Just wanted to thank you a "little" belatedly for your ixemul.library for the Amiga in the days of yore, and IIRC the initial port of gcc... saved my ass in a dev project as my A3000 was the only thing my company "had" that could build/run the code I was working on... the project HAD to compile/run/work on a Solaris box I did not have physical or remote access to... It did.
Once Dragonfly matures a bit, I will have to try it. Peace.
Good point, Apple makes most of it's money on hardware. IIRC, that hardware is called the iPod.
If Apple becomes "the iPod company" as has been suggested, or something along those lines, it might make for a great "Parting Gift" for Bill Gates.
Also remember that most of the real profit (recurring, always preferred)that Microsoft has is from corporate... OSX is corporate ready.
If it just happened to run on existing x86 HW that happened NOT to be "worthy" of running Longhorn, like, anything made to date for example, it would be a huge bonus.
Going x86 would NOT have to be suicidal in ANY way for Apple, IMHO.
I spent 4 very happy years in PDX, and I would move back there from Dallas in a heartbeat _IF_ the the right job came up. At least housing prices cratered when the bottom fell out.
It's been a employment hellhole for "mortals" for the last several years I understand.
For anyone going to Portland, I have a suggested dinner/evening out: go to the Crystal Ballroom McMennamins downtown, order a Captain Nemo burger and a Terminator Stout. Get your lovely lady the Spinach Calzone.(Assuming Vegetarian, dish still highly recommended anyway)
Get hammered, and try the ballroom dancing, not necessarily in that order. I can't remember the nights they had it, call ahead. They have free lessons IIRC.
Debian based Knoppix 3.4 works well hd installed on more resource limited machines, is nicely set up, and it has xfce, WM, et al set up as well.
OO still takes forver to load, but works fine. Note: MS Office is much faster (loading) than OO, and Knoppix has a nice working Wine install, and captive NTFS (RW) support.
I run it on my k6/3 400 (upgraded) Presario 1250, 288m ram laptop. Knoppix is FAR faster than any other distro I tried.
I just priced out a VERY decent system for a guy I work with-- Not "TOP" end but VERY capable.
Athlon XP Mobile 2600+ . Unlocked by definition. 47W. Totally overclockable.
250G SATA WD 512M Hyperx ram (2x256M) Antec Super Lan Boy case 420 W Antec "True Power" supply Thermalright SP97 (needs "neo" backplate) (At "stock" clockspeeds, could likely run passive)
If they make DRM *JUST* annoying enough, folks will just say to hell with it, stop buying new toys, and start doing something with their lives again. (or just play more video games)
It's already started, and DRM hasn'r kicked in yet in the US, viewing is way down as a trend for the last several years.
DRM---Brilliant buisiness move, in the suicidal direction.
Nforce2, not 3. Lots of boards already exist that could use this chip.
I'd but 3 tomorrow if they were available.
Same chip as a Athlon mobile, probably pin compatible.
There is a huge market for these, AMD is being coy IMHO.
Shove them in your setop boxes/mythtv frontends. Shove them in Blade servers.. Build a dual proc desktop, and passively cool it.
The mobiles at least are known to work in dual proc boards... and they are inherently unlocked or power now or whatever it's called this week won't work.
And I'd kill to have a laptop with a transparent lid so I could use natural backlighting as an option. (and the battery life of a Newton)
...and run xbox-mythtv, after doing the Mechinstaller hack.
Then you can STILL play games, LIVE does not work.
I found the video out quaity on my on HD 48" Phillips via svideo as good as my Hitachi DVD player.
I rarely use it for playing DVDs, tho, usually playing my mp3 collection or the +100G of tv shows I have it recording that I never catch up with.(xvid encoded)
I _LIKE_ Debian, but it can be a pain in the ass in scenarios like the parent suggest, as if you are doing anything remotely non standard that requires recent/current... anything.
Building mythtv and avidemux (cvs) awhile back drove me back to Mandrake Cooker.
IIRC there were several studies awhile back where they found children with asthma resulted from "too clean" modern housholds, and folks having pets generall had a far heathier children? (Lots of allergy-inducing stuff to give the immune system something to work on perhaps?)
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Good greif, it's a bookeeping change to satify the SEC auditors, that moves some profits and expenses around from one quarter or month to another.
More money here, less money there, but none missing or "hidden" losses.
What shennanigans?
Just wanted to thank you a "little" belatedly for your ixemul.library for the Amiga in the days of yore, and IIRC the initial port of gcc... saved my ass in a dev project as my A3000 was the only thing my company "had" that could build/run the code I was working on... the project HAD to compile/run/work on a Solaris box I did not have physical or remote access to... It did.
Once Dragonfly matures a bit, I will have to try it.
Peace.
I see the house is still getting their daily ration of acid...
Good point, Apple makes most of it's money on hardware. IIRC, that hardware is called the iPod.
If Apple becomes "the iPod company" as has been suggested, or something along those lines, it might make for a great "Parting Gift" for Bill Gates.
Also remember that most of the real profit (recurring, always preferred)that Microsoft has is from corporate... OSX is corporate ready.
If it just happened to run on existing x86 HW that happened NOT to be "worthy" of running Longhorn, like, anything made to date for example, it would be a huge bonus.
Going x86 would NOT have to be suicidal in ANY way for Apple, IMHO.
"I read the paper..." ;-)
I spent 4 very happy years in PDX, and I would move back there from Dallas in a heartbeat _IF_ the the right job came up. At least housing prices cratered when the bottom fell out.
It's been a employment hellhole for "mortals" for the last several years I understand.
For anyone going to Portland, I have a suggested dinner/evening out: go to the Crystal Ballroom McMennamins downtown, order a Captain Nemo burger and a Terminator Stout. Get your lovely lady the Spinach Calzone.(Assuming Vegetarian, dish still highly recommended anyway)
Get hammered, and try the ballroom dancing, not necessarily in that order. I can't remember the nights they had it, call ahead. They have free lessons IIRC.
You are going to LOVE Portland.
How about the British grow some balls, and stop this nonsense???
Why do they tolerate it?
Debian based Knoppix 3.4 works well hd installed on more resource limited machines, is nicely set up, and it has xfce, WM, et al set up as well.
OO still takes forver to load, but works fine.
Note: MS Office is much faster (loading) than OO, and Knoppix has a nice working Wine install, and captive NTFS (RW) support.
I run it on my k6/3 400 (upgraded) Presario 1250, 288m ram laptop. Knoppix is FAR faster than any other distro I tried.
For my "main" box I run MDK10 and KDE.
I just priced out a VERY decent system for a guy I work with-- Not "TOP" end but VERY capable.
Athlon XP Mobile 2600+ . Unlocked by definition.
47W. Totally overclockable.
250G SATA WD
512M Hyperx ram (2x256M)
Antec Super Lan Boy case
420 W Antec "True Power" supply
Thermalright SP97 (needs "neo" backplate)
(At "stock" clockspeeds, could likely run passive)
DFI LAnparty Ultra400 Gonzo whatever...
(2xATA,4xSATA, etc)
Generic 8x DVD +/- RW
+misc stuff.
Anyway, as of last week, EXCEPT for the video card, it came in just under $500.
I suspect he could get a good video card for $300.
One could also get XP Pro for $150 ish from Frys IIRC with the above hardware.
(I did not pick a card for hoim as prices are in free fall, he is NOT a hardcore gamer, and a GF4 MX400 64M would probably be fine for $69)
80+ percent of all programmers work exclusively on software for "In House" uses... NOT retail sales.
Linux/Open source software (can) make them MANY TIMES more productive.
The GPL ALLOWS this use... The code "borrowing" is EXPLICITLY allowed, as long as they do not distribute binaries.
I expect the next installment of this shill will move from calling Linux a "leprosy" to simply using the troll term "open sores".
I almost expected it in the article... Looked like a professionally written troll.
Cn I call him a Nazi so this can end?
This "letter" reads like bad propaganda under even a quick scan.
I doubt even a idiot PHB couldn't see this is obviously BS.
I suspect everyone and their dog will dissect it and smash the arguments to bits, but even trying to be "open minded", it... as they say... Fails it.
Obligatory mythtv post, as of yesterday at v0.15.
(New release. Many new features, much UI enhancement)
Absolutely rocks, and is used for HDTV, probably works better than the reviewed box on a fast PC.
http://www.mythtv.org
If they make DRM *JUST* annoying enough, folks will just say to hell with it, stop buying new toys, and start doing something with their lives again. (or just play more video games)
It's already started, and DRM hasn'r kicked in yet in the US, viewing is way down as a trend for the last several years.
DRM---Brilliant buisiness move, in the suicidal direction.
Nforce2, not 3. Lots of boards already exist that could use this chip.
I'd but 3 tomorrow if they were available.
Same chip as a Athlon mobile, probably pin compatible.
There is a huge market for these, AMD is being coy IMHO.
Shove them in your setop boxes/mythtv frontends.
Shove them in Blade servers..
Build a dual proc desktop, and passively cool it.
The mobiles at least are known to work in dual proc boards... and they are inherently unlocked or power now or whatever it's called this week won't work.
And I'd kill to have a laptop with a transparent lid so I could use natural backlighting as an option. (and the battery life of a Newton)
I just looked at the pictures on the page...
;-)
That robot looks AMAZINGLY like a pair of hands to me.
Guess I should watch the videos
(Go to the wesite and LOOK, expecting a pic of the robot.)
To those who are confused, this was a probably lame attempt at a joke.
There have to be more folks using this...
How 'bout some links to the reviews?
(I'm a long time Mdk Cooker fiend, but also past SUSE purchaser)
Now we know how to remove them if they become problematic.
Thanks!
I see snow plow blades becoming popular placed it doesn't snow...
...and run xbox-mythtv, after doing the Mechinstaller hack.
Then you can STILL play games, LIVE does not work.
I found the video out quaity on my on HD 48" Phillips via svideo as good as my Hitachi DVD player.
I rarely use it for playing DVDs, tho, usually playing my mp3 collection or the +100G of tv shows I have it recording that I never catch up with.(xvid encoded)
You missed the point:
The last people who want this to work are the big carriers.
(looking up IDTs stock price...)
Might as well suck from /dev/random and run the result thru a genetic algorithm framework, like genesys, and let the fittest survive.
(wait a minute, that's how it works...)
7: Don't use Debian???
I _LIKE_ Debian, but it can be a pain in the ass in scenarios like the parent suggest, as if you are doing anything remotely non standard that requires recent/current... anything.
Building mythtv and avidemux (cvs) awhile back drove me back to Mandrake Cooker.
IIRC there were several studies awhile back where they found children with asthma resulted from "too clean" modern housholds, and folks having pets generall had a far heathier children?
(Lots of allergy-inducing stuff to give the immune system something to work on perhaps?)
"Its like the do-it-yourself TiVo's that aren't really anywhere near as convenient or feature rich as the real deal."
You obviously haven't tried Mythtv lately.
A Tivo has nothing on it, and Tivo is virtually featureless by comparison.
Pick a better example...
I reinstalled my sons Win2k box, (dual boot Linux) applied all patches, defragged, and shut down.
Booted into Knoppix, made a bz2 compressed image of both his installs in ~5 minutes. Burned to 2 CDs.
Wrote it back to disk, worked fine. Took ~3 min to overwrite.