I think the prime example would be the difference between the original Final Fantasy IV release and the American (and possibly the European as well) release of Final Fantasy II for the Super Nintendo. The original FF4 was a PITA of a game (as it was finally released in Final Fantasy Chronicles) and Squaresoft had to release an easy version of the game. The easy version was the one that was released outside of Japan.
In a way, the harder version of FF4 was "longer" mostly due to the fact that you had to spend more time building up levels and earning Gil/GP in order to buy the expensive items. That doesn't include the fact that a lot of the enemies and bosses were even more difficult to defeat.
With this agreement, Software AG grants you - free of charge - a non-exclusive license to use the enclosed software and accompanying documentation (Software) on a single computer, on a workstation or on a single terminal within a network for evaluation and testing purposes for 90 days only.
I believe the reason why they keep the database application in StarOffice "to themselves" and not release it with OpenOffice.org is that Adabas is commercial software and Sun had to license it. They can't turn around and open source it or releasing it with OpenOffice.org... at least without paying an ungodly sum to the maker of Adabas.
Drivers and applications can run into some issues with the way memory is windowed and accessed via PAE. It could be that the drivers that have issues access memory in a way that isn't too friendly to PAE or things are hardcoded so that they could end up with memory violations.
It's kind of like making drivers work properly in non-SMP and SMP mode, mostly how interrupts are handled. It can get even trickier when you throw in NUMA or ccNUMA found in the AMD64 architecture./me shrugs
I'm guessing that the ATM manufacturers would get OEM licenses for Windows XP Embedded or Windows CE.NET so that they only have to pay licenses for each ATM they make and sell... not on a per CAL or per user basis.
That's who thin clients, Windows-based cash registers and consumer appliances are licensed (OEM).
I think WTX was more aimed at the higher end workstation and server market rather than the desktop market. Part of it was that WTX was designed to handle specific heat zones (which I'm guessing is being adopted into BTX as well as the server-specific SSI form factors) and has the ability to hold large power supplies.
So far, the biggest users of the WTX form factor seems to have been the original Itanium workstations that were sold by SGI, HP, Dell, IBM, etc. The form factor worked quite well for the Itanium because of the weight of the processor, the heatsinks used and the power pods required. Instead of having the processors towards the top of the case (which would make the center of gravity way too high and who knows what kind of stress the motherboards would be under), it was towards the bottom and the standard I/O was moved off to a special daughterboard.
Due to the way the WTX was spec'd out, I think it was just too expensive as a replacement for ATX or Full-sized AT for desktops. I would have welcomed such a case for my new system, but I wasn't going to pay an extra $150+ and just didn't need that huge of a case.
heh... after looking at the Guster section of archive.org/audio, it looks like it was August 2nd 2002 for their Kansas City, MO stop. I don't know about Kansas City, Kansas though;)
Yeah, I also saw Guster with John Mayer and John Butler Trio when they were in Portland in 2002 (can't remember now). Guster and JBT were awesome and were the real reasons why I went to the concert. I always love how the crowd goes nuts when they play "Airport Song" and "Happier". Now I'm addicted to "Parachute".
Couldn't one use an automount daemon and an entry in one's fstab to automatically mount the memory card to a drive and at that point launch a script that does an rsync, scp or CIFS file transfer to the destination server?
There is an article on Daemon News that can help with running a script using the pccard support in FreeBSD to initiate a script to copy files from a Compact Flash card to the system... but it doesn't cover using an automount daemon.
As much as I am a Final Fantasy fan (primarily the older ones), FF7 and FF9 did not live up to the hype in my opinion... but FF7 did have some awesome songs in it's soundtrack. For me, FF6 is still my favorite Final Fantasy game, not only for the story line and how the game played out but the music was also awesome, even for a 16-bit console.
There is a P2P client (I can't remember the name now, but it was written in Java) that polls a list of available live recordings that tape traders have made available in either FLAC or Shorten format (as well as MP3 and Ogg Vorbis)... I was using it to see if anyone had a live recording of Guster's latest concert in Portland, Oregon (at the Crystal Ballroom... the concert with Maroon 5 rocked).
Part of that is due to not only the power consumption of the G5 (although more than a G4, it's less than an "equivalent" Athlon or Pentium 4... maybe not that much different than a Pentium-M cranking away) and the large heatsinks used to cool the CPU. With such a large heatsink, I doubt of the processor will get hot enough to worry about if the air within the case and within the room isn't too warm.
For my home e-mail, I rarely use a mail client directly under Windows anyway. I normally SSH into my home server and use Mutt. If need be, I'll use Mozilla Mail or Sylpheed for Windows. I already have my mother using Mozilla for both her e-mail and web browsing and hid both IE and Outlook Express on her machine.
I live the ability to block remote images in Mozilla Mail... of course that is something that I don't have to worry about when using Mutt;)
Don't forget that there are mail clients (iirc - Eudora is one) that use the HTML rendering component used by IE. Which means that the mail client is just as vulnerable as Outlook Express or Outlook if the user's IE install is not up to date.
Not exactly an everyday computer, but the Itanium systems use EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) instead of a standard PC BIOS... kind of like Open Firmware and Open Boot for the PowerPC and SPARC platforms.
SUS focuses primarily on Windows Updates and not patches involving Office or other Microsoft server and client applications (since it pulls the updates from the same repository as windowsupdates.microsoft.com).
Instead, for Office applications, you would just need to update the administrative install points (which I'm doing now) and using a client management system (SMS, LANDesk, Group Policies, what have you) to run a batch file that points to the administrative install point for the version of Office installed on the client with the appropriate switches... it can be done completely quiet or showing progress.
Of course, the time it takes to update all of the different editions and versions of Office is still quite a bit... unless if you have a really, really fast machine with fast disk performance.
If the person is a web designer or a programmer and needs to test to see how the site renders or the program compiles/runs outside of the Mac environment?
I think it would be really nice to be able to develop and test web sites on a lone laptop or system... mostly on the go.
The other use of it is if the company is primarily Mac and has a handful of PCs for some functions, being able to test and support PCs under a virtual environment would be nice. Sure it won't be as fast, but it's still an option.
Then you have companies that require software that will only run on PCs... by being able to run the software within a window rather than setting aside space for another monitor/keyboard/mouse and PC unit... that can be quite helpful if desk space limited.
I've been using RC2 on my laptop and my BSD workstation at work along with Fluxbox. The one nice and annoying thing though about the default XFCE-4 init script is that it sets the Xft.dpi setting to 96 (the X default is 75), which means that the fonts end up being too large in XFCE-4 or too small in Fluxbox when I shrink the sizes down. So I changed the default font sizes and had the Fluxbox init script change the Xft.dpi up to 96. Of course, this makes some of the text in GDM2 super tiny:\
jEdit is a great editor and development environment (maybe not as fully featured as Eclipse)... I can't wait until 4.2-final is released:)
There is always XFCE-4, which is currently in RC2, and can be themed to look like Bluecurve. It's still not perfect, but it's getting there in functionaility.
I guess one of the reasons why they opted for the Xserve over the G5 towers is the fact that two or three Xserve boxes take up less room in a rack than a G5 tower does. A G5 tower probably eats up a bit more power and produces a bit more heat... though that may or may not be a problem for them, but I'm guess size is.
Also having the hard drive or hard drives hot-swappable would be a good thing to reduce down time since it would take less time to swap a failed drive with a good drive in an Xserve than pull out a G4/G5 tower and get a drive out and plugged in.
There is the Messenger service and there is the MSN Messenger client that is included with Windows XP. I definitely know the differences between the two.
With SP1 and other tricks, there are ways to remove the MSN Messenger client (or whatever Microsoft decided to call it, I can't remember but it's not the Messenger service for sending SMB messages between Windows machines on a network)... still, the MSN Messenger client is included with Windows XP and is installed by default.
I believe that booting off of a USB port is BIOS dependent since it needs to be able to not only detect that the USB drive is a storage drive but also have a stack to use it like a hard drive or what-not.
For instance, I am able to boot off of a USB memory key and a USB Zip drive on an IBM ThinkPad X20/X21, but not a T21. I haven't tried it on the A series or any of the newer T series.
According to may Gaim accounts.xml file (which stores passwords in clear-text unfortunately), port 1863 should be blocked (just to be safe, both TCP and UDP) and block outbound traffic going to messenger.hotmail.com [207.46.104.20]. Keep an eye on the IP that is resolved for that host name to make sure that it doesn't change in the future:)
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I think the prime example would be the difference between the original Final Fantasy IV release and the American (and possibly the European as well) release of Final Fantasy II for the Super Nintendo. The original FF4 was a PITA of a game (as it was finally released in Final Fantasy Chronicles) and Squaresoft had to release an easy version of the game. The easy version was the one that was released outside of Japan.
In a way, the harder version of FF4 was "longer" mostly due to the fact that you had to spend more time building up levels and earning Gil/GP in order to buy the expensive items. That doesn't include the fact that a lot of the enemies and bosses were even more difficult to defeat.
I believe the reason why they keep the database application in StarOffice "to themselves" and not release it with OpenOffice.org is that Adabas is commercial software and Sun had to license it. They can't turn around and open source it or releasing it with OpenOffice.org... at least without paying an ungodly sum to the maker of Adabas.
Drivers and applications can run into some issues with the way memory is windowed and accessed via PAE. It could be that the drivers that have issues access memory in a way that isn't too friendly to PAE or things are hardcoded so that they could end up with memory violations.
/me shrugs
It's kind of like making drivers work properly in non-SMP and SMP mode, mostly how interrupts are handled. It can get even trickier when you throw in NUMA or ccNUMA found in the AMD64 architecture.
I'm guessing that the ATM manufacturers would get OEM licenses for Windows XP Embedded or Windows CE.NET so that they only have to pay licenses for each ATM they make and sell... not on a per CAL or per user basis.
That's who thin clients, Windows-based cash registers and consumer appliances are licensed (OEM).
I think WTX was more aimed at the higher end workstation and server market rather than the desktop market. Part of it was that WTX was designed to handle specific heat zones (which I'm guessing is being adopted into BTX as well as the server-specific SSI form factors) and has the ability to hold large power supplies.
So far, the biggest users of the WTX form factor seems to have been the original Itanium workstations that were sold by SGI, HP, Dell, IBM, etc. The form factor worked quite well for the Itanium because of the weight of the processor, the heatsinks used and the power pods required. Instead of having the processors towards the top of the case (which would make the center of gravity way too high and who knows what kind of stress the motherboards would be under), it was towards the bottom and the standard I/O was moved off to a special daughterboard.
Due to the way the WTX was spec'd out, I think it was just too expensive as a replacement for ATX or Full-sized AT for desktops. I would have welcomed such a case for my new system, but I wasn't going to pay an extra $150+ and just didn't need that huge of a case.
heh... after looking at the Guster section of archive.org/audio, it looks like it was August 2nd 2002 for their Kansas City, MO stop. I don't know about Kansas City, Kansas though ;)
Yeah, I also saw Guster with John Mayer and John Butler Trio when they were in Portland in 2002 (can't remember now). Guster and JBT were awesome and were the real reasons why I went to the concert. I always love how the crowd goes nuts when they play "Airport Song" and "Happier". Now I'm addicted to "Parachute".
Couldn't one use an automount daemon and an entry in one's fstab to automatically mount the memory card to a drive and at that point launch a script that does an rsync, scp or CIFS file transfer to the destination server?
There is an article on Daemon News that can help with running a script using the pccard support in FreeBSD to initiate a script to copy files from a Compact Flash card to the system... but it doesn't cover using an automount daemon.
As much as I am a Final Fantasy fan (primarily the older ones), FF7 and FF9 did not live up to the hype in my opinion... but FF7 did have some awesome songs in it's soundtrack. For me, FF6 is still my favorite Final Fantasy game, not only for the story line and how the game played out but the music was also awesome, even for a 16-bit console.
There is a P2P client (I can't remember the name now, but it was written in Java) that polls a list of available live recordings that tape traders have made available in either FLAC or Shorten format (as well as MP3 and Ogg Vorbis)... I was using it to see if anyone had a live recording of Guster's latest concert in Portland, Oregon (at the Crystal Ballroom... the concert with Maroon 5 rocked).
Mac OS, Solaris, BSD (which was listed as under 2 percent), AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, OS/2 and other operating systems.
Part of that is due to not only the power consumption of the G5 (although more than a G4, it's less than an "equivalent" Athlon or Pentium 4... maybe not that much different than a Pentium-M cranking away) and the large heatsinks used to cool the CPU. With such a large heatsink, I doubt of the processor will get hot enough to worry about if the air within the case and within the room isn't too warm.
For my home e-mail, I rarely use a mail client directly under Windows anyway. I normally SSH into my home server and use Mutt. If need be, I'll use Mozilla Mail or Sylpheed for Windows. I already have my mother using Mozilla for both her e-mail and web browsing and hid both IE and Outlook Express on her machine.
;)
I live the ability to block remote images in Mozilla Mail... of course that is something that I don't have to worry about when using Mutt
Don't forget that there are mail clients (iirc - Eudora is one) that use the HTML rendering component used by IE. Which means that the mail client is just as vulnerable as Outlook Express or Outlook if the user's IE install is not up to date.
Not exactly an everyday computer, but the Itanium systems use EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) instead of a standard PC BIOS... kind of like Open Firmware and Open Boot for the PowerPC and SPARC platforms.
SUS focuses primarily on Windows Updates and not patches involving Office or other Microsoft server and client applications (since it pulls the updates from the same repository as windowsupdates.microsoft.com).
Instead, for Office applications, you would just need to update the administrative install points (which I'm doing now) and using a client management system (SMS, LANDesk, Group Policies, what have you) to run a batch file that points to the administrative install point for the version of Office installed on the client with the appropriate switches... it can be done completely quiet or showing progress.
Of course, the time it takes to update all of the different editions and versions of Office is still quite a bit... unless if you have a really, really fast machine with fast disk performance.
If the person is a web designer or a programmer and needs to test to see how the site renders or the program compiles/runs outside of the Mac environment?
I think it would be really nice to be able to develop and test web sites on a lone laptop or system... mostly on the go.
The other use of it is if the company is primarily Mac and has a handful of PCs for some functions, being able to test and support PCs under a virtual environment would be nice. Sure it won't be as fast, but it's still an option.
Then you have companies that require software that will only run on PCs... by being able to run the software within a window rather than setting aside space for another monitor/keyboard/mouse and PC unit... that can be quite helpful if desk space limited.
I've been using RC2 on my laptop and my BSD workstation at work along with Fluxbox. The one nice and annoying thing though about the default XFCE-4 init script is that it sets the Xft.dpi setting to 96 (the X default is 75), which means that the fonts end up being too large in XFCE-4 or too small in Fluxbox when I shrink the sizes down. So I changed the default font sizes and had the Fluxbox init script change the Xft.dpi up to 96. Of course, this makes some of the text in GDM2 super tiny :\
:)
jEdit is a great editor and development environment (maybe not as fully featured as Eclipse)... I can't wait until 4.2-final is released
There is always XFCE-4, which is currently in RC2, and can be themed to look like Bluecurve. It's still not perfect, but it's getting there in functionaility.
I guess one of the reasons why they opted for the Xserve over the G5 towers is the fact that two or three Xserve boxes take up less room in a rack than a G5 tower does. A G5 tower probably eats up a bit more power and produces a bit more heat... though that may or may not be a problem for them, but I'm guess size is.
Also having the hard drive or hard drives hot-swappable would be a good thing to reduce down time since it would take less time to swap a failed drive with a good drive in an Xserve than pull out a G4/G5 tower and get a drive out and plugged in.
There is the Messenger service and there is the MSN Messenger client that is included with Windows XP. I definitely know the differences between the two.
With SP1 and other tricks, there are ways to remove the MSN Messenger client (or whatever Microsoft decided to call it, I can't remember but it's not the Messenger service for sending SMB messages between Windows machines on a network)... still, the MSN Messenger client is included with Windows XP and is installed by default.
I believe that booting off of a USB port is BIOS dependent since it needs to be able to not only detect that the USB drive is a storage drive but also have a stack to use it like a hard drive or what-not.
For instance, I am able to boot off of a USB memory key and a USB Zip drive on an IBM ThinkPad X20/X21, but not a T21. I haven't tried it on the A series or any of the newer T series.
Thank you :)
According to may Gaim accounts.xml file (which stores passwords in clear-text unfortunately), port 1863 should be blocked (just to be safe, both TCP and UDP) and block outbound traffic going to messenger.hotmail.com [207.46.104.20]. Keep an eye on the IP that is resolved for that host name to make sure that it doesn't change in the future :)