Hm... I suspect this was "inspired" by a post over at Ars Technica. Their article links to this page as well, which has a review of Casio's wrist watch with built-in digital camera. It's pretty cool, too. 20 kpixel 16-level grayscale, 100 pictures storable in the watch. Syncs over IR to a serial-port connected mini-dock thingie. Not comparable in power to IBM's Linux watch, and it doesn't run Linux, but it's still a very cool thing to have on your wrist, IMO. Being a consumer product (~$200 in the US), it has seen a bit more design effort, too.;^)
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Um, ah. Parse error. You said "GUI like GMC", or words to that effect. That clears it up, at least somewhat... What you want is a dual-paned file manager but with icon-based display, right? Cool. Good luck finding one.;)On a (somewhat) related note, one question I have about all these programs that do "icon-based" browsing of file systems concerns icon positions. When I see a big window full of fluffy icons, I want to be able to reposition them freely by dragging, and I want the resulting positions to be persistent. This helps me arrange a directory's contents in a way that aids rapid access. But it creates a problem: where should the icon positions be stored? I see several alternatives:
In a per-directory file, e.g..iconinfo or something. Perhaps the best choice on typical Unix-y filesystems...
In a global magic database somewhere. Keeps individial directories tidy, but is probably difficult to get to work well with (dynamic) mounting etc.
In the icons themselves. This was how the Amiga did it; the Workbench only displayed icons for files that had a matching.info file (so foo's icon would be in foo.info). Works well, but creates an extra file for each visible file. Uglifies the filesystem, and takes loads of space.
Not stored at all. This seems to be how Windows does it, I think. Icon positions are only maintained as long as the particular window is open. Clearly, this doesn't solve the problem (for me).;^)/
Wow, I guess I got a bit carried away, there. Anyone got any ideas about this? Let's hear them!
Ehum, would you mind elaborating a bit, there? I don't really see what adding a GUI front end to gentoo would mean in practice. In my world, it has a very graphical front end, albeit one dominated perhaps by rendering text. Hm. Are you after a more "icon-dominated" view here, or what? Curious developers want to know!;^)
Um, yeah. Too bad many of the vulnerabilities seem to be in programs where you don't want more external dependencies. Otherwise, people could just get into the habit of using g_snprintf(), from (the other) glib. If you can't guess what it does, check the API reference entry. In new programs I write, that often use glib, I always use this function in place of a simple strcpy() or libc-supplied snprintf()...
Phantasy Star Online: A tradional console RPG, but 4 player online cooperative play.
Four? Heh. I saw Sega's movie from the demo disc handed out at the show yesterday, and it contained the number 6,000,000,000, along with voice saying "six billion people" or something. I don't know the exact market penetration of the Dreamcast, but...;)
I wondered about this, too, when the announcement of QT/Unix going GPL was made. What happens if someone takes that code, and ports it to Windows? For "true" GPL code, that would be perfectly alright, but here it "feels" as if Trolltech don't want it to happen, or something. OK, I confess: I haven't checked out the exact licensing, or anything, but if it says "GPL", then surely it really is GPL, and not "GPL-no-windows-porting-allowed"? Software licensing these days sure is complex...
Um, is that really correct? My reading (and the pictures shown) seem to indicate that the winning team, like all (?) other, used AIBO hardware--it's the software that differs between the teams...
Hm. You mentioned Pascal, and the entire thread is about an interview with Brian Kernighan. I think that makes this link fantastically topical. It's a paper/writeup/whatever by BWK, entitled "Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language". Being from April, 1981, it's quite dated, but it shows how to bash stuff in style. A good read.;^)
I wouldn't know (I'm a HP guy, and at the price I paid, I'm almost afraid to think about a soldering iron in the same room as I keep it). Anyway, just a minor nit here: the DragonBall is a MC680x0 workalike, not a Z80. The 68K, of course, is everyone's favourite old 16/32 bit CPU, while the Z80 is a hardcore 8-bitter. OK? Thanks.
On NGI's 100X test-bed, you're looking at about 1 minute download time, and on a 1000X Web, the full EB can be yours in just 15 seconds.
This makes me wonder... If the network gets 10X faster, shouldn't the download time decrease with more than a factor of four? Sure there are protocol overheads and stuff, but this seems like rather large lossage of bandwidth utilization.;(
He, a sneaky channel for such a question, but what the heck!;) Work on gentoo is progressing very slowly, since I find myself hacking too much on other things (at work, actually) to have time/energy to spend with gentoo. That's a shame, really. Still, I have created a new version (0.11.15), which I hope to release sometime during fall. The major new feature provided by 0.11.15 is support for internationalization, through the GNU gettext library. If you dislike English software, this might be useful.
Um, do BSD hackers read like (speed)daemons, too? The linked-to article mentions the auditing as well:
Over an 18-month period, a team of 10 volunteers vetted OpenBSD's entire source code - all 350 megabytes - weeding out thousands of bugs.
Surely that must be a mistake? I find it very hard to believe that the OpenBSD code is a full 350 MB! A Linux kernel is what, somewhere between 10 and 20 MB of (compressed) code... If the size is in fact true, then those 10 guys must have read an average of 35 MB each, over 18 months. That's 1.9 MB/month! Wow. Where is the error here?
I think it's a shame that neither the Slashdot editor (Hemos) or you made Galeon a link, since perhaps someone wants to know more (without going through the nowadays horrible image-mapped h*ll that is gnome.org). There.;^)
He. Yeah, either that, or find some crazy people with good soldering skills to design a Firewire adapter for the AGP port. Running at the maximum of 4X, that should provide 4 * 4B * 66MHz = 1056MBps of bandwidth. Since nodes in a cluster typically run "headless" (i.e., without monitor), this could actually be practical... I wonder if anyone is doing that--using the AGP port for things other than graphics? Sounds like a neat hack.;^)
Um, I don't know if you're serious, but stuff like this works perfectly fine on earlier CPUs too, of course.;^) I probably shouldn't be doing this, but Cycore have some neat tech for doing this. According to their download page, the plugin for their technology (Cult 3D) is available for Linux as well as the Other OS...
The coolest are of course the last two... Words like "superzapper" and "whirly gig" rule! Just to make it better, the last one has "rotation control" scribbled next to it in what looks like ball pen ink. Ah, that really clears it up for me. Aplogies to all old hard-core players who alwayss called it a "whirly gig" and never thought twice about it, of course...;^)
Um, that's probably trolling, but OK. I'll bite. I really don't think that HP calculators use RPN to save CPU cycles. Instead, there is a non-zero number of people who really think that expressing calculations in reverse is better. There's a bunch of standard arguments, the two most prominent of which I believe are:
Um, I guess that's "Tanenbaum", if you're referring to the computer scientist (?:) perhaps most known around here for starting the legendary "Linux is obsolete flame fest with Linux and folks, way back when (January 1992, to be specific). I wasn't aware that that quote was due to him, though... Cool!;^)
Yeah, I suspect they've just doubled the size of the pictures for the linked versions. Very strange, especially since the wording on the linked site makes it clear that they should be higher-quality. Scaling an image up does not, in my opinion, improve its quality.;^)
I'm not up to speed on the specs myself, so I'll happily accept those as true, since they do seem to make sense. It makes me wonder, though, what's up with e.g. this shot (the first from the linked-to page), since it's four times as large (at 480x320 pixels). Weird? Also, can I take this opportunity to think negative things about companies that publish screenshots from a fairly low-res console as JPEGs? They're dithered all to hell...
Nice machines though, even if a bit long in the tooth (the O2000 is fourish years old, the O3000's should be announced anytime now, go look at comp.arch)
It happened roughly a week ago, during SIGGRAPH 2000. The Origin 3000 is a beaty. See here for details.
Heh. The article makes a reference to Chris Hecker (of definition six), mentioning that he delivered his talk at "a mile a minute". I was there, and Chris did indeed talk very quickly. I thought this was because some scheduling mishap forced him to squeeze his 30-minute talk into the 19 minutes left in a session. Later, at a different talk, Chris asked a poor Japanese researcher some question, again delivered at a rate that would make a machinegun envious. The researcher was not alone in having problems getting what was said, so soneone in the audience suggested that Chris repeat his question, only slower. To which Chris replied "Um, I'm not sure I know how to do that"!;^) Then, he actually did repeat the question slower, the researcher answered, and all was well...
Um, actually, Ericsson makes quite a bit more than just plain cell phones. It's always fun to forget this, go to their site and hit the top combo box. It fills the screen with esoteric stuff!;^) Anyway, I hope these plans (or some plans!) include the idea to add Bluetooth tech to a cell phone, so that it can make calls through some kind of base station while I'm around the house. That would give the best of two worlds from the same phone; low land-line rates while at home, mobile telephony as soon as I step out the door; all using the same handset of course. I've been waiting for this for a number of years now...
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Hm... I suspect this was "inspired" by a post over at Ars Technica. Their article links to this page as well, which has a review of Casio's wrist watch with built-in digital camera. It's pretty cool, too. 20 kpixel 16-level grayscale, 100 pictures storable in the watch. Syncs over IR to a serial-port connected mini-dock thingie. Not comparable in power to IBM's Linux watch, and it doesn't run Linux, but it's still a very cool thing to have on your wrist, IMO. Being a consumer product (~$200 in the US), it has seen a bit more design effort, too. ;^)
Um, ah. Parse error. You said "GUI like GMC", or words to that effect. That clears it up, at least somewhat... What you want is a dual-paned file manager but with icon-based display, right? Cool. Good luck finding one.
- In a per-directory file, e.g.
.iconinfo or something. Perhaps the best choice on typical Unix-y filesystems...
- In a global magic database somewhere. Keeps individial directories tidy, but is probably difficult to get to work well with (dynamic) mounting etc.
- In the icons themselves. This was how the Amiga did it; the Workbench only displayed icons for files that had a matching
.info file (so foo's icon would be in foo.info). Works well, but creates an extra file for each visible file. Uglifies the filesystem, and takes loads of space.
- Not stored at all. This seems to be how Windows does it, I think. Icon positions are only maintained as long as the particular window is open. Clearly, this doesn't solve the problem (for me).
;^)/
Wow, I guess I got a bit carried away, there. Anyone got any ideas about this? Let's hear them!Ehum, would you mind elaborating a bit, there? I don't really see what adding a GUI front end to gentoo would mean in practice. In my world, it has a very graphical front end, albeit one dominated perhaps by rendering text. Hm. Are you after a more "icon-dominated" view here, or what? Curious developers want to know! ;^)
Um, yeah. Too bad many of the vulnerabilities seem to be in programs where you don't want more external dependencies. Otherwise, people could just get into the habit of using g_snprintf(), from (the other) glib. If you can't guess what it does, check the API reference entry. In new programs I write, that often use glib, I always use this function in place of a simple strcpy() or libc-supplied snprintf()...
Phantasy Star Online: A tradional console RPG, but 4 player online cooperative play. ;)
Four? Heh. I saw Sega's movie from the demo disc handed out at the show yesterday, and it contained the number 6,000,000,000, along with voice saying "six billion people" or something. I don't know the exact market penetration of the Dreamcast, but...
I wondered about this, too, when the announcement of QT/Unix going GPL was made. What happens if someone takes that code, and ports it to Windows? For "true" GPL code, that would be perfectly alright, but here it "feels" as if Trolltech don't want it to happen, or something. OK, I confess: I haven't checked out the exact licensing, or anything, but if it says "GPL", then surely it really is GPL, and not "GPL-no-windows-porting-allowed"? Software licensing these days sure is complex...
Um, is that really correct? My reading (and the pictures shown) seem to indicate that the winning team, like all (?) other, used AIBO hardware--it's the software that differs between the teams...
Hm. You mentioned Pascal, and the entire thread is about an interview with Brian Kernighan. I think that makes this link fantastically topical. It's a paper/writeup/whatever by BWK, entitled "Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language". Being from April, 1981, it's quite dated, but it shows how to bash stuff in style. A good read. ;^)
I wouldn't know (I'm a HP guy, and at the price I paid, I'm almost afraid to think about a soldering iron in the same room as I keep it). Anyway, just a minor nit here: the DragonBall is a MC680x0 workalike, not a Z80. The 68K, of course, is everyone's favourite old 16/32 bit CPU, while the Z80 is a hardcore 8-bitter. OK? Thanks.
He, a sneaky channel for such a question, but what the heck! ;) Work on gentoo is progressing very slowly, since I find myself hacking too much on other things (at work, actually) to have time/energy to spend with gentoo. That's a shame, really. Still, I have created a new version (0.11.15), which I hope to release sometime during fall. The major new feature provided by 0.11.15 is support for internationalization, through the GNU gettext library. If you dislike English software, this might be useful.
(Here I go again, replying to an old post which noone will ever read...)
Um, it worked fine for me. Still does.
I think it's a shame that neither the Slashdot editor (Hemos) or you made Galeon a link, since perhaps someone wants to know more (without going through the nowadays horrible image-mapped h*ll that is gnome.org). There. ;^)
He. Yeah, either that, or find some crazy people with good soldering skills to design a Firewire adapter for the AGP port. Running at the maximum of 4X, that should provide 4 * 4B * 66MHz = 1056MBps of bandwidth. Since nodes in a cluster typically run "headless" (i.e., without monitor), this could actually be practical... I wonder if anyone is doing that--using the AGP port for things other than graphics? Sounds like a neat hack. ;^)
Um, I don't know if you're serious, but stuff like this works perfectly fine on earlier CPUs too, of course. ;^) I probably shouldn't be doing this, but Cycore have some neat tech for doing this. According to their download page, the plugin for their technology (Cult 3D) is available for Linux as well as the Other OS...
He. For me, Windows is often a "brainer". A real sick, twisted, and somehow retarded brainer, that is. ;^)
- It saves keystrokes (no parens)
- It makes intermediate results accessible
Besides, it's cool and geeky!Um, I guess that's "Tanenbaum", if you're referring to the computer scientist (?:) perhaps most known around here for starting the legendary "Linux is obsolete flame fest with Linux and folks, way back when (January 1992, to be specific). I wasn't aware that that quote was due to him, though... Cool! ;^)
Yeah, I suspect they've just doubled the size of the pictures for the linked versions. Very strange, especially since the wording on the linked site makes it clear that they should be higher-quality. Scaling an image up does not, in my opinion, improve its quality. ;^)
I'm not up to speed on the specs myself, so I'll happily accept those as true, since they do seem to make sense. It makes me wonder, though, what's up with e.g. this shot (the first from the linked-to page), since it's four times as large (at 480x320 pixels). Weird? Also, can I take this opportunity to think negative things about companies that publish screenshots from a fairly low-res console as JPEGs? They're dithered all to hell...
Heh. The article makes a reference to Chris Hecker (of definition six), mentioning that he delivered his talk at "a mile a minute". I was there, and Chris did indeed talk very quickly. I thought this was because some scheduling mishap forced him to squeeze his 30-minute talk into the 19 minutes left in a session. Later, at a different talk, Chris asked a poor Japanese researcher some question, again delivered at a rate that would make a machinegun envious. The researcher was not alone in having problems getting what was said, so soneone in the audience suggested that Chris repeat his question, only slower. To which Chris replied "Um, I'm not sure I know how to do that"! ;^) Then, he actually did repeat the question slower, the researcher answered, and all was well...
Um, actually, Ericsson makes quite a bit more than just plain cell phones. It's always fun to forget this, go to their site and hit the top combo box. It fills the screen with esoteric stuff! ;^) Anyway, I hope these plans (or some plans!) include the idea to add Bluetooth tech to a cell phone, so that it can make calls through some kind of base station while I'm around the house. That would give the best of two worlds from the same phone; low land-line rates while at home, mobile telephony as soon as I step out the door; all using the same handset of course. I've been waiting for this for a number of years now...