I don't think AmigaOSXL has drivers for the Toaster. Or for zorro slots, agnus, amiga keyboards, amiga mice, etc.
Then again, when Be ported their OS off the proprietary platform, and onto a PC, was the best thing that ever happened to them. Now Be Inc., is worth what? 2 trillion USD?
The Amiga, despite its awesome power, is dead. There is no future for it, when all it is, is an emulator that Joe Windows turns off after playing a video game for an hour. There is no future when its only an OS, ported to the most horrid CPU ever devised. A lame port, ported by an even lamer company that is only trying to cash in on a trademark that it bought the rights to. This will soon die too, and be forgotten quickly. The sooner the better, IMO, so that we can go on remembering when computers were actually cool.
#1 Holy rollers calling it the new "Tower of Babel".
#2 Balancing this thing so that it doesn't wobble. For every pound that goes upward, we need approximately as much going down, right?
#3 Can we sit a free floating space station just a few hundred yards outside of it?
#4 If we can do that, can we build a bridge to it (of course, you'd need to do this in both directions) ?
#5 If the bridges get long enough, could they meet up with another strategically placed beanstalk?
#6 Could we wrap a bridge around the entire earth?
Just a few brain teasers... Oh, and another thing. Getting solar power safely to earth from orbit, is currently a problem. Beaming megawatts down to a basestation via microwaves is sorta nasty. But with this, we could just run an electrical line. Cool, huh?
The atmosphere only extends 100 miles up or so. No wind above that. And rain moves up/down, not sideways... and again, not higher than the first few miles.
Yes, which means the actual length is 44k miles long. Cool, because the tram cars could go that much further. Launching something from it, would be as simple as traveling to the end, and letting go... the planet would hurl you out into space, with a decent initial velocity.
The phrase, "talk to the hand" ? Wired.com had an article just the other day, about a glove that translated sign language to spoken english. And a few weeks before that, I swear I saw yet another news article saying the same thing. This is getting on my nerves, I don't like my vocabulary corrupted by Jerry Springerish cliches.
This is a guy whose job is that of technology commentary? He claims that the primary difference between ethernet and token ring is layer 3. If I had the authority to, I'd force him to take remedial classes.
Um, I believe the vehicle that has most in common with Windows was formerly produced in East Germany. Called the Trebant, if I remember. Look it up, and tell me if it isn't strikingly similar, in a metaphorical way.
Losers like myself are screwed the first time some millionaire decides to pay them $500,000 to be able to re-enact some Hitlerian nightmare. I can already see the invoice.
$500,000 Supreme totalarian command of medium-large nation.
$250,000 Weapons of mass destruction 10 years ahead of any other developing nation.
$100,000 Impressive cadre of NPC's, minus ethical/moral scripting.
$79.95 Fascist uniform design and tailoring.
$999.95 K-line authority for up to 50 standard subscribers per month.
$4995.95 Immunity from TOS, including all harassment, cruelty and anti-social policies.
FREE "I'm not God, even though I play one on Entropia MMPOG."
Fire anyone that does anything unethical enough that you'd worry about their email being archived. Produce documentation to judge, showing termination of such employees as soon as it comes to your attention that they were doing these things. Don't worry about electronic paper-shredding again.
In the past, modchips were nothing morer than custom programmed pics, is this still true? Why doesn't someone just release the code for the pics then? If posted along with ps2 linux code, I don't see how they could attack it, since the modchip would be an essential step in using linux on the machine. Or does this not matter, when you're a corporate giant, and can buy IP laws at whim?
I applaud Caldera's move. A few weeks back, when I had started searching for just this thing, I was directed to the SCO website, SCO having been bought by Caldera. As luck would have it, SCO's own free license for original unix was missing, and I was dissappointed. A quick glance though, and it seems that Caldera's license is much more agreeable. Now all I need, is a 9 track drive.;-)
I'll even volunteer to write the AD/NDS/Streettalk/OpenLDAP integration chapters, if you like. My copy of VINES arrived only yesterday, and I'm itching to have some fun with it.
This is very interesting to me, the computer of which you speak. Any idea where someone could buy one? And yes, I have the arcnet network to hook it up to.
But to think, 80186's in a desktop computer, networked with arcnet, running a non-mainstream OS? I'm already in love. I just hope they get along with my TRS-80 Model II.
G4 amiga boards are the very definition of vaporware. In addition to that, you have the few vendors that make such things catering only to the a4000 and a1200.
You certainly mean you've seen a 604e/060 board, which is a generation 2 PPC ("G2"). And with amigaOne ("We've stepped 3999 steps backward!!!") coming out, or not coming out, soon... most of those vendors have put on hold the few new products they might have released.
You already have uIP and lwIP to use, so only the ppp portion is necessary. Would need more than that, an ftp client, ping, and telnet would be enough to play with. But, if I were you, I'd buy a $5 super serial card off of ebay. 19.2k would be pretty awesome on the thing.
Or, you could grab a Workstation card, and a Localtalk PC isa card (for the linux box, of course) and try to implement the MacTCP over ltalk protocol. Even with overhead, that coud probably reach 50-70k speeds.
And then, if you want to send me $100, I'd build you an ethernet card for the thing. The design is as finished as it can be on paper (actually gerber and vhdl files). But, having learned not 2 hours ago, that my project is canceled, and I'll be scraping by on unemployment again, my plans to save up some cash for a prototype pcb to be made are on hold once again.
Oh, and completely off topic, but if I see another letter to the editor, with HR people complaining they can't find qualified IT people, I will go insane and murder as many people as I can before they shoot me down like a rabid dog.:-)
Why wouldn't it? Moving a 3 meg file across the bus, over a period of roughly 3 minutes, is certainly possible for the Apple II. This is mp3 after all, not CSS encoded mpeg2.
Well, good point. But enough are made, I forsee GPL drivers for this device. Someone out there has the free time, expertise, and desire to write such drivers.
Any program that accesses the speaker would be a good candidate for interception. Even if they only want the beep, we could give them a choice of beeps, for instance. And if they try to play music with the thing, it's difficult, but not impossible, to intercept that, and generate FM tones that sound alot better (tough because you have no idea how it should sound, until it's almost too late to play it) Imagine playing donkey kong, but with better music. Hell, with a real sound card, and a real hard drive for the thing... it's halfway to being usable in a modern sense.
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I don't think AmigaOSXL has drivers for the Toaster. Or for zorro slots, agnus, amiga keyboards, amiga mice, etc.
Then again, when Be ported their OS off the proprietary platform, and onto a PC, was the best thing that ever happened to them. Now Be Inc., is worth what? 2 trillion USD?
The Amiga, despite its awesome power, is dead. There is no future for it, when all it is, is an emulator that Joe Windows turns off after playing a video game for an hour. There is no future when its only an OS, ported to the most horrid CPU ever devised. A lame port, ported by an even lamer company that is only trying to cash in on a trademark that it bought the rights to. This will soon die too, and be forgotten quickly. The sooner the better, IMO, so that we can go on remembering when computers were actually cool.
Go to hell, McEwen.
Um, yeh. Meta-moderation can't come quick enough for me.
#1 Holy rollers calling it the new "Tower of Babel".
#2 Balancing this thing so that it doesn't wobble. For every pound that goes upward, we need approximately as much going down, right?
#3 Can we sit a free floating space station just a few hundred yards outside of it?
#4 If we can do that, can we build a bridge to it (of course, you'd need to do this in both directions) ?
#5 If the bridges get long enough, could they meet up with another strategically placed beanstalk?
#6 Could we wrap a bridge around the entire earth?
Just a few brain teasers... Oh, and another thing. Getting solar power safely to earth from orbit, is currently a problem. Beaming megawatts down to a basestation via microwaves is sorta nasty. But with this, we could just run an electrical line. Cool, huh?
The atmosphere only extends 100 miles up or so. No wind above that. And rain moves up/down, not sideways... and again, not higher than the first few miles.
Yes, which means the actual length is 44k miles long. Cool, because the tram cars could go that much further. Launching something from it, would be as simple as traveling to the end, and letting go... the planet would hurl you out into space, with a decent initial velocity.
You're planning on rackmounting 3 or 4, just as soon as you finally get another IT job. Kinda hard to do that on an unemployment check though.
The phrase, "talk to the hand" ? Wired.com had an article just the other day, about a glove that translated sign language to spoken english. And a few weeks before that, I swear I saw yet another news article saying the same thing. This is getting on my nerves, I don't like my vocabulary corrupted by Jerry Springerish cliches.
This is a guy whose job is that of technology commentary? He claims that the primary difference between ethernet and token ring is layer 3. If I had the authority to, I'd force him to take remedial classes.
But you're too late. He recieved mine no later than 3 weeks ago.
Um, I believe the vehicle that has most in common with Windows was formerly produced in East Germany. Called the Trebant, if I remember. Look it up, and tell me if it isn't strikingly similar, in a metaphorical way.
Losers like myself are screwed the first time some millionaire decides to pay them $500,000 to be able to re-enact some Hitlerian nightmare. I can already see the invoice.
$500,000 Supreme totalarian command of medium-large nation.
$250,000 Weapons of mass destruction 10 years ahead of any other developing nation.
$100,000 Impressive cadre of NPC's, minus ethical/moral scripting.
$79.95 Fascist uniform design and tailoring.
$999.95 K-line authority for up to 50 standard subscribers per month.
$4995.95 Immunity from TOS, including all harassment, cruelty and anti-social policies.
FREE "I'm not God, even though I play one on Entropia MMPOG."
Fire anyone that does anything unethical enough that you'd worry about their email being archived. Produce documentation to judge, showing termination of such employees as soon as it comes to your attention that they were doing these things. Don't worry about electronic paper-shredding again.
In the past, modchips were nothing morer than custom programmed pics, is this still true? Why doesn't someone just release the code for the pics then? If posted along with ps2 linux code, I don't see how they could attack it, since the modchip would be an essential step in using linux on the machine. Or does this not matter, when you're a corporate giant, and can buy IP laws at whim?
I applaud Caldera's move. A few weeks back, when I had started searching for just this thing, I was directed to the SCO website, SCO having been bought by Caldera. As luck would have it, SCO's own free license for original unix was missing, and I was dissappointed. A quick glance though, and it seems that Caldera's license is much more agreeable. Now all I need, is a 9 track drive. ;-)
I'll even volunteer to write the AD/NDS/Streettalk/OpenLDAP integration chapters, if you like. My copy of VINES arrived only yesterday, and I'm itching to have some fun with it.
When you have a 2mps internet connection, who needs clean underwear and deoderant anyway?
This is very interesting to me, the computer of which you speak. Any idea where someone could buy one? And yes, I have the arcnet network to hook it up to.
But to think, 80186's in a desktop computer, networked with arcnet, running a non-mainstream OS? I'm already in love. I just hope they get along with my TRS-80 Model II.
Email me at jojo4@spamsucks.mediaone.net.nospam, that is, provided you can decode the address. ;-)
G4 amiga boards are the very definition of vaporware. In addition to that, you have the few vendors that make such things catering only to the a4000 and a1200.
You certainly mean you've seen a 604e/060 board, which is a generation 2 PPC ("G2"). And with amigaOne ("We've stepped 3999 steps backward!!!") coming out, or not coming out, soon... most of those vendors have put on hold the few new products they might have released.
You already have uIP and lwIP to use, so only the ppp portion is necessary. Would need more than that, an ftp client, ping, and telnet would be enough to play with. But, if I were you, I'd buy a $5 super serial card off of ebay. 19.2k would be pretty awesome on the thing.
:-)
Or, you could grab a Workstation card, and a Localtalk PC isa card (for the linux box, of course) and try to implement the MacTCP over ltalk protocol. Even with overhead, that coud probably reach 50-70k speeds.
And then, if you want to send me $100, I'd build you an ethernet card for the thing. The design is as finished as it can be on paper (actually gerber and vhdl files). But, having learned not 2 hours ago, that my project is canceled, and I'll be scraping by on unemployment again, my plans to save up some cash for a prototype pcb to be made are on hold once again.
Oh, and completely off topic, but if I see another letter to the editor, with HR people complaining they can't find qualified IT people, I will go insane and murder as many people as I can before they shoot me down like a rabid dog.
Why wouldn't it? Moving a 3 meg file across the bus, over a period of roughly 3 minutes, is certainly possible for the Apple II. This is mp3 after all, not CSS encoded mpeg2.
A gs only board, and high priced on the used market. Not nearly powerful enough to suit my tastes... so eventually, I'll get around to doing my own.
Well, good point. But enough are made, I forsee GPL drivers for this device. Someone out there has the free time, expertise, and desire to write such drivers.
Any program that accesses the speaker would be a good candidate for interception. Even if they only want the beep, we could give them a choice of beeps, for instance. And if they try to play music with the thing, it's difficult, but not impossible, to intercept that, and generate FM tones that sound alot better (tough because you have no idea how it should sound, until it's almost too late to play it) Imagine playing donkey kong, but with better music. Hell, with a real sound card, and a real hard drive for the thing... it's halfway to being usable in a modern sense.