At 50 GHZ, you wont be running a microprocessor as we know it. For technical reasons (IIRC, it has something to do with electron speed) you cant clock a silicon lump higher than about 2,1 GHZ. Youre gonna need optical CPUs for more "clock frequency". Btw, quantum processors would probably not be a good CPU replacement, because they arent always faster than normal CPUs. Just at special things, like number crunching...
> So most of the Half Life code deeply depends on Microsoft Foundation Classes. Could you please explain to me why a 3d Shooter would depend on the MFC, which is a widget set and can roughly be compared to, say, GTK or QT? Maybe it depends on DirectX or a subset of it (DirectDraw, Direct3D,...) - but on the MFC? *wondering*
well, we do something similar: we have catch-all subdomains for this purpose, so I can enter $sitename@catch-all-sub.ourdomain.net makes identifying spammers even more fun:-) (IIRC, you can make a catch-all in sendmail by using *@domain as a recipient in the virtusertable) have fun:)
Microsoft development tools are always substantially less expensive than anybody else's I sincerely hope that you dont mean what you say. I mean, how can the MS tools be cheaper than, say, the GNU tools, which are available for free and get you one of the best debuggers out there (ddd), for example ? nc
The reason given was that Web site enhancements are no longer news. now look when the last calender service was announced. A whopping year ago. Just maybe it is true what they said and they dont consider these things to be news anymore? Now I dont want to sound like a troll or something, but lets just think about the possibility they are telling the truth... this whole thing sounds a little bit like YACT (yet another conspiracy theory), imho.
for those interested, icq UIN #1 is the "System" account, i.e. the windows icq client treats messages from this UIN as special messages, coming not from an user but from the mirabilis team.
My main concern is the way they develop closed protocols and make workplaces "Microsoft Only" -- if the exchange server has Microserfs administering it, no mail client will work except outlook.
Not quite. Exchange does support IMAP (dont know about POP3), but of course there are better mail servers around:) I have personally witnessed that exchange indeed works quite well as IMAP server for a large user group (at $COMPANY, I think they had some 50k accounts or something), but sucks at performance. Anyways, it works.
imho, introducing a.sex TLD would set an unholy precedent. What about erotic art? Would that need to be.xxx as well? Or parody/jokes involving nekkid folks? When you have em all at their own.tld, of course this is censorship heaven... people will start to demand blocking for (once again) the sake of children or something stoopid... this is just one more example of "help, protect my children because Im unable to raise and educate my kids in a proper manner, I just want to put them in front of the pc and let them entertain and educate themselves"... or something like that. Whats next, a TLD for unpopular attitudes? Yeah, lets put up.geek, grreeat for agencies who look for unusual behaviour - all theyd have to do is a whois on *.geek:-/ nc
iirc, the file is called movie.avi.pif and the pif (some sort of ultra-lightweight batch file, can execute only one command) copies the contents of the file to mircs script.ini... No sort of embedding here. Windows just shows movie.avi.pif as movie.avi, which tricks the user. %comspec%/c copy c:\mirc\download\Movie.avi.pif C:\mirc\Script.ini ... that was the command in the PIF... really cheap:)
"Bill Gates is Michael Jordan" (btw, how to quote a quote?:) I may sound like a troll, but I do think that ChuckD is not as clueless about MS as he appears to be. I mean, sure, MS misbehaved like hell, but the other companies MS stomped on let MS do this to them. No, I mean, really, would anybody right in his mind sign those silly per-CPU license fees? Would you, as a manager, immediately cancel your SW development when MS _announced_ somthing far better, when you could know from the past that this was just hot air? Not only MS is to blame for their position - many many other companies paved its way cheerfully. Win 3.1 would not work with DR-DOS. This was clearly deliberate behaviour by MS coders. So why for $DEITYs sake did Caldera not sue MS right then, have them remove Win 3.1 from the market and get a compatible version out? Because they all were too afraid of MS.
This is just stupid. How in the world do they think this will help? Presumably to gain some attention (media) on DoS issues? The point is not media attention. The point is to show them script kiddies that their beloved irc will go away for good if they dont learn to behave. Its to show them and their friends that DoSing a irc server is not 31337, its annoying as can be. This sort of folks _need_ the cluestick. Btw, I am not making this up, I actually talked with one of the responsible Ircops. nc
a lot of people have been saying that the PC era is coming to an end. Be it Sun with their network computer vision, be it IBM and their mainframes, be it whoever. Not that I dislike mainframes and such, its just that the PC has proven itself to be a kind of versatile device nobody wants to miss. Network computers and such, yeah great, and we will surely be more "wired" (or actually wireLESS?) in the future. But the PC paradigm is unlikely to leave any time soon. Mediocrity survives, not the best technology.
Actually, the windows media player _does_ right now play.qt movies! It just does not support all the codecs that the apple quicktime player supports. So I guess if they open source the player, not the codecs, this wont be a problem.
You dont even need a CD these days. A friend of mine modified the RedHat 6.1 (or was it 6.0?) bootdisk to mount a NFS share with the RPMs and auto-install RH with a customized buncho packages. No user interaction at all neccessary. The only reason I can think of that this is not the default behaviour is the variety of PC hardware when it comes to NICs etc. His installation was for 100 PCs that had the same h/w config. As far as SuSE is concernec, you dont have much hassle with it, either, it has the possibility to boot a fully-functioning live system from CD without doing any modification to your system. And the SuSE installer is actually even easier to use than the RedHat one.
You can always remove the clutter (sure it is annoying. But it annoys you once removing it instead of always seeing it:). And believe it or not: the tray thingie is there for a reason. It runs itself at startup and minimizes the time to load the player (because the main code chunk is already loaded by the tray thingie). You can remove it, too. Simple. Oh but you are indeed right, real player can be a piece of crap (the linux version is especially buggy). Just wanted to make some things more correct (btw, this post got a +5 score? It sure looks like flamebait, its just it is not linux flamebait but realplayer flamebait. Doh!)
(FYI: The post you replied to was from me, not logged in) I have to admit that Ive only recently been following Amiga development (I stopped since when my good old A500 died). So I dont know much about the backstage at Amiga, but do you really think it is a wise idea to first go with Linux, then say, oh Linux was just fine for a startup, now we will flip back to QNX? This would mean that all developer effort based on Amiga/Linux is nullified. From what I read the last weeks, the Linux kernel was chosen instead of the QNX one as "official" Amiga environment, and not just put back on the waiting queue of "Kernels and operating environments we will switch to as soon as the new Amiga is established". Please correct me if Im wrong.
AmigaOS is going to sit on the Linux Kernel, so this is a good start for porting enlightenment. The thing gets tricky if they decide to use something else than X as their windowing system. If they stick to X, however, I dont see a problem. I wrote a bit more about this as an AC, you can read it here if you want :)
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At 50 GHZ, you wont be running a microprocessor as we know it. For technical reasons (IIRC, it has something to do with electron speed) you cant clock a silicon lump higher than about 2,1 GHZ. Youre gonna need optical CPUs for more "clock frequency". Btw, quantum processors would probably not be a good CPU replacement, because they arent always faster than normal CPUs. Just at special things, like number crunching...
nc
> So most of the Half Life code deeply depends on Microsoft Foundation Classes. ...) - but on the MFC? *wondering*
Could you please explain to me why a 3d Shooter would depend on the MFC, which is a widget set and can roughly be compared to, say, GTK or QT? Maybe it depends on DirectX or a subset of it (DirectDraw, Direct3D,
nc
well, we do something similar: we have catch-all subdomains for this purpose, so I can enter $sitename@catch-all-sub.ourdomain.net :-) :)
makes identifying spammers even more fun
(IIRC, you can make a catch-all in sendmail by using *@domain as a recipient in the virtusertable)
have fun
nc
replacing "www" with "partners" in the url to circumvent registration does no longer work. Is there a new method that someone knows of?
nc
Microsoft development tools are always substantially less expensive than anybody else's
I sincerely hope that you dont mean what you say. I mean, how can the MS tools be cheaper than, say, the GNU tools, which are available for free and get you one of the best debuggers out there (ddd), for example ?
nc
The reason given was that Web site enhancements are no longer news.
now look when the last calender service was announced. A whopping year ago. Just maybe it is true what they said and they dont consider these things to be news anymore? Now I dont want to sound like a troll or something, but lets just think about the possibility they are telling the truth... this whole thing sounds a little bit like YACT (yet another conspiracy theory), imho.
nc.
for those interested, icq UIN #1 is the "System" account, i.e. the windows icq client treats messages from this UIN as special messages, coming not from an user but from the mirabilis team.
My main concern is the way they develop closed protocols and make workplaces "Microsoft Only" -- if the exchange server has Microserfs administering it, no mail client will work except outlook.
:) I have personally witnessed that exchange indeed works quite well as IMAP server for a large user group (at $COMPANY, I think they had some 50k accounts or something), but sucks at performance. Anyways, it works.
Not quite. Exchange does support IMAP (dont know about POP3), but of course there are better mail servers around
nc
imho, introducing a .sex TLD would set an unholy precedent. What about erotic art? Would that need to be .xxx as well? Or parody/jokes involving nekkid folks? When you have em all at their own .tld, of course this is censorship heaven ... people will start to demand blocking for (once again) the sake of children or something stoopid... this is just one more example of "help, protect my children because Im unable to raise and educate my kids in a proper manner, I just want to put them in front of the pc and let them entertain and educate themselves" ... or something like that. Whats next, a TLD for unpopular attitudes? Yeah, lets put up .geek, grreeat for agencies who look for unusual behaviour - all theyd have to do is a whois on *.geek :-/
nc
iirc, the file is called movie.avi.pif and the pif (some sort of ultra-lightweight batch file, can execute only one command) copies the contents of the file to mircs script.ini ... No sort of embedding here. Windows just shows movie.avi.pif as movie.avi, which tricks the user. /c copy c:\mirc\download\Movie.avi.pif C:\mirc\Script.ini
... that was the command in the PIF ... really cheap :)
%comspec%
shots here :)
nuff said
"Bill Gates is Michael Jordan" :)
(btw, how to quote a quote?
I may sound like a troll, but I do think that ChuckD is not as clueless about MS as he appears to be. I mean, sure, MS misbehaved like hell, but the other companies MS stomped on let MS do this to them. No, I mean, really, would anybody right in his mind sign those silly per-CPU license fees? Would you, as a manager, immediately cancel your SW development when MS _announced_ somthing far better, when you could know from the past that this was just hot air? Not only MS is to blame for their position - many many other companies paved its way cheerfully. Win 3.1 would not work with DR-DOS. This was clearly deliberate behaviour by MS coders. So why for $DEITYs sake did Caldera not sue MS right then, have them remove Win 3.1 from the market and get a compatible version out? Because they all were too afraid of MS.
nc
This is just stupid. How in the world do they think this will help? Presumably to gain some attention (media) on DoS issues? The point is not media attention. The point is to show them script kiddies that their beloved irc will go away for good if they dont learn to behave. Its to show them and their friends that DoSing a irc server is not 31337, its annoying as can be. This sort of folks _need_ the cluestick. Btw, I am not making this up, I actually talked with one of the responsible Ircops.
nc
a lot of people have been saying that the PC era is coming to an end. Be it Sun with their network computer vision, be it IBM and their mainframes, be it whoever. Not that I dislike mainframes and such, its just that the PC has proven itself to be a kind of versatile device nobody wants to miss. Network computers and such, yeah great, and we will surely be more "wired" (or actually wireLESS?) in the future. But the PC paradigm is unlikely to leave any time soon. Mediocrity survives, not the best technology.
nc
Actually, the windows media player _does_ right now play .qt movies! It just does not support all the codecs that the apple quicktime player supports. So I guess if they open source the player, not the codecs, this wont be a problem.
nc.
You dont even need a CD these days. A friend of mine modified the RedHat 6.1 (or was it 6.0?) bootdisk to mount a NFS share with the RPMs and auto-install RH with a customized buncho packages. No user interaction at all neccessary. The only reason I can think of that this is not the default behaviour is the variety of PC hardware when it comes to NICs etc. His installation was for 100 PCs that had the same h/w config.
As far as SuSE is concernec, you dont have much hassle with it, either, it has the possibility to boot a fully-functioning live system from CD without doing any modification to your system. And the SuSE installer is actually even easier to use than the RedHat one.
Just my $200,0 (got pentium?)
You can always remove the clutter (sure it is annoying. But it annoys you once removing it instead of always seeing it :). And believe it or not: the tray thingie is there for a reason. It runs itself at startup and minimizes the time to load the player (because the main code chunk is already loaded by the tray thingie). You can remove it, too. Simple.
Oh but you are indeed right, real player can be a piece of crap (the linux version is especially buggy). Just wanted to make some things more correct (btw, this post got a +5 score? It sure looks like flamebait, its just it is not linux flamebait but realplayer flamebait. Doh!)
(FYI: The post you replied to was from me, not logged in)
I have to admit that Ive only recently been following Amiga development (I stopped since when my good old A500 died). So I dont know much about the backstage at Amiga, but do you really think it is a wise idea to first go with Linux, then say, oh Linux was just fine for a startup, now we will flip back to QNX? This would mean that all developer effort based on Amiga/Linux is nullified. From what I read the last weeks, the Linux kernel was chosen instead of the QNX one as "official" Amiga environment, and not just put back on the waiting queue of "Kernels and operating environments we will switch to as soon as the new Amiga is established".
Please correct me if Im wrong.
AmigaOS is going to sit on the Linux Kernel, so this is a good start for porting enlightenment. The thing gets tricky if they decide to use something else than X as their windowing system. If they stick to X, however, I dont see a problem. I wrote a bit more about this as an AC, you can read it
here if you want
:)