I use it to synchronize: Outlook (yeah, yeah, yeah, it's for work), Pilot, Yahoo Calendar, Yahoo address book and StarTAC phone. It's Win32 but has lots and lots of available modules.
The good folks at sparc.org are happy to share the inner working of the SPARC architecute with you. Of course, there's a licensing fee to manufacture the SPARC chip commercially...
It always amuses me when I read some pundit going on about about the Sun "proprietary" architecture. Yeah, right. And Intel is an OpenSource company.
Anyway, there's a good repository of documents on the SPARC architecture available for download.
Is it just me or does buying things on the X10 web site feel really slimy. I mean they've got cool toys, but I keep expecting to get an offer for a free set of Ginsu knives with ever 2.4ghz purchase... But wait! There's more! Hurry, this offer ends soon!!!;-)
While this appears to be clever, I'm not sure it makes much sense...
Apart from the fact that, for many years, UNIX(tm) was a trademark of AT&T, there is a general consensus among the "faithful" that the operating systems which were "UN*X-like" were more similar than they were different. In that sense (and with that shot of historical reality) LINUX is "just" another UN*X.
But LINUX stands on the edge of going where no UN*X has gone (successfully) before: The Commodity (i.e. X86) Desktop. And for that, all of the UN*X faithful must be thankful.
But as a system administrator, I have to tell you that managing LINUX systems is no different or more ideosyncratic than managing IRIX, Tru64, Solaris or HP-UX (well, HP-UX sucks more than most...). It's "just another UN*X" in my shop.
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I use it to synchronize: Outlook (yeah, yeah, yeah, it's for work), Pilot, Yahoo Calendar, Yahoo address book and StarTAC phone. It's Win32 but has lots and lots of available modules.
It always amuses me when I read some pundit going on about about the Sun "proprietary" architecture. Yeah, right. And Intel is an OpenSource company.
Anyway, there's a good repository of documents on the SPARC architecture available for download.
Not to be TOO big a whiner, but I posted this story YESTERDAY... And it was rejected. What gives?
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2001-01-25 19:52:59
Absolutely brilliant! Kudos to the DirecTV engineers who devised this fantastic plan. They're worthy of the true hacker title in this particular war.
Is it just me or does buying things on the X10 web site feel really slimy. I mean they've got cool toys, but I keep expecting to get an offer for a free set of Ginsu knives with ever 2.4ghz purchase... But wait! There's more! Hurry, this offer ends soon!!! ;-)
Apart from the fact that, for many years, UNIX(tm) was a trademark of AT&T, there is a general consensus among the "faithful" that the operating systems which were "UN*X-like" were more similar than they were different. In that sense (and with that shot of historical reality) LINUX is "just" another UN*X.
But LINUX stands on the edge of going where no UN*X has gone (successfully) before: The Commodity (i.e. X86) Desktop. And for that, all of the UN*X faithful must be thankful.
But as a system administrator, I have to tell you that managing LINUX systems is no different or more ideosyncratic than managing IRIX, Tru64, Solaris or HP-UX (well, HP-UX sucks more than most...). It's "just another UN*X" in my shop.
My $.02.