The mouse buttons can be VERY easily emulated via the yaboot boot manager. Just pass it the boot varible for the adb mouse button keys, and wa-la, you're there. Besides, you've got your hands on the keyboard, so emulating the 2 mouse buttons is NOT a problem. LinuxPPC/Yellowdog/DebianPPC _all_ have support for USB mouses and keyboards, so just plug in a friggin' mouse. It's really sad to see the poster of an article so poorly informed, and such is often the case with Mr.Taco's posts.
Yes, installing and running LinuxPPC on the cube It is fully possible..But you'll want to head over to http://ppclinux.apple.com/~benh/ to pick up his (renouned in the ppclinux community) special kernels for the newer hardware(Which includes airport support)..
About "feel": Provided you get the video card configured as the frame buffer, and such, you'll be crusing along on ppc!
In fact, I'm typing this from my bed while on my iBook SE, running LinuxPPC Halloween Edition:)
There seems to be two major movements, in terms of windowing agents, for linux. Down one path is the usability managers, window maker, blackbox, and possibly gnome. Down the other, enlightenment, and other such projects. With the current surge of money into such open source ventures, by companies such as VA linux systems and RedHat, there is a drive to take linux from its current niche market, and move it into the mainstream. And with this..comes much confusion and debate.
Many smaller projects are being integrated into far larger ones, and bloatware is not too hard to come by, even in our stability/usability driven unix world. The end user may not always want something which is usable, and want something pretty. The whole idea of theming, along with general extensibility, is pretty active in the open source community. Well, we _do_ have access to the source, and can change the feel of our applications, along with the feel of our desktops in general. Bad thing, or good thing? WinAmp and Mozilla are both very popular theming items, read: http://www.salon.com/tech/fea ture/1999/05/19/desktop/
But in this theme and customization driven market place, where a few vendors have taken hold of many consumerization-tactics that drive many of America's other industries, where do we find our usability? Surely, gnome and KDE are both very usable desktop environments, but neither addresses some of the major easy of use problems in linux.
Nautilus is a bitch to compile, and is NO where near being finished right now, as to why this article was posted, I know not--It only reflects poorly on the work which the gnome-team and Eazel have done....It just often seems that the level of easy we need, ends up being a more limited system in general. I'm not really sure of linux's future as a true desktop Operating System, but as long as there's companies like Eazel out there, trying and trying, I'm sure we'll get somewhere...
However, I like the idea of using a computer, I would be using computers even if they werem't as exciting or popular. So because of this, and because I am willing to take charge of my own experience, I don't like to run a complete Desktop-Experience, such as gnome or KDE. Whatever gets the job done, boys.
I've gotten my share of telemarking pitches, and I've found a nice easy way to tell (before the first word is spoken) if they are a telemarketer.
Many of the services which call you use these mass-calling setups, where it will call about 5 numbers at once, have them all ring, then only talk to the first one who picks up..Notice a large number of 'hang-up' calls lately? It's probably a mass-calling, and you just happened to pick up the phone a bit too late.
Well, so the telemarketer is sitting at his chair, and presses this dial button on his -screen-. When the caller actually picks up the phone, it takes about 1-2 seconds for the telemarketer to hear you...Ever notice an absolute volume pause at the beginning of a telemarketer's call? That's the delay he's getting from the automated system.
So, when I pick up the phone, and hear absolute silence for 1-2 seconds, then a "HELLLO"..I just hang up. It's ALWAYS someone I don't want to talk to.
hope that can help some of you weed those spammers out;)
Well, I must agree with you on the keyboard issue...I don't know much about linux, tech wise. I had ordered a new keyboard for my iMac(we have 2 in my household) and MacMall sent us a USB keyboard for a windows machine, all beige and well...quite ugly. It also has something that looks like a serial port on the side, so not only is it ugly, but also very much un-useful for dasiy channing usb devices.
Now now, we all know that food is the true god of this earth, and we should stop the mindless blabber about this whole 'computer' thing. I make it my personal mission on this earth to spread the true message of the food, myself playing the role of Jesus.
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The mouse buttons can be VERY easily emulated via the yaboot boot manager. Just pass it the boot varible for the adb mouse button keys, and wa-la, you're there. Besides, you've got your hands on the keyboard, so emulating the 2 mouse buttons is NOT a problem. LinuxPPC/Yellowdog/DebianPPC _all_ have support for USB mouses and keyboards, so just plug in a friggin' mouse. It's really sad to see the poster of an article so poorly informed, and such is often the case with Mr.Taco's posts.
Yes, installing and running LinuxPPC on the cube It is fully possible..But you'll want to head over to http://ppclinux.apple.com/~benh/ to pick up his (renouned in the ppclinux community) special kernels for the newer hardware(Which includes airport support).. About "feel": Provided you get the video card configured as the frame buffer, and such, you'll be crusing along on ppc! In fact, I'm typing this from my bed while on my iBook SE, running LinuxPPC Halloween Edition :)
There seems to be two major movements, in terms of windowing agents, for linux. Down one path is the usability managers, window maker, blackbox, and possibly gnome. Down the other, enlightenment, and other such projects. With the current surge of money into such open source ventures, by companies such as VA linux systems and RedHat, there is a drive to take linux from its current niche market, and move it into the mainstream. And with this..comes much confusion and debate.
Many smaller projects are being integrated into far larger ones, and bloatware is not too hard to come by, even in our stability/usability driven unix world. The end user may not always want something which is usable, and want something pretty. The whole idea of theming, along with general extensibility, is pretty active in the open source community. Well, we _do_ have access to the source, and can change the feel of our applications, along with the feel of our desktops in general. Bad thing, or good thing? WinAmp and Mozilla are both very popular theming items, read: http://www.salon.com/tech/fea ture/1999/05/19/desktop/
But in this theme and customization driven market place, where a few vendors have taken hold of many consumerization-tactics that drive many of America's other industries, where do we find our usability? Surely, gnome and KDE are both very usable desktop environments, but neither addresses some of the major easy of use problems in linux.
Nautilus is a bitch to compile, and is NO where near being finished right now, as to why this article was posted, I know not--It only reflects poorly on the work which the gnome-team and Eazel have done....It just often seems that the level of easy we need, ends up being a more limited system in general. I'm not really sure of linux's future as a true desktop Operating System, but as long as there's companies like Eazel out there, trying and trying, I'm sure we'll get somewhere...
However, I like the idea of using a computer, I would be using computers even if they werem't as exciting or popular. So because of this, and because I am willing to take charge of my own experience, I don't like to run a complete Desktop-Experience, such as gnome or KDE. Whatever gets the job done, boys.
I've been using linuxppc for a long time now, and Xtheater has always worked perfectly fine for me.
I'm not so sure the superfriends mpeg is a good test movie to see if the software is working, it's just skippy and jumpy by compression:)
I've gotten my share of telemarking pitches, and I've found a nice easy way to tell (before the first word is spoken) if they are a telemarketer.
Many of the services which call you use these mass-calling setups, where it will call about 5 numbers at once, have them all ring, then only talk to the first one who picks up..Notice a large number of 'hang-up' calls lately? It's probably a mass-calling, and you just happened to pick up the phone a bit too late.
Well, so the telemarketer is sitting at his chair, and presses this dial button on his -screen-. When the caller actually picks up the phone, it takes about 1-2 seconds for the telemarketer to hear you...Ever notice an absolute volume pause at the beginning of a telemarketer's call? That's the delay he's getting from the automated system.
So, when I pick up the phone, and hear absolute silence for 1-2 seconds, then a "HELLLO"..I just hang up. It's ALWAYS someone I don't want to talk to.
hope that can help some of you weed those spammers out;)
Wow! Looks like cnet got cracked...shesh! I wonder if they're going to blame it all on the DoS folks.
*grins*
MS...Open Source..
Well, I must agree with you on the keyboard issue...I don't know much about linux, tech wise. I had ordered a new keyboard for my iMac(we have 2 in my household) and MacMall sent us a USB keyboard for a windows machine, all beige and well...quite ugly. It also has something that looks like a serial port on the side, so not only is it ugly, but also very much un-useful for dasiy channing usb devices.
I wonder if this also means a new http://rio.dhs.org/penguin.html
Now now, we all know that food is the true god of this earth, and we should stop the mindless blabber about this whole 'computer' thing. I make it my personal mission on this earth to spread the true message of the food, myself playing the role of Jesus.
perhaps this will help us answer the lifelong question, is food god? We shall never know, and thats why we have faith.
Great game, but it is nothing until you try some mutiplayer : ) BTW: If you wanna, do a find on me as "codetoad" : - )