Isn't that exactly what Gateway Services for NetWare was designed to do? This is a bit old, but Microsoft is really the pot calling the kettle black on this issue.
Funny thing is that Drudge has a blurb on his page that says that the FBI is investigating whether or not the worm caused the blackout. Wouldn't that be awesome, that would make my week.
localhost / # format c: -bash: format: command not found localhost / # fdisk c:
Unable to open c: localhost / # deltree *.* -bash: deltree: command not found localhost / # del *.* -bash: del: command not found localhost / # sys c: -bash: sys: command not found localhost / # help GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu) <snip> </snip> { COMMANDS ; } localhost / # fsda;lkjafdjl;kwfoied -bash: fsda: command not found -bash: lkjasdjl: command not found -bash: kwfoied: command not found localhost / # <insert_vcr_led>
Why are so many electronics manufacturers insisting on putting tiny little battery sucking crappy resolution cameras on everything?
I have been shopping for a new cell phone for the last few months and almost all of the new nice phones have a POS camera attached. I don't want that crap, and I have no idea who does. They drain the battery, get broken, dont look nice and add useless bulk to the device and the OS.
This Clie looks really nice, but I will not even considder buying one until they offer a camera-less version. I have a very nice 4.0 megapixel camera with it's own memory, own card and it takes great pictures, I dont need some piece of crap camera on my phone or pda.
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HAHA I remember the oh so vital dos boot disk, trying to squeeze everything into upper memory so you could get that ~612K free. Tweaking EMM386.EXE, HIMEM.SYS and MSCDEX which was the bane of my existence. Those were the days, the days that I didn't mind a Microsoft operating system.
I now play all of my games on Linux, Gentoo of course, but I still satisfy my tweaking fetish by messing around with the low latency ck patches and the/proc/sys/sched kernel paramaters. Instead of the elusive 640K free memory for a dos boot disk I'm now constantly trying to squeeze a 5% increase on glxgears or a consistent 35FPS on NWN with all of the settings cranked running at a 16x9 aspect ratio on a dual head GeForce4. All of this while running KDE, Lopster, xplanet, kmail, galeon, konq, an ldap server and serving smb to xmms on a different machine.
So yes, to all of the CLI haters those who never understood DOS and really need XP to hold their thing while they pee, go press enter twice and install your precious DRM. I'll sit there for 8 hourse and build gentoo from stage 1 and go to sleep knowing that I'm still better than you:)
I somewhat agree with this, although the *NIX we have today is significantly different from what we had 20 years ago. But that is the fallicy of BalMer$ argument to me. DOS didn't work that well so they cloned a Mac and created Windows, that was ok, but still didn't work that well, especially in the server market. They set their sights on Novell, created a basically new product (stole it from IBM et al) and released NT. They changed it again, tried to add functionality that has been in *NIX for those 20 or so years and there you have Windows 2000 which was NT done right and IMHO the best OS Microsoft has ever created. Then they realized that gaming and multimedia are what the home user wants and crossbred 2000, NT, and 98 and created XP a completely different breed. They tied to create an OS that was everything to everyone, and wound up with an OS that is really good for nothing other than embedding a bunch of DRM and other anti consumer crap. An OS that is not suited to run any task in my opinion.
XP is Microsofts solution to what *NIX already is (I say *NIX because with a little tweaking they for the most part can all do the same things) a robust OS that can be tailored to what ever job you want it to do. XP tries to be tailorable for many different jobs, but it winds up sucking at all of them for the most part.
*NIX is an empty tool box that lets you put what you want in it, XP is the Hammer, Wrench, Pliers, Knife and screwdriver contraption that my wife bought before we got married. Want's to do everything but can do anything.
That to me is why *NIX hasn't changed much in the last 20 or so years, the user space apps have changed, but the core hasn't changed because it was done right the first time and has slowly evolved into what it is now. If I want a desktop machine, Linux with KDE 3.1.1 is better that anything Microsoft has ever offered, same goes for an OpenBSD firewall or web server or a FreeBSD or Solaris database server.
Microsoft tries to reinvent what the OS is to all people every couple of years, creates a marketing driven POS and calls it innovation. *NIX will be around a long long time after Microsoft is just a bad memory. With Balmer navigating the juggernaut that will happen sooner rather than later; I, for one, am not worried.
I'm pretty sure that it would take infinitely more energy to do the vibrate() call than you would generate by the phone actually vibrating. The net effect would be an energy loss. Making the phone more effecient by collecting back some of the energy when the phone rings is a good idea, but just vibrating the phone every so often to create energy won't work.
If you've heard that you can charge a phone by calling it's vibrate() function then I have a bridge and some ocean front property in Arizona to sell you.
I do agree that the Z axis presents a bit of a problem. Personally I really like the way that Maya handles the navigation of 3D space with a sphere composed of three circles, each on a different plane. A small "nav" sphere in one of the corners of the screen or accessible by a hot key or mouse button would work. Meta + Arrow keys also might work.
I just see the power of virutal desktops and virtual consoles and think that power could be applied to a 3 Dimensional area and work really well.
I think I'm going to start doodling some diagrams, might be a good way to get back into C++ and learn a little OpenGL on the way.
The harder you make it for people to use something the less they will want to use it. People already dont like Microsoft, even the mom and pops, they just use it because it's easy and there is software for it. If you start limiting the software you sell because of some stupid sticker that doesn't mean anything anyways people will look other places.
This in my opinion is bad business for Office Depot, it's the status quo for Microsoft. I have never bough software from Office Depot, and I never intend to , but all I can see this doing is hurting their software sales.
Microsoft want's to make it harder and harder for people to switch from using their products, but if you look at it from another perspective, all they are doing is making people considering their products look harder at the alternatives.
I think BestBuy and CompUSA would be very very foolish to follow suit with this strategy. Hopefully, since distributing software is one of their primary functions, as opposed to a side business for OD, they will realize that this will only hurt their software sales because people will look elsewhere for the software produced by companies that have not decided to jump through all of Microsofts hoops.
What I want to know is, does this apply to Mac software as well? Does all Mac software have to run on XP? What about Playstation2 and XBox, does all of that software have to run on XP? PalmOS software, should that run on XP as well?
They didn't think this through, oh well, the day is soon coming when people will realize that just because it's a Ford^H^H^H I mean just because it's Microsoft doesn't mean it's the best out there.
Keep in mind that I am not a GUI designer, so take all of this with a grain of salt. I do, however, think that a properly designed 3D GUI could be very usefull, what we have right now in the 3D GUI arena is not what I would consider usefull at all. Basically all I have seen are OpenGL apps to switch virtual desktops.
A complete 3D framwork that allows you to navigate through your system, and group tasks and processes logically is more like what I envision. If I could see a cluster of 3D widgets that represented all of my daemons and at a glance determine what the utilization of one of those is, how many users attached, and by hovering my mouse or holding a hotkey view what the process is currently working on.
Another area of my screen would have a widget representing all of the file systems on the machine, another click or hotkey and I could zoom into the file system arena and graphically view the status. Collections of information grouped logically in 3D space that are easily navigable is what I would like to see.
I am a firm believer in the CLI and text files for nearly everything that needs to be done on a system, I never use a GUI app to configure anything (unless there is no alternative), and I very much prefer the CLI nature of *NIX operating systems. I use vim to program and I prefer the CLI frontends to databases, but I do also enjoy the visual information that a GUI affords. I can have a performance monitor running on my desktop and with one glance get a complete snapshot of what my system is doing. My desktop tells me the weather, news, time, programs running, mounted file systems, how much email I have, and what song I'm listening to and I never have to use the mouse. This is the power of a GUI to me, and I think a 3D GUI could help portray that much more information.
The eyes to the brain is the fastest interface I have come across.
I fully agree, all of the 3D GUI's are terrible so far. The display is 2D, but it can portray a 3D image fairly well, and the human brain can conceptualize 3D extremely well, so the ability of a 2D screen to portray a 3D image and the power of our brain to conceptualize that 3D space is a very powerful combination that expands our working potential. I know that if I could at a glance view a 3D visulization of what is going on in my computer or on my network I would be able to accomplish things faster and more effeciently.
The design of a powerfull 3D desktop is a very complicated task, and it must be done extremely well in order to facilitate a change. So I don't see this coming down the pipe anytime soon. Kind of makes me want to read up on GUI design though.
I do agree that the GUI, if not implemented correctly, is useless bloat. However if the GUI is implemented correctly, it provides a wealth of information in one glance to a section of a screen, no matter how fast your digits are it's easier to look at a krell than to Alt+F# to a virtual console or fg a job.
The 3D GUI, in my opinion will enhance this ability even more, provided of course that it's correctly implemented. GUI's, if used correctly are not eye candy to make your computer look stylish, although that is a nice side effect, but rather are extremely powerfull tools that help you work more effeciently.
Just wait, you'll be monitoring your system in 3D space before long, and you'll wonder what you did without it. Imagine a surface plot of top with processes on one access, time on the other, and usage information on the third. With the correct color coding you can spot the process of interest with one glance to see what it's doing.
Our physical world is in three diemensions, why shouldn't our window managers be? And I'm not talking about menu drop shaddows;)
Screw that, hopefully he's a little more commited to his core beliefs than to sell out to Crapple. If he forks I'll follow him, if he goes to Open I'll switch. If he goes to Crapple everything goes to Gentoo.
First of all you did not read my post, the poor Americans are poor because of choices, the worlds poor are that way because of bad leaders, which may or may not have been a choice. In response to your oh so elequent argument I think you have proved my point marveously. At some point in your families history someone made a choice or series of choices that resulted in you growing up poor. Whether it was your father deciding to drink that beer instead of studying for finals or his father deciding to quit his job and imigrate to the new country, regardless there was a choice. You have obviously chosen different because you are posting on Slashdot, something that requires at least a minimal education and some talent. At what point did you make the choice to better yourself? Abraham Lincoln learned law in his spare time in order to better himself, and that was a choice. I will admit that there is a miniscule number of people that have just been dealt a really really crappy hand in life, but there is absolutely nothing in this country stopping a person from not being poor.
A cow is their future:) Seriously, I've never understood the "spread it around" argument. All that happens when you spread wealth around is that it comes back to those who had it in the first place. People are poor because of their choices, not because of the system, countries are poor because of their leaders, not the rich countries. What get's me is that the US is actually trying to better the life of some poor people, but we get all of the flak because we're rich. As far as I'm concerned the rest of the world deserves Sadam Husein and we should shut our borders completely. I would vote to NOT bail out France, Germany and Russia this time around though.
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Isn't that exactly what Gateway Services for NetWare was designed to do? This is a bit old, but Microsoft is really the pot calling the kettle black on this issue.
FEULAs
I'll bet the bums are making a killing.
Funny thing is that Drudge has a blurb on his page that says that the FBI is investigating whether or not the worm caused the blackout. Wouldn't that be awesome, that would make my week.
localhost / # format c:
-bash: format: command not found
localhost / # fdisk c:
Unable to open c:
localhost / # deltree *.*
-bash: deltree: command not found
localhost / # del *.*
-bash: del: command not found
localhost / # sys c:
-bash: sys: command not found
localhost / # help
GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
<snip>
</snip>
{ COMMANDS ; }
localhost / # fsda;lkjafdjl;kwfoied
-bash: fsda: command not found
-bash: lkjasdjl: command not found
-bash: kwfoied: command not found
localhost / # <insert_vcr_led>
Sobbing....I HATE LINUX....
Somewhere a penguin smiles.
Why are so many electronics manufacturers insisting on putting tiny little battery sucking crappy resolution cameras on everything?
I have been shopping for a new cell phone for the last few months and almost all of the new nice phones have a POS camera attached. I don't want that crap, and I have no idea who does. They drain the battery, get broken, dont look nice and add useless bulk to the device and the OS.
This Clie looks really nice, but I will not even considder buying one until they offer a camera-less version. I have a very nice 4.0 megapixel camera with it's own memory, own card and it takes great pictures, I dont need some piece of crap camera on my phone or pda.
Why slashdot? WHY???
Wasn't IPV6 supposed to solve this problem?
HAHA I remember the oh so vital dos boot disk, trying to squeeze everything into upper memory so you could get that ~612K free. Tweaking EMM386.EXE, HIMEM.SYS and MSCDEX which was the bane of my existence. Those were the days, the days that I didn't mind a Microsoft operating system.
/proc/sys/sched kernel paramaters. Instead of the elusive 640K free memory for a dos boot disk I'm now constantly trying to squeeze a 5% increase on glxgears or a consistent 35FPS on NWN with all of the settings cranked running at a 16x9 aspect ratio on a dual head GeForce4. All of this while running KDE, Lopster, xplanet, kmail, galeon, konq, an ldap server and serving smb to xmms on a different machine.
:)
I now play all of my games on Linux, Gentoo of course, but I still satisfy my tweaking fetish by messing around with the low latency ck patches and the
So yes, to all of the CLI haters those who never understood DOS and really need XP to hold their thing while they pee, go press enter twice and install your precious DRM. I'll sit there for 8 hourse and build gentoo from stage 1 and go to sleep knowing that I'm still better than you
I somewhat agree with this, although the *NIX we have today is significantly different from what we had 20 years ago. But that is the fallicy of BalMer$ argument to me. DOS didn't work that well so they cloned a Mac and created Windows, that was ok, but still didn't work that well, especially in the server market. They set their sights on Novell, created a basically new product (stole it from IBM et al) and released NT. They changed it again, tried to add functionality that has been in *NIX for those 20 or so years and there you have Windows 2000 which was NT done right and IMHO the best OS Microsoft has ever created. Then they realized that gaming and multimedia are what the home user wants and crossbred 2000, NT, and 98 and created XP a completely different breed. They tied to create an OS that was everything to everyone, and wound up with an OS that is really good for nothing other than embedding a bunch of DRM and other anti consumer crap. An OS that is not suited to run any task in my opinion.
XP is Microsofts solution to what *NIX already is (I say *NIX because with a little tweaking they for the most part can all do the same things) a robust OS that can be tailored to what ever job you want it to do. XP tries to be tailorable for many different jobs, but it winds up sucking at all of them for the most part.
*NIX is an empty tool box that lets you put what you want in it, XP is the Hammer, Wrench, Pliers, Knife and screwdriver contraption that my wife bought before we got married. Want's to do everything but can do anything.
That to me is why *NIX hasn't changed much in the last 20 or so years, the user space apps have changed, but the core hasn't changed because it was done right the first time and has slowly evolved into what it is now. If I want a desktop machine, Linux with KDE 3.1.1 is better that anything Microsoft has ever offered, same goes for an OpenBSD firewall or web server or a FreeBSD or Solaris database server.
Microsoft tries to reinvent what the OS is to all people every couple of years, creates a marketing driven POS and calls it innovation. *NIX will be around a long long time after Microsoft is just a bad memory. With Balmer navigating the juggernaut that will happen sooner rather than later; I, for one, am not worried.
Two words that apparently passed unhindered through your cranium: S-O-L-I-D S-T-A-T-E
I'm pretty sure that it would take infinitely more energy to do the vibrate() call than you would generate by the phone actually vibrating. The net effect would be an energy loss. Making the phone more effecient by collecting back some of the energy when the phone rings is a good idea, but just vibrating the phone every so often to create energy won't work.
If you've heard that you can charge a phone by calling it's vibrate() function then I have a bridge and some ocean front property in Arizona to sell you.
Not eliete, emergeleet :)
I know it was bad!
I wonder what killall -9 wmp9 would look like on a 30 foot screen.
I do agree that the Z axis presents a bit of a problem. Personally I really like the way that Maya handles the navigation of 3D space with a sphere composed of three circles, each on a different plane. A small "nav" sphere in one of the corners of the screen or accessible by a hot key or mouse button would work. Meta + Arrow keys also might work.
I just see the power of virutal desktops and virtual consoles and think that power could be applied to a 3 Dimensional area and work really well.
I think I'm going to start doodling some diagrams, might be a good way to get back into C++ and learn a little OpenGL on the way.
The harder you make it for people to use something the less they will want to use it. People already dont like Microsoft, even the mom and pops, they just use it because it's easy and there is software for it. If you start limiting the software you sell because of some stupid sticker that doesn't mean anything anyways people will look other places.
This in my opinion is bad business for Office Depot, it's the status quo for Microsoft. I have never bough software from Office Depot, and I never intend to , but all I can see this doing is hurting their software sales.
Microsoft want's to make it harder and harder for people to switch from using their products, but if you look at it from another perspective, all they are doing is making people considering their products look harder at the alternatives.
I think BestBuy and CompUSA would be very very foolish to follow suit with this strategy. Hopefully, since distributing software is one of their primary functions, as opposed to a side business for OD, they will realize that this will only hurt their software sales because people will look elsewhere for the software produced by companies that have not decided to jump through all of Microsofts hoops.
What I want to know is, does this apply to Mac software as well? Does all Mac software have to run on XP? What about Playstation2 and XBox, does all of that software have to run on XP? PalmOS software, should that run on XP as well?
They didn't think this through, oh well, the day is soon coming when people will realize that just because it's a Ford^H^H^H I mean just because it's Microsoft doesn't mean it's the best out there.
Keep in mind that I am not a GUI designer, so take all of this with a grain of salt. I do, however, think that a properly designed 3D GUI could be very usefull, what we have right now in the 3D GUI arena is not what I would consider usefull at all. Basically all I have seen are OpenGL apps to switch virtual desktops.
A complete 3D framwork that allows you to navigate through your system, and group tasks and processes logically is more like what I envision. If I could see a cluster of 3D widgets that represented all of my daemons and at a glance determine what the utilization of one of those is, how many users attached, and by hovering my mouse or holding a hotkey view what the process is currently working on.
Another area of my screen would have a widget representing all of the file systems on the machine, another click or hotkey and I could zoom into the file system arena and graphically view the status. Collections of information grouped logically in 3D space that are easily navigable is what I would like to see.
I am a firm believer in the CLI and text files for nearly everything that needs to be done on a system, I never use a GUI app to configure anything (unless there is no alternative), and I very much prefer the CLI nature of *NIX operating systems. I use vim to program and I prefer the CLI frontends to databases, but I do also enjoy the visual information that a GUI affords. I can have a performance monitor running on my desktop and with one glance get a complete snapshot of what my system is doing. My desktop tells me the weather, news, time, programs running, mounted file systems, how much email I have, and what song I'm listening to and I never have to use the mouse. This is the power of a GUI to me, and I think a 3D GUI could help portray that much more information.
The eyes to the brain is the fastest interface I have come across.
Just my $0.02
I fully agree, all of the 3D GUI's are terrible so far. The display is 2D, but it can portray a 3D image fairly well, and the human brain can conceptualize 3D extremely well, so the ability of a 2D screen to portray a 3D image and the power of our brain to conceptualize that 3D space is a very powerful combination that expands our working potential. I know that if I could at a glance view a 3D visulization of what is going on in my computer or on my network I would be able to accomplish things faster and more effeciently.
The design of a powerfull 3D desktop is a very complicated task, and it must be done extremely well in order to facilitate a change. So I don't see this coming down the pipe anytime soon. Kind of makes me want to read up on GUI design though.
Why do we need a GUI, the CLI is all you need.
;)
I do agree that the GUI, if not implemented correctly, is useless bloat. However if the GUI is implemented correctly, it provides a wealth of information in one glance to a section of a screen, no matter how fast your digits are it's easier to look at a krell than to Alt+F# to a virtual console or fg a job.
The 3D GUI, in my opinion will enhance this ability even more, provided of course that it's correctly implemented. GUI's, if used correctly are not eye candy to make your computer look stylish, although that is a nice side effect, but rather are extremely powerfull tools that help you work more effeciently.
Just wait, you'll be monitoring your system in 3D space before long, and you'll wonder what you did without it. Imagine a surface plot of top with processes on one access, time on the other, and usage information on the third. With the correct color coding you can spot the process of interest with one glance to see what it's doing.
Our physical world is in three diemensions, why shouldn't our window managers be? And I'm not talking about menu drop shaddows
Amen brotha! I went from KDE 3.0.5 to KDE 3.1_rc1, rc2, etc, all the way up. emerge -u world is a wonderful thing too :)
it's funny that I do all of my /. posting on linux too. Old old sig.
( B ) = Beer
( D ) = Drink
( K ) = Kiss
( & ) = Dog
If that helps.
Type it into MSN messenger, they're codes for MSN emoticons.
The G stands for Get, as in GetRid of the RIAA.
Screw that, hopefully he's a little more commited to his core beliefs than to sell out to Crapple. If he forks I'll follow him, if he goes to Open I'll switch. If he goes to Crapple everything goes to Gentoo.
There are NO such things as luck and fate. EOP
First of all you did not read my post, the poor Americans are poor because of choices, the worlds poor are that way because of bad leaders, which may or may not have been a choice. In response to your oh so elequent argument I think you have proved my point marveously. At some point in your families history someone made a choice or series of choices that resulted in you growing up poor. Whether it was your father deciding to drink that beer instead of studying for finals or his father deciding to quit his job and imigrate to the new country, regardless there was a choice. You have obviously chosen different because you are posting on Slashdot, something that requires at least a minimal education and some talent. At what point did you make the choice to better yourself? Abraham Lincoln learned law in his spare time in order to better himself, and that was a choice. I will admit that there is a miniscule number of people that have just been dealt a really really crappy hand in life, but there is absolutely nothing in this country stopping a person from not being poor.
A cow is their future :) Seriously, I've never understood the "spread it around" argument. All that happens when you spread wealth around is that it comes back to those who had it in the first place. People are poor because of their choices, not because of the system, countries are poor because of their leaders, not the rich countries. What get's me is that the US is actually trying to better the life of some poor people, but we get all of the flak because we're rich. As far as I'm concerned the rest of the world deserves Sadam Husein and we should shut our borders completely. I would vote to NOT bail out France, Germany and Russia this time around though.