD instead of maintaining their own BSD variant.
The first alpha [Apple called it Developer Release 1] was distributed to thousands of developers at the World Wide Developer Conference in May of this year. I have it installed on a PowerMac 8500 right here. On the 7300 I have Yellow Dog Linux. Then there's my Linux box. And on here I am running BeOS 4.5.
Look ma, I can telnet everywhere .
Freeware
http://www.amanda.org/ - Amanda
ftp://ftp.zn-gmbh.com/pub/linux/ - afbackup
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~jmelski/burt/ - Burt
http://www.estinc.com/features.html - BRU
http://www.estinc.com/qsdr.html - Quickstart
Commercial
http://www.unitrends.com/bp.html - Backup Professional
http://www.unitrends.com/ctar.html - CTAR
http://www.unitrends.com/ctarnet.html - CTAR:NET
http://www.unitrends.com/pcpara.html - PC ParaChute
http://www.arkeia.com/ - Arkeia
http://www.legato.com/Pro ducts/html/legato_networker.html - Legato Networker Linux client
http://feral.com/networker.html - Legato Networker server
However, Maya's code base was designed to be portable across OSs and CPUs [thus Maya/NT], and in fact may still have a little bit of MacOS support in it. Now, since I left they may have added all sorts of non-portable cruft, but I doubt it.
Just throwing in my 2 cents..
Reid
But ignoring the emotionally-loaded phrases like "Microsoft technology" and "investment", what cool things could you do with a TV that has a 4 Mbps internet connection? It's a pretty awesome setup, surely some good could come of it? Here is some stuff off the top of my head; use your to add more:
We would want MPEG or something open, MS will use some proprietary crap like RA or their own
[okay, okay, RA is adopting some open stuff, but you get the idea]
we would want this [really] as long as it's securely anonymous, MS will want to know who everyone is and how much money they make, plus their postal address so they can send targeted marketing junk mail based on viewing habits
it better have *at least* this, or it's all a complete waste of time
able to pause live TV for up to 2 Gigs of disk space..
I want to watch episode 32 of Babylon 5.. NOW.
Well, I can dream, can't I? Is it so far-fetched? Really?
Bah.
Also reported: Sony will drop Playstation price to £69 soon. :-)
Especially 4.0 or 4.1?
What happens when you do?