Sorry Abe, you are not a hacker. Hacker is not a term that you can claim for yourself. Hacker is a badge of honor that has to be bestoed on you by others. Real hackers don't have to call themselves hackers. They know they are and other hackers know they are. It is not a thing, it is a state of being, a level of enlightenment.
But you are on the right road, I think. One day someone might call you hacker and it will be true. When/If that day comes, you will know it. You won't need Mtv, you won't need to Slashdot. It will just be, you will know it and that will be enough.
But sadly, that days isn't yours yet.
Damn! What the hell are they putting in cold pills today. That reads like something out of Zen and the Art of Modercycle Repair.
I agree 100%. I installed a TrueType font server and my display looks so much better. I finally found something good on a microsoft CD. The fonts.
There is a how to on doing it but I don't have it on me. I have it written down at home. You want me to send it to you send me some email and I'll do it. My email address in the header is valid.
Let's hope they haven't sold out. It would suck for the RIAA to get their way once again.
Whoa people, put away the tar and feathers. Let's slap another spin on this.
Diamond:"So we supports this SDMI dohiky of yours, you'll shut the hell up?"
RIAA:"Yes, Yes, we be happy!"
Diamond: Thinks to himself. "We put this SDMI crap in RIO and Jar Jar here goes away. When SDMI turns toes up, we covered because we never remove mp3 support. If SDMI does go over, then we covered there too."Cheaser cat grin. "Deal!"
I don't know if anyone else read this but I never saw any place where it was mentioned that Diamond had to remove support for mp3.
Here let me give you one real advantage to being a US citizen. Bill Clinton you suck, your whole administration sucks, and your momma sucks also.
Now we wait. Nope, no secret police busting down my door. Try that in China or some other third world hellhole. You be lucky if they don't beat you before they slam the door on your ass.
See, I can say thing like that because I'm a US citizen. Those of you that can't understand that, well you don't count anyway.
That sounds like a good argument that they can easily do what they are claiming. Maybe the point is that it's a good media machine at a reasonable price that you don't need to be an expert to put together?
I never doubted that they couldn't do it. I just question why? You slap that kind of hardware on any Linux based machine and your going get a kick ass media machine. Provided you have the right drivers.
If the machine is put together right you don't need to be a expert at anything. That includes Linux. So if you have a person, all she wants to do is browse the web and check email, Linux is just as good as Win95. A properly set up Linux box with KDE on it will do the job just fine.
I think the big deal is what the Amiga MCC won't have -- the ancient PC/AT architecture.
You may have a point there. It would be a fresh start, but it sound to me like more than the ATI chip set is going to be off the shelf. I think all the parts are going to be off the shelf. I think the IRQ stuff will come with this one too. You might be right about the BIOS though.
Anyhoots, the IRQ conflict is becoming less of a problem on modern motherboards anyway. The way I see it unless you install a card that needs multi irq's you would only need two free irq. One for each PCI slot. You wouldn't needs any for the devices on the USB ports. From the brief they gave out most of the expansion is coming from the USB bus any way. I mean 7 freeking USB ports.
Except for USB support and DVD support I don't see anything here that we don't already have. Even USB and DVD support are being worked on and in the beta stage now.
Picking this tech. brief apart I see nothing that makes me want to run out and purcase one of these mythical machines.
High-performance, next generation CPU. I don't believe in these anymore. I've seen to many of these beasts that don't live up to thier hype.
For about $200 you can pick up a 2D/3D graphics card with 32 MB of RAM an 1920x1200 resolutions with all the bells and whistles on it. A kick ass sound card is just a few bucks more. That will do all the audio that we have listed.
A decent grapics card should have DVD standard and MPEG-2. All this in hardware. TV tuners, with S-Video, composite I/O, and still image capture, I've seen video cards with all this on it. There is some questions I have about software under Linux for all this, but I know some of it, such as DVD support, are being worked on. I've seen support for the TV tuners in the kernel. Don't know how it works, but it's there. I'm not even going to touch the FM card but to say "Why?" and we have that too.
Communications options, nothing new there. 56K modems, 100/10Mb/s Ethernet, can all broadband internet options, we've got them. I don't know about the wireless options but then I'm not big on wireless networks.
The rest of the hardware goes like this. Drive controllers, PCI slots, infrared remote devices, microphone input, and USB, I've never seen a ATX motherboard without this. No points here. Granted I've never seen a ATX board with 7 USB ports but then I don't see a need for 7 USB ports.
My best guess is working around the clock this beast could be on the streets in a year. By that time anything that it has that Linux doesn't have we be devoloped through normal linux channels.
Well that is enough holes in people sacred cows. There once was a time when anything new about the Amiga would have given me wood all day. That is not the case anymore. I might change my tune when when I see it, but right now it's just words on paper.
I've got to agree with this. The last thing we need to do is bloat the kernel with unnessary code. There will be no way to bail if the GUI crashes and when it does it will most likly take the whole machine with it.
Okay, let me get this streight. I have 4 cd players, some costing over two costing $700. Now along comes RIAA with this digital music thingy. So now my current cd players won't play any new cds in the future right? I don't think so.
Do I smell lawsuit here? I see it like this. Sony who makes cd players now can force me to buy new equipment by changing the format of thier future cds. Now they get to sell the same cd back to me to fit the new player format right?
Screw that! I think if a few million pissed off cd owners threathed a class action this secured music thingy might wind up deader than divx.
Sorry. I read over in sci.astro, I think, that some activity was spotted around Cygnaus X-1. That ruled it out as a black hole. I wished I had save that piece.
No! I'm sorry but Keanu Reeves has been and all ways will be Ted. I can't look at Reeves without expecting the next word out of his mouth to be dude. Think about it. Can you see the future Darth Vader saying, "Use the force dude?" or "Dude, may the force be with you?"
Sorry, I think I would rather have my butt shaved by a blind man with a nervious condition with a blo knife than see this.
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If you have a PlayStation go get a copy of Spyro the Dragon. I normally don't go for cute games but I've been playing that sucker for a week solid.
I heard something about this on NPR one day. I think it said that Einstein's brain is sitting in a tupperware dish in the trunk of someone's car.
I want a new butt, this one has a crack in it.
Excellent. There is intellegent life on slashdot.
Of course you realise that if you ask 10 different people what a hacker is, you'll get 11 different answers.
<fake Japanisee accent>
Ayyyee. Grasshopper, when you can snatch this pebble from my hand you shawl understand.
</fake Japanisee accent>
Sorry Abe, you are not a hacker. Hacker is not a term that you can claim for yourself. Hacker is a badge of honor that has to be bestoed on you by others. Real hackers don't have to call themselves hackers. They know they are and other hackers know they are. It is not a thing, it is a state of being, a level of enlightenment.
But you are on the right road, I think. One day someone might call you hacker and it will be true. When/If that day comes, you will know it. You won't need Mtv, you won't need to Slashdot. It will just be, you will know it and that will be enough.
But sadly, that days isn't yours yet.
Damn! What the hell are they putting in cold pills today. That reads like something out of Zen and the Art of Modercycle Repair.
Might have you beat. A 486/66 with a 170HDD, RH6.0 and X. But no emacs and no compilers but I do have 20meg free on it.
I agree 100%. I installed a TrueType font server and my display looks so much better. I finally found something good on a microsoft CD. The fonts.
There is a how to on doing it but I don't have it on me. I have it written down at home. You want me to send it to you send me some email and I'll do it. My email address in the header is valid.
$ vi mississippi.jokes :%s/mississippi/kansas/g :wq $ mv mississippi.jokes kansas.jokes
I think that should say it all.
Let's hope they haven't sold out. It would suck for the RIAA to get their way once again.
Whoa people, put away the tar and feathers. Let's slap another spin on this.
Diamond: "So we supports this SDMI dohiky of yours, you'll shut the hell up?"
RIAA: "Yes, Yes, we be happy!"
Diamond: Thinks to himself. "We put this SDMI crap in RIO and Jar Jar here goes away. When SDMI turns toes up, we covered because we never remove mp3 support. If SDMI does go over, then we covered there too."Cheaser cat grin. "Deal!"
I don't know if anyone else read this but I never saw any place where it was mentioned that Diamond had to remove support for mp3.
Here let me give you one real advantage to being a US citizen. Bill Clinton you suck, your whole administration sucks, and your momma sucks also.
Now we wait. Nope, no secret police busting down my door. Try that in China or some other third world hellhole. You be lucky if they don't beat you before they slam the door on your ass.
See, I can say thing like that because I'm a US citizen. Those of you that can't understand that, well you don't count anyway.
Windows 2000 is coming out soon, and it'll blow Linux and everything else outta the water.
That sounds like a good argument that they can easily do what they are claiming. Maybe the point is that it's a good media machine at a reasonable price that you don't need to be an expert to put together?
I never doubted that they couldn't do it. I just question why? You slap that kind of hardware on any Linux based machine and your going get a kick ass media machine. Provided you have the right drivers.
If the machine is put together right you don't need to be a expert at anything. That includes Linux. So if you have a person, all she wants to do is browse the web and check email, Linux is just as good as Win95. A properly set up Linux box with KDE on it will do the job just fine.
I think the big deal is what the Amiga MCC won't have -- the ancient PC/AT architecture.
You may have a point there. It would be a fresh start, but it sound to me like more than the ATI chip set is going to be off the shelf. I think all the parts are going to be off the shelf. I think the IRQ stuff will come with this one too. You might be right about the BIOS though.
Anyhoots, the IRQ conflict is becoming less of a problem on modern motherboards anyway. The way I see it unless you install a card that needs multi irq's you would only need two free irq. One for each PCI slot. You wouldn't needs any for the devices on the USB ports. From the brief they gave out most of the expansion is coming from the USB bus any way. I mean 7 freeking USB ports.
Except for USB support and DVD support I don't see anything here that we don't already have. Even USB and DVD support are being worked on and in the beta stage now.
Picking this tech. brief apart I see nothing that makes me want to run out and purcase one of these mythical machines.
High-performance, next generation CPU. I don't believe in these anymore. I've seen to many of these beasts that don't live up to thier hype.
For about $200 you can pick up a 2D/3D graphics card with 32 MB of RAM an 1920x1200 resolutions with all the bells and whistles on it. A kick ass sound card is just a few bucks more. That will do all the audio that we have listed.
A decent grapics card should have DVD standard and MPEG-2. All this in hardware. TV tuners, with S-Video, composite I/O, and still image capture, I've seen video cards with all this on it. There is some questions I have about software under Linux for all this, but I know some of it, such as DVD support, are being worked on. I've seen support for the TV tuners in the kernel. Don't know how it works, but it's there. I'm not even going to touch the FM card but to say "Why?" and we have that too.
Communications options, nothing new there. 56K modems, 100/10Mb/s Ethernet, can all broadband internet options, we've got them. I don't know about the wireless options but then I'm not big on wireless networks.
The rest of the hardware goes like this. Drive controllers, PCI slots, infrared remote devices, microphone input, and USB, I've never seen a ATX motherboard without this. No points here. Granted I've never seen a ATX board with 7 USB ports but then I don't see a need for 7 USB ports.
My best guess is working around the clock this beast could be on the streets in a year. By that time anything that it has that Linux doesn't have we be devoloped through normal linux channels.
Well that is enough holes in people sacred cows. There once was a time when anything new about the Amiga would have given me wood all day. That is not the case anymore. I might change my tune when when I see it, but right now it's just words on paper.
I've got to agree with this. The last thing we need to do is bloat the kernel with unnessary code. There will be no way to bail if the GUI crashes and when it does it will most likly take the whole machine with it.
bwahaha! That was funny. I take SETI very seriously and I almost feel out of my chair.
Okay, let me get this streight. I have 4 cd players, some costing over two costing $700. Now along comes RIAA with this digital music thingy. So now my current cd players won't play any new cds in the future right? I don't think so.
Do I smell lawsuit here? I see it like this. Sony who makes cd players now can force me to buy new equipment by changing the format of thier future cds. Now they get to sell the same cd back to me to fit the new player format right?
Screw that! I think if a few million pissed off cd owners threathed a class action this secured music thingy might wind up deader than divx.
Bob Lazar said that element 118 was used to power the alien spacecraft he worked on at Area 51.
I think that was element 115. Speaking of element 115, did we ever create it or did we just skip ahead to 118?
Sorry. I read over in sci.astro, I think, that some activity was spotted around Cygnaus X-1. That ruled it out as a black hole. I wished I had save that piece.
Keanu Reeves isn't available?
No! I'm sorry but Keanu Reeves has been and all ways will be Ted. I can't look at Reeves without expecting the next word out of his mouth to be dude. Think about it. Can you see the future Darth Vader saying, "Use the force dude?" or "Dude, may the force be with you?"
Sorry, I think I would rather have my butt shaved by a blind man with a nervious condition with a blo knife than see this.
"riaa will allow mp3s to exist"...
bwahaha! Yeah right, and I'm going to allow everyone to keep reading slashdot.
reload ... cock ... bam! riaa blows off other foot....
Linux is still technically inferior to commercial unices. Just like windows NT. Truth hurts. SCO?
Well, at least you have musical talent. :)
That is true. Hell, I'm doing good to play a radio.