I use an Apple iBook2 as my primary desktop, with an x86 for a server/renderer. Is PowerPC/Sparc/etc support focused on early or late in the development cycle? Should I expect the file I'm downloading to compile, or collapse?
I received 4 wyse55 terminals for free from a local amusement park. Add a Linux box with 4 serial ports and you're set.
I've been wondering for a while why no one has tried to sell dual-headed displays with two keyboards and mice. It could lower the fratricide/soricide rates among families with only one computer.
Why is software different from music? In music, if I write a song, the song is mine. I can't patent the use of _____ in that song, or anything else about the music itself. Anyone else can write a different song, so long as it isn't the same as mine vocally or melodically.
The virtual world shouldn't be so legally different from the physical one. If you invent a cotton gin, and I figure out how to make it three times as efficient, then my cotton gin isn't covered by your patent. In the software world, if you patent LZW, and I develop an implimentation of it that is faster or compresses better, I still can't distribute what I've made without licensing your patent.
Software patents wouldn't be so despised if they followed the rules set forth by regular patents.
Use Linux. If the lawsuit fails and pigs start to airlift the SCO logo over the statue of liberty, you can downgrade to the 2.2 kernel.
If that's not an option, use BSD or a good commercial UNIX such as Solaris or AIX. You can also use two OSes on something simple such as a webserver. Put the website on a partition that both OSes can access, and mount it to the www directory on each. Then configure each server, and boot Linux. If SCO price is inflated enough for them to buy IBM, you can reboot to Solaris/Darwin/BSD/AIX.
It has hardly been updated in a decade! We're talking X11R5, no support for pthreads without installing extensions, etc.
In this world, your OS can't be "just as good as" Windows to survive. Linux, Solaris, AIX, and Mac OS X are each doing well because they are substantially better at what they do than the competition.
On the upside, they are allowing free use of Unix Version 7. Well, sorta free. apt-get install simh and boot the sucker up if you want to see the somewhat humble beginnings of UNIX.
I won't buy any workstation or laptop unless it has complete linux support.
The Pentium4 M is faster than the Pentium4 because it focuses on battery life rather than a larger clockspeed. My 4mhz HP49g is faster than my 12mhz TI89. Intel focuses on increasing clockspeed in its desktops, where people pay attention.
Download Solaris9 from Sun, and use that license. They generously offer it for free for non-commercial use. Just replace their content with Linux's and have a field day.
If you have a single processor G4, disable SMP support and you are avoiding the area they say they control.
I hope Linus sues the hell out of them, becomes rich, and gets to live out his days working on Linux. I also hope SCO dies off and the SysV source code is liberated.
They offer you there software for free, but that's just not good enough for you. The only thing that keeps them going is the knowledge that each new release with cause/. to rape their connections and that of there mirrors. You would take that satisfaction away from them!?
I wonder if a checksummed p2p system like bittorrent will ever be merged with apt.
Well, I see 15 sparcstations with Solaris, 2 sparcstations with OpenBSD, 1 Sparcserver with Solaris, 1 iBook with Debian, 1 iMac with Debian, 1 celeron with OpenBSD, and one StrongArm palmtop with Linux. My network is thuroughly non-windows.
I think the whole point about smaller networks is that we aren't supposed to be able to look into them. I know the local supermarket and veterinary clinic both use UNIX. One local computer store uses Linux for their servers, the other uses Windows; the latter is about to go under.
To be fair, the local high school has quite a few "print servers" running Windows 98. If you consider those servers, then you also need to consider all the p2p "servers". Don't forget the email worm "servers" and chain letter "servers."
When it comes to cache size vs. price, you can't beat my Sun SS1000. Four processors with SuperCache! I paid ~$5 for it.
Consumer products have always been behind the times in the numbers that buyers ignore. Why does a decade-old server have more cache than a brand new desktop? Because no consumer looks at cache when buying a computer, despite the massive impact on performance.
but they are free to back out of them later. I don't use anything Microsoft, but if you do, paste your name into the letter below:
Dear Microsoft:
Your license sucks. I am formally rejecting it. You no longer have the right to install updates without my consent. You no longer own the copyrights to the content that I have sent over hotmail.
because it didn't come with a command-line cd burning program.
Cron happily rsyncs source code among my various computers and burns a backup to disc every monday morning.
And stop with the UKisms! If your sending packets to America, speak English or get out! (J/K, but some jerks here in TN,USA have such an opinion toward the hispanic population.)
C being the universal language, here is a translation:
Yes, many Linux distros are good desktop OSes. It's important to realize that the UNIX aspects of it are why we geeks use it.
I'd rather have Linux with no dos/windows/macintosh emulation on a nice UltraSparc than Lindows on a PC, even if that latter had a perfected fork of Wine installed.
I think that Microsoft knows they can't best Linux in the server market, where buyers are more educated. They are more afraid of losing bundling with the smaller PC companies. How many people are running a $199 Walmart C3 with an illegal copy of Windows?
As for the Windows CE source, where is it? If they expect us to pay money to work on their code for them, they are sadly missing the beauty of OSS.
Well, 6 floppies may cost more than 3 CDs these days, but with net booting it is even cheaper than windows. You also have the option of a single min-cd, which takes less time to download than windows.
In fact, considering the difference in the bandwidth available on Debian mirrors compared to those generous folks mirroring Microsoft, I don't see why anyone would wait for Windows.
Is that supposed to pay me back for the time I wasted with them? Not to mention the costs of Win3.1, Win95, NT4, Wind98, Visual Studio 6, and a year's source code when a certain M$ filesystem fell apart mid-project.
I can see those stupid XP popup bubbles going for days with "You might be a winner, click here to find out!" and "If this is annoying, you've won!"
but since the MPAA killed Archie, I can't seem to find the source for the server.
Microsoft remembers it as "that virus thingy." They've classified the authors as unamerican terrorist communists.
In other news, UUCP piped through ssh is the latest warez craze. The MPAA is declaring war on Canada to kill off the OpenBSD developers. (Terrence and Phillip as well.)
So I can't import LGPLed code into my project unless my project is LGPLed as well? That's the idea!
I personally would interpret it as you can include LPGLed libraries with your code, just as with a staticly linked C lib, but that you must provide source as well.
The point here isn't that Java is a special case, but rather that it isn't an exception. I can accept that.
This is just a conspiracy. These thigns are really designed to keep people from finding out the horrible truth:
LEE HARVEY OSWALD SHOT JOHN F. KENNEDY!
(Oh yeah, and that whole thing about the moon landing being a sham is the creation of Fox. We really did make it to the moon the same year UNIX burst forth into this world.)
May be two wolves and sheep deciding on dinner, but our representative republic is like 60 million sheep deciding whether a wolf or a panther will decide what's for dinner. They can always vote for another sheep, but they never do because they consider it wasting a vote.
If you think that a society can't ignore 60 million people, take a look at China.
At least EFF is trying to make a differnece. I doubt they'll win, but at least they're trying.
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I use an Apple iBook2 as my primary desktop, with an x86 for a server/renderer. Is PowerPC/Sparc/etc support focused on early or late in the development cycle? Should I expect the file I'm downloading to compile, or collapse?
I received 4 wyse55 terminals for free from a local amusement park. Add a Linux box with 4 serial ports and you're set.
I've been wondering for a while why no one has tried to sell dual-headed displays with two keyboards and mice. It could lower the fratricide/soricide rates among families with only one computer.
Why is software different from music? In music, if I write a song, the song is mine. I can't patent the use of _____ in that song, or anything else about the music itself. Anyone else can write a different song, so long as it isn't the same as mine vocally or melodically.
The virtual world shouldn't be so legally different from the physical one. If you invent a cotton gin, and I figure out how to make it three times as efficient, then my cotton gin isn't covered by your patent. In the software world, if you patent LZW, and I develop an implimentation of it that is faster or compresses better, I still can't distribute what I've made without licensing your patent.
Software patents wouldn't be so despised if they followed the rules set forth by regular patents.
Use Linux. If the lawsuit fails and pigs start to airlift the SCO logo over the statue of liberty, you can downgrade to the 2.2 kernel.
If that's not an option, use BSD or a good commercial UNIX such as Solaris or AIX. You can also use two OSes on something simple such as a webserver. Put the website on a partition that both OSes can access, and mount it to the www directory on each. Then configure each server, and boot Linux. If SCO price is inflated enough for them to buy IBM, you can reboot to Solaris/Darwin/BSD/AIX.
It has hardly been updated in a decade! We're talking X11R5, no support for pthreads without installing extensions, etc.
In this world, your OS can't be "just as good as" Windows to survive. Linux, Solaris, AIX, and Mac OS X are each doing well because they are substantially better at what they do than the competition.
On the upside, they are allowing free use of Unix Version 7. Well, sorta free. apt-get install simh and boot the sucker up if you want to see the somewhat humble beginnings of UNIX.
I'm typing this on an Apple iBook with Debian/Sid. Everything works.
If the MPAA will charge foreigners under the DMCA, I suspect that Microsoft might do so as well
They are demanding that the code become their property Under GPL, code remains the property of its author.
Check out osnippets for a fun way to report SCO piracy.
I won't buy any workstation or laptop unless it has complete linux support.
The Pentium4 M is faster than the Pentium4 because it focuses on battery life rather than a larger clockspeed. My 4mhz HP49g is faster than my 12mhz TI89. Intel focuses on increasing clockspeed in its desktops, where people pay attention.
Download Solaris9 from Sun, and use that license. They generously offer it for free for non-commercial use. Just replace their content with Linux's and have a field day.
If you have a single processor G4, disable SMP support and you are avoiding the area they say they control.
I hope Linus sues the hell out of them, becomes rich, and gets to live out his days working on Linux. I also hope SCO dies off and the SysV source code is liberated.
They offer you there software for free, but that's just not good enough for you. The only thing that keeps them going is the knowledge that each new release with cause /. to rape their connections and that of there mirrors. You would take that satisfaction away from them!?
I wonder if a checksummed p2p system like bittorrent will ever be merged with apt.
Well, I see 15 sparcstations with Solaris, 2 sparcstations with OpenBSD, 1 Sparcserver with Solaris, 1 iBook with Debian, 1 iMac with Debian, 1 celeron with OpenBSD, and one StrongArm palmtop with Linux. My network is thuroughly non-windows.
I think the whole point about smaller networks is that we aren't supposed to be able to look into them. I know the local supermarket and veterinary clinic both use UNIX. One local computer store uses Linux for their servers, the other uses Windows; the latter is about to go under.
To be fair, the local high school has quite a few "print servers" running Windows 98. If you consider those servers, then you also need to consider all the p2p "servers". Don't forget the email worm "servers" and chain letter "servers."
When it comes to cache size vs. price, you can't beat my Sun SS1000. Four processors with SuperCache! I paid ~$5 for it.
Consumer products have always been behind the times in the numbers that buyers ignore. Why does a decade-old server have more cache than a brand new desktop? Because no consumer looks at cache when buying a computer, despite the massive impact on performance.
but then caldera would throw it in their kernel, and prior versions thereof, and accuse him of piracy.
If you do sorting with CP/M and don't pay them money, you're a common thief!
Dear Microsoft:
Your license sucks. I am formally rejecting it. You no longer have the right to install updates without my consent. You no longer own the copyrights to the content that I have sent over hotmail.
Cron happily rsyncs source code among my various computers and burns a backup to disc every monday morning.
And stop with the UKisms! If your sending packets to America, speak English or get out! (J/K, but some jerks here in TN,USA have such an opinion toward the hispanic population.)
C being the universal language, here is a translation:
#ifdef MICROSOFT
- suicide();
#endifbackup();
Yes, many Linux distros are good desktop OSes. It's important to realize that the UNIX aspects of it are why we geeks use it.
I'd rather have Linux with no dos/windows/macintosh emulation on a nice UltraSparc than Lindows on a PC, even if that latter had a perfected fork of Wine installed.
I think that Microsoft knows they can't best Linux in the server market, where buyers are more educated. They are more afraid of losing bundling with the smaller PC companies. How many people are running a $199 Walmart C3 with an illegal copy of Windows?
As for the Windows CE source, where is it? If they expect us to pay money to work on their code for them, they are sadly missing the beauty of OSS.
Well, 6 floppies may cost more than 3 CDs these days, but with net booting it is even cheaper than windows. You also have the option of a single min-cd, which takes less time to download than windows.
In fact, considering the difference in the bandwidth available on Debian mirrors compared to those generous folks mirroring Microsoft, I don't see why anyone would wait for Windows.
Is that supposed to pay me back for the time I wasted with them? Not to mention the costs of Win3.1, Win95, NT4, Wind98, Visual Studio 6, and a year's source code when a certain M$ filesystem fell apart mid-project.
I can see those stupid XP popup bubbles going for days with "You might be a winner, click here to find out!" and "If this is annoying, you've won!"
My root password was "Blocky Ink Blot"
but since the MPAA killed Archie, I can't seem to find the source for the server.
Microsoft remembers it as "that virus thingy." They've classified the authors as unamerican terrorist communists.
In other news, UUCP piped through ssh is the latest warez craze. The MPAA is declaring war on Canada to kill off the OpenBSD developers. (Terrence and Phillip as well.)
So I can't import LGPLed code into my project unless my project is LGPLed as well? That's the idea! I personally would interpret it as you can include LPGLed libraries with your code, just as with a staticly linked C lib, but that you must provide source as well.
The point here isn't that Java is a special case, but rather that it isn't an exception. I can accept that.
(Oh yeah, and that whole thing about the moon landing being a sham is the creation of Fox. We really did make it to the moon the same year UNIX burst forth into this world.)
That sounds like a browser issue; I can't seem to recreat your problem.
Email me a screenshot and your browser info. I've specifically altered the site for lynx support; one more mod won't be that big of a deal.
May be two wolves and sheep deciding on dinner, but our representative republic is like 60 million sheep deciding whether a wolf or a panther will decide what's for dinner. They can always vote for another sheep, but they never do because they consider it wasting a vote.
If you think that a society can't ignore 60 million people, take a look at China.
At least EFF is trying to make a differnece. I doubt they'll win, but at least they're trying.