Something worth mentioning is that you don't need a DevPhone to develop applications. You only need a DevPhone to be able to install non-Google OS images.
So if you're "just" an application developer and not an OS hacker, then just get the normal phone.
I'm using a Linksys NSLU2 as a NAS. I've wiped it of the original Linksys firmware and installed the officially supported ARM version of Debian Linux on it. Debian is installed on a 2GB USB Memory Stick, and I have a 500GB External USB HD attached via a tiny USB hub. I also have an HP F380 Printer/Scanner attached.
I'm using the box as a Samba server for file sharing, SANE server for remote scanning, CUPS server for remote printing and a Twonky Media server for steaming audio and photos to my XBox 360. It all works really well.
Not a bad NAS (or really a complete Debian Linux box) for about $250 for the NSLU2 and the Harddisk.
Hehe, no not exactly. I'm not quite that stupid, although I am stupid enough to be infected with a trojan it seems.
I of course did some research into the cleaning app before downloading it. I found some reviews of the software and also found it mirrored on download.com. When I did download the software, it was from a mirror. I also virus scanned it before running it.
I didn't trust the guy, so if I wasn't 100% sure about the app I wouldn't have downloaded it at all.
Everything I said is the first post is the truth.
(Notice that I didn't post Anonymously)
I didn't even know that moosoft existed until I was pointed at their site. I used the evaluation version of their software to remove the bot.
I am not a customer of moosoft, and have nothing to do with them.
I have since found other free (as in beer) programs that do the same job.
Doing a web search for SubSeven will give you links to a number of programs that remove it.
If you don't want to belive me, whatever. I just thought that other people in my situation may like a fix to the problem, as the article didn't seem to suggest any. (If it did, I must have missed it).
I probably shouldn't try to explain myself to an "Anonymous Coward", but what kind of proof do you want?
I'm reluctant to give out the IP address of the IRC server, as an influx of connections may get me DoSed.
I must thank Gibson for the article, and Slashdot for bringing it to my attention.
After I had finished reading I thought I'd check my machine (It's multi-boot, I don't use Windows that much). To my horror, I found out that my Windows partition was infected by the SubSeven bot.
So I kicked up my IRC client and connected to the IRC server that the bot was on. I entered the admin channel and just sat there. A little while later somebody messaged me. I explained that a hidden bot was connected to the server and asked how to remove it.
I was pointed at: http://www.moosoft.com
I downloaded the "Cleaner" application which did a fine job of finding the bot and removing it.
I had a little chat with (I assume) the person controlling these bots. The person seemed to be quite helpful, which supprised me.
From the IRC stats, there were over 900 infected machines connected.
After removing the bot, I disconnected from the IRC server. I'm now considering what to do next. The IRC server was hosted by a company offering UNIX shells, and IRC server hosting.
Do I just leave it at that, put it down to experience and move on. Or should I inform the hosting company, and possibly risk being DoSed myself? (I suspect that the person I talked to on the IRC server logged my IP, which is static)
I've finally managed to get a cable connection in the UK. I had to move house to get it though.
My service provider is NTL and the speed is artifically capped at 512kbp/s download and 128kbp/s upload. The hardware supports up to about 36Mbps however.
My average download rate is 70K/s from Europe and about 30K/s from the US.
Cost is £40 a month including the cable modem rental.
Not great, but it's a far cry from a 56k dial-up.
On the plus side, the cable modem has both USB and UTP connections, with an on-board DHCP server and HTTP remote configuration server built in. Unlike the ADSL service in the UK, which for the £40 a month package, only supports USB & Win98, I can use the cable modem from any OS with a normal network card.
True. But the performace difference was MASSIVE in that BeNews article. Even if they made some big configuration mistakes, I'm sure that BeOS would still come out on top. The difference was so big that I don't think any kind of tweaking would change the overall result.
Except that the BeOS GUI has been open sourced.
The BeOS 'window manager' hasn't however, but a major amount has.
You can get it here: http://www.opentracker.org
The reason that this assembler 'like' languge isn't as low level as a 'normal' assembler is because of the multi-platform nature of it.
It's as low as you can get to the hardware, when you _don't_know_ what that hardware is.
Different processors have different numbers of registers, so doing thing this way, you are able to get code as fast as possible, while taking full advantage of whatever hardware the end user decideds to run it on. It could even run on a processor that didn't exist when you wrote the code.
As has been demontrated by the Amiga development guys, you can take a disk with a one file program on it, written using Amiga VP code, put it in an x86 Windows machine and run it, then put the disk in a PPC Linux box and just run it. I don't see that happening with 'normal' assembler.
What was even more impressive about the Amiga RAM Disk, was the variation 'Recovable' RAM Disk ( RAD: ).
(Also know as 'RAM_B0' on OS1.3 and below)
This kind of RAM disk did not dynamically re-size like a normal RAM disk, but did survive a re-boot.
Therefore, when your machine crashed, it would boot off the RAD disk in no more than a few seconds. Very useful when developing.:-)
I suspect that that kind of thing wouldn't be possible on 'standard' PC hardware. Does anybody know of anything like that for the PC?
If you're looking for some X window managers that have been compiled on BeOS then check out my web site at www.smaug.co.uk. There's AmiWM, MLVWM and Blackbox available.
Slashdot Mirror
"We've always been at war with Eastasia"
AFAIK ACCESS Co. Ltd. own the BeOS intellectual property.
As referenced in this Haiku news posting.
All publicity is good publicity?
If you have an Android DevPhone or a "rooted" T-Mobile G1 you can use the free application aNetShare to tether via WiFi.
(Other wifi tethering applications are available, I have nothing to do with the software, just a happy user)
Something worth mentioning is that you don't need a DevPhone to develop applications. You only need a DevPhone to be able to install non-Google OS images.
So if you're "just" an application developer and not an OS hacker, then just get the normal phone.
Other than licensing, Firewire is a more expensive technology to implement due the hardware. That's really kept it out of the low-end markets.
I have an Acer Travelmate that has a Firewire port, and the laptop RRP is about £300 ($518). That's about as low-end as you get laptop wise.
I'm using a Linksys NSLU2 as a NAS. I've wiped it of the original Linksys firmware and installed the officially supported ARM version of Debian Linux on it. Debian is installed on a 2GB USB Memory Stick, and I have a 500GB External USB HD attached via a tiny USB hub. I also have an HP F380 Printer/Scanner attached.
I'm using the box as a Samba server for file sharing, SANE server for remote scanning, CUPS server for remote printing and a Twonky Media server for steaming audio and photos to my XBox 360. It all works really well.
Not a bad NAS (or really a complete Debian Linux box) for about $250 for the NSLU2 and the Harddisk.
I predict the winner of the format war will be the format that has its DRM cracked first.
What better incentive does someone need other than; "If you buy this one you can get free stuff".
Hehe, no not exactly. I'm not quite that stupid, although I am stupid enough to be infected with a trojan it seems.
I of course did some research into the cleaning app before downloading it. I found some reviews of the software and also found it mirrored on download.com. When I did download the software, it was from a mirror. I also virus scanned it before running it.
I didn't trust the guy, so if I wasn't 100% sure about the app I wouldn't have downloaded it at all.
*sigh* Sometimes I wonder why I bother.
Everything I said is the first post is the truth.
(Notice that I didn't post Anonymously)
I didn't even know that moosoft existed until I was pointed at their site. I used the evaluation version of their software to remove the bot.
I am not a customer of moosoft, and have nothing to do with them.
I have since found other free (as in beer) programs that do the same job.
Doing a web search for SubSeven will give you links to a number of programs that remove it.
If you don't want to belive me, whatever. I just thought that other people in my situation may like a fix to the problem, as the article didn't seem to suggest any. (If it did, I must have missed it).
I probably shouldn't try to explain myself to an "Anonymous Coward", but what kind of proof do you want?
I'm reluctant to give out the IP address of the IRC server, as an influx of connections may get me DoSed.
I must thank Gibson for the article, and Slashdot for bringing it to my attention.
After I had finished reading I thought I'd check my machine (It's multi-boot, I don't use Windows that much). To my horror, I found out that my Windows partition was infected by the SubSeven bot.
So I kicked up my IRC client and connected to the IRC server that the bot was on. I entered the admin channel and just sat there. A little while later somebody messaged me. I explained that a hidden bot was connected to the server and asked how to remove it.
I was pointed at: http://www.moosoft.com
I downloaded the "Cleaner" application which did a fine job of finding the bot and removing it.
I had a little chat with (I assume) the person controlling these bots. The person seemed to be quite helpful, which supprised me.
From the IRC stats, there were over 900 infected machines connected.
After removing the bot, I disconnected from the IRC server. I'm now considering what to do next. The IRC server was hosted by a company offering UNIX shells, and IRC server hosting.
Do I just leave it at that, put it down to experience and move on. Or should I inform the hosting company, and possibly risk being DoSed myself? (I suspect that the person I talked to on the IRC server logged my IP, which is static)
I've finally managed to get a cable connection in the UK. I had to move house to get it though.
My service provider is NTL and the speed is artifically capped at 512kbp/s download and 128kbp/s upload. The hardware supports up to about 36Mbps however.
My average download rate is 70K/s from Europe and about 30K/s from the US.
Cost is £40 a month including the cable modem rental.
Not great, but it's a far cry from a 56k dial-up.
On the plus side, the cable modem has both USB and UTP connections, with an on-board DHCP server and HTTP remote configuration server built in. Unlike the ADSL service in the UK, which for the £40 a month package, only supports USB & Win98, I can use the cable modem from any OS with a normal network card.
>Just patch the AGP patches in and install the DRM modules
No thanks. I use BeOS because "It just works". No messing around with patching up the kernel.
But if that's your kind of thing, fine.
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Make that four commercial games. I've got Civilization Call to Power and Corum III sitting here. :)
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NWN will probably be a good test of which OS has the fastest OpenGL. I'd guess it would be BeOS judging from the benchmarks here
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True. But the performace difference was MASSIVE in that BeNews article. Even if they made some big configuration mistakes, I'm sure that BeOS would still come out on top. The difference was so big that I don't think any kind of tweaking would change the overall result.
Except that the BeOS GUI has been open sourced.
The BeOS 'window manager' hasn't however, but a major amount has.
You can get it here: http://www.opentracker.org
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The reason that this assembler 'like' languge isn't as low level as a 'normal' assembler is because of the multi-platform nature of it.
It's as low as you can get to the hardware, when you _don't_know_ what that hardware is.
Different processors have different numbers of registers, so doing thing this way, you are able to get code as fast as possible, while taking full advantage of whatever hardware the end user decideds to run it on. It could even run on a processor that didn't exist when you wrote the code.
As has been demontrated by the Amiga development guys, you can take a disk with a one file program on it, written using Amiga VP code, put it in an x86 Windows machine and run it, then put the disk in a PPC Linux box and just run it. I don't see that happening with 'normal' assembler.
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What was even more impressive about the Amiga RAM Disk, was the variation 'Recovable' RAM Disk ( RAD: ). :-)
(Also know as 'RAM_B0' on OS1.3 and below)
This kind of RAM disk did not dynamically re-size like a normal RAM disk, but did survive a re-boot.
Therefore, when your machine crashed, it would boot off the RAD disk in no more than a few seconds. Very useful when developing.
I suspect that that kind of thing wouldn't be possible on 'standard' PC hardware. Does anybody know of anything like that for the PC?
If you're looking for some X window managers that have been compiled on BeOS then check out my web site at www.smaug.co.uk. There's AmiWM, MLVWM and Blackbox available.
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It's time for a NG system. Imagine an OS with O-O dlls from the ground up, an OS that actually has a built in GUI. That's the real future
I don't imagine, I use it. BeOS
David.