I think the big problem is that the 68k cpu line is basically dead. I have to assume that nobody out there is able to design or create the proprietary off-cpu chips that did so much of the Amiga magic. Thus the need for a PPC machine. I don't see a problem here. Of course, if someone can overclock a 68k cpu to like 1GHZ, without creating a small fusion reaction, that might have possibilities.
This article couldn't have come at a better time, since we're buying a new house with enough room for me to dedicate to a home studio. W00T! I've decided to buy a 12-track Behringer mixer at first and dump that to the HD of a Win98 or Win2k box. SM57's for my amps. Soundforge and Acid for mixing, Cakewalk for writing midi sequences and drums, although I'll probably use a ton of Acid loops for drums and other rythyms at first. Later, I'm going to get the Digi 001 w/ ProTools le and probably a Mac tower. Not sure about the Mac though.
My preference would be to do all this stuff in Linux. No, I haven't looked around much yet, I'd like to get some wisdom from here. I know I will burn my cd's from an existing Redhat box with my burner on it.
I spoke of drums earlier. I'm a guitarist not a drummer (hence the house...:)). I really don't know shit about drum patterns and how to creatively write them. Some good resources for that would be way cool.
"click" That's the sound of Gnome being deleted. After reading the Register article, I'm almost convinced that Miguel is on the evil empires payroll. Hello KDE!
On the other hand, he does say it's a cool environment and I'm sure he knows a hell of a lot more about programming than I do. So, I take back the "click". Hell, I don't know what to think. I do know I don't ever want to donate to M$ again!
Hey! I wanna leave this hellhole, at least for a short trip, to! (see my nick, for the humor impaired)
Realistically though, where in hell would I come up with $20meg? Maybe the Fed or NASA should hold a lottery and one US citizen a year gets to go up. 'Bout the same chance as getting rich that way at least. Certainly more chance than I've got right now.
Playing with the trolls again, eh, DrSkwid?:) Thanx for the info about portsupgrade, I need to start reading the release notes. I run 3 FreeBSD servers myself, so this will be handy.
I've successfully implemented VNC as an alternative to an X server on a Winblows box for an enterprise application. It allows the feild biologists to enter data into a Tru64 app. Works great, even over a dialup connection. On the other hand, it really does make more sense to just run Linux on the desktop. Good luck. All I can say is, do your best to develop a sound business reason to migrate. Once you get past the pain of translating Excel macros to Star office or whatever, it's all smooth sailing from there.
Actually, most residential drywallers are all using screwguns now. They still carry a drywall hammer just for knocking holes in the rock and starting pieces on the ceiling. Which hurts, btw. I know all of this because in a prior live I used to hang drywall. Both commercial and residential.
BTW, I've never gotten the Zend IDE to work and I paid for it. Beware.
I own Nusphere's IDE and it's a real pain to get working on a different box than the one you develop on. I've yet to get the debugger wroking on it. The other problem is the editor only runs on Winshit. Can't wait for a Linux version of the editor. Since I need to run a M$ OS, I've installed Macromedia UltraDev and added the open source Phakt PHP extension. Very nice RAD GUI dev based mostly on ADO. I was able to develop a site based on 5 MySQL tables, including joins, relatively simply. Much faster than coding everything by hand. In fact, I intend to buy the commercial version, ImpAKT when I get home. Again, I REALLY wish Macromedia would get their shit together and create a Linux port of Ultradev. I would hock one of my guitars for that!
Linux isn't quite Posix compatible yet. Don't worry about it though, I think it's some esoteric thing like a couple of totally obscure function calls. Not something simple like "ls".
Oh yea, this organization gives us the opportunity to say, "All your Linuxbase are belong to us!". (ducks and runs...) OUCH! Hey! quit throwing shit at me!
First off, spammers can bite my ass. I've implemented everything I can to protect my users and I still get complaints. It's getting ridiculous. Frankly, any program that tries to codify, organize, or control spam, short of snailmail bombs or law, is doomed to fail. How are we supposed to trust people that lie to us in the first place by setting fake headers in the email? Fsck spam.
If your mom is learning computers, what the hell is the difference if she learns Linux or winshit? The learning curve for an enduser on an already setup machine is actually lower on Linux than on any window$ box. Get a grip.
Oh shit, I went and replyed to a troll. Now I guess the orc's are gonna get me. . .
>>"Then they can take all those tons of highly experienced and smart HP-UX and Tru64 guys and dedicate them to kernel development and testing"
Uhh, Tru64 is owned and developed by Compaq. Unless of course you think that the merger will go through. Then, you're basically correct. I, of course would like to see some of the features from Tru64 ported, like the VMS style clustering. THAT would rock!
"What we're seeing is the maturation of the market," Schescherareg said. "That's really nothing but good news.". This says a lot to me and, more importantly, to my Boss. Events like this and the fact that major players are giving Linux the attention it deserves is finally allowing me to get a test box setup here in house. This is a major step ahead for a network that authenticates to an NT domain, runs NT4.0 on the desktop, is slowy (glacially) migrating servers to Win2k, and runs Tru64 on Alpha gear for the Oracle geeks. I can't wait to start the CD spindles turning!
Those stats are an amazing mirror of what I suspected all along. Being a white, male, computer owner, home owner, reader, christian puts me solidly in the minority of the worlds population. Luckily, I don't have a passport account, so I can safely say I'm moving to the majority. Gotta love the good old USA. I know I do.
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>>"Hey baby...wanna f---ok, that's cool...hey you over THERE, wanna f---...no?...ok, how about you, then?"
Ummm, back when I used to drink, I actually did just that. Sort of a drunken pickup spam. Mostly I got smacked, but believe it or not, it actually worked!
I had Be installed for a while and I thought it would do that. I do know I never lost anything due to it crashing. Of course, it didn't crash much. I think using a journaled file system or at least soft-updates would be a good start. Frankly, I have no idea how to code something simlar to Win XP hibernate. Shouldn't be that hard though.
What an excellent article. Now all I need to do is convince my boss to let me buy a mainframe. That's as likely as an Nt server never crashing. sigh...
I was referring to a fairly large number of people's that have extremely thick accents. Not to their intelligence or command of English or ability to be a human being, not simply a person. The whole point of my original post was about me learning tolerance and hopefully others. I'm writing about people that are speaking English but I literally can't understand them. So, what exactly am I not getting across?
>> You grow up surrounded by a particular set of people. Differences are instinctively percieved to be 'not right'.
You're right, thank you. I grew up in a small city in Wisconsin. The entire time I was growing up, until I was about 16 or so, I saw exactly one black family (I think they where vacationing), I don't really remember any hispanics or orientals. I wasn't in a sheltered situation, that's just the way it was. I pray that I'm not biased by that. More than likely I am though. This is a good insight into living and working with fellow workers from India, China, Africa, and I'm sure other places. Give us white folk a chance to adjust! I, at least, am trying to grow and change.
Having been a temp worker in Florida, back in the early '80s, I can really sympathize with the article. It totally sucks not knowing if you can even pay the rent, much less eat. I was working at a pc board plant. Something like 80% of the workers were temp. Everybody was scared of getting shitcanned. The pay was terrible and the managers/supervisors constantly screamed and threatened people. Lovely environment, in other words. Thank managed to pull myself out of that morass and moved forward.
All I can say to people that are trying to live on temp work is, get to school! Somehow, anyhow. I don't care if it's tech school for one semester. Even that little bit of knowledge can help. Also, learn English. Learn how to speak it so that even slow midwestern people like me can understand you. I know it's challenging to the extreme, but my ancestors came here and had to do the same thing. BTW, I'm *not* trying to flame or be prejudiced here, I'm simply trying to state facts. Please read and judge accordingly.
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I run my websites on FreeBSD and develop on Win XP. So, PHAkt generated code works on OS's other than windows. I think that answers your question.
I think the big problem is that the 68k cpu line is basically dead. I have to assume that nobody out there is able to design or create the proprietary off-cpu chips that did so much of the Amiga magic. Thus the need for a PPC machine. I don't see a problem here. Of course, if someone can overclock a 68k cpu to like 1GHZ, without creating a small fusion reaction, that might have possibilities.
This article couldn't have come at a better time, since we're buying a new house with enough room for me to dedicate to a home studio. W00T! I've decided to buy a 12-track Behringer mixer at first and dump that to the HD of a Win98 or Win2k box. SM57's for my amps. Soundforge and Acid for mixing, Cakewalk for writing midi sequences and drums, although I'll probably use a ton of Acid loops for drums and other rythyms at first. Later, I'm going to get the Digi 001 w/ ProTools le and probably a Mac tower. Not sure about the Mac though.
:)). I really don't know shit about drum patterns and how to creatively write them. Some good resources for that would be way cool.
My preference would be to do all this stuff in Linux. No, I haven't looked around much yet, I'd like to get some wisdom from here. I know I will burn my cd's from an existing Redhat box with my burner on it.
I spoke of drums earlier. I'm a guitarist not a drummer (hence the house...
Alexandru,
Cool!! I'd love to help you guys beta test. Shoot me an email or contact me with that wierd slashdot message thing.
To bad about the M$ thing and Ultradev. Does anybody know if there's a similar product for Linux?
"click" That's the sound of Gnome being deleted. After reading the Register article, I'm almost convinced that Miguel is on the evil empires payroll. Hello KDE!
On the other hand, he does say it's a cool environment and I'm sure he knows a hell of a lot more about programming than I do. So, I take back the "click". Hell, I don't know what to think. I do know I don't ever want to donate to M$ again!
Hey! I wanna leave this hellhole, at least for a short trip, to! (see my nick, for the humor impaired)
Realistically though, where in hell would I come up with $20meg? Maybe the Fed or NASA should hold a lottery and one US citizen a year gets to go up. 'Bout the same chance as getting rich that way at least. Certainly more chance than I've got right now.
Playing with the trolls again, eh, DrSkwid? :) Thanx for the info about portsupgrade, I need to start reading the release notes. I run 3 FreeBSD servers myself, so this will be handy.
I've successfully implemented VNC as an alternative to an X server on a Winblows box for an enterprise application. It allows the feild biologists to enter data into a Tru64 app. Works great, even over a dialup connection. On the other hand, it really does make more sense to just run Linux on the desktop. Good luck. All I can say is, do your best to develop a sound business reason to migrate. Once you get past the pain of translating Excel macros to Star office or whatever, it's all smooth sailing from there.
Actually, most residential drywallers are all using screwguns now. They still carry a drywall hammer just for knocking holes in the rock and starting pieces on the ceiling. Which hurts, btw. I know all of this because in a prior live I used to hang drywall. Both commercial and residential.
BTW, I've never gotten the Zend IDE to work and I paid for it. Beware.
I own Nusphere's IDE and it's a real pain to get working on a different box than the one you develop on. I've yet to get the debugger wroking on it. The other problem is the editor only runs on Winshit. Can't wait for a Linux version of the editor. Since I need to run a M$ OS, I've installed Macromedia UltraDev and added the open source Phakt PHP extension. Very nice RAD GUI dev based mostly on ADO. I was able to develop a site based on 5 MySQL tables, including joins, relatively simply. Much faster than coding everything by hand. In fact, I intend to buy the commercial version, ImpAKT when I get home. Again, I REALLY wish Macromedia would get their shit together and create a Linux port of Ultradev. I would hock one of my guitars for that!
Linux isn't quite Posix compatible yet. Don't worry about it though, I think it's some esoteric thing like a couple of totally obscure function calls. Not something simple like "ls".
Oh yea, this organization gives us the opportunity to say, "All your Linuxbase are belong to us!". (ducks and runs...) OUCH! Hey! quit throwing shit at me!
First off, spammers can bite my ass. I've implemented everything I can to protect my users and I still get complaints. It's getting ridiculous. Frankly, any program that tries to codify, organize, or control spam, short of snailmail bombs or law, is doomed to fail. How are we supposed to trust people that lie to us in the first place by setting fake headers in the email? Fsck spam.
If your mom is learning computers, what the hell is the difference if she learns Linux or winshit? The learning curve for an enduser on an already setup machine is actually lower on Linux than on any window$ box. Get a grip.
Oh shit, I went and replyed to a troll. Now I guess the orc's are gonna get me. . .
>>"Then they can take all those tons of highly experienced and smart HP-UX and Tru64 guys and dedicate them to kernel development and testing"
Uhh, Tru64 is owned and developed by Compaq. Unless of course you think that the merger will go through. Then, you're basically correct. I, of course would like to see some of the features from Tru64 ported, like the VMS style clustering. THAT would rock!
"What we're seeing is the maturation of the market," Schescherareg said. "That's really nothing but good news.". This says a lot to me and, more importantly, to my Boss. Events like this and the fact that major players are giving Linux the attention it deserves is finally allowing me to get a test box setup here in house. This is a major step ahead for a network that authenticates to an NT domain, runs NT4.0 on the desktop, is slowy (glacially) migrating servers to Win2k, and runs Tru64 on Alpha gear for the Oracle geeks. I can't wait to start the CD spindles turning!
Those stats are an amazing mirror of what I suspected all along. Being a white, male, computer owner, home owner, reader, christian puts me solidly in the minority of the worlds population. Luckily, I don't have a passport account, so I can safely say I'm moving to the majority. Gotta love the good old USA. I know I do.
In order to save a mirror from AC oblivion, here's a copy of the link to a DesqviewX mirror:
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Not sure, I was mostly extremely wasted.
>>"Hey baby...wanna f---ok, that's cool...hey you over THERE, wanna f---...no?...ok, how about you, then?"
Ummm, back when I used to drink, I actually did just that. Sort of a drunken pickup spam. Mostly I got smacked, but believe it or not, it actually worked!
I had Be installed for a while and I thought it would do that. I do know I never lost anything due to it crashing. Of course, it didn't crash much. I think using a journaled file system or at least soft-updates would be a good start. Frankly, I have no idea how to code something simlar to Win XP hibernate. Shouldn't be that hard though.
What an excellent article. Now all I need to do is convince my boss to let me buy a mainframe. That's as likely as an Nt server never crashing. sigh...
I was referring to a fairly large number of people's that have extremely thick accents. Not to their intelligence or command of English or ability to be a human being, not simply a person. The whole point of my original post was about me learning tolerance and hopefully others. I'm writing about people that are speaking English but I literally can't understand them. So, what exactly am I not getting across?
>> You grow up surrounded by a particular set of people. Differences are instinctively percieved to be 'not right'.
You're right, thank you. I grew up in a small city in Wisconsin. The entire time I was growing up, until I was about 16 or so, I saw exactly one black family (I think they where vacationing), I don't really remember any hispanics or orientals. I wasn't in a sheltered situation, that's just the way it was. I pray that I'm not biased by that. More than likely I am though. This is a good insight into living and working with fellow workers from India, China, Africa, and I'm sure other places. Give us white folk a chance to adjust! I, at least, am trying to grow and change.
Having been a temp worker in Florida, back in the early '80s, I can really sympathize with the article. It totally sucks not knowing if you can even pay the rent, much less eat. I was working at a pc board plant. Something like 80% of the workers were temp. Everybody was scared of getting shitcanned. The pay was terrible and the managers/supervisors constantly screamed and threatened people. Lovely environment, in other words. Thank managed to pull myself out of that morass and moved forward.
All I can say to people that are trying to live on temp work is, get to school! Somehow, anyhow. I don't care if it's tech school for one semester. Even that little bit of knowledge can help. Also, learn English. Learn how to speak it so that even slow midwestern people like me can understand you. I know it's challenging to the extreme, but my ancestors came here and had to do the same thing. BTW, I'm *not* trying to flame or be prejudiced here, I'm simply trying to state facts. Please read and judge accordingly.
A Linux section. I was pleasently suprised to see this linked to from the Dumb-ass^h^h^h^h^h^h^hShifman story. Some good stuff too.