It's not about to change at all. Because nobody is going to use xhtml 2. At least nobody is going to use it until one of two things happens: a) it is supported by internet explorer or b) somebody has the gumption to smash MS's anti-standards monopoly. As MS has loads of money and you Americans cannot seem to escape from your view that people who have money are obviously good or clever then I suppose it's gonna have to be a).
By the way, all my web pages are xhtml 1 transitional - but all my client's browsers ain't.
I was the administrator of a very small Netware/286 network about a decade ago (a 286 fileserver and 6 XT machines, well Compaq clones actually).
They all ran Wordperfect 4.2 brilliantly, but we needed more, so I persuaded the boss to let me buy a 386 system at an auction - and the PS/2 was the cheapest, because nobody was interested in them because of the MCA architecture.
Yes, I think the top poster was right in the general sense about the benefits of UML. That said I am a weekend warrior but I don't think I'd be interested in messing with the main tree. Just too difficult and competitive. I don't even have the time to look at lkml.
Messing about with smaller, less intensive, projects and architecures means I use the heavy lifting of those working on the main tree to assist me develop the Linux project in a niche here or there though.
However, it would be nice to mess about with a 2.5 series kernel just to see what it does and UML could give me that.
No Turing = no Anglo-American victory in battle of Atlantic
No Anglo-American victory = no lease lend convoys
No lease lend convoys = no mechanised Red Army
No mechanised Red Army = no decisve 1943 victory
Reason Two
No Turing = no enigma decrypts
No enigma decrypts = no long term indication of Nazi intentions in 1943
No indication = no long term planing
No planning = lack of deep defences, no reserve army
No reserves = Nazi victory in 1943
Yes, I know I am simplifying somewhat and as I said at the top, the battle was won because of the superior strategy and tactics of the USSR. And yes, Zhukov shelled their assembly points because of humint, not enigma. But Zhukov was able to win Stalin over to the correct strategy and tactics because of enigma, therefore because of Turing.
As for numbers - remember the basic point. The Nazis were outnumbered by the French and British in 1940 - they won. They were outnumbered by the Soviets in the summers of 1941 and 1942 yet still won the summer campaigns.
This is why Kursk was so important - because it smashed the German armoured assualt in high summer.
Not wanting to start a religious war and all that... but although NetBSD lists the Dreamcast as supported. the support is pretty poor: no sound, no lightgun, no rumblepak, no mouse, no X windows, no vmu. All of these are supported in LinuxDC.
Yes, Turing was prosecuted and his life did end sadly. But that should not blind us to the great achievements of his life - especially in the practical sense. His paper on computable numbers was a scientific triumph, but what mattered to humanity was that he was The Man Who Won The War!
It's time we celebrated his successes and what they mean for all of us. Not least because we all know that freedom has to defended as well as just enjoyed.
Next year is the 60th anniversary of the most important battle in human history - Kursk.
At every point in that battle the USSR's armed forces outwitted and out fought the Nazis. Now, that is because of the great skills and abilities of the Red Army and Red Airforce by 1943. But it is also because of the superior intelligence available to the allies as a whole - and one man, Alan Turing, is responsible for that.
Kursk is little known and understood in the west - but it is worth stating this simple fact: it was the first time the Nazi blitzkreig was stopped in summer campaigning weather. It was a seminal event in human history that has been covered up by the cold war for too long.
But better than that, it was the moment when scientific rationality (by which I mean the triumph of intelligence and not soime bizarre Stalinist idea of 'scientific socialism') triumphed over the will to power.
There could be a great, epic, film here and I wish I could write it.
Not unless he's found a way to subvert the FIFO that slows down all communication between the SH4's memory space and the ARM's.
The ARM is a sound processor and despite all the various witterings from people about how it could be pressed into service on the DC to do something else, nobody has been able to do anything with it except - process sound.
The latest LinuxDC sources can be found here. There are built kernels doing the rounds, but they tend to lack the device support - sound, lightgun, rumblepack, flash memory - that has been developed in the last year.
There are even lots of good, and now very cheap, commercial games available for it.
Sure, it's not as advanced as an Xbox or a PS/2, before someone makes that very obvious point. But that is not what we are about, is it? The fun for many of us is in subverting the manufacturer's intentions and doing something unorthodox with the hardware - well the DC's the best for that.
This project is here. I would really encourage any would be or newbie Linux kernel hacker to join the effort because:
There are good people here but none of them are Linus or Alan Cox, so no fear factor.
We don't need wizards (though they are welcome!), We just need competent people, as there are still a lot of basic device drivers to be written.
To keep this OT I'd add that without a BBA it's a PITA sometimes - but you can use the much cheaper coders' cable to connect your DC to a PC and download kernels etc.
I bought a new Quake III for the Dreamcast for about $7 last week - and the DC itself is dirt cheap. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if you could buy a DC + QIII combo for only a few dollars more than the cost of this thing on the Xbox.
Plus you can also run Linux and lots more besides on your DC.
If you want to mess about with Linux on a console, and want something (much) cheaper than an Xbox, try a Dreamcast. The project is here.
People ask why port Linux to consiles and the answer is because it's fun and because you can have a go at kernel hacking in a friendly, non commercial, atmosphere.
Yes, folks, I am old enough to remember the shock-horror tone of this seminal piece of British TV about a man who - aargh! - wore make up to play his songs.
Anybody else remember it? Clips are played occassionally on those Channel 4 "top 30/10 list" things.
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Total mess in Konq 3.0.0-12
It's not about to change at all. Because nobody is going to use xhtml 2. At least nobody is going to use it until one of two things happens: a) it is supported by internet explorer or b) somebody has the gumption to smash MS's anti-standards monopoly. As MS has loads of money and you Americans cannot seem to escape from your view that people who have money are obviously good or clever then I suppose it's gonna have to be a).
By the way, all my web pages are xhtml 1 transitional - but all my client's browsers ain't.
Not to mention bullshit.
ahhhh.... I remember them well.
I was the administrator of a very small Netware/286 network about a decade ago (a 286 fileserver and 6 XT machines, well Compaq clones actually).
They all ran Wordperfect 4.2 brilliantly, but we needed more, so I persuaded the boss to let me buy a 386 system at an auction - and the PS/2 was the cheapest, because nobody was interested in them because of the MCA architecture.
Sure was a good system though.
...in the White House, why bother with a fake one on the wall?
Yes, I think the top poster was right in the general sense about the benefits of UML. That said I am a weekend warrior but I don't think I'd be interested in messing with the main tree. Just too difficult and competitive. I don't even have the time to look at lkml.
Messing about with smaller, less intensive, projects and architecures means I use the heavy lifting of those working on the main tree to assist me develop the Linux project in a niche here or there though.
However, it would be nice to mess about with a 2.5 series kernel just to see what it does and UML could give me that.
Ok, let me spell it out. Two reasons.
Reason One:
No Turing = no Anglo-American victory in battle of Atlantic
No Anglo-American victory = no lease lend convoys
No lease lend convoys = no mechanised Red Army
No mechanised Red Army = no decisve 1943 victory
Reason Two
No Turing = no enigma decrypts
No enigma decrypts = no long term indication of Nazi intentions in 1943
No indication = no long term planing
No planning = lack of deep defences, no reserve army
No reserves = Nazi victory in 1943
Yes, I know I am simplifying somewhat and as I said at the top, the battle was won because of the superior strategy and tactics of the USSR. And yes, Zhukov shelled their assembly points because of humint, not enigma. But Zhukov was able to win Stalin over to the correct strategy and tactics because of enigma, therefore because of Turing.
As for numbers - remember the basic point. The Nazis were outnumbered by the French and British in 1940 - they won. They were outnumbered by the Soviets in the summers of 1941 and 1942 yet still won the summer campaigns.
This is why Kursk was so important - because it smashed the German armoured assualt in high summer.
Not wanting to start a religious war and all that... but although NetBSD lists the Dreamcast as supported. the support is pretty poor: no sound, no lightgun, no rumblepak, no mouse, no X windows, no vmu. All of these are supported in LinuxDC.
Yes, Turing was prosecuted and his life did end sadly. But that should not blind us to the great achievements of his life - especially in the practical sense. His paper on computable numbers was a scientific triumph, but what mattered to humanity was that he was The Man Who Won The War!
It's time we celebrated his successes and what they mean for all of us. Not least because we all know that freedom has to defended as well as just enjoyed.
Next year is the 60th anniversary of the most important battle in human history - Kursk.
At every point in that battle the USSR's armed forces outwitted and out fought the Nazis. Now, that is because of the great skills and abilities of the Red Army and Red Airforce by 1943. But it is also because of the superior intelligence available to the allies as a whole - and one man, Alan Turing, is responsible for that.
Kursk is little known and understood in the west - but it is worth stating this simple fact: it was the first time the Nazi blitzkreig was stopped in summer campaigning weather. It was a seminal event in human history that has been covered up by the cold war for too long.
But better than that, it was the moment when scientific rationality (by which I mean the triumph of intelligence and not soime bizarre Stalinist idea of 'scientific socialism') triumphed over the will to power.
There could be a great, epic, film here and I wish I could write it.
No it bloody well wasn't!
Perpetual motion car - Delorean, built in Belfast
Unsinkable ship - Titanic, built in Belfast
I left one out NewOS has been ported too.
Not unless he's found a way to subvert the FIFO that slows down all communication between the SH4's memory space and the ARM's.
The ARM is a sound processor and despite all the various witterings from people about how it could be pressed into service on the DC to do something else, nobody has been able to do anything with it except - process sound.
Dreamcast is such old technology try it on something newer like x-box
That would be the xbox based on 1970s cpu technology that even Bill Gates said was "braindead" 15 years ago? Or the Dreamcast based on a RISC cpu?
The latest LinuxDC sources can be found here. There are built kernels doing the rounds, but they tend to lack the device support - sound, lightgun, rumblepack, flash memory - that has been developed in the last year.
"Five times" is something of an over-estimate. Try three and you're getting there :-)
But you can buy a coders cable for $25 and get by without the NIC.
If you want to buy a system to hack on then buy a Dreamcast. They're cheap (about $40) - and you can run Linux to your heart's content on the thing.
Not only Linux, either - lots of homebrew games, NetBSD and even QNX
There are even lots of good, and now very cheap, commercial games available for it.
Sure, it's not as advanced as an Xbox or a PS/2, before someone makes that very obvious point. But that is not what we are about, is it? The fun for many of us is in subverting the manufacturer's intentions and doing something unorthodox with the hardware - well the DC's the best for that.
This project is here. I would really encourage any would be or newbie Linux kernel hacker to join the effort because:
There are good people here but none of them are Linus or Alan Cox, so no fear factor.
We don't need wizards (though they are welcome!), We just need competent people, as there are still a lot of basic device drivers to be written.
To keep this OT I'd add that without a BBA it's a PITA sometimes - but you can use the much cheaper coders' cable to connect your DC to a PC and download kernels etc.
I bought a new Quake III for the Dreamcast for about $7 last week - and the DC itself is dirt cheap. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if you could buy a DC + QIII combo for only a few dollars more than the cost of this thing on the Xbox.
Plus you can also run Linux and lots more besides on your DC.
If you want to mess about with Linux on a console, and want something (much) cheaper than an Xbox, try a Dreamcast. The project is here.
People ask why port Linux to consiles and the answer is because it's fun and because you can have a go at kernel hacking in a friendly, non commercial, atmosphere.
And don't forget the irc channel #linuxdc @ irc.openprojects.net.
Forget all the blackhat nonsense - we need hardware hackers now.
Wordperfect 4.2 is, IMHO, the greatest ever DOS app. I think an opensource port of that could help bring computing power to the masses! (Seriously).
I used to run it on XT machines (off a 286 file server). It would scream on a Pentium with 16 MB.
X-Files theme song
Song? Ah ha, So there are hidden messages then.
Yes, folks, I am old enough to remember the shock-horror tone of this seminal piece of British TV about a man who - aargh! - wore make up to play his songs.
Anybody else remember it? Clips are played occassionally on those Channel 4 "top 30/10 list" things.