possibly more than who knowingly use it. Lots of my non-geek friends read comics and similar odd things on "livejournal feeds", but wouldn't know "rss" if it bit them in the ass.
I stuck with window NT 4 beta build 1293 for the same reason - it was far more stable than final (I suspect it's because somewhere around 1300 is when the video drivers moved into the kernel, ostensibly in the relase notes in order to support directx (v2), but that's another story:)).
Protovision might disagree with the assertion that there is no-one developing commercial c-64 software already. And of course Game Over(view) (which I can't give an unbiased opinion on, because I"m the editor) has reviewed 92 new commodore game releases in the past 11 months.
actually, on some mga cards (specificially, the g400 dual head), using mga_vid increases quality - for some reason, xv plays video in half resultion on these cards, but mga_vid does not!
QT actually can use native controls on both windows and mac os x (and in fact, the app I'm writing does this). But there are additional issues that you need to deal with then, and remember that this is a first version!
For example here in Australia, if your in the Melbourne CBD - most carriers would have 'Melb CBD' written as the base station ID - hardly anything to get really paranoid about.
The base stations actually all have a unique ID other than the plaintext one (and yes, there is multiple base stations in the melbourne CBD;)). But I'm also NAMCE. And see the other comments about passive monitoring of RF and comparing delays/strength to get triangulation.
At the risk of being called a troll isn't there this wonderful new innovation called "ssh"? If it's true that he gained access via a simple network sniffer then who the hell is to blame for that?
we are having a difference of definition. the developers box was also comprimised, and running a program that people seem to call a sniffer, that "sniffs" the keyboard input to ssh locally
it's all about CPU power required to run - the emulation accuracy of vice comes at quite a high CPU price.
now, an interesting alternative would be to port vice v0.12, which was the last version to use line based emulation, but i dunno how realistic that would be
It should be noted that the debian package is based off a very old, and entirely useless, version, which to add insult to injury, doesn't even work right as that version:)
Say that again when you have attempt to design a totally new way to compress video, or perhaps a totally new way to represent audio, or perhaps when you've sat down and tried to develop a new encryption method which will still be ebing used 20 years later.
In other words, while 90% of computer problems are easy, these should not be patentable anyhow under the current regime. The remaning 10%, however, have very real r&d costs associated with them.
I'm not actually for software patents, but you can't make it go away with bogus arguments liek "software isn't hard"
The only 2 sites I've ever found that required IE were Westpac's and NineMSN's.
NineMSN actually works perfectly like IE in konqueror 3.x (and therefore I'd assume safari), if and only if you set the browser ID to IE 5.5, otherwise it will fail with an error - can you say lockout?
Westpac was the same as at january 2003, but I havn't had cause to deal with them since - this may have changed.
"Timeframes. 20 years is far too long. Nothing that's 20 years old could ever be considered at all modern."
The thing is, that's actully completly not true - the whole point of patents are to protect things that are completly revolutionary. A good example of this, is we're still using RSA public key crypto, who's patent expired a couple of years ago. Public key crypto is still clearly modern, 20+ years later. There are many other examples of this.
Yes, many things go out of style quickly, but then, many things shouldn't be patentable - the idea of a patent is to encourage people to spend their lives coming up with somehting incredible that no-one else would have come up with or released otherwise.
286's native IDE was ST506 based with the dual cables; a 34? pin control cable to step the heads in/out, select head, detect track zero, etc, and a 20 pin data cable for data I/O. They had a separate controller cable.
There was another format that used the same connectors but wasn't compatible; it was for high speed/capacity drives, started with "E" but I can't remember the name.
You are thinking of MFM for the original version of the interface, and RLL for the high capacity version. There was this neat hack you could do, to plug an MFM drive into an RLL controler, and get 30% more space at the cost of reliability:-p.
Perhaps the 'E' controller you are thinking of is EDSI, which IBM used in their PS/2's, and were briefly going to be the next big thing:-p.
"I maintain that the majority of people who buy a mac make the final decision because of mac v/s pc, not flashy color v/s beige"
wow, you really don't know many people, huh? especially many women... not to be blunt, but most people don't give a fuck about mac vs pc, tehy do give a fuck about how things look. this is realated to the "most people aren't geeks" thing.;)
here's the thing, right. I deploy and run kde on 32meg p133 systems (don't believe me? check up on me - our website is at http://www.computerbank.org.au, that should give you a good start).
Some distros are bad at packaging, admitedly, but sometimes it's just that you turned on something stupid - yes, file preview *will* need to read all 100,000 files in your home directory. solution: don't have 100,000 files in your home directory, or turn off file icon preview for complex file types.
actully, you can emulate a psx on a p3-500 perfectly well using one of the software rendering plugins. The biggest load is the CPU emulation, followed by the poly drawer, the former solved by dynamic recompilation, the latter is solved by having a fast triangle drawere (since the psx has triangle drawing in hardware, hte triangle drawing code is all native)
it exists, it ships as a part of many distro's (debian, mandrake, probably everything else), and it's called hotplug. apt-get install hotplug on debian, but I can't speak for anything else. works flawlessly here.
(you probably want to apt-get install discover, too, which detects PCI/PNP hardware automatically each boot. it makes linux MUCH MUCH more comforatble:)
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possibly more than who knowingly use it. Lots of my non-geek friends read comics and similar odd things on "livejournal feeds", but wouldn't know "rss" if it bit them in the ass.
This post lacks elephants!
I stuck with window NT 4 beta build 1293 for the same reason - it was far more stable than final (I suspect it's because somewhere around 1300 is when the video drivers moved into the kernel, ostensibly in the relase notes in order to support directx (v2), but that's another story :)).
I've wondered why some people didn't just change tags for the hell of it.
actually, my mates and I used to do exactly that. I don't think it's _that_ uncommon
Protovision might disagree with the assertion that there is no-one developing commercial c-64 software already. And of course Game Over(view) (which I can't give an unbiased opinion on, because I"m the editor) has reviewed 92 new commodore game releases in the past 11 months.
We're dead like BSD, baby!
does this mean we'll also soon get a badger badger badger show?
with julia roberts as the snake?
actually, on some mga cards (specificially, the g400 dual head), using mga_vid increases quality - for some reason, xv plays video in half resultion on these cards, but mga_vid does not!
-- jj
VICE isn't cycle-accurate
I beg to differ. VICE has been cycle accurate since v0.13 (current is v1.14, iirc)
QT actually can use native controls on both windows and mac os x (and in fact, the app I'm writing does this). But there are additional issues that you need to deal with then, and remember that this is a first version!
--jj
For example here in Australia, if your in the Melbourne CBD - most carriers would have 'Melb CBD' written as the base station ID - hardly anything to get really paranoid about.
;)). But I'm also NAMCE. And see the other comments about passive monitoring of RF and comparing delays/strength to get triangulation.
The base stations actually all have a unique ID other than the plaintext one (and yes, there is multiple base stations in the melbourne CBD
-- jaymz
At the risk of being called a troll isn't there this wonderful new innovation called "ssh"? If it's true that he gained access via a simple network sniffer then who the hell is to blame for that?
we are having a difference of definition. the developers box was also comprimised, and running a program that people seem to call a sniffer, that "sniffs" the keyboard input to ssh locally
it's all about CPU power required to run - the emulation accuracy of vice comes at quite a high CPU price.
now, an interesting alternative would be to port vice v0.12, which was the last version to use line based emulation, but i dunno how realistic that would be
actually, it's in experimental, not unstable :)
-- jj
It should be noted that the debian package is based off a very old, and entirely useless, version, which to add insult to injury, doesn't even work right as that version :)
-- jj
There is really no R&D cost associated with code,
Say that again when you have attempt to design a totally new way to compress video, or perhaps a totally new way to represent audio, or perhaps when you've sat down and tried to develop a new encryption method which will still be ebing used 20 years later.
In other words, while 90% of computer problems are easy, these should not be patentable anyhow under the current regime. The remaning 10%, however, have very real r&d costs associated with them.
I'm not actually for software patents, but you can't make it go away with bogus arguments liek "software isn't hard"
NineMSN actually works perfectly like IE in konqueror 3.x (and therefore I'd assume safari), if and only if you set the browser ID to IE 5.5, otherwise it will fail with an error - can you say lockout?
Westpac was the same as at january 2003, but I havn't had cause to deal with them since - this may have changed.
actually, many people complain about sony's stance on modchips, probably as many as complain about microsofts.
The thing is, that's actully completly not true - the whole point of patents are to protect things that are completly revolutionary. A good example of this, is we're still using RSA public key crypto, who's patent expired a couple of years ago. Public key crypto is still clearly modern, 20+ years later. There are many other examples of this.
Yes, many things go out of style quickly, but then, many things shouldn't be patentable - the idea of a patent is to encourage people to spend their lives coming up with somehting incredible that no-one else would have come up with or released otherwise.
There was another format that used the same connectors but wasn't compatible; it was for high speed/capacity drives, started with "E" but I can't remember the name.
You are thinking of MFM for the original version of the interface, and RLL for the high capacity version. There was this neat hack you could do, to plug an MFM drive into an RLL controler, and get 30% more space at the cost of reliability :-p.
Perhaps the 'E' controller you are thinking of is EDSI, which IBM used in their PS/2's, and were briefly going to be the next big thing :-p.
And yes, I do remember eisa
"I maintain that the majority of people who buy a mac make the final decision because of mac v/s pc, not flashy color v/s beige" ;)
wow, you really don't know many people, huh? especially many women... not to be blunt, but most people don't give a fuck about mac vs pc, tehy do give a fuck about how things look. this is realated to the "most people aren't geeks" thing.
here's the thing, right. I deploy and run kde on 32meg p133 systems (don't believe me? check up on me - our website is at http://www.computerbank.org.au, that should give you a good start).
Some distros are bad at packaging, admitedly, but sometimes it's just that you turned on something stupid - yes, file preview *will* need to read all 100,000 files in your home directory. solution: don't have 100,000 files in your home directory, or turn off file icon preview for complex file types.
actully, last i checked, the linux package worked on solaris - it's just a java package and some shell scripts
-- fish
not yet... you still have to run it every day. This will be changed in the next version
-- fish
actully, you can emulate a psx on a p3-500 perfectly well using one of the software rendering plugins. The biggest load is the CPU emulation, followed by the poly drawer, the former solved by dynamic recompilation, the latter is solved by having a fast triangle drawere (since the psx has triangle drawing in hardware, hte triangle drawing code is all native)
- jj
it exists, it ships as a part of many distro's (debian, mandrake, probably everything else), and it's called hotplug. apt-get install hotplug on debian, but I can't speak for anything else. works flawlessly here.
:)
(you probably want to apt-get install discover, too, which detects PCI/PNP hardware automatically each boot. it makes linux MUCH MUCH more comforatble
- jj