Don't think many people bought one. As a phone, its too bulky to fit in your pocket, and as a portable games console, its not much cop because you have to dismantle the thing to play the games.
I live in the UK. GSM has been pretty much all there is for years now, which is great, as it works pretty well. A new provider, 3 has come along and setup a new network offering football highlights and video conferencing and next to zero coverage. However, all their phones are backwards compatible with GSM. Why can't AT&T offer you a GSM phone that falls back to TDMA (whatever that is?).
To everyone out there who's being forced into geting a new phone, get a Nokia 7250i. They're great (but no bluetooth - not that I can think of a use for it anyway).
I agree with that. On my FreeBSD 5.2-RC1 box (yes, I know, BSD is dead) at least. I used to use GNOME 2, and on a whim I decided to give KDE 3.1.4 (or something like that) a go. It does seem a lot snappier in general use.
Having said that I still use a number of GTK apps (pan, gaim mostly) and they don't seem massively slower alongside the KDE ones. Maybe its just the desktop and the console that everyone keeps flaming.
This is irrelevent anyway. Unless it says that continuing to exploit non-renewable energy at the current rate (or faster) and emitting carbon dioxide at the current rate is actually good for the environment.
People need to look at the big picture and stop arguing over the small print.
What is the problem here. I'm not a fan of the GPL myself, but I can't understand what this article is on about. If you use GPLed software, or create derivative works based on it, you have to abide by the conditions in the licence. Its exactly the same as if you use commercial software.
Its really not that difficult, If you don't agree to the licence, don't use the code.
This is, of course, complete rubbish. Its all about finding a way to ditch a free service that is costing them money and replace it with one they can charge for. This is sensible business practice from a money point of view, but the business model is more akin to drug pushing than online services.
bash-2.05b$ cd/usr/ports/java/jdk14 bash-2.05b$ cat pkg-descr This is the latest patchset from the Java 2 FreeBSD porting project. This port allows you to easily build a native JDK1.4.1 for FreeBSD.
Please note that due to the current Sun licensing policy the resulting binaries can't be distributed and you are only permitted to use/hack it personally. Due to the same reasons you have to manually fetch the source code and patchset for FreeBSD.
FreeBSD (actually, AFAIK, all the BSDs) have had native Java for ages as part of the ports system, but because of Sun's licencing, you had to compile it yourself, which can take some time. A binary release just makes it easier for some users to run native Java.
FreeBSD (and probable other BSDs) can also run an emulated Linux Java virtual machine.
Mark
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Okay, I'm gonna float an ill thought out conspiricy theory now. Is it possible that CDs are being recorded louder to stop people ripping them? I know less than I ought to about digital compression of audio, but surely it is possible that making the music louder will adversely affect digital compression techniques?
The statistics are also likely to be skewed by the quality of the hardware. You can bet that the vast majority of the PCs on the planet with low quality cheap hardware in them (the ones you get advertised on full page adds at the back of the paper in the UK) are running Windows.
People who run other operating systems tend to be server room managers (who have expansive hardware), or computer enthusiasts (who don't tolerate cheap crap).
I should imagine IBM are after their Java division. They're probably not interested in the servers. Whether they'd just leave them as Sun, or buy the whole lot and wind the server business down over a period of years I don't know. If they do get the servers, expect to see a lot of work go into Linux on Sparc.
Mark
Windows has had priority boosting for foreground processes since Windows NT 3.51 (at least). There is a slider in system properties that lets you enable how much.
By default it is set to maximum for Workstation editions, and off for Server editions. New technology it ain't.
This is true, AIX is an extremely reliable system - much more solid than Linux is at the moment. They are going to have to go some to bring Linux up to that level.
It strikes me a a complete waste of time and money to replace one perfectly good stable UNIX operating system with another.
Nope, 5.0 is (will be) available for i386, anytime now. 4.8 will also be available. The theory is the most conservative users won't go for 5.0 until its been around for a while, so will still want a 4.8.
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Don't think many people bought one. As a phone, its too bulky to fit in your pocket, and as a portable games console, its not much cop because you have to dismantle the thing to play the games.
Its probably not too much of a problem.
I used to have one just like it, a 3210. IMHO, the 3210 is the best phone Nokia have ever made. Mark
I live in the UK. GSM has been pretty much all there is for years now, which is great, as it works pretty well. A new provider, 3 has come along and setup a new network offering football highlights and video conferencing and next to zero coverage. However, all their phones are backwards compatible with GSM. Why can't AT&T offer you a GSM phone that falls back to TDMA (whatever that is?). To everyone out there who's being forced into geting a new phone, get a Nokia 7250i. They're great (but no bluetooth - not that I can think of a use for it anyway).
If its too far to shout, there's no way 802.11 is gonna work....
Mark
Happy Christmas. (Posted using FreeBSD 5.2RC2) Mark
I agree with that. On my FreeBSD 5.2-RC1 box (yes, I know, BSD is dead) at least. I used to use GNOME 2, and on a whim I decided to give KDE 3.1.4 (or something like that) a go. It does seem a lot snappier in general use.
Having said that I still use a number of GTK apps (pan, gaim mostly) and they don't seem massively slower alongside the KDE ones. Maybe its just the desktop and the console that everyone keeps flaming.
This is irrelevent anyway. Unless it says that continuing to exploit non-renewable energy at the current rate (or faster) and emitting carbon dioxide at the current rate is actually good for the environment.
People need to look at the big picture and stop arguing over the small print.
I think 5.1-CURRENT is absolutely a fair comparison with Linux 2.6-test7. Both are the almost finished code for the next stable release.
Maybe you wouldn't run either of them right now, but a few months down the line, these will be what everyone is using.
So mod it youself. Oh, you don't have mod points (I wonder why). Also possibly because you wrote it.
Me, I'd mod it -1 Offtopic
What is the problem here. I'm not a fan of the GPL myself, but I can't understand what this article is on about. If you use GPLed software, or create derivative works based on it, you have to abide by the conditions in the licence. Its exactly the same as if you use commercial software.
Its really not that difficult, If you don't agree to the licence, don't use the code.
None of the Unix or Linux viruses became widespread - most were confined to the laboratory
Surely slapper?
This is, of course, complete rubbish. Its all about finding a way to ditch a free service that is costing them money and replace it with one they can charge for. This is sensible business practice from a money point of view, but the business model is more akin to drug pushing than online services.
Wouldn't we be better off living under a corrupt reigime that rules by fear?
Wait a minute...
Mark
Thats not how it looks from here:
/usr/ports/java | grep jdkd k13-doc
linux-blackdown-jdk13u x-ibm-jdk13n ux-sun-jdk13
/usr/ports/java/jdk14
bash-2.05b$ ls
jdk11
jdk11-doc
jdk12
jdk12-doc
jdk13
j
jdk14
jdk14-doc
linux-blackdown-jdk12
linux-blackdown-jdk14
lin
linux-ibm-jdk14
linux-sun-jdk12
li
linux-sun-jdk14
bash-2.05b$ cd
bash-2.05b$ cat pkg-descr
This is the latest patchset from the Java 2 FreeBSD porting project. This
port allows you to easily build a native JDK1.4.1 for FreeBSD.
Please note that due to the current Sun licensing policy the resulting binaries
can't be distributed and you are only permitted to use/hack it personally.
Due to the same reasons you have to manually fetch the source code and patchset
for FreeBSD.
FreeBSD (actually, AFAIK, all the BSDs) have had native Java for ages as part of the ports system, but because of Sun's licencing, you had to compile it yourself, which can take some time. A binary release just makes it easier for some users to run native Java.
FreeBSD (and probable other BSDs) can also run an emulated Linux Java virtual machine.
Mark
Okay, I'm gonna float an ill thought out conspiricy theory now. Is it possible that CDs are being recorded louder to stop people ripping them? I know less than I ought to about digital compression of audio, but surely it is possible that making the music louder will adversely affect digital compression techniques?
The statistics are also likely to be skewed by the quality of the hardware. You can bet that the vast majority of the PCs on the planet with low quality cheap hardware in them (the ones you get advertised on full page adds at the back of the paper in the UK) are running Windows.
People who run other operating systems tend to be server room managers (who have expansive hardware), or computer enthusiasts (who don't tolerate cheap crap).
Or at least threaten to hold a strike ballot. Thats what I'd do anyway.
I should imagine IBM are after their Java division. They're probably not interested in the servers. Whether they'd just leave them as Sun, or buy the whole lot and wind the server business down over a period of years I don't know. If they do get the servers, expect to see a lot of work go into Linux on Sparc. Mark
How hard would it be to wrap it in CORBA and call it from anywhere? Not too hard methinks.
If you define the merits of an OS by its popularity, then Windows 98 must be one of the finest operating systems on the planet.
GSM is the better, more modern system. Its also the most widely accepted globally.
Windows has had priority boosting for foreground processes since Windows NT 3.51 (at least). There is a slider in system properties that lets you enable how much.
By default it is set to maximum for Workstation editions, and off for Server editions. New technology it ain't.
This is true, AIX is an extremely reliable system - much more solid than Linux is at the moment. They are going to have to go some to bring Linux up to that level.
It strikes me a a complete waste of time and money to replace one perfectly good stable UNIX operating system with another.
Nope, 5.0 is (will be) available for i386, anytime now. 4.8 will also be available. The theory is the most conservative users won't go for 5.0 until its been around for a while, so will still want a 4.8.