Hmmm... I remember a certain Rasterman disappearing from RedHat... and then E was no longer part of Gnome (although I use it because its dramatically better than the alternatives in my opinion).
When process A tries to write to the memory it was given but that memory isn't actually available, suspend it. Suspend it _before_ actually allocating the memory that it thinks it has.
Put into motion the required steps to make more memory available (suspend things as necessary) and allow process A to continue if and _only_ if that memory is actually allocatable.
If desired, have a timeout period after which the process is killed. I don't see how that's worse than just killing the process.
In fact Lindows contains "indows" of Windows, not just "dows" (I'm fascinated by how many people can't read here). The point being made by the previous poster is that the reason they chose "Lindows" over, say, "Leenex" is because they're making an alternative to "Windows" not a tissue...;-)
Hmmm... lindows is to windows (indows)... only the first letter is different.
Your point was great, but entirely wrong.
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There are a lot of mailing list messages (search for NTLK) about the spin-off, spin-in of Newton Inc. on the Internet if you look. I don't remember precisely but I have a feeling it goes along with that old Apple mentality that wouldn't allow something to be successful without "Apple" on the front. If the Newton was going to do well, it would do it with the Apple brand on it.
PS, don't bother replying with how Macs come with more for your money; most people don't do "more", in fact, they don't know how to use Word for the most part and Apple isn't doing a very good job of educating them.
Someone pointed out that XP's new TV ads describing all the media-rich things you can do with your PC might actually help Mac sales, and I agree. The consumer needs to be aware of what they want to do; if they don't have any use for the extra features a Mac comes with, they won't pay for it (like buying a BMW over a Cavalier).
Quick, get out the old WiReD poll on how many mobile tech devices you own; cell phone, pda, cd-mp3 player, blackberry, laptop....
But seriously, what Katz misses is that people would buy a Mac if they were popular; its a catch-22. Macs aren't talked about every day in the media, Windows is. Computers that run Windows are "Computers" to most people and computers that run Mac OS are "Macs". People think of Windows, Word, Money and other MS products when they think of their computing time (oh, and maybe Messenger too). These are mostly available on a Mac, but Apple doesn't seem to bother advertising that fact.
PS, Macs cost more... so when a middle class family goes out to buy a PC, they buy the $599 Dell, not the $1299 Mac.
PS, go to DLink and check out their MP3 portable CD player; it plays normal CDs and MP3s off of CDs and its quite inexpensive. I'd be thrilled if it supported Ogg Vorbis, WMA and anything else that's available. As long as they keep adding and don't _subtract_ any support, we should all be happy.
The USA, a super-power with nuclear arms capabilities, today announced their plans to start bombing south-asian countries in the hopes of finding the terrorist leader O.B.L.
Go to ebay.com and look up the 2000s or 2100s; they're available there used and there's lots of software available for them for download. With two PCMCIA slots you're doing well and they have Internet support and a full HTML browser. No colour; sorry:)
Re:the newton is dead, you know.
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Just for the sake of saying why I said what I said:
"If Apple really makes a PDA" is incorrect but "If Apple really makes another PDA" would be valid.
Your statement was (and is) wrong in light of their creation of the MessagePad (5 generations or so thereof too).
Re:There's a good chance it's fake...
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The commenter referenced has a number of points that refer to his/her personal feelings about Macs that probably don't apply. The MessagePad 2xxx had a big ugly connector in the bottom for syncing (although it didn't have Firewire) and given that my MessagePad 120 uses a 0.7A charger, its possible you might not want to draw the current off of a Firewire port.
Other problems they have might be entirely overlooked by actual Mac hardware and software makers; the MessagePad doesn't look very much like a Mac at all and the bottom group of buttons was screened on in earlier versions but turned into a floating dock in later versions (that looked the same).
... etc.
I don't know if its a fake or not, but Apple's got to feel stupid for discontinuing the Newton right before Palm did so well (considering Palm wrote Graffiti for the Newton at the time).
People also seem to not realise that the printed text recognition in the Newton OS 2.x devices was almost perfect; so if you could bear to print your text instead of cursively writing it, the recogniser did very well, as well as being able to store the vectors of handwriting to be recognised later when you had more time to turn up the CPU usage.
You're either a troll or you're unaware of the Newton Messagepad.
Apple discontinued because it seems they were 6 years ahead of the market and not quite smart enough to make a cheaper version to whet peoples' appetites.
Search "newton messagepad" on ebay.com or "ntlk" or "newton package" for lots of good sites on google.com.
You obviously don't work with the same companies I've worked with. Many people use E-mail like they talk; they simply write what comes to mind and then click 'send'. They don't take the time to proof-read it as though it were an essay or a letter but rather write off the tops of their heads. A spelling or grammar error here and there goes pretty much unnoticed most places.
The Devil understands the situation better than you do, and since you mentioned Darwin, read up on Linus' thoughts on how the Linux kernel evolves, it might help.
See, the -ac series was a testbed series of kernels, often used in practice, as patches to the mainline kernel. It was not a fork, and neither is this.
2.4.5-ac3, for example, would be Alan Cox's third patch release to Linus' 2.4.5. Now, Michael will be doing the same thing with Marcelo's kernels.
Actually, using Mozilla on Linux lets one just highlight the URL then press the middle mouse button on the browser to load that URL in the current window.
I had a piece of PHP lying around I used to embed my images that chose PNG or GIF appropriately on a per-browser basis. I ditched it eventually in the hopes of making a more webcache friendly site, but it did work well... JavaScript was the other option but I hate adding to download times.
Re:just my $.01 worth (depreciated accordingly)
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You've too highly equated a savings in bitrate with storage space savings. While its true that the Ogg file may be smaller than the MP3 file, what's more important (to me at least) is that it will _stream_ at a lower bitrate as well. That means I can stream more Ogg Vorbis audio streams with the same amount of bandwidth than MP3s. I'm sure places like MP3.com are happy about that (or anyone else doing audio streaming). Bandwidth bits still get expensive in large numbers.
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Hmmm ... I remember a certain Rasterman disappearing from RedHat ... and then E was no longer part of Gnome (although I use it because its dramatically better than the alternatives in my opinion).
It happens.
Example:
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Interviewer: You and Linus don't seem to be getting along
Me: I'm sorry but I don't think I should comment on that; that's between Linus and I and we're working on it.
When process A tries to write to the memory it was given but that memory isn't actually available, suspend it. Suspend it _before_ actually allocating the memory that it thinks it has.
Put into motion the required steps to make more memory available (suspend things as necessary) and allow process A to continue if and _only_ if that memory is actually allocatable.
If desired, have a timeout period after which the process is killed. I don't see how that's worse than just killing the process.
That was not the reasoning at all.
... ;-)
In fact Lindows contains "indows" of Windows, not just "dows" (I'm fascinated by how many people can't read here). The point being made by the previous poster is that the reason they chose "Lindows" over, say, "Leenex" is because they're making an alternative to "Windows" not a tissue
Hmmm ... lindows is to windows (indows) ... only the first letter is different.
Your point was great, but entirely wrong.
There are a lot of mailing list messages (search for NTLK) about the spin-off, spin-in of Newton Inc. on the Internet if you look. I don't remember precisely but I have a feeling it goes along with that old Apple mentality that wouldn't allow something to be successful without "Apple" on the front. If the Newton was going to do well, it would do it with the Apple brand on it.
PS, don't bother replying with how Macs come with more for your money; most people don't do "more", in fact, they don't know how to use Word for the most part and Apple isn't doing a very good job of educating them.
Someone pointed out that XP's new TV ads describing all the media-rich things you can do with your PC might actually help Mac sales, and I agree. The consumer needs to be aware of what they want to do; if they don't have any use for the extra features a Mac comes with, they won't pay for it (like buying a BMW over a Cavalier).
Quick, get out the old WiReD poll on how many mobile tech devices you own; cell phone, pda, cd-mp3 player, blackberry, laptop ....
... so when a middle class family goes out to buy a PC, they buy the $599 Dell, not the $1299 Mac.
But seriously, what Katz misses is that people would buy a Mac if they were popular; its a catch-22. Macs aren't talked about every day in the media, Windows is. Computers that run Windows are "Computers" to most people and computers that run Mac OS are "Macs". People think of Windows, Word, Money and other MS products when they think of their computing time (oh, and maybe Messenger too). These are mostly available on a Mac, but Apple doesn't seem to bother advertising that fact.
PS, Macs cost more
PS, go to DLink and check out their MP3 portable CD player; it plays normal CDs and MP3s off of CDs and its quite inexpensive. I'd be thrilled if it supported Ogg Vorbis, WMA and anything else that's available. As long as they keep adding and don't _subtract_ any support, we should all be happy.
The USA, a super-power with nuclear arms capabilities, today announced their plans to start bombing south-asian countries in the hopes of finding the terrorist leader O.B.L.
... that has a nicer ring to it ;-)
Yeah
Go to ebay.com and look up the 2000s or 2100s; they're available there used and there's lots of software available for them for download. With two PCMCIA slots you're doing well and they have Internet support and a full HTML browser. No colour; sorry :)
Just for the sake of saying why I said what I said:
"If Apple really makes a PDA" is incorrect but "If Apple really makes another PDA" would be valid.
Your statement was (and is) wrong in light of their creation of the MessagePad (5 generations or so thereof too).
The commenter referenced has a number of points that refer to his/her personal feelings about Macs that probably don't apply. The MessagePad 2xxx had a big ugly connector in the bottom for syncing (although it didn't have Firewire) and given that my MessagePad 120 uses a 0.7A charger, its possible you might not want to draw the current off of a Firewire port.
Other problems they have might be entirely overlooked by actual Mac hardware and software makers; the MessagePad doesn't look very much like a Mac at all and the bottom group of buttons was screened on in earlier versions but turned into a floating dock in later versions (that looked the same).
... etc.
I don't know if its a fake or not, but Apple's got to feel stupid for discontinuing the Newton right before Palm did so well (considering Palm wrote Graffiti for the Newton at the time).
People also seem to not realise that the printed text recognition in the Newton OS 2.x devices was almost perfect; so if you could bear to print your text instead of cursively writing it, the recogniser did very well, as well as being able to store the vectors of handwriting to be recognised later when you had more time to turn up the CPU usage.
You're either a troll or you're unaware of the Newton Messagepad.
Apple discontinued because it seems they were 6 years ahead of the market and not quite smart enough to make a cheaper version to whet peoples' appetites.
Search "newton messagepad" on ebay.com or "ntlk" or "newton package" for lots of good sites on google.com.
Hey everybody, we've got an anti-UK bigot here.
What's with "like all of the UKs publications"? Doesn't that seem overbroad to you?
You obviously don't work with the same companies I've worked with. Many people use E-mail like they talk; they simply write what comes to mind and then click 'send'. They don't take the time to proof-read it as though it were an essay or a letter but rather write off the tops of their heads. A spelling or grammar error here and there goes pretty much unnoticed most places.
So _that's_ why they designed the X-box ... no more PC reboots!
"Hey, tired of rebooting your computer after playing a game? Buy an X-box and reboot it instead!"
The Devil understands the situation better than you do, and since you mentioned Darwin, read up on Linus' thoughts on how the Linux kernel evolves, it might help.
See, the -ac series was a testbed series of kernels, often used in practice, as patches to the mainline kernel. It was not a fork, and neither is this.
2.4.5-ac3, for example, would be Alan Cox's third patch release to Linus' 2.4.5. Now, Michael will be doing the same thing with Marcelo's kernels.
Actually, using Mozilla on Linux lets one just highlight the URL then press the middle mouse button on the browser to load that URL in the current window.
I have saved the PDF of the report as PostScript with xpdf for printing or download here (100k).
http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock/mirrors/ukgo vt oss.ps (300k) for people who don't have compressed file support.
http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock/mirrors/ukgovt oss.html (170k) for HTML converted by Star Office from the MS Word document.
xpdf does a great job and ggv looks better but is more limited.
I had a piece of PHP lying around I used to embed my images that chose PNG or GIF appropriately on a per-browser basis. I ditched it eventually in the hopes of making a more webcache friendly site, but it did work well ... JavaScript was the other option but I hate adding to download times.
You've too highly equated a savings in bitrate with storage space savings. While its true that the Ogg file may be smaller than the MP3 file, what's more important (to me at least) is that it will _stream_ at a lower bitrate as well. That means I can stream more Ogg Vorbis audio streams with the same amount of bandwidth than MP3s. I'm sure places like MP3.com are happy about that (or anyone else doing audio streaming). Bandwidth bits still get expensive in large numbers.
Just for others' information, IEEE 1394 _is_ Firewire ... and is the same thing as i.Link (Sony).
Compaq servers do ... 8" fans to be precise ... and they blow a lot of air too.