Hmmm, interesting. CUPS doesn't seem to support the el-cheap-O HP printers (I have a 5150 lying about somewhere), but their commercial version claims to, and it's only US$50 (less than I paid for the network adapter for the Lexmark). Maybe it's time to donate the Lexmark to a worthy charity...
Their HCL *sucks.*/me nods to PP. I didn't really consider printer support when I ordered an Ultra 20 to replace my ancient P-II/450. However, when I set it up and noticed it was "legacy free" (no PS2, parallel or serial ports), I wondered how I was going to set up my printer (an old Lexmark Optra 1650 with a parallel port). I browsed to the Sun web site and saw that basically *no* printers were supported on my hardware with Solaris 10. I picked up a network printer adapter, but I haven't had time to play with it yet. The printer supports PostScript, so hopefully it won't be too much of a struggle. It would go a long way if I could get a driver for one of those sub-US$100 HP USB printers, though....
ISTR (I have never played with an Amiga) that it was fully preemptive, but communication with the OS was through shared memory, so no memory protection. That's also one of the things that made it so fast, you didn't have to copy a lot of stuff between system and user space. It was all just one big, happy segment and everyone was supposed to play nice.
I imagine there's the same problem with getting Windows for XEN; namely, it's proprietary and the vendor isn't interested in adding the XEN functionality to it. I don't know if you could do the necessary with OpenDarwin and load that in place of the supplied OSX kernel, but if someone would commit the changes, then there's a possibility that Apple might pick them up as part of a future kernel (since they're free, after all).
Pffft. I'd support "balls" or "choice use of guts in a support role", but it's barely hardware hacking (unless the chips weren't socketed, and I'm sure they were).
You're apparently so indoctrinated that you actually believe it's right to suppress the speech of someone who is merely identifying (and collecting evidence to prove the identification of) professors who abuse their positions.
I was originally cool with this, until I actually went to the Bruin Alumni website and looked at the stuff they had up. I found several screeds documenting the left-leaning bias of several professors, but there was no mention (that I saw) that the professors listed were using their position to harrangue or lecture their classes. Perhaps we're meant to assume that such is the case by their inclusion on the list, but there was no evidence presented. Given this, it does seem like more of a witch-hunt than a protest against faculty abuse of position.
If I missed this section, perhaps someone would be good enough to provide a link, as I'm genuinely interested in seeing it.
Football stadium, hell -- you could fit the population of my hometown into a decent-sized hotel...
As a previous poster stated, people with any prospects that grow up in a small town get the hell out of Dodge as soon as they are able, and head for the bright lights. The subsequent lack of tech-skilled (or overly ambitious) people disinclines large businesses from setting up shop there. It's a shame, really, because I would love to raise my daughter in a small town like the one I grew up in; but there's no way a company that could afford to hire me would set up shop there.
Nope. PPC was designed by AIM (Apple/IBM/Moto), based on the POWER architecture. I think I still have my PowerPC 601 databook somewhere (never did get any "engineering samples", though -- stingier than NatSemi back in the day! [Anyone else remember the 32532?])
...but I once had a somewhat bizarre set of circumstances that led to me downloading and using Oracle's JDeveloper. It really wasn't too bad, I liked it much better than NetBeans (what's up with "mount points", anyway?), although I still prefer Eclipse. And it's free-as-in-beer, so all it'll cost you is some time to download and install it. I've also heard nice things about TopLink, but I haven't looked into it.
I'll concede the bluetooth, but the rest of the list is somewhat specious. Dual-core processors haven't been out long enough for people to have gotten dependent on them (FWIW, the Gateway I cited has a 3GHz P4 with HT for ersatz dual-core behavior), the parent was speccing XP-based laptops, so OS X doesn't really come into play here, and the video is one of the sacrifices you make to have an affordable laptop (and it's pretty decent -- no jaggies or dropped frames on DVD playback, monitor spanning [1600x1200 on the external] and I'd be surprised if it wasn't an acceptable gaming rig). To be fair, the PP did say he couldn't get what he wanted, he didn't say he actually needed this TOTL stuff.
FWIW, I still miss my old Macs (SE/30 and Quadra 700), and I'm actively curious as to what the Intel-based iBook replacements look (and spec) like. From what I've seen of OS X, it looks like a pretty sweet ride, and the fact that Java is a first-class citizen has me hooked. It'll be laptop time for me this summer, so hopefully Apple will have something for me to dance with.
I have found it very difficult to spec-out and price one of Dell's better laptops or one of Powernotebook.com's better offerings without bumping into the $2,000 range to get everything I want.
*boggle*
Well, I doubt you'll be looking at the new Macs, then. I got one of these for about a grand, and it's got a 15.4" WXGA screen, 80G HD, 512MB, DVD +/- RW, 802.11g + 10/100, 4 USB/VGA/FireWire, supports monitor spanning, up to 1.5G main memory -- I mean, what is it you want, anyway? I added the extra 1G of memory and I'm able to run WebSphere + Oracle 10g + WSAD and develop a good-sized Java app on it. I'm hard-pressed to think what you might want that isn't covered here (although I'd spend the money for a 7200RPM hard drive, I guess).
Both companies were at one time the main producer of Unix workstations (Sun during the 90s, Apple today)
Um, just because OSX is Unix-based does not make a Mac a Unix workstation. Unix workstations were traditionally used for engineering and 3-D visualization tasks, (c.f. Abaqus, NASTRAN, Catia, Adams, ANSYS, Cadence). Not that current Macs couldn't handle these tasks, but the software isn't available. No workstation-class software -> not a workstation.
Doesn't mean they're not nice machines, though. If I hadn't just bought an Ultra 20, I'd have my money down on a new 20" iMac.
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I don't want a computer program diagnosing me at a hospital
Even if the computer was the only place that had the information that you were allergic to the medication most commonly given to people in your condition? Since you're in an emergency room after that horrific Segway accident, and all your medical history is available simply by entering your SSN, or by scanning the chip in your shoulder (ummm, forget I said that....)?
my most listened to album is Tom Dooley and Other Hits by The Kingston Trio
Heh, I can beat that -- I was given an old "386" (actually an XT clone with an Intel AboveBoard) that had an ST225 in it. These things were ubiquitous back in the mid-80s, and it still powered up and worked! DOS 2.11 IIRC, drivers for the AboveBoard, some CAD software I'd never heard of, an old copy of Twin (a Lotus 1-2-3 clone) -- I was tempted to boot from it, but I really wasn't that interested. I was just amazed that it still worked!
You may not have literally named him, but you clearly and unambiguously identified him, which I would assume amounts to the same thing. If you would have said "one of the preceding posters is a cockmaster", then it would be impossible to identify anyone with certainty, so you'd be covered.
I haven't read the blog in question, but I imagine if he had said "I hate my Calcium Structures class. The professor is a real cockmaster." then there might have been more trouble, since the professor in question is obviously identified. Or maybe he did, and that's why there was....
I was racing at Watkins Glen one weekend, when I got the Glen's unique blue-with-a-yellow-slash flag, which means "fast traffic coming up behind you". So I glance back and just turning onto the front straight (a good quarter-mile or so behind me) was something yellow. He caught me before I made the esses, and stuck tight until we reached the top of the hill and I waved him by. Bright yellow Honda Civic, no stickers, no "fart pipe", no stripes. I happend to see him in the pits after our run group, and said "Hey, nice car. What have you got in it?" And he says "Nothing..." I look inside and it was true: there was nothing there -- no back seat, no carpet, no headliner, and half the dashboard was gone. From ten feet away, it looked bone stock. I wonder how many "tuners" actually race their cars (more than a quarter mile at a shot, anyway).
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Hmmm, interesting. CUPS doesn't seem to support the el-cheap-O HP printers (I have a 5150 lying about somewhere), but their commercial version claims to, and it's only US$50 (less than I paid for the network adapter for the Lexmark). Maybe it's time to donate the Lexmark to a worthy charity...
Thanks for the info!
Their HCL *sucks.* /me nods to PP. I didn't really consider printer support when I ordered an Ultra 20 to replace my ancient P-II/450. However, when I set it up and noticed it was "legacy free" (no PS2, parallel or serial ports), I wondered how I was going to set up my printer (an old Lexmark Optra 1650 with a parallel port). I browsed to the Sun web site and saw that basically *no* printers were supported on my hardware with Solaris 10. I picked up a network printer adapter, but I haven't had time to play with it yet. The printer supports PostScript, so hopefully it won't be too much of a struggle. It would go a long way if I could get a driver for one of those sub-US$100 HP USB printers, though....
ISTR (I have never played with an Amiga) that it was fully preemptive, but communication with the OS was through shared memory, so no memory protection. That's also one of the things that made it so fast, you didn't have to copy a lot of stuff between system and user space. It was all just one big, happy segment and everyone was supposed to play nice.
I imagine there's the same problem with getting Windows for XEN; namely, it's proprietary and the vendor isn't interested in adding the XEN functionality to it. I don't know if you could do the necessary with OpenDarwin and load that in place of the supplied OSX kernel, but if someone would commit the changes, then there's a possibility that Apple might pick them up as part of a future kernel (since they're free, after all).
Just keep saying to yourself: "It's only a movie...."
Pffft. I'd support "balls" or "choice use of guts in a support role", but it's barely hardware hacking (unless the chips weren't socketed, and I'm sure they were).
The site was designed in Bulgaria, but hosted in the US.
And outsourced to India, who second-sourced it to Thailand. See, it's getting close to Bulgaria all the time!
You're apparently so indoctrinated that you actually believe it's right to suppress the speech of someone who is merely identifying (and collecting evidence to prove the identification of) professors who abuse their positions.
I was originally cool with this, until I actually went to the Bruin Alumni website and looked at the stuff they had up. I found several screeds documenting the left-leaning bias of several professors, but there was no mention (that I saw) that the professors listed were using their position to harrangue or lecture their classes. Perhaps we're meant to assume that such is the case by their inclusion on the list, but there was no evidence presented. Given this, it does seem like more of a witch-hunt than a protest against faculty abuse of position.
If I missed this section, perhaps someone would be good enough to provide a link, as I'm genuinely interested in seeing it.
Football stadium, hell -- you could fit the population of my hometown into a decent-sized hotel...
As a previous poster stated, people with any prospects that grow up in a small town get the hell out of Dodge as soon as they are able, and head for the bright lights. The subsequent lack of tech-skilled (or overly ambitious) people disinclines large businesses from setting up shop there. It's a shame, really, because I would love to raise my daughter in a small town like the one I grew up in; but there's no way a company that could afford to hire me would set up shop there.
Nope. PPC was designed by AIM (Apple/IBM/Moto), based on the POWER architecture. I think I still have my PowerPC 601 databook somewhere (never did get any "engineering samples", though -- stingier than NatSemi back in the day! [Anyone else remember the 32532?])
That is so Web 1.0!
So that's why they always put bars on the top floor of tall buildings!
...but I once had a somewhat bizarre set of circumstances that led to me downloading and using Oracle's JDeveloper. It really wasn't too bad, I liked it much better than NetBeans (what's up with "mount points", anyway?), although I still prefer Eclipse. And it's free-as-in-beer, so all it'll cost you is some time to download and install it. I've also heard nice things about TopLink, but I haven't looked into it.
I'll concede the bluetooth, but the rest of the list is somewhat specious. Dual-core processors haven't been out long enough for people to have gotten dependent on them (FWIW, the Gateway I cited has a 3GHz P4 with HT for ersatz dual-core behavior), the parent was speccing XP-based laptops, so OS X doesn't really come into play here, and the video is one of the sacrifices you make to have an affordable laptop (and it's pretty decent -- no jaggies or dropped frames on DVD playback, monitor spanning [1600x1200 on the external] and I'd be surprised if it wasn't an acceptable gaming rig). To be fair, the PP did say he couldn't get what he wanted, he didn't say he actually needed this TOTL stuff.
FWIW, I still miss my old Macs (SE/30 and Quadra 700), and I'm actively curious as to what the Intel-based iBook replacements look (and spec) like. From what I've seen of OS X, it looks like a pretty sweet ride, and the fact that Java is a first-class citizen has me hooked. It'll be laptop time for me this summer, so hopefully Apple will have something for me to dance with.
I have found it very difficult to spec-out and price one of Dell's better laptops or one of Powernotebook.com's better offerings without bumping into the $2,000 range to get everything I want.
*boggle*
Well, I doubt you'll be looking at the new Macs, then. I got one of these for about a grand, and it's got a 15.4" WXGA screen, 80G HD, 512MB, DVD +/- RW, 802.11g + 10/100, 4 USB/VGA/FireWire, supports monitor spanning, up to 1.5G main memory -- I mean, what is it you want, anyway? I added the extra 1G of memory and I'm able to run WebSphere + Oracle 10g + WSAD and develop a good-sized Java app on it. I'm hard-pressed to think what you might want that isn't covered here (although I'd spend the money for a 7200RPM hard drive, I guess).
it is hard to think of companies that really suffered ... when they changed their brand names
Tell it to the folks at PricewaterhouseCoopers, when they changed their name to Monday.
Astute clickers will find that that link doesn't lead to a site named Monday.com...
No, I'm Jack's complete lack of surprise
Part of this complete breakfast!
Nope. this is.
... I just like the fact that the parent was posted at 13:13 on Friday the 13th.
Both companies were at one time the main producer of Unix workstations (Sun during the 90s, Apple today)
Um, just because OSX is Unix-based does not make a Mac a Unix workstation. Unix workstations were traditionally used for engineering and 3-D visualization tasks, (c.f. Abaqus, NASTRAN, Catia, Adams, ANSYS, Cadence). Not that current Macs couldn't handle these tasks, but the software isn't available. No workstation-class software -> not a workstation.
Doesn't mean they're not nice machines, though. If I hadn't just bought an Ultra 20, I'd have my money down on a new 20" iMac.
I don't want a computer program diagnosing me at a hospital
Even if the computer was the only place that had the information that you were allergic to the medication most commonly given to people in your condition? Since you're in an emergency room after that horrific Segway accident, and all your medical history is available simply by entering your SSN, or by scanning the chip in your shoulder (ummm, forget I said that....)?
my most listened to album is Tom Dooley and Other Hits by The Kingston Trio
"Scarrrrrlet ribbons, for her haaaaaaair...."
Heh, I can beat that -- I was given an old "386" (actually an XT clone with an Intel AboveBoard) that had an ST225 in it. These things were ubiquitous back in the mid-80s, and it still powered up and worked! DOS 2.11 IIRC, drivers for the AboveBoard, some CAD software I'd never heard of, an old copy of Twin (a Lotus 1-2-3 clone) -- I was tempted to boot from it, but I really wasn't that interested. I was just amazed that it still worked!
You may not have literally named him, but you clearly and unambiguously identified him, which I would assume amounts to the same thing. If you would have said "one of the preceding posters is a cockmaster", then it would be impossible to identify anyone with certainty, so you'd be covered.
I haven't read the blog in question, but I imagine if he had said "I hate my Calcium Structures class. The professor is a real cockmaster." then there might have been more trouble, since the professor in question is obviously identified. Or maybe he did, and that's why there was....
I was racing at Watkins Glen one weekend, when I got the Glen's unique blue-with-a-yellow-slash flag, which means "fast traffic coming up behind you". So I glance back and just turning onto the front straight (a good quarter-mile or so behind me) was something yellow. He caught me before I made the esses, and stuck tight until we reached the top of the hill and I waved him by. Bright yellow Honda Civic, no stickers, no "fart pipe", no stripes. I happend to see him in the pits after our run group, and said "Hey, nice car. What have you got in it?" And he says "Nothing..." I look inside and it was true: there was nothing there -- no back seat, no carpet, no headliner, and half the dashboard was gone. From ten feet away, it looked bone stock. I wonder how many "tuners" actually race their cars (more than a quarter mile at a shot, anyway).
...for all things floating-point: What Every Computer Sceintist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic. I keep a copy of this handy whenever I have to play with floats and doubles (except for the odd game of Water Tennis, of course).