Boy, you don't know much about history, I take it.
There were noisy third-party fans available as an add-in for the Mac Plus. They were basically a piece of plastic cowling and a muffin fan and sold for $250 (the vendor loved that the Mac customer of the time was proud of paying more!) that shoved into the handle hole. There's been a need for a cooling fan ever since that day, in many places where people use the Mac.
Actually, you'd be amazed at how well the old-school Macintosh can be emulated on an x86 processor.
There's a company called ARDI who produce Executor which is a 680x0 Macintosh emulator for x86 machines. Back in the day I ran the Macintosh version of Wolfenstein 3D under Executor on a Pentium 75.
I would really like to see some open systems built with these new IBM chips.
I waited for years and years for somebody to produce some nice open hardware for the PPC line of processors. There was a short period when it looked like it would happen (there were some reference design ATX Form Factor PPC motherboards) but then it went away.
I use Eudora 5.1, and it has an option in 'Viewing Mail' called 'Use Microsoft's Viewer' that I disable. It still displays HTML formatted mail kinda-sorta, but it doesn't render it with Microsoft's engine (it looks sort of broken, but is all legible), which is just fine with me.
It always pisses me off that the Hotmail web page basically pisses and moans and refused to allow me to 'block' that MSN spam with their spam-blocking features. I always try, though.
It sounds like this effort will involve a tracing operation, digging in to find the systems, the software, and the people behind the spam.
What will the reward be for implicating the spam-enabling software vendors? One in particular that comes to mind is Elcomsoft. Will there be a $10K reward for dragging Dmitry's bizzness into court?
(note, the 'Advanced Email Extractor' tool linked to above used to be a link right on the elcomsoft.com web page, but that alternative 'MailUtilites' web page still comes up as one of the top five links in Google when you search on 'elcomsoft.' I suspect they're hiding their association with the 'mail utilites' product line to get geek sympathy. Spread the word, they sell tools to the spammers!)
But the choice will be very different when he will be annoyed by palladium every time he wants to listen to music or watch a movie.
I don't understand why you think the end user will be annoyed by palladiun. It will be resident and running by default on his system and because those services are running, the 'media providers' will allow said movies and music to stream to his system.
The people who will be annoyed are the people not using Palladium systems. They won't be able to watch the movies, listen to the tunes, that everybody else is enjoying, except through awkward and ethically dubious hacks.
This article appeared on the main page for me, for however I have my main page configured (??). I have been wondering why it has sat here with less than five comments added for an hour, though.
Add to this that you can put together a Linux-based cluster of x86 machines that Windows will no longer even run on, and where is Microsoft?
However, said cluster of aging x86 machines produce fewer calculations per watt of power consumed than a cheap Athlon or group of Athlons do. Basically, the old x86 hardware costs more to run than it's worth.
Except for use as access points to a network, i.e. as cheap workstations where the processor sits idle delivering a prompt or cursor most of the time anyhow, the said 'old x86 boxes' are better off being recycled. They're CERTAINLY a mistake to use for anything other than an experimental cluster-for-the-sake-of-having-a-cluster.
They didn't need them. But RedHat couldn't sell them (some fugger stuck CheapBytes stickers on the boxes urging potential customers to buy their CDs for a few dollars instead) so they had to scrap them out.
I know that where I was working at the time, we (R&D) set up our workgroup stuff by ourselves and all the Novel suits got all nervous.
It isn't a big scale solution, of course, but believe me, it wasn't 'cool' at that point in history to be the drones in IT. They were universally disliked, effete jerks.
That's only when the work isn't being shipped offshore to be coded. And that happens more all the time. Programmers in India come quite inexpensively, and there's no reason to import them into the US to make use of them.
Also, those 'science' articles appear a few times a week and there's always a handful of people who have to throw in anti-M$, anti-**ZZ and misc. other rants into the discussion.
I'd question anybody claiming Slashdot is for the science community.
I don't understand how in a forum like this people can assume that all network bandwidth is only used to connect to the greater 'Internet.' Part of the reason I've not invested in any wireless networking equipment up to now is that I like moving data around the various machines in my house at Fast Ethernet data rates. I would NEVER want to go back to regular 10baseT bandwidth, nor any wireless method of about the same speed. When I'm moving big chunks of data, which is what networks are for, I want the bandwidth there to do the work for me. When I'm playing Pysol on a NetBSD box, displayed on my W2K box with eXceed, I don't want to watch the pixels redrawn.
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Stallman actually demanded for a time that it be called LiGNUx. This GNU/Linux stuff is his compromise.
Boy, you don't know much about history, I take it.
There were noisy third-party fans available as an add-in for the Mac Plus. They were basically a piece of plastic cowling and a muffin fan and sold for $250 (the vendor loved that the Mac customer of the time was proud of paying more!) that shoved into the handle hole. There's been a need for a cooling fan ever since that day, in many places where people use the Mac.
Would they allow the OS to run on cheapo clones? Not while Steve is in charge.
The answer is obvious, then.
Steve Jobs needs to leave Apple. Although perhaps the rat should go down with the ship.
Oh, and of course, Classic won't work,
Actually, you'd be amazed at how well the old-school Macintosh can be emulated on an x86 processor.
There's a company called ARDI who produce Executor which is a 680x0 Macintosh emulator for x86 machines. Back in the day I ran the Macintosh version of Wolfenstein 3D under Executor on a Pentium 75.
I would really like to see some open systems built with these new IBM chips.
I waited for years and years for somebody to produce some nice open hardware for the PPC line of processors. There was a short period when it looked like it would happen (there were some reference design ATX Form Factor PPC motherboards) but then it went away.
I use Eudora 5.1, and it has an option in 'Viewing Mail' called 'Use Microsoft's Viewer' that I disable. It still displays HTML formatted mail kinda-sorta, but it doesn't render it with Microsoft's engine (it looks sort of broken, but is all legible), which is just fine with me.
Why would using Eudora be 'taking things a little too far'? Eudora is one hell of an email client.
It always pisses me off that the Hotmail web page basically pisses and moans and refused to allow me to 'block' that MSN spam with their spam-blocking features. I always try, though.
It sounds like this effort will involve a tracing operation, digging in to find the systems, the software, and the people behind the spam.
What will the reward be for implicating the spam-enabling software vendors? One in particular that comes to mind is Elcomsoft. Will there be a $10K reward for dragging Dmitry's bizzness into court?
(note, the 'Advanced Email Extractor' tool linked to above used to be a link right on the elcomsoft.com web page, but that alternative 'MailUtilites' web page still comes up as one of the top five links in Google when you search on 'elcomsoft.' I suspect they're hiding their association with the 'mail utilites' product line to get geek sympathy. Spread the word, they sell tools to the spammers!)
But the choice will be very different when he will be annoyed by palladium every time he wants to listen to music or watch a movie.
I don't understand why you think the end user will be annoyed by palladiun. It will be resident and running by default on his system and because those services are running, the 'media providers' will allow said movies and music to stream to his system.
The people who will be annoyed are the people not using Palladium systems. They won't be able to watch the movies, listen to the tunes, that everybody else is enjoying, except through awkward and ethically dubious hacks.
A book on Chomsky just qualifies you to advocate the Khmer Rogue.
This article appeared on the main page for me, for however I have my main page configured (??). I have been wondering why it has sat here with less than five comments added for an hour, though.
Add to this that you can put together a Linux-based cluster of x86 machines that Windows will no longer even run on, and where is Microsoft?
However, said cluster of aging x86 machines produce fewer calculations per watt of power consumed than a cheap Athlon or group of Athlons do. Basically, the old x86 hardware costs more to run than it's worth.
Except for use as access points to a network, i.e. as cheap workstations where the processor sits idle delivering a prompt or cursor most of the time anyhow, the said 'old x86 boxes' are better off being recycled. They're CERTAINLY a mistake to use for anything other than an experimental cluster-for-the-sake-of-having-a-cluster.
They didn't need them. But RedHat couldn't sell them (some fugger stuck CheapBytes stickers on the boxes urging potential customers to buy their CDs for a few dollars instead) so they had to scrap them out.
What programming language was that snippet of code written in?
or Sendmail for mail
*whoop whoop whoop*
I hear an alarm going off...
For the chippers, it's worse to beat them at their own game, as suing them just gives them free marketing and more business.
No, it is not illegal to buy and install a mod chip.
It's also not wrong for a console maker to change internal specs in ways that don't affect the games formally developed on it.
I mean, sheesh.
"So you had better do what you are told.
You better listen to the slashbot trolls."
FUD:
'Be careful about buying any new tech. Apple is about to come out with something better!'
W for W made a hell of a lot of sense.
I know that where I was working at the time, we (R&D) set up our workgroup stuff by ourselves and all the Novel suits got all nervous.
It isn't a big scale solution, of course, but believe me, it wasn't 'cool' at that point in history to be the drones in IT. They were universally disliked, effete jerks.
That's only when the work isn't being shipped offshore to be coded. And that happens more all the time. Programmers in India come quite inexpensively, and there's no reason to import them into the US to make use of them.
Also, those 'science' articles appear a few times a week and there's always a handful of people who have to throw in anti-M$, anti-**ZZ and misc. other rants into the discussion.
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I'd question anybody claiming Slashdot is for the science community
Their FUD and RSN tools don't need updating.
I don't understand how in a forum like this people can assume that all network bandwidth is only used to connect to the greater 'Internet.' Part of the reason I've not invested in any wireless networking equipment up to now is that I like moving data around the various machines in my house at Fast Ethernet data rates. I would NEVER want to go back to regular 10baseT bandwidth, nor any wireless method of about the same speed. When I'm moving big chunks of data, which is what networks are for, I want the bandwidth there to do the work for me. When I'm playing Pysol on a NetBSD box, displayed on my W2K box with eXceed, I don't want to watch the pixels redrawn.