I've got an Alpha I bought for $5 and an UltraSparc I bought for $2. That tells you something about how long 64-bit micros have been around.
Stepping back from micros, the first 64-bit Un*x was Cray's UniCOS in 1984; the second (and the first I used) was Control Data's (by HCR) in 1985. (And the trouble wasn't so much the 64-bit int as the 32-bit short, and pointers that filled the upper 48 bits of the word, and the null pointer that wasn't 0.)
Stepping back from Un*x, what was the first (exactly) 64-bit machine? I don't know. The earliest I know of was the Mellon Institute Digital Computer, 1954. (Some earlier machines had larger words, of course; the UNIVAC I had a 72-bit word.)
So, yeah, people are going to have trouble adapting.
A -- potentially better -- option is to have something like an "approved" widget download area.
The site DashboardWidgets has moderators review widgets before they are made available for download. While this wouldn't stop subtle trojans (which are not a uniquely widget problem) it will exclude adware, spoofs, and the like.
No. If you look at it one way, Morse has three symbols: dit, dah, and space. "Ni" is 'dah dit space dit dit' and "ts" is 'dah space dit dit dit'. If you want to look at it as binary, take 1 = signal and 0 = no signal, then "ni" is 11101000101 and "ts" is 11100010101.
Apple added a kernel switch for suid/sgid on scripts, and leave it off by default. If you want suid/sgid scripts on your system, enable them. If you don't think this comment has given you enough information to enable them, you shouldn't be running suid/sgid scripts.
Fontographer is dead, dead, dead. And Adobe presumably have font editing tools of their own that they've not shown any inclination to sell to the masses.
If you have cash burning a hole in your pocket, get FontLab; otherwise, get FontForge.
Personally I think Brushed Metal only works in Safari.
I think brushed metal only works in the Finder and Quicktime Player where I can't hit the check box to turn it off.
Apple would make a lot of people happy if they brought back an Appearance Manager like OS 9 had so you could change the chrome to whatever you liked.
I want NeXT window trim -- the function, not the chrome; Steve can make them as rounded and shaded and brushed and combed as he likes. I also want a Trash that doesn't keep trying to escape, scroll bars on the left, vi or teco bindings in text boxes, and a pony.
The following is a real dialog box from a real piece of software, a backup utility for OS X called Silverkeeper,
reproduced as closely as possible within the limits of Slashdot's lame filter,
including the location of the buttons and the spelling:
[ Nah! ] [ Somewhat ]
Are you sure you want to permanently remove backup of files in Set "Foo > Bar"
Thsi will completely remove any reference to these file.?
Those membranes are capacitors. (Membrane keyboards are terrible because they have no post-contact travel. Yes, I'm sure membrane keyboards could be designed with post-contact travel. No one cares. People buy shit.)
Electronics are generally washable.
The strangest keyboard I have uses transformers.
Pressing a key moves ferrite into the core.
(I'm not making this up.)
Until 10.2-ish, OS X included the man page for bad144(8). I don't think the binary was there, though; too bad, as I would like to attach an RP06 to an iBook.
Assuming you are in the US, search here for a amateur radio club in your area. If you are in a large city and there are several, try for one that lists "RFI help" [Radio Frequency Interference] under 'Services'. Ask them (politely) for assistance.
You think you're joking, but DR-DOS, née CP/M-86, was indeed owned by Canopy/SCO/Caldera for a time. They purchased it, like Unix, from Novell, who had previously bought Digital Research.
SIMH (which I won't link to directly to protect the innocent) runs on most systems and simulates many different machines, among them the Altair, which can run CP/M, and the PDP-11, in case you want to compare CP/M to the RT-11 that inspired it.
CP/M was certainly modelled after RT-11, but it wasn't a clone (for one thing, it was a far less capable system for far less capable computers), let alone an actual rip-off (i.e. an authorized use of RT-11 code). In contrast, there have been claims that at least parts of 86-DOS were directly copied from CP/M code; I hope this case brings forward enough evidence to clearly establish whether or not that is true.
Yes. Feynman's QED is short and easy to read, and should be a minimum prerequisite for anyone attempting to comment seriously on a thread like this. (And his semi-auto-biographies should be prerequisites for anyone commenting on anything.)
Slashdot Mirror
Stepping back from micros, the first 64-bit Un*x was Cray's UniCOS in 1984; the second (and the first I used) was Control Data's (by HCR) in 1985. (And the trouble wasn't so much the 64-bit int as the 32-bit short, and pointers that filled the upper 48 bits of the word, and the null pointer that wasn't 0.)
Stepping back from Un*x, what was the first (exactly) 64-bit machine? I don't know. The earliest I know of was the Mellon Institute Digital Computer, 1954. (Some earlier machines had larger words, of course; the UNIVAC I had a 72-bit word.)
So, yeah, people are going to have trouble adapting.
The site DashboardWidgets has moderators review widgets before they are made available for download. While this wouldn't stop subtle trojans (which are not a uniquely widget problem) it will exclude adware, spoofs, and the like.
No. If you look at it one way, Morse has three symbols: dit, dah, and space. "Ni" is 'dah dit space dit dit' and "ts" is 'dah space dit dit dit'. If you want to look at it as binary, take 1 = signal and 0 = no signal, then "ni" is 11101000101 and "ts" is 11100010101.
Here is PDP-1 Spacewar running on an emulator written in Java.
Apple added a kernel switch for suid/sgid on scripts, and leave it off by default. If you want suid/sgid scripts on your system, enable them. If you don't think this comment has given you enough information to enable them, you shouldn't be running suid/sgid scripts.
If you have cash burning a hole in your pocket, get FontLab; otherwise, get FontForge.
Who gets Freehand this time?
Actually, mirroring didn't work; it would almost immediately drop one of the disks for no apparent reason. I wonder whether that's fixed?
Yes. It has always been available, but having it appear on other people's machines is good.
I think brushed metal only works in the Finder and Quicktime Player where I can't hit the check box to turn it off.
Apple would make a lot of people happy if they brought back an Appearance Manager like OS 9 had so you could change the chrome to whatever you liked.
I want NeXT window trim -- the function, not the chrome; Steve can make them as rounded and shaded and brushed and combed as he likes. I also want a Trash that doesn't keep trying to escape, scroll bars on the left, vi or teco bindings in text boxes, and a pony.
Electronics are generally washable.
The strangest keyboard I have uses transformers. Pressing a key moves ferrite into the core. (I'm not making this up.)
UC5608DWP -- LOWER CAPACITANCE 18-LINE 5V SE TERMINATOR FOR SCSI AND FAST SCSI.
We all needed to know this.
You're very welcome.
Yes, a mix actually,
... at present. Does FreeBSD actually support any hardware that would use bad144?(And what good is an <ECODE> tag that strips whie space?)
If everyone who says that had actually bought it when it was called NextStep / OpenStep / Rhapsody, they probably still would be.
Until 10.2-ish, OS X included the man page for bad144(8). I don't think the binary was there, though; too bad, as I would like to attach an RP06 to an iBook.
Assuming you are in the US, search here for a amateur radio club in your area. If you are in a large city and there are several, try for one that lists "RFI help" [Radio Frequency Interference] under 'Services'. Ask them (politely) for assistance.
Can you imagine how hard it's going to be to screw teeny little taps into a 1.4mm thick cable?
Not just webcams. I've just checked, and my cheap piece-o-crap digital camera (Olympus D-390) doesn't filter IR.
Excuse me, I have to go out now.
You think you're joking, but DR-DOS, née CP/M-86, was indeed owned by Canopy/SCO/Caldera for a time. They purchased it, like Unix, from Novell, who had previously bought Digital Research.
Ironically, the most popular of the several Z80 cards for the Apple II was Microsoft's Softcard, their first hardware product.
SIMH (which I won't link to directly to protect the innocent) runs on most systems and simulates many different machines, among them the Altair, which can run CP/M, and the PDP-11, in case you want to compare CP/M to the RT-11 that inspired it.
CP/M was certainly modelled after RT-11, but it wasn't a clone (for one thing, it was a far less capable system for far less capable computers), let alone an actual rip-off (i.e. an authorized use of RT-11 code). In contrast, there have been claims that at least parts of 86-DOS were directly copied from CP/M code; I hope this case brings forward enough evidence to clearly establish whether or not that is true.
The Fabric of Reality. (Seeing your email address, I note there is a translation into German, among others.)
Yes. Feynman's QED is short and easy to read, and should be a minimum prerequisite for anyone attempting to comment seriously on a thread like this. (And his semi-auto-biographies should be prerequisites for anyone commenting on anything.)