Ah, I just loaded the home page of crack.linuxppc.org, and yep, they're using BOCHS. Sweet.
Gotta ask: is any1 using BOCHS out there? How do you like it? How is the performance?
And also: Could we convince its creator to come out with an Intel version, just so folks can use Windows apps under Linux without rebooting (or praying that WINE might actually do the job)?
Essentially, what I'm asking is: Would you think that a "BOCHS Lite" that doesn't bother emulating the Intel instruction set be worthwhile? It could allow alternative OSes to boot under it (just in case you actually needed Windows for something).. -----
If we're going to give a prize for "person of the century", I consider AT to be a better bet. He was, after all, the intellectual father of the computer.
Yeah, yeah, I know, Atanasoff and even Karl Zuse beat AT to the punch with working prototypes, but AT did the math, to put it succinctly. Without Turing, no computer-related career would even make this list.
Hello fellow Tar Heel! (or is it Blue Devil? Wolfpack maybe?) Another nice thing about NC: way way cheaper than Silly Valley for cost of living, and the Triangle area is still growing by leaps and bounds. And the hockey is better.
Has anyone out there read the book "More Letters From A Nut"? Supposedly it was written by Jerry Seinfeld and some cohorts under the pseudonym in the subject line of this post. Essentially the book consists of incredibly absurd letters sent to legitimate entities (corporations, pro sports teams, city governments, etc.), and the replies obtained from them. Parts of it are hilarious, and one in particular is relevant.
Ted once wrote to the Coca-Cola company that he was planning on marketing a soft drink called "Kiet Doke", the slogan for which was "it tastes nothing like Pepsi!". The original letter is a howl.
The reply from Coca-Cola was even more telling: the happy gnomes in Atlanta wanted Ted Nancy to sign a release form, providing confirmation that he would never create a soft drink called "Kiet Doke".
Yep, Coca-Cola had corporate pit bulls (oops, I mean, lawyers) ready to pounce on Mr. Nancy. They felt they had a legitimate case, if in fact Ted Nancy wasn't kidding. And they were probably right.
The Apple suit is very much like this one, except that an actual product exists (vs. just a letter from a nut).
For the record, Ted sent a letter back stating that he'd abandon the project in favor of one called "Piet Depsi" ("it tastes nothing like Coke!"). -----
Unfortunately, there doesn't exist ANY filtering software that does filtering properly, and doesn't filter out the legitimate sites, such as breast feeding, breast cancer, etc.
Anyone remember the good old days of Prodigy? I remember when someone mentioned using a "pot" in a recipe within a post, and blammo -- her account was suspended. Content filtering just doesn't work. (Not with keywords at least.) In short, it's not that we want children to be able to randomly chance upon the vast quantities of porn available on the internet, rather, we don't want to limit choices to a close-minded person's view of what's right.
Thank you! You hit the nail on the head. I'd also add that few people anymore are actually smart enough to make this distinction.
Thomas Hobbes may have been right after all: most people want an almighty patrician overseer for their government, one that frees them from the hard task of genuine thought. Even the "Libertarians" fall under this heading I'm afraid.
And Wm. Bennett is a big fan of Mr. Hobbes. Scares the %$#@ out of me.. -----
Those of us who understand that censorship is a fundamentally Bad Thing, and that the ends never justify the means. (Most/.ers fall into this category.)
Whenever I hear some1 forget the last point, or assume that their ends are so ideal that means become irrelevant, well.. all I can think is "you poor sorry mindless bastard".
I agree wholeheartedly on the "principle" point you make as well, BTW. -----
Folks, let's get real: Liddy Dole's campaign is engaged in the proverbial downward spiral, and she needs to shore up her popularity with the slackjawed-yokel Bible-thumper crowd to win any GOP primaries at this rate.
So hey, what better way to get the pathetic sheep behind you than to promote "family values" at the expense of a minority (us)?
I'm so sick of hearing "we must protect the children" (from the left and right, thank you very much). Americans (particularly the holy-roller types) really do love big government.. so long as it prosecutes their particular agenda.. and tries to tackle those big bad things like the Internet that they don't understand.
(And oh yeah, the US education system sucks so badly that what "they don't understand" is a fscking lot. But that's another rant.)
Ya wanna protect the children? Fine. Be a better parent. Tell your kids what's out there instead (knowledge is power, not ignorance). But stop asking me to pay for (let alone do) your work.
your arguments have to show me how I'll (a) save time, (b) save money, and/or (c) get a better product from an end-user standpoint.
One way IMHO is hardware maintainability. Power Macs (and most 68K Macs) are smart enough to select a bootable hard drive, boot directly from CD when requested, use default boot settings (just in case your newly-compiled Linux kernel isn't up to the task), etc. Compared to Intel machines, Macs are a breeze to maintain. So much so, in fact, that if it weren't for the lag in porting the latest versions of Linux S/W (apps as well as drivers, mind you), I'd say there's no reason to buy an Intel box.
Side note to haaz: Whither LinuxPPC 5.0?
I've doctored Intel machines running under WinXX, Win3.1, OS/2, WinNT, and dealing with the hardware was always a pain. Maybe that's changed somewhat, but the Mac was always easier to futz with.
Don't forget to blast the Cardigans on your way out. And stay away from Ulf Samuelsson (*crunch*) !
-- CoffeeNowDammit, who still vomits upon hearing the opening notes to Lovefool.. -----
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Another possibility:
The Park Place 16 Cinema (in Morrisville technically, but juuust outside the Cary, NC city limits) might have TPM showing. All I know is that they're remodeling the theatre for "stadium-style" seating, and will be reopening on 5/12.
But I have no idea if SW:TPM will be there at all.
An Apple alumnus decides to market his own hardware at first, then concentrates on the operating system for an alternative CPU, then decides to rebase his OS for the Intel architecture. Everything he promotes is impressive, but still never catches on fully.
Why does this sound familiar?
And why do I have a sneaking suspicion that Be is headed for the ash-heap, IPO or not?
After futzing w/ the generic SCSI interface for a bit under Linux recently, I can say even w/ my bare modicum of exposure that, as interfaces go, SCSI sucks.
Whether USB:The Next Generation or FireWire emerges as a viable standard (hey, why not both?), I just hope the specs aren't as screwy, or as, um, variegated (ultra, ultraWide, 1, 2, 3.. round and round she goes, place your bets..). -----
I don't know what to say my friend. It's been gnawing at me like crazy as well.
My wife sounds a bit geekier than yours (and hey, that adjective is by no means a perjorative, thank you very much). She endured some of this #$%^ in jr. high, but went to a high school where honors classes etc. were actually valued. Did the same problems exist @ her high school? She can't say; either they didn't exist or she was oblivious to them. (She can be brutally honest about people, including herself. That's one of the reasons why I married her.)
There's a reason for her trepidation. Both of us are getting involved in anti-discrimination workshops as of late, and there's one thing that's very peculiar about members of any privileged class (i.e. "normal people", whatever that means). They'll not only deny that a problem exists; they'll be TOTALLY UNAWARE that the system has favored them (or at least never counted against them). No clue, zip, nada, nobody home. Your wife may be completely naive to everything, and it may not necessarily be her fault. (Just as you can be a racist without being a Klansman, if you catch my drift.)
I'd keep at her, though. It's not too much to ask the person you hope to spend the rest of your life with to understand (and to confront?) the issues that are important to you. And that is not too much reading for one day.
Again, take care; I hope she sees the light someday.. -----
How about using existing space? I'll donate part of my tiny scrap of space (courtesy of my ISP) if someone is willing to collate and prettify the responses. Hell, I haven't updated my site in eons..
Amen, jabber! I've seen all sorts of suggestions floating around on this topic ("more prayer", "fewer guns", "more media", "less media"), and more urge to place blame than I ever did on/.
But this post deals with the crux of the matter.
I was one of those kids in high school who was picked on, never had much money, was an anti-social outcast, etc. It's very easy to fall into that negative-feedback loop of aggression. (Especially at an age when one's testosterone levels are at their highest ever.) Like it or not, the intolerant social "haves" in such an environment make life a living hell for the "have-nots".
I'm shocked at how the killers in Colorado amassed such a huge amount of weaponry. I'm not surprised at their behavior though. Any kid who is constantly put down in a rigid system, and who is more at ease with being an introverted loner, is a potential time bomb.
And a particularly vulnerable one at that. I won't go so far as to cave into the hysteria about the evil media influence, but as a rule, kids in this situation are more susceptible to anything that instills a sense of belonging -- not that they would admit it -- as well as a way to vent built-up hostility. In other words, I won't go so far as to say that Marilyn Manson was a root cause of all of this, but I will say that a lack of adult involvement (or positive reinforcement of any kind) certainly convinced these kids to look for it somewhere else.. even if it meant inferring something from CDs no self-respecting adult would listen to with a gun to his or her head.
So what could have been done? IMHO, it's not the school's fault; chances are it was already constrained for resources. There's only so much a school with skyrocketing class sizes and limited (shrinking?) funds can do. Hell, educators shouldn't be forced into the role of babysitters anyway. But I think that the murderers' parents felt otherwise. They were horribly wrong. -----
Y'know, if this is more than just a rumor, any OEM could thwart MS's tactics rather easily, especially with DOJ looking so interested:
"What? You want us to run NT instead of Linux? Well, before we do that, we'll need to get it on tape. Be sure to state your name and your employee ID, okay?"
Am I missing something here? IBM is offering to port Linux to the PowerPC, but the LinuxPPC folks have already done just that. What's Big Blue up to?? -----
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Ah, I just loaded the home page of crack.linuxppc.org, and yep, they're using BOCHS. Sweet.
Gotta ask: is any1 using BOCHS out there? How do you like it? How is the performance?
And also: Could we convince its creator to come out with an Intel version, just so folks can use Windows apps under Linux without rebooting (or praying that WINE might actually do the job)?
Essentially, what I'm asking is: Would you think that a "BOCHS Lite" that doesn't bother emulating the Intel instruction set be worthwhile? It could allow alternative OSes to boot under it (just in case you actually needed Windows for something)..
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What's running Windows in this shot
(assuming that the jpeg wasn't put thru the GIMP first...)?
Is it another instance of SheepShaver running VirtualPC ?
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If we're going to give a prize for "person of the century", I consider AT to be a better bet. He was, after all, the intellectual father of the computer.
Yeah, yeah, I know, Atanasoff and even Karl Zuse beat AT to the punch with working prototypes, but AT did the math, to put it succinctly. Without Turing, no computer-related career would even make this list.
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Hello fellow Tar Heel! (or is it Blue Devil? Wolfpack maybe?)
Another nice thing about NC: way way cheaper than Silly Valley for cost of living, and the Triangle area is still growing by leaps and bounds.
And the hockey is better.
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Has anyone out there read the book "More Letters From A Nut"? Supposedly it was written by Jerry Seinfeld and some cohorts under the pseudonym in the subject line of this post. Essentially the book consists of incredibly absurd letters sent to legitimate entities (corporations, pro sports teams, city governments, etc.), and the replies obtained from them. Parts of it are hilarious, and one in particular is relevant.
Ted once wrote to the Coca-Cola company that he was planning on marketing a soft drink called "Kiet Doke", the slogan for which was "it tastes nothing like Pepsi!". The original letter is a howl.
The reply from Coca-Cola was even more telling: the happy gnomes in Atlanta wanted Ted Nancy to sign a release form, providing confirmation that he would never create a soft drink called "Kiet Doke".
Yep, Coca-Cola had corporate pit bulls (oops, I mean, lawyers) ready to pounce on Mr. Nancy. They felt they had a legitimate case, if in fact Ted Nancy wasn't kidding. And they were probably right.
The Apple suit is very much like this one, except that an actual product exists (vs. just a letter from a nut).
For the record, Ted sent a letter back stating that he'd abandon the project in favor of one called "Piet Depsi" ("it tastes nothing like Coke!").
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Eywwww!
Sounds like a good alternative should the Pentagon run out of napalm.. 8-)
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Hey, they're easier to spot from space than a bunch of stinkin' olive trees...
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Anyone remember the good old days of Prodigy? I remember when someone mentioned using a "pot" in a recipe within a post, and blammo -- her account was suspended. Content filtering just doesn't work. (Not with keywords at least.) In short, it's not that we want children to be able to randomly chance upon the vast quantities of porn available on the internet, rather, we don't want to limit choices to a close-minded person's view of what's right.
Thank you! You hit the nail on the head. I'd also add that few people anymore are actually smart enough to make this distinction.
Thomas Hobbes may have been right after all: most people want an almighty patrician overseer for their government, one that frees them from the hard task of genuine thought. Even the "Libertarians" fall under this heading I'm afraid.
And Wm. Bennett is a big fan of Mr. Hobbes. Scares the %$#@ out of me..
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Which minority is that then?
Those of us who understand that censorship is a fundamentally Bad Thing, and that the ends never justify the means. (Most /.ers fall into this category.)
Whenever I hear some1 forget the last point, or assume that their ends are so ideal that means become irrelevant, well.. all I can think is "you poor sorry mindless bastard".
I agree wholeheartedly on the "principle" point you make as well, BTW.
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Oh Gawd.
Folks, let's get real: Liddy Dole's campaign is engaged in the proverbial downward spiral, and she needs to shore up her popularity with the slackjawed-yokel Bible-thumper crowd to win any GOP primaries at this rate.
So hey, what better way to get the pathetic sheep behind you than to promote "family values" at the expense of a minority (us)?
I'm so sick of hearing "we must protect the children" (from the left and right, thank you very much). Americans (particularly the holy-roller types) really do love big government.. so long as it prosecutes their particular agenda.. and tries to tackle those big bad things like the Internet that they don't understand.
(And oh yeah, the US education system sucks so badly that what "they don't understand" is a fscking lot. But that's another rant.)
Ya wanna protect the children? Fine. Be a better parent. Tell your kids what's out there instead (knowledge is power, not ignorance). But stop asking me to pay for (let alone do) your work.
I feel better now..
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Subj. line sez all.
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(a) save time, (b) save money, and/or
(c) get a better product from an end-user standpoint.
One way IMHO is hardware maintainability. Power Macs (and most 68K Macs) are smart enough to select a bootable hard drive, boot directly from CD when requested, use default boot settings (just in case your newly-compiled Linux kernel isn't up to the task), etc. Compared to Intel machines, Macs are a breeze to maintain. So much so, in fact, that if it weren't for the lag in porting the latest versions of Linux S/W (apps as well as drivers, mind you), I'd say there's no reason to buy an Intel box.
Side note to haaz: Whither LinuxPPC 5.0?
I've doctored Intel machines running under WinXX, Win3.1, OS/2, WinNT, and dealing with the hardware was always a pain. Maybe that's changed somewhat, but the Mac was always easier to futz with.
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-- CoffeeNowDammit, who still vomits upon hearing the opening notes to Lovefool..
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The Park Place 16 Cinema (in Morrisville technically, but juuust outside the Cary, NC city limits) might have TPM showing. All I know is that they're remodeling the theatre for "stadium-style" seating, and will be reopening on 5/12.
But I have no idea if SW:TPM will be there at all.
Very close to the Park as well though.
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Why does this sound familiar?
And why do I have a sneaking suspicion that Be is headed for the ash-heap, IPO or not?
Flame away..
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Whether USB:The Next Generation or FireWire emerges as a viable standard (hey, why not both?), I just hope the specs aren't as screwy, or as, um, variegated (ultra, ultraWide, 1, 2, 3 .. round and round she goes, place your bets..).
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I don't know what to say my friend. It's been gnawing at me like crazy as well.
My wife sounds a bit geekier than yours (and hey, that adjective is by no means a perjorative, thank you very much). She endured some of this #$%^ in jr. high, but went to a high school where honors classes etc. were actually valued. Did the same problems exist @ her high school? She can't say; either they didn't exist or she was oblivious to them. (She can be brutally honest about people, including herself. That's one of the reasons why I married her.)
There's a reason for her trepidation. Both of us are getting involved in anti-discrimination workshops as of late, and there's one thing that's very peculiar about members of any privileged class (i.e. "normal people", whatever that means). They'll not only deny that a problem exists; they'll be TOTALLY UNAWARE that the system has favored them (or at least never counted against them). No clue, zip, nada, nobody home. Your wife may be completely naive to everything, and it may not necessarily be her fault. (Just as you can be a racist without being a Klansman, if you catch my drift.)
I'd keep at her, though. It's not too much to ask the person you hope to spend the rest of your life with to understand (and to confront?) the issues that are important to you. And that is not too much reading for one day.
Again, take care; I hope she sees the light someday..
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http://www.mindspring.com/~caffeine1
(Warning: VERY graphics-intensive.)
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But this post deals with the crux of the matter.
I was one of those kids in high school who was picked on, never had much money, was an anti-social outcast, etc. It's very easy to fall into that negative-feedback loop of aggression. (Especially at an age when one's testosterone levels are at their highest ever.) Like it or not, the intolerant social "haves" in such an environment make life a living hell for the "have-nots".
I'm shocked at how the killers in Colorado amassed such a huge amount of weaponry. I'm not surprised at their behavior though. Any kid who is constantly put down in a rigid system, and who is more at ease with being an introverted loner, is a potential time bomb.
And a particularly vulnerable one at that. I won't go so far as to cave into the hysteria about the evil media influence, but as a rule, kids in this situation are more susceptible to anything that instills a sense of belonging -- not that they would admit it -- as well as a way to vent built-up hostility. In other words, I won't go so far as to say that Marilyn Manson was a root cause of all of this, but I will say that a lack of adult involvement (or positive reinforcement of any kind) certainly convinced these kids to look for it somewhere else.. even if it meant inferring something from CDs no self-respecting adult would listen to with a gun to his or her head.
So what could have been done? IMHO, it's not the school's fault; chances are it was already constrained for resources. There's only so much a school with skyrocketing class sizes and limited (shrinking?) funds can do. Hell, educators shouldn't be forced into the role of babysitters anyway. But I think that the murderers' parents felt otherwise. They were horribly wrong.
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You mean.. Microsoft and Scientology aren't the same thing?
Damn, I've been sorely misled for too freakin' long..
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Y'know, if this is more than just a
rumor, any OEM could thwart MS's tactics
rather easily, especially with DOJ
looking so interested:
"What? You want us to run NT instead
of Linux? Well, before we do that, we'll
need to get it on tape. Be sure to state
your name and your employee ID, okay?"
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Hey all,
There was, for a while at least, the rumor that
someone out there would write a "red box" to
emulate Win32 on MacOS X for Intel.
Would the someone care to be a WINE developer?
Hmmmmmmmmmm?
And if someone could get Bochs in decent enough
shape, who knows? You could have a (slow) PowerPC port as well, perhaps..
Any1 out there have opinions about this?
This announcement is just too cool IMHO; more
important than the Netscape open-source
announcement..
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Am I missing something here? IBM is
offering to port Linux to the PowerPC,
but the LinuxPPC folks have already done
just that. What's Big Blue up to??
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The MaSTer WoULD Not AppROVE
of CanCeLLAtion..
This episode reduced by brother-in-law to tears.
His face actually hurt from laughing.
Am I the only one who thinks the Dennis
Weaver character from "Touch of Evil"
looked like Torgo?
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