Not that they're likely to fly off the shelves but I've been meaning to get an HP for a while now and all of a sudden they're going to vanish completely.
Not to mention the fact that I'm not even sure where to buy an HP calculator. The few places I've looked just have Casio's and TI's. Didn't Wal-Mart used to sell some HP's at least?
I've been following WINE's development for years now, and every time a WINE article gets published here, the bone-heads come out of the woodwork to to express their feeling that WINE is somehow bad for Linux.
Three years ago, when WINE allowed me to run Remedy Action User client (it's the front-end to our trouble-ticket system) so I didn't have to boot into windows at work at all, that was somehow a bad thing? When WINE allows me to run Excel so I can hand in my expense reports using the spreadsheet the corporate Microserfs designed, that's a bad thing?
The ridiculous arguments aside about WINE keeping linux ports from happening, what about a game released a few months ago. There will never be linux ports of games released more than a few months ago unless the company GPL's it. (Not very likely in most cases.)
So, the naysayers don't want to play any older games (or other apps) they've invested in, in hopes that by not having that ability (let alone the ability to play new games) that companies will do native ports? Absurd.
Here's my favorite bit: WINE has two parts to it. The first bit (which everyone thinks is the only thing to WINE) is the program loader. This allows you to run MS binaries. The real heart of WINE is winelib. winelib is a port of the windows API's to linux. Programs compiled against this are Linux programs, period! They could be packaged as RPMS, debs, or tarballs. WINE is as much (or more) a tool for porting applications to linux as it is an emulator!
So when the complaints come out about WINE hindering linux ports, I almost can't help but cry. The WINE hackers are busting their proverbial hump making Linux ports of windows software possible, and easy, and slashdot users are flaming them for trying!
I like the newest version of galeon a lot. It does still crash, but it has this sweet feature that allows you to resume your browsing session after a crash. It beats the hell out of mozilla and netscape.
Apart from the Delphi developers, Kylix also brings hundreds of thousands of applications, built in Delphi today, ported with Kylix tomorrow. On the first night that Kylix ships, we'll probably see more new Linux applications than we've seen in the past few months...
Gee, thanks! Let's hope these new apps are better tested than that. Even if they are not commercial apps, we can hope that someone will port their $30 shareware file-splitter! Wow, it's about time we got some of those sweet windows apps linux has been lacking!
In a preview of the chip at the company's headquarters, technicians
showed how a Pentium 4 computer can rapidly render, or draw, 3D
images downloaded from the Internet. That sort of processing power
could make it easy for sellers on eBay to post virtual representations of
their products, for example.
Sweet! I've been waiting for features like that
forever! Thanks Intel and thanks CNET! You guys rock!
I've seen similar adds on billboards in Amsterdam as well, which is where I am for the time being. I almost went and checked it out; anyone who uses find in an job ad can't be all bad.
It's funny this article should just pop because I just finished reading The Game Players of Titan by Phillip K. Dick. It might be called one of Phil's lesser works, but everything I've read by him is pretty damn good, so I can't complain.
I buy records all the time for various reasons. One reason is that I like the way they sound. Particularly the way they sound in comparison to horrible later remasters on to CD. (I.E. Early Black Sabbath records sound on the order of a 100 times better than the poor excuse for sound you get from the CD.) Another reason is that if you look in the right places they are cheap. I also enjoy listening to and buying records for other reasons not related to their sound. Playing records is a lot more involving experience. You have to get up and change the record frequently. You get to hold the vinyl, the inserts that come with records are usually larger, as is the cover art and the print used for the lyrics. I'm of the mind that multi-CD changers and mp3s are taking the next step in turning music appreciation into background music, the soundtrack that plays unnoticed in the background.
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the portability of CD's, the size of MP3's (if not the sound), and I do buy CD's (far too many) and download a few mp3's. However, there is nothing like getting down with some pretty vinyl and getting into the groove.
PS: They still make record players, styli, tone arms, and phono preamps, you don't have to go to a garage sale to get one. I just bought a new turntable within the last year.
I read a disturbing article about Nvidia's plans to release a binary only XFree86 driver for linux.
I consider this to be a grave mistake on the part of your company for several reasons.
Platform dependance. Maybe it escaped Nvidia's attention but XFree86 runs on more platforms than intel linux. Despite it's name, XF86 runs on almost every architecture that linux does in addition to the various BSD's, SCO, and probably other platforms as well. You are limiting the usefullness of your products right up front with this decision.
Packaging Issues. Many linux and BSD distributions ship only software with complete source available. You may be eliminating yourself from these distributions.
Standards and Longevity. Releasing the source to a driver (with the XF86 license) allows the XF86 team to ensure that your current generation of cards can be used with not only XF86 4.0 and the current set of API's, but will continue to be usable with newer versions of XF86 and new standards, long after the TNT2 or GeForce have left your product roadmap.
I own a TNT2 and I had been considering a GeForce. Until Nvidia changes their plans regarding their drivers, I have no plans to purchase an Nvidia product. I'll be making my choices from among those vendors that plan on supporting Linux and the rest of the XFree86 world with source.
There are really only two reasons an open-source project could fork:
Political/Ego: This would be a bad deal. Hopefully where it counts everyone can keep their egos in check.
Technical: Forking the code because someone/somegroup wants to take a different direction with the project. Either from a design stand-point with the same goals, or a different set of goals for the project all together, the users still win. You can get either a competing product which gives the users choice (and lets face it, open projects tend to bend over backwards trying to maintain compatibility with rational standards and even competing products) or you get a whole new product attempting to fill a perceived need or niche.
Essentially, the free software world has only itself to fear.
Excuse me if this sounds like BS. I noticed there was no quote to back this up either. There have to be some serious customers out there who are going to expect support and patches well into 2000.
Doesn't this mean that IBM will be supporting AIX/Monterey/Linux simultaneously? Oh wait, don't forget Dynix/ptx. I guess IBM will sell you whatever you want, as long as they make some money on the transaction and keep the bucks rolling in for support. For a company that's supposedly committed to Linux they sure are committed to a bunch of other unices at the same time.
Today, someone in Norway reverse enginneers American technology, producing DeCSS. Someday, the tables are going to reversed. Is the US going to be a hypocritical and laughed at by the rest of the world when it decides to break their own laws?
Actually the US violates it's own treaties and international law on a regular basis. The majority (if not all) of the wars the US fights are illegal according to international law, so I would not only be unsurprised if the US demonstrated hypocrasy but I would expect it.
After all, if another country bombed a pharmaceutical plant on US soil, the president would nuke the offending country into radioactive slag.
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> As another note: Giving out student >names/ addresses without a very good reason must >be > breaching privicy policy. The state universities where I live have a online searchable index of all the students, their addresses, and their phone numbers. no shit.
I don't think you can sign away your rights in the US. Of course they can still fire you for disclosing your salary, but my guess is you could sue them, if you had the money. Maybe I'm wrong about that, I worked with someone who got canned over that very issue. The idiot wandered around waving his offer letter (previously a contractor) in people's faces. Maybe they didn't fire him, maybe they just rescinded their offer.
Pete doesn't rule, I seriously doubt that generative music is going to rule. Can we have a special section for "aging rockers trying to be hip" so I can remove it from my preferences?
When I stepped in where I work now, all the HP machines were named VulcanX, where X is an ever-increasing integer. The mail server somehow got named male. (ooh... funny.) The lone Sun workstation was named after the company. A web-server was named NOC_WEB_SERVER.
I can say now that I have reversed that trend by deploying lots of machines named after Heinlein characters, William S. Burroughs characters (including Kiki, my favorite), and characters from the Sandman comics. (destiny, orpheus, delight)
I guess my bias for decent machine names came from college where I lot more creativity was usually employed in naming machines.
I think next I'll have to start using characters from what was my favorite marvel title (of which I have all but two or so issues): The New Mutants. Sunspot, Cannonball, Cypher, Warlock, Wolfsbane, Illyana../ away
I'm going to concur. Geek actually covers more ground too. There are many kinds of geeks, RPG geeks, Magic:TG geeks (a lowly order), wargamer geeks, computer geeks, computer gamer geeks. I think you can geek-out on about anything. I agree that geeks have some social skills, more than nerds at least. I consider myself a meta-geek. I came full circle back to geekdom only on a higher plain. It makes it very difficult to deal with plain geeks and nerds, but my appreciation of other meta-geeks is accute. cheers
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Not that they're likely to fly off the shelves but I've been meaning to get an HP for a while now and all of a sudden they're going to vanish completely.
Not to mention the fact that I'm not even sure where to buy an HP calculator. The few places I've looked just have Casio's and TI's. Didn't Wal-Mart used to sell some HP's at least?
I installed OpenBSD 2.8 on a sparcstation 5 and am quite happy. OpenBSD is the sysadmin's dream, everything is transparent and easy to administer.
I've been following WINE's development for years now, and every time a WINE article gets published here, the bone-heads come out of the woodwork to to express their feeling that WINE is somehow bad for Linux.
Three years ago, when WINE allowed me to run Remedy Action User client (it's the front-end to our trouble-ticket system) so I didn't have to boot into windows at work at all, that was somehow a bad thing? When WINE allows me to run Excel so I can hand in my expense reports using the spreadsheet the corporate Microserfs designed, that's a bad thing?
The ridiculous arguments aside about WINE keeping linux ports from happening, what about a game released a few months ago. There will never be linux ports of games released more than a few months ago unless the company GPL's it. (Not very likely in most cases.)
So, the naysayers don't want to play any older games (or other apps) they've invested in, in hopes that by not having that ability (let alone the ability to play new games) that companies will do native ports? Absurd.
Here's my favorite bit: WINE has two parts to it. The first bit (which everyone thinks is the only thing to WINE) is the program loader. This allows you to run MS binaries. The real heart of WINE is winelib. winelib is a port of the windows API's to linux. Programs compiled against this are Linux programs, period! They could be packaged as RPMS, debs, or tarballs. WINE is as much (or more) a tool for porting applications to linux as it is an emulator!
So when the complaints come out about WINE hindering linux ports, I almost can't help but cry. The WINE hackers are busting their proverbial hump making Linux ports of windows software possible, and easy, and slashdot users are flaming them for trying!
*whew*
yr fucking lame
I like the newest version of galeon a lot. It does still crash, but it has this sweet feature that allows you to resume your browsing session after a crash. It beats the hell out of mozilla and netscape.
Gee, thanks! Let's hope these new apps are better tested than that. Even if they are not commercial apps, we can hope that someone will port their $30 shareware file-splitter! Wow, it's about time we got some of those sweet windows apps linux has been lacking!
Sweet! I've been waiting for features like that forever! Thanks Intel and thanks CNET! You guys rock!
The subject says it all.
I've seen similar adds on billboards in Amsterdam as well, which is where I am for the time being. I almost went and checked it out; anyone who uses find in an job ad can't be all bad.
Everybody grab your vug-stick and start whacking!
How many people in the world will ever run linux on an S/390? How many people will ever even see an S/390?
One reason is that I like the way they sound. Particularly the way they sound in comparison to horrible later remasters on to CD. (I.E. Early Black Sabbath records sound on the order of a 100 times better than the poor excuse for sound you get from the CD.) Another reason is that if you look in the right places they are cheap. I also enjoy listening to and buying records for other reasons not related to their sound. Playing records is a lot more involving experience. You have to get up and change the record frequently. You get to hold the vinyl, the inserts that come with records are usually larger, as is the cover art and the print used for the lyrics.
I'm of the mind that multi-CD changers and mp3s are taking the next step in turning music appreciation into background music, the soundtrack that plays unnoticed in the background.
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the portability of CD's, the size of MP3's (if not the sound), and I do buy CD's (far too many) and download a few mp3's. However, there is nothing like getting down with some pretty vinyl and getting into the groove.
PS: They still make record players, styli, tone arms, and phono preamps, you don't have to go to a garage sale to get one. I just bought a new turntable within the last year.
I read a disturbing article about Nvidia's plans to release a binary only XFree86 driver for linux.
I consider this to be a grave mistake on the part of your company for several reasons.
I own a TNT2 and I had been considering a GeForce. Until Nvidia changes their plans regarding their drivers, I have no plans to purchase an Nvidia product. I'll be making my choices from among those vendors that plan on supporting Linux and the rest of the XFree86 world with source.
This would be a bad deal. Hopefully where it counts everyone can keep their egos in check.
Forking the code because someone/somegroup wants to take a different direction with the project. Either from a design stand-point with the same goals, or a different set of goals for the project all together, the users still win. You can get either a competing product which gives the users choice (and lets face it, open projects tend to bend over backwards trying to maintain compatibility with rational standards and even competing products) or you get a whole new product attempting to fill a perceived need or niche.
Essentially, the free software world has only itself to fear.
Can anyone substantiate this?
Excuse me if this sounds like BS. I noticed there was no quote to back this up either. There have to be some serious customers out there who are going to expect support and patches well into 2000.
Doesn't this mean that IBM will be supporting AIX/Monterey/Linux simultaneously? Oh wait, don't forget Dynix/ptx. I guess IBM will sell you whatever you want, as long as they make some money on the transaction and keep the bucks rolling in for support. For a company that's supposedly committed to Linux they sure are committed to a bunch of other unices at the same time.
Today, someone in Norway reverse enginneers American technology, producing DeCSS. Someday, the tables are going to reversed. Is the US going to be a hypocritical and laughed at by the rest of the world when it decides to break their own laws?
Actually the US violates it's own treaties and international law on a regular basis. The majority (if not all) of the wars the US fights are illegal according to international law, so I would not only be unsurprised if the US demonstrated hypocrasy but I would expect it.
After all, if another country bombed a pharmaceutical plant on US soil, the president would nuke the offending country into radioactive slag.
> As another note: Giving out student >names/ addresses without a very good reason must >be > breaching privicy policy. The state universities where I live have a online searchable index of all the students, their addresses, and their phone numbers. no shit.
I don't think you can sign away your rights in the US. Of course they can still fire you for disclosing your salary, but my guess is you could sue them, if you had the money. Maybe I'm wrong about that, I worked with someone who got canned over that very issue. The idiot wandered around waving his offer letter (previously a contractor) in people's faces. Maybe they didn't fire him, maybe they just rescinded their offer.
you could always spread it across more than one disk, couldn't you?
Pete doesn't rule, I seriously doubt that generative music is going to rule. Can we have a special section for "aging rockers trying to be hip" so I can remove it from my preferences?
When I stepped in where I work now, all the HP machines were named VulcanX, where X is an ever-increasing integer. The mail server somehow got named male. (ooh... funny.) The lone Sun workstation was named after the company. A web-server was named NOC_WEB_SERVER.
I can say now that I have reversed that trend by deploying lots of machines named after Heinlein characters, William S. Burroughs characters (including Kiki, my favorite), and characters from the Sandman comics. (destiny, orpheus, delight)
I guess my bias for decent machine names came from college where I lot more creativity was usually employed in naming machines.
I think next I'll have to start using characters from what was my favorite marvel title (of which I have all but two or so issues): The New Mutants. Sunspot, Cannonball, Cypher, Warlock, Wolfsbane, Illyana. ./ away
I can't see them recreating gcc. It's bigger then linux or freebsd. At least the gcc people seem to think it's more complex.
You're hardly much of a gamer are you? What, are you still just ramming your quake up against people trying to pin them in the corner while firing?
Is it any dumber than having a penguin as a mascot? The FreeBSD devil kicks way more ass.
I'm going to concur. Geek actually covers more ground too. There are many kinds of geeks, RPG geeks, Magic:TG geeks (a lowly order), wargamer geeks, computer geeks, computer gamer geeks. I think you can geek-out on about anything. I agree that geeks have some social skills, more than nerds at least. I consider myself a meta-geek. I came full circle back to geekdom only on a higher plain. It makes it very difficult to deal with plain geeks and nerds, but my appreciation of other meta-geeks is accute. cheers