[...]for a file manager you need something fast, not
pretty. If it can be both then fine, but right now
it's just eye candy. I prefer a GUI for managing
my files but so far I have not seen anything that
is as nice as Windows Explorer (95 version or 98
with all the shit turned off).
OK, ObPlug: Tried gentoo yet? It's far from an Explorer work-alike, but more than one person have called it "fast". Of course, I'm highly biased, so...;^) Anyway, here's a link: gentoo-0.11.17.tar.gz (717 KB, tar.gz source archive). Enjoy.
Why do people so often refer to this incident using the word accident? I thought accidents were, um, accidental, and it seems fairly clear (to me) that the attack against the WTC was anything but. Just a thinko, or what?
I'm not sure what your point is (sorry) but if you're at all interested in source control software, you might want to check out Subversion. I don't think their scope is larger than what is said in their goal statement; "to build a version control system that is a compelling replacement for CVS", but perhaps this is of interest to you... Personally I find their reliance on Apache slightly odd, but I guess a web server is always fun to run anyway. I'm looking forward to the first alpha release which should come this fall.
The current G4 is a 32-bit CPU with 128-bit SIMD extensions called AltiVec (or Velocity Engine, depending on whether you talk to Motorola or Apple). Now, if the G5 is going to be a 64-bit CPU, I wonder if they've kept the "width ratio" the same, and extended the AltiVec registers to a massive 256 bits... If so, then a single register would be able to hold 8 single-precision (32-bit) floating point numbers, which is half a 4x4 matrix. Could be a real speed king if coded right, I'm guessing... Too bad they'll probably only be available in preboxed form from Apple, and all that. The chipset sounded sweet too, by the way.;^)
GLUT is very nice when you need to whip up a quick'n'dirty OpenGL program, but it's completely useless for "serious" programs, and games are definitely such. GLUT does not provide the application with information about key releases, for example. It's impossible to detect "dead" keys such as the various modifiers like shift and control, and the handling of regular character-generating keys such is separate from the handling of things like F-keys and arrows. Further, it's based on a callback model, as opposed to SDL's explicit event handling, and the callback interface is misdesigned forcing the programmer to use global data to manage application state. GLUT has support for a timer callback, though.
Note that I don't mean any of this as any kind of personal attack against Mark Kilgard (GLUT's author). GLUT is fairly old, and I'm sure many of its quirks and apparent shortcomings are due to the number of operating systems it has been designed to run on. It's the least common denominator situation.
Heh. I don't think I've ever seen a KDE-related announcement, which typically includes a link to the dot site, where it hasn't been totally and completely slashdotted into the ground. Still, I admire them for trying, or something.;^)
That technology doesn't even exist without wires, let alone wireless.
Hear, hear.;^)
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Double quoting: Loyal Xbox fans will have to dole out hundreds of dollars more than they expected to secure an Xbox.
This made me think "oh my god, Xbox is going to run IIS and the patches will cost money! We're doomed!". Heh. English is cool.;^)
;^)He he! I liked this one: Two FireWire (1394) ports speed up fire transfer.... Yes, it is very important that the transfer of fire in to and out of computers is quick. Burn!
Heh. That's probably just an artifact introduced by the rather interesting border between neck and upper chest. I'd have Eskil, my colleague who actually did the modelling (as well as pretty much designed Verse) answer that himself, but he's in LA for SIGGRAPH2001, so he can't.;^)
It does, indeed. You wouldn't believe the amount of trouble the fact that our default object happens to be a nude girl has caused. In January, we did a thing with Swedish national television (SVT) at the NATPE expo in Vegas. For that, we had to dress her up in a nice business suit, since otherwise (we were told) the American television people would die out of shock or something. Of course, at the actual expo floor, various rather adult shows were being sold with some rather explicit imagery. Not to mention the live models in some booths.;^)
I guess one of the actual reasons for the object being what it is is that human models, in general and female such in particular, are excellent for showing off our nifty subdivision surface technology. The renderer in the shot you link to is very simple and doesn't do subdivs, but we have one that does. It's very, very, impressive stuff, and can actually compete with present (and future) game engines. No joke.
Or, if you're into this free software thing, you might want to check out Verse. It's not quite there yet, but we do have a nice trick or two that ActiveWorlds can't match... If you have a DiVX-codec and bandwidth to burn, check out our showreel. It's pretty nifty.
I wondered about that very same thing, actually. But what you're forgetting (I think) is that he also presented his results in the US, and I think (=hope!) that's what makes him prosecutable. I haven't stayed current with the details of the case though, so I could be totally wrong.
A couple of points wrt both the story itself and some of the comments others have made:
The "article" on alllinuxdevices doesn't actually say that this X server needs Linux to run. Maybe that's 100% certain and obvious to everyone with experience with Metro Link's products, but it sure isn't to me. What if they've written an X server to run "natively" on the PS2? Not obviously useful, but certainly cool. Coupled with a USB keyboard+mouse, and some form of network adapter (either USB or the "real" Ethernet adapter) that could turn the PS2 into some weird form of X terminal...
Some people are sounding awfully sceptical, for no apparent reason. Metro Link is a commercial company. If they think there's a market for a PS2 X server, then why shouldn't they be free to try and sell one? It's not as if it costs you anything that they're trying (unless you're a stock owner, heh).
From what I know of the PS2's graphics hardware, it might be less than straight-forward to implement an X server using e.g. texture mapped polygons for windows (because of texture size limits, among other things). However, with those 38.4 GB/s of framebuffer bandwidth, it might be possible to make it pretty snappy anyway.;^)
I mean, this kind of bandwidth is at least in the same league as what today's graphic chips have to their local (on-board) memory. If a board could have >6GB/s bandwidth to system RAM, that might make it feasible to do unified memory systems again. I'm not saying that would necessarily be better, but it's at least possible and might even be cheaper in some cases. Also, I for one would enjoy a world where PCs don't have a single one-of-a-kind AGP connector for the graphics board, but where I could plop in as many boards as desired with at least reasonable bandwidth.
So, I notice that you share a middle initial of 'M' with RMS. The natural question then, becomes: what does your 'M' stand for?;^) Also, for comparison's sake, what does RMS' stand for? I've actually wondered this for quite a while, but my (obviously worthless) attempts to surf it up have all failed. Thanks.
Smarten up. Please.
Um, you do realize that timothy didn't add any editorial to this posting at all, right? That thing about "my manager" was said by Greyfox, the submittor of this bit of news.;^)
Ouch. My mistake, sorry. I guess I just assumed that since MySQL AB is a Swedish company, that they were going through the Swedish legal system. It did strike me after posting that I didn't consider the nationality of NuSphere... On the other hand, then, this might mean that the GNU GPL gets testing in a US court of law, which is actually more interesting in the grand scheme of things. Just less applicable for myself, personally. Thanks for the heads-up, anyway.
Heh. One good thing that could come out of this is of course if the GNU GPL finally becomes tested in court. Being Swedish, I must say that it will be very interesting to see how this unfolds. Unfortunately, I assume that such a test wouldn't mean much to e.g. the large number of North American developers, to whom a Swedish court ruling probably isn't worth all that much.
Impressive level of technical detail, there. To think that even in the SW universe, "black buttons" are still favored by makers of advanced portable equipment.;^)
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[...]for a file manager you need something fast, not pretty. If it can be both then fine, but right now it's just eye candy. I prefer a GUI for managing my files but so far I have not seen anything that is as nice as Windows Explorer (95 version or 98 with all the shit turned off). ;^) Anyway, here's a link: gentoo-0.11.17.tar.gz (717 KB, tar.gz source archive). Enjoy.
OK, ObPlug: Tried gentoo yet? It's far from an Explorer work-alike, but more than one person have called it "fast". Of course, I'm highly biased, so...
Why do people so often refer to this incident using the word accident? I thought accidents were, um, accidental, and it seems fairly clear (to me) that the attack against the WTC was anything but. Just a thinko, or what?
I'm not sure what your point is (sorry) but if you're at all interested in source control software, you might want to check out Subversion. I don't think their scope is larger than what is said in their goal statement; "to build a version control system that is a compelling replacement for CVS", but perhaps this is of interest to you... Personally I find their reliance on Apache slightly odd, but I guess a web server is always fun to run anyway. I'm looking forward to the first alpha release which should come this fall.
The current G4 is a 32-bit CPU with 128-bit SIMD extensions called AltiVec (or Velocity Engine, depending on whether you talk to Motorola or Apple). Now, if the G5 is going to be a 64-bit CPU, I wonder if they've kept the "width ratio" the same, and extended the AltiVec registers to a massive 256 bits... If so, then a single register would be able to hold 8 single-precision (32-bit) floating point numbers, which is half a 4x4 matrix. Could be a real speed king if coded right, I'm guessing... Too bad they'll probably only be available in preboxed form from Apple, and all that. The chipset sounded sweet too, by the way. ;^)
GLUT is very nice when you need to whip up a quick'n'dirty OpenGL program, but it's completely useless for "serious" programs, and games are definitely such. GLUT does not provide the application with information about key releases, for example. It's impossible to detect "dead" keys such as the various modifiers like shift and control, and the handling of regular character-generating keys such is separate from the handling of things like F-keys and arrows. Further, it's based on a callback model, as opposed to SDL's explicit event handling, and the callback interface is misdesigned forcing the programmer to use global data to manage application state. GLUT has support for a timer callback, though.
Note that I don't mean any of this as any kind of personal attack against Mark Kilgard (GLUT's author). GLUT is fairly old, and I'm sure many of its quirks and apparent shortcomings are due to the number of operating systems it has been designed to run on. It's the least common denominator situation.
It's cost was amazing high
One word: Sony. What did you expect?
Heh. I don't think I've ever seen a KDE-related announcement, which typically includes a link to the dot site, where it hasn't been totally and completely slashdotted into the ground. Still, I admire them for trying, or something. ;^)
That technology doesn't even exist without wires, let alone wireless. ;^)
Hear, hear.
Double quoting: Loyal Xbox fans will have to dole out hundreds of dollars more than they expected to secure an Xbox. ;^)
This made me think "oh my god, Xbox is going to run IIS and the patches will cost money! We're doomed!". Heh. English is cool.
;^)He he! I liked this one: Two FireWire (1394) ports speed up fire transfer.... Yes, it is very important that the transfer of fire in to and out of computers is quick. Burn!
Ha ha. He did the 3D graphics modeling, mmkay? And we're not suicidal, I'm still alive.
Heh. That's probably just an artifact introduced by the rather interesting border between neck and upper chest. I'd have Eskil, my colleague who actually did the modelling (as well as pretty much designed Verse) answer that himself, but he's in LA for SIGGRAPH 2001, so he can't. ;^)
It does, indeed. You wouldn't believe the amount of trouble the fact that our default object happens to be a nude girl has caused. In January, we did a thing with Swedish national television (SVT) at the NATPE expo in Vegas. For that, we had to dress her up in a nice business suit, since otherwise (we were told) the American television people would die out of shock or something. Of course, at the actual expo floor, various rather adult shows were being sold with some rather explicit imagery. Not to mention the live models in some booths. ;^)
I guess one of the actual reasons for the object being what it is is that human models, in general and female such in particular, are excellent for showing off our nifty subdivision surface technology. The renderer in the shot you link to is very simple and doesn't do subdivs, but we have one that does. It's very, very, impressive stuff, and can actually compete with present (and future) game engines. No joke.
Or, if you're into this free software thing, you might want to check out Verse. It's not quite there yet, but we do have a nice trick or two that ActiveWorlds can't match... If you have a DiVX-codec and bandwidth to burn, check out our showreel. It's pretty nifty.
I wondered about that very same thing, actually. But what you're forgetting (I think) is that he also presented his results in the US, and I think (=hope!) that's what makes him prosecutable. I haven't stayed current with the details of the case though, so I could be totally wrong.
Remember, periods go inside the quotes.
Some of us hackers/geeks do it differently for a reason. Not sure if that applies here, though.
One word: graphics.
I mean, this kind of bandwidth is at least in the same league as what today's graphic chips have to their local (on-board) memory. If a board could have >6GB/s bandwidth to system RAM, that might make it feasible to do unified memory systems again. I'm not saying that would necessarily be better, but it's at least possible and might even be cheaper in some cases. Also, I for one would enjoy a world where PCs don't have a single one-of-a-kind AGP connector for the graphics board, but where I could plop in as many boards as desired with at least reasonable bandwidth.So, I notice that you share a middle initial of 'M' with RMS. The natural question then, becomes: what does your 'M' stand for? ;^) Also, for comparison's sake, what does RMS' stand for? I've actually wondered this for quite a while, but my (obviously worthless) attempts to surf it up have all failed. Thanks.
Smarten up. Please. ;^)
Um, you do realize that timothy didn't add any editorial to this posting at all, right? That thing about "my manager" was said by Greyfox, the submittor of this bit of news.
Fun, but just in case someone didn't get it, here's the link. Still waiting for my Photon III. ;^)
Ouch. My mistake, sorry. I guess I just assumed that since MySQL AB is a Swedish company, that they were going through the Swedish legal system. It did strike me after posting that I didn't consider the nationality of NuSphere... On the other hand, then, this might mean that the GNU GPL gets testing in a US court of law, which is actually more interesting in the grand scheme of things. Just less applicable for myself, personally. Thanks for the heads-up, anyway.
Heh. One good thing that could come out of this is of course if the GNU GPL finally becomes tested in court. Being Swedish, I must say that it will be very interesting to see how this unfolds. Unfortunately, I assume that such a test wouldn't mean much to e.g. the large number of North American developers, to whom a Swedish court ruling probably isn't worth all that much.
Que? If you can "dump jpegs" to the output, then you must have some form of framebuffer in the device. Thus, it should be possible to do a GUI. Right?
Impressive level of technical detail, there. To think that even in the SW universe, "black buttons" are still favored by makers of advanced portable equipment. ;^)