I've got a Abit VP6 mobo, and I currently have dual PIII 866s in it. What I was wondering is, can I use PIII Xeon chips in it, or do they require a special board? 'Cause dual 1 GHz Xeons would be SOOOO sweet...
What I think Linux DOES need to do is change the way the filesystem is organized. I hate having all my programs stored in/usr/bin. It's no fun opening a directory with 6,000 files in it and having to wade through everything to get to the file you want. It DOES make everything in the path, but I would have no problem with having to drop symlinks into a special launcher directory, or just adding the damn things into my path. Having seperate dirs for each program keeps things uncluttered, and can potentially prevent problems.
Also, the last time I used Linux (Mandrake 8.2), the "start" menu system consisted of a bunch of files in a single directory. I would love to see this changed into the heirchacal format Windows uses, as it makes htings much easier to organize (no need for a special menu-editing program).
I never, ever want to see anything like the registry pop up in Linux. One central place for storing config info may sound nice, but what happens when it gets corrupt? Bye bye to everything!
OK, so it isn't PPC, but there's a fully functional 68K Mac emulator for Linux called Basilisk II. I use it to run Escape Velocity on my PC under Mac OS 8.1.
Ah, but that spam filtering can generally be turned off by the user. It is entirely at their discretion. Not the discretion of some government or large corporation.
Actually, Windows XP Corp (which I proudly use, even though I own CP Pro) has a key, just no activation. It's a major time/stress saver when you like to play around with lots of different hardware.
Plus, it is far less responsive than WInamp 2.x. And it takes three time as long to load. And it doesn't support Winamp classic plugins. And Winamp 2 has a few good video plugins already.
If you bought a puppy at a pet store, would you rip off one of its legs so that you could keep it in your car? Maybe one of its other legs to take with you when you're out on a run? When you buy a CD, you're buying a disc. You do not buy the rights to the music, which are owned by the industry.
No, but I might take a picture of that puppy to keep in my wallet, or a movie of him to take in the car.
Another problem with your argument is that, yes, you do buy the rights to the music on that CD. You buy the right for you to listen to it. You may do whatever you need to allow _you_ to listen to it.
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No, that wouldn't work. The data on the CD is encrypted. The disc decrypts itself if it passes security checks. It would presumably keep track of the systems that it has been installed on, and refuse to decrypt itself if you violate the EULA.
The glaringly obvious hole, that I see, anyway, is that you could stick it into a valid system, and then copy the contents. It would decrypt the files to give you, the authenticated user, access to the data. Then you could crack and burn. The only thing I see this preventing is 1-to-1 copies, like CloneCD does.
I've been reading quite a bit about ATi's TruForm technology, which is supposed to dramatically enhance the number of polygons in a 3D game, with minimal performance impact. HotHardware mentioned TruForm in the Radeon 9700 specs, but they don't have any screenshots. I'm rather surprised, as this is supposed to be ground-breaking technology.
Remember the Bill Gates quote from Lessig's OSCON speech?
"If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete stand-still today.
The solution... is patenting as much as we can... A future start-up with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose. That price might be high: Established companies have an interest in excluding future competitors."
I dare to think they'd make this stuff illegal, except for the fact that it is hard to write an exact definition of when somebody goes overboard.
Sounds kind of like the Borg... my thoughts are not mine, but part of the collective...
Anyway, I wonder how they'd enforce this. Torture? Yes, I can see it now...
*Somewhere in a dungeon deep in the bowels of the Earth*
Interragator: Tell us your invention! Ex-employee: Never! Interragator: Fool! *cracks one of ex-employee's teeth* Ex-employee: NOOOOOO! I'll tell you! I'll tell you anything!
Or maybe they'll just resort to a good old-fashioned we'll-sue-your-pants-off threat.
Joe Sixpack doesn't know much about computers, but he knows the word 'hacker' and he knows that it's mapped to the word 'bad'. So when anyone suggests letting (hackers=>bad people) near our critical computers (which all computers are...) then Joe goes on the warpath and gets it struck down.
The article would have done good to differentiate between 'hacker' and 'cracker', for those of us who aren't geeks.
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I've got a Abit VP6 mobo, and I currently have dual PIII 866s in it. What I was wondering is, can I use PIII Xeon chips in it, or do they require a special board? 'Cause dual 1 GHz Xeons would be SOOOO sweet...
Yeah, but /etc isn't just a few files.
What I think Linux DOES need to do is change the way the filesystem is organized. I hate having all my programs stored in /usr/bin. It's no fun opening a directory with 6,000 files in it and having to wade through everything to get to the file you want. It DOES make everything in the path, but I would have no problem with having to drop symlinks into a special launcher directory, or just adding the damn things into my path. Having seperate dirs for each program keeps things uncluttered, and can potentially prevent problems.
Also, the last time I used Linux (Mandrake 8.2), the "start" menu system consisted of a bunch of files in a single directory. I would love to see this changed into the heirchacal format Windows uses, as it makes htings much easier to organize (no need for a special menu-editing program).
I never, ever want to see anything like the registry pop up in Linux. One central place for storing config info may sound nice, but what happens when it gets corrupt? Bye bye to everything!
Is it just me, or is Bluecurve the ugliest theme ever? Heck, I prefer the KDE2 default theme...
Darn. :)
Must have been some blogs Google bomb... It was rather funny seeing Microsoft come up as #1 for that search, and AOL on the first page, too.
OK, so it isn't PPC, but there's a fully functional 68K Mac emulator for Linux called Basilisk II. I use it to run Escape Velocity on my PC under Mac OS 8.1.
Dammit... forgot to select plain old text...
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Ah, but that spam filtering can generally be turned off by the user. It is entirely at their discretion. Not the discretion of some government or large corporation.
Actually, Windows XP Corp (which I proudly use, even though I own CP Pro) has a key, just no activation. It's a major time/stress saver when you like to play around with lots of different hardware.
Sounds like you haven't used the KaZaA Lite HOSTS file. It gets rid of the ads.
Oops, wrong post. That was supposed to go on the parent. :/
"Everything you know is wrong
:)
Black is White, Up is Down, and Short is Long
And everything you thought was just so important doesn't matter!"
--Everything You Know is Wrong (Weird Al)
So mod me down. I just wanted to complement his closing line.
He's probably using Windows: http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002374/src/downlo ad.html
WCPUID is what you need.
Plus, it is far less responsive than WInamp 2.x. And it takes three time as long to load. And it doesn't support Winamp classic plugins. And Winamp 2 has a few good video plugins already.
It uses photoelectric cells to convert the drive's laser into electricity. No need for external power.
If you bought a puppy at a pet store, would you rip off one of its legs so that you could keep it in your car? Maybe one of its other legs to take with you when you're out on a run? When you buy a CD, you're buying a disc. You do not buy the rights to the music, which are owned by the industry.
No, but I might take a picture of that puppy to keep in my wallet, or a movie of him to take in the car.
Another problem with your argument is that, yes, you do buy the rights to the music on that CD. You buy the right for you to listen to it. You may do whatever you need to allow _you_ to listen to it.
No, that wouldn't work. The data on the CD is encrypted. The disc decrypts itself if it passes security checks. It would presumably keep track of the systems that it has been installed on, and refuse to decrypt itself if you violate the EULA.
The glaringly obvious hole, that I see, anyway, is that you could stick it into a valid system, and then copy the contents. It would decrypt the files to give you, the authenticated user, access to the data. Then you could crack and burn. The only thing I see this preventing is 1-to-1 copies, like CloneCD does.
I've been reading quite a bit about ATi's TruForm technology, which is supposed to dramatically enhance the number of polygons in a 3D game, with minimal performance impact. HotHardware mentioned TruForm in the Radeon 9700 specs, but they don't have any screenshots. I'm rather surprised, as this is supposed to be ground-breaking technology.
What gives?
This makes me wonder about the sanity of the people who approve patents...
Why pick on the patent office? Let's get ActiveBuddy! They shall pay for their greed!
Remember the Bill Gates quote from Lessig's OSCON speech?
"If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete stand-still today.
The solution... is patenting as much as we can... A future start-up with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose. That price might be high: Established companies have an interest in excluding future competitors."
I dare to think they'd make this stuff illegal, except for the fact that it is hard to write an exact definition of when somebody goes overboard.
Sounds kind of like the Borg... my thoughts are not mine, but part of the collective...
Anyway, I wonder how they'd enforce this. Torture? Yes, I can see it now...
*Somewhere in a dungeon deep in the bowels of the Earth*
Interragator: Tell us your invention!
Ex-employee: Never!
Interragator: Fool! *cracks one of ex-employee's teeth*
Ex-employee: NOOOOOO! I'll tell you! I'll tell you anything!
Or maybe they'll just resort to a good old-fashioned we'll-sue-your-pants-off threat.
Joe Sixpack doesn't know much about computers, but he knows the word 'hacker' and he knows that it's mapped to the word 'bad'. So when anyone suggests letting (hackers=>bad people) near our critical computers (which all computers are...) then Joe goes on the warpath and gets it struck down.
The article would have done good to differentiate between 'hacker' and 'cracker', for those of us who aren't geeks.
Made of LEGO Mindstorms, of course!
And how do you control the robot? VNC for Mindtorms!