Only in the US do football players wear pads:-). But then, leave it to the US to call a game where the ball is primarily handled with the hands football.
As for the sharp-weapon sports, I think that went the way of the Romans. It'll be back sometime though. This society thrives on depictions of such things, how far away is the real thing? (If you're a major carnage fan, note that I'm merely observing the status quo)
Gotta second that. I've got the Linksys single-port router, and the li'l bugger is working like a charm so far. Uses less wattage than most PCs you'll find being used as routers, too.
I'll second that. Good, relatively cheap depending on where you got them, drivers now in the current pcmcia-cs, and performance is not too shabby. I'd definitely recommend them for someone looking to setup a wireless way to surf from the couch/recliner/.
One potential caveat...no BSD driver support that I'm aware of. Also, how is the Aviator when plonked into another vendor's wireless IEEE-802.11 environment? Does it play nicely?
This looks cool, but it's probably rather heavier than the original plastic. Also, what of wood's known tendency to expand/contract/warp/split in response to atmospheric conditions? This wood has to be pretty thin. I vote for a carbon-fiber Palm case. Cool look, lighter, stronger, and much more expensive. Of course, this is all a moot point for me since I don't have one of the beasts, but I can dream...
Yet more proof that the US has the highest percentage of lawyers in the world. They lost the TRO, so what do they do? File suit under a different association (MPAA) against a different set of defendants, for the same activity.
Should be interesting to watch...do you have your css-auth code? Get it today;-)
Letting off the gas suddenly when on ice (or doing anything, *ANYTHING* else sudden) is extremely foolish. While the effect may be less in a vehicle with an automatic transmission, in a stick-shift vehicle, the sudden engine-braking that will result from cutting the flow of gas, or releasing the accelerator, is effectually the same as stepping on the brake. This is not something I want done to me on an ice-patch, thank you very much.
You might want to try exporting from Access as some form of ASCII delimited text. I've done Access->PostgreSQL like this with CSV (comma-separated values), but there were some glitches with regard to fields that were null. In any event, it appears that you'll have to keep a Windows box around, if they send updates as.mdb files.
I've been using BeOS since R4 was released, and I haven't wandered across it...perhaps I'm not looking in the right places;-)
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Have "distros" gotten to the point where they can be considered distinct operating systems yet? If not, *WHY* in hell would some application require *PORTING* to work on X distribution?? This is what baffles me about distro-wars, and why I will continue to roll my own, thank you very much.
As to your point about closed-source apps, you are quite right. However, the app in question is an IDE only, if we're talking about their "GNU edition". While the professional version includes its own compilers, I quite fail to see the "Red Hat dependencies"....perhaps they use the same version of libc as Red Hat's current distribution.
IMO, NOT a good idea at all. A server daemon should remain in user-space...accessing kernel-space from say, a webserver, could be a security nightmare waiting to happen.
As far as speed goes, what's the price you're willing to pay for that speed boost IIS appears to offer over Apache? Frequent reboots and the inability to handle high loads sort of tip the scale in Apache's favor, not to mention that IIS is inseparably tied to ONE underlying OS.
Tuning Linux properly does not have to involve cryptic commands...a Tcl/Tk (or Perl/Tk...or Python...ad infinitum) applet could do the trick just as well, thanks to the sysctl stuff in/proc. I've written quite a few of these for my personal use...perhaps I should spiff them up and release them.
Might I interject that Apple's primary product is not the Mac OS, but the hardware that it runs on? While MacOS 8.5 and previous versions are very sorry examples of OS design, MacOS X shows a lot of promise. As for "Mac people talking about how good their OS is", this article is written from the context of a Mac zealot...would you expect him to badmouth MacOS?
Also, there are alternative OS's for Macs, both 68k and PPC. Allow me to submit NetBSD, OpenBSD, BeOS, and LinuxPPC for consideration. My Mac Centris (old, I know) runs NetBSD and MacOS...the primary functions of MacOS are, 1. booting NetBSD, and 2. Downloading packages to my Newton MessagePad.
All in all, I found it a nice look into the mind of a Mac addict as he views the Linux phenomenon.
Not true. I've been using Slackware since Volkerding first started packaging it, mainly on boxes with small amounts of disk and/or RAM. Most script kiddies I've noticed (which is a small number...most aren't worth more than the time it takes to block some packets) seem to use Red Hat or Debian.
As for *BSD, most of the BSD users I've met are a lot more mature than that, though there are exceptions.
You probably knew this, but the reason Xanim doesn't support too many newer codecs out of the tarball is because the author had to sign NDAs to get that support there in the first place. In order to distribute the code, he'd have to break the NDA, which is not generally regarded as a wise decision.
Unix as an OS for the Imac crowd (including people's grandmas)? I pray not. Call me a Unix snob if you like, but Unix is not an OS for the computer-illiterate, nor should it be. There *is* a market segment which is better suited by the Imac, despite the claims of "Linux-everywhere" advocates.
Hm. Several interesting bits in your comment caught my eye. To wit:
Red Hat does not "re-package" Linux. They "package" it. Linux as such is the kernel, the ext and ext2 filesystems, and some other assorted miscellany that are not found in other Un*x variants. Packaging entails selecting system utilities, writing init-scripts, filesystem layouts, writing installscripts, and other entertaining but admittedly tiresome drudgery. Although I've done it, I prefer to buy a CD or 6, as my time is a lot more costly than buying a distribution.
As another poster pointed out, "NOT" hiring anyone with an MCSE could deprive you of some great talent. That kind of policy is a knee-jerk reaction...rather, hire someone who will fit the bill, regardless of certifications obtained. Versatility is the name of the game in administration, and if you know Linux upside down and inside out, but you know no other OS, you are probably not going to get too far in a multi-platform environment.
As to your rather interesting comment of "Linux is the only REAL O/S" with everything else being "a joke"....sheesh. IRIX running on an Origin 2000 is far from a joke. OpenBSD running on my Mac Centris makes a rather laughable little box into quite a serious firewall. For future reference, this philosophy-professor adage might prove useful: "All general statements are false, including this one".
You're possibly thinking of Kryotech. They retail overclocked Alpha and AMD-powered boxes, with their patented refrigeration system built into the case.
SCU (for lack of a better name) purchases 5000 of these CPUs, with motherboard, sells them for a profit, and gives the profit to suitable open-source organizations such as Debian, the FSF, or SPI(add organizations to taste) while retaining the wholesale cost of the processor (to break even on the whole deal).
Basic breakdown: Buy hardware, sell at a profit, give profit to (eg) Debian, keep wholesale costs so the purchasing organization breaks even. Think this would be workable? Any comments from financial/business types out there?
To sell even more hardware to more people? I'm referring to the free-unix community in general here, not just Linux/x86. This includes *BSD as well as Linux. Creative's bottom line is "sell hardware", and if it becomes obvious that substantial increases in sales would occur if they opened driver sources, they might be persuaded to do so (or be pushed out of competition by a company that does).
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I would put it on my xoom space, if I can get the damned thing. Mirrors are rather bogged of late.
Seems to me the easiest way to make a custom case is to start with a chassis from a commercial case and put your own housing etc. on it. Sort of like new sheet metal, or something. Carbon fiber or fiberglass would be my material of choice, possibly with heavy aluminum foil between layers to avoid screwing with every TV on the block. As for color, you could take a housing like this to any halfway competent auto-body shop and have it painted, or DIY. I'll probably do this, once I figure out a LED array for the front panel (sort of like the Thinking Machines boxes).
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Only in the US do football players wear pads :-). But then, leave it to the US to call a game where the ball is primarily handled with the hands football.
As for the sharp-weapon sports, I think that went the way of the Romans. It'll be back sometime though. This society thrives on depictions of such things, how far away is the real thing? (If you're a major carnage fan, note that I'm merely observing the status quo)
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Gotta second that. I've got the Linksys single-port router, and the li'l bugger is working like a charm so far. Uses less wattage than most PCs you'll find being used as routers, too.
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I'll second that. Good, relatively cheap depending on where you got them, drivers now in the current pcmcia-cs, and performance is not too shabby. I'd definitely recommend them for someone looking to setup a wireless way to surf from the couch/recliner/.
One potential caveat...no BSD driver support that I'm aware of. Also, how is the Aviator when plonked into another vendor's wireless IEEE-802.11 environment? Does it play nicely?
This looks cool, but it's probably rather heavier than the original plastic. Also, what of wood's known tendency to expand/contract/warp/split in response to atmospheric conditions? This wood has to be pretty thin. I vote for a carbon-fiber Palm case. Cool look, lighter, stronger, and much more expensive. Of course, this is all a moot point for me since I don't have one of the beasts, but I can dream...
Yet more proof that the US has the highest percentage of lawyers in the world. They lost the TRO, so what do they do? File suit under a different association (MPAA) against a different set of defendants, for the same activity.
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Should be interesting to watch...do you have your css-auth code? Get it today
Letting off the gas suddenly when on ice (or doing anything, *ANYTHING* else sudden) is extremely foolish. While the effect may be less in a vehicle with an automatic transmission, in a stick-shift vehicle, the sudden engine-braking that will result from cutting the flow of gas, or releasing the accelerator, is effectually the same as stepping on the brake. This is not something I want done to me on an ice-patch, thank you very much.
You might want to try exporting from Access as some form of ASCII delimited text. I've done Access->PostgreSQL like this with CSV (comma-separated values), but there were some glitches with regard to fields that were null. In any event, it appears that you'll have to keep a Windows box around, if they send updates as .mdb files.
Sounds like fun, if for no other reason than the sheer impracticality of it :-).
VNC for BeOS (currently only the client) is in BeWare. Seems to work alright...I use it to talk to several windows boxen on my internal network.
I've been using BeOS since R4 was released, and I haven't wandered across it...perhaps I'm not looking in the right places ;-)
Have "distros" gotten to the point where they can be considered distinct operating systems yet? If not, *WHY* in hell would some application require *PORTING* to work on X distribution?? This is what baffles me about distro-wars, and why I will continue to roll my own, thank you very much.
As to your point about closed-source apps, you are quite right. However, the app in question is an IDE only, if we're talking about their "GNU edition". While the professional version includes its own compilers, I quite fail to see the "Red Hat dependencies"....perhaps they use the same version of libc as Red Hat's current distribution.
IMO, NOT a good idea at all. A server daemon should remain in user-space...accessing kernel-space from say, a webserver, could be a security nightmare waiting to happen.
As far as speed goes, what's the price you're willing to pay for that speed boost IIS appears to offer over Apache? Frequent reboots and the inability to handle high loads sort of tip the scale in Apache's favor, not to mention that IIS is inseparably tied to ONE underlying OS.
Hmmm, I wonder if that was a specialized version of SCO Xenix. Seems unlikely, but I suppose it's possible.
Tuning Linux properly does not have to involve cryptic commands...a Tcl/Tk (or Perl/Tk...or Python...ad infinitum) applet could do the trick just as well, thanks to the sysctl stuff in /proc. I've written quite a few of these for my personal use...perhaps I should spiff them up and release them.
Might I interject that Apple's primary product is not the Mac OS, but the hardware that it runs on? While MacOS 8.5 and previous versions are very sorry examples of OS design, MacOS X shows a lot of promise. As for "Mac people talking about how good their OS is", this article is written from the context of a Mac zealot...would you expect him to badmouth MacOS?
Also, there are alternative OS's for Macs, both 68k and PPC. Allow me to submit NetBSD, OpenBSD, BeOS, and LinuxPPC for consideration. My Mac Centris (old, I know) runs NetBSD and MacOS...the primary functions of MacOS are, 1. booting NetBSD, and 2. Downloading packages to my Newton MessagePad.
All in all, I found it a nice look into the mind of a Mac addict as he views the Linux phenomenon.
I vote for Rob's rendition of "Debian". IMO, it's simple, not specific to Linux, and undoubtedly distinctive.
The question remains however....would it look ok in b/w or 8bit? Maybe I'll mess with it a bit.
(funny. I don't even use Debian. But I do appreciate good graphics & logo designs.)
Not true. I've been using Slackware since Volkerding first started packaging it, mainly on boxes with small amounts of disk and/or RAM. Most script kiddies I've noticed (which is a small number...most aren't worth more than the time it takes to block some packets) seem to use Red Hat or Debian.
As for *BSD, most of the BSD users I've met are a lot more mature than that, though there are exceptions.
You probably knew this, but the reason Xanim doesn't support too many newer codecs out of the tarball is because the author had to sign NDAs to get that support there in the first place. In order to distribute the code, he'd have to break the NDA, which is not generally regarded as a wise decision.
Unix as an OS for the Imac crowd (including people's grandmas)? I pray not. Call me a Unix snob if you like, but Unix is not an OS for the computer-illiterate, nor should it be. There *is* a market segment which is better suited by the Imac, despite the claims of "Linux-everywhere" advocates.
Hm. Several interesting bits in your comment caught my eye. To wit:
Red Hat does not "re-package" Linux. They "package" it. Linux as such is the kernel, the ext and ext2 filesystems, and some other assorted miscellany that are not found in other Un*x variants. Packaging entails selecting system utilities, writing init-scripts, filesystem layouts, writing installscripts, and other entertaining but admittedly tiresome drudgery. Although I've done it, I prefer to buy a CD or 6, as my time is a lot more costly than buying a distribution.
As another poster pointed out, "NOT" hiring anyone with an MCSE could deprive you of some great talent. That kind of policy is a knee-jerk reaction...rather, hire someone who will fit the bill, regardless of certifications obtained. Versatility is the name of the game in administration, and if you know Linux upside down and inside out, but you know no other OS, you are probably not going to get too far in a multi-platform environment.
As to your rather interesting comment of "Linux is the only REAL O/S" with everything else being "a joke"....sheesh. IRIX running on an Origin 2000 is far from a joke. OpenBSD running on my Mac Centris makes a rather laughable little box into quite a serious firewall. For future reference, this philosophy-professor adage might prove useful: "All general statements are false, including this one".
You're possibly thinking of Kryotech. They retail overclocked Alpha and AMD-powered boxes, with their patented refrigeration system built into the case.
How about this:
SCU (for lack of a better name) purchases 5000 of these CPUs, with motherboard, sells them for a profit, and gives the profit to suitable open-source organizations such as Debian, the FSF, or SPI(add organizations to taste) while retaining the wholesale cost of the processor (to break even on the whole deal).
Basic breakdown: Buy hardware, sell at a profit, give profit to (eg) Debian, keep wholesale costs so the purchasing organization breaks even. Think this would be workable? Any comments from financial/business types out there?
To sell even more hardware to more people? I'm referring to the free-unix community in general here, not just Linux/x86. This includes *BSD as well as Linux. Creative's bottom line is "sell hardware", and if it becomes obvious that substantial increases in sales would occur if they opened driver sources, they might be persuaded to do so (or be pushed out of competition by a company that does).
I would put it on my xoom space, if I can get the damned thing. Mirrors are rather bogged of late.
Seems to me the easiest way to make a custom case is to start with a chassis from a commercial case and put your own housing etc. on it. Sort of like new sheet metal, or something. Carbon fiber or fiberglass would be my material of choice, possibly with heavy aluminum foil between layers to avoid screwing with every TV on the block. As for color, you could take a housing like this to any halfway competent auto-body shop and have it painted, or DIY. I'll probably do this, once I figure out a LED array for the front panel (sort of like the Thinking Machines boxes).