This past spring John came and gave a lecture for the ACM Chapter at Bucknell University, which I run. He's was nothing short of incredible for the 2 days we spent with him. Very on-the-ball about everything, not to mention a really nice guy. He definately sees the bigger picture.
Most fun was going to the bar after the talk. The man drank us all under the table - and told the most interesting stories about various places throughout the world. If you get a chance to meet him, make the effort.
I have a friend who gets to play with a lot of embedded devices, and I actually was talking to him about these devices last week. His comment was that they just weren't making sense. In particular, the WinCE wasn't very stable on them. Perhaps the NetBSD port could make them more useful, but he recommends the plethora of other PDA types devices, and not this beast.
Gee, looking at more of the comics in the Doctor Fun link on metalab makes me wonder why I haven't seen this guy before. Some of them are REALLY funny.
I think everyone WANTS to get some more REAL questions answered, no? Let's let the community grill 'em. .. (or is that a cruel and disrepectful thing to do to a senior citizen? Not in the business world - he could have retired years ago! If you're aging and still in the business you have to keep up with the rest of 'em, or you shouldn't be working anymore.)
If anyone wants to see more pics from LWE, click here! Includes candid shots of Alan, CmdrTaco, Hemos, Emmett, and all those nifty mascots that are there! --
Will likely be an Athlon based PC. Intel is just having a few too many issues, and AMD has proven to me that they are capable of producing very competitive (and even faster) hardware. Intel's adoption of the proprietary Rambus technology is also something I'm not very fond of, in light of the i820 problems. As it is, the bandwidth of Rambus doesn't help as much as you'd think because of the greater latency than SDRAM, and smaller width of the bus (Rambus only 16-bit vs. 64-bit).
BeOS hasn't been able to run on G3s, to this day. But with this "open" setup here, can Be make BeOS work on better PPC hardware? I think the question isn't so much whether Linux will become more prominent on PPC than x86, but whether Be will become more dominant on x86 due to information apple wasn't giving them.
I don't believe they are running X on there, the box has been set up for security, after all, it's not someone who took the machine, installed LinuxPPC and Apache, and then left it on the net with only the essentials of configuration. The only real services running on there are telnet and http.
It's not that simple. You can't login as root over telnet/rlogin, ftp, etc. unless you specifically set that to be allowed (an obvious security hazard). Without a user account, it's harder, and some kind of exploit needs to be found. Having the root password only makes it easier once you have some sort of access to the system.
While TV may have become a fixture in American society, it did not happen over night. Similarly, you can't expect the same of the net, which requires far greater infrastructure and more equipment to keep going than television. For a long time it was rare someone would have >1 television. TVs are less complicated to operate, as well. Any one who can press channel up/down can have an effective television experience. In the end, you can't really compare TVs to PCs on this subject, because there are inherently different. One is a two-way communications tool, the other is manipulated by "the media" to deliver what they please.
Gee Rob, since you said all those new articles, I can't seem to get ANYTHING back for my queries. I checked searching for "linux" to see if i'd get anything back, and voila!! Nothing. . .
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This past spring John came and gave a lecture for the ACM Chapter at Bucknell University, which I run. He's was nothing short of incredible for the 2 days we spent with him. Very on-the-ball about everything, not to mention a really nice guy. He definately sees the bigger picture.
Pictures are available at http://penguinempire.n3.net
Most fun was going to the bar after the talk. The man drank us all under the table - and told the most interesting stories about various places throughout the world.
If you get a chance to meet him, make the effort.
I have a friend who gets to play with a lot of embedded devices, and I actually was talking to him about these devices last week. His comment was that they just weren't making sense. In particular, the WinCE wasn't very stable on them. Perhaps the NetBSD port could make them more useful, but he recommends the plethora of other PDA types devices, and not this beast.
Gee, looking at more of the comics in the Doctor Fun link on metalab makes me wonder why I haven't seen this guy before. Some of them are REALLY funny.
http://metalab.unc.edu/Dave/Dr-Fun/
I think everyone WANTS to get some more REAL questions answered, no? .
Let's let the community grill 'em. .
(or is that a cruel and disrepectful thing to do to a senior citizen? Not in the business world - he could have retired years ago! If you're aging and still in the business you have to keep up with the rest of 'em, or you shouldn't be working anymore.)
For even more pics, visit: /. team in there.
http://www.penguinempire.com/linuxworld
Mascotts, Alan Cox, and much of
If anyone wants to see more pics from LWE, click here!
Includes candid shots of Alan, CmdrTaco, Hemos, Emmett, and all those nifty mascots that are there!
--
Will likely be an Athlon based PC. Intel is just having a few too many issues, and AMD has proven to me that they are capable of producing very competitive (and even faster) hardware. Intel's adoption of the proprietary Rambus technology is also something I'm not very fond of, in light of the i820 problems. As it is, the bandwidth of Rambus doesn't help as much as you'd think because of the greater latency than SDRAM, and smaller width of the bus (Rambus only 16-bit vs. 64-bit).
BeOS hasn't been able to run on G3s, to this day. But with this "open" setup here, can Be make BeOS work on better PPC hardware? I think the question isn't so much whether Linux will become more prominent on PPC than x86, but whether Be will become more dominant on x86 due to information apple wasn't giving them.
Be's explanation of why BeOS doesn't run on G3s.
-G.
I don't believe they are running X on there, the box has been set up for security, after all, it's not someone who took the machine, installed LinuxPPC and Apache, and then left it on the net with only the essentials of configuration. The only real services running on there are telnet and http.
It's not that simple. You can't login as root over telnet/rlogin, ftp, etc. unless you specifically set that to be allowed (an obvious security hazard). Without a user account, it's harder, and some kind of exploit needs to be found. Having the root password only makes it easier once you have some sort of access to the system.
This one is still pretty cheap, and it's got everything you need except an HD. http://cgi.ebay.co m/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=137722173
While TV may have become a fixture in American society, it did not happen over night. Similarly, you can't expect the same of the net, which requires far greater infrastructure and more equipment to keep going than television. For a long time it was rare someone would have >1 television. TVs are less complicated to operate, as well. Any one who can press channel up/down can have an effective television experience. In the end, you can't really compare TVs to PCs on this subject, because there are inherently different. One is a two-way communications tool, the other is manipulated by "the media" to deliver what they please.
Gee Rob, since you said all those new articles,
I can't seem to get ANYTHING back for my queries.
I checked searching for "linux" to see if i'd
get anything back, and voila!! Nothing. . .