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Many folks have commented that this is just a command line, when it sounds like much more. It reminds me of the scriptable capabilities of KDE though the dcopclient utility. In other words, it provides dynamic and manipulative access to running systems without prior knowledge of their interfaces.
Sure, bash + vi + kill -HUP is provides some level of dynamic configuration, but it assumes prior knowledge of configuration file formats and whatnot. Also, there appears to be a desire for trans-network discovery as well.
Almost all the software on your system was either compiled by or is run by something that was compiled by the GNU compiler. I know that you address this in #3, but puleeeeease, that must be flamebait.
Every process running on your machine makes use of the GNU libc libraries. Ever look to see where/lib/libc.so.6 comes from? "lsof | grep libc", to get a taste of who is using linux and how.
Wait wait wait, this will be the best test: remove/bin/bash, restart your computer and see what happens. Next, respond to me from your windows machine.
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I can't find the link, but there was a good summary of a discussion (kernel cousin?) between users and distribution developers about the upcoming release plans for gcc. Apple had commiting to not upgrading to 3.2, but they would think about backporting bug fixes into their tree. Since they are the main distribution point for gcc for OSX, they'll be able to control it.
I use my PJB100 about 4 hours a day. It has a linux kernel module available (but possibly not maintained) and a very nice open source command line tool (thanks folks!). I've never used my pjb with anything other than linux and haven't had any problems.
Pro's:
upgradable hard drive - I'm putting a 40 gig in this weekend, up from 20 rechargable lithium ion battery (internal) battery lasts ~7-8 hours if you don't modify the playlist too often sounds better than most other mp3 products I've listened too. linux, mac, and windows clients the firmware is very very stable
Con's The company that makes it is almost invisible The firmware is stable, but also never gets upgrade (and worse) the firmware is closed source Its not as pretty as the ipod It does not have a regular filesystem, which limits its potential use as a usb harddrive USB isn't as fast as firewire (ipod) It's expensive It could be smaller. Jogging? You would need to hold it or have a fanny pack. it's too heavy for a belt. It comes with a car cigarette adaptor The table of contents is constrained by a max size, which makes multiple playlists impossible when you've got 20 gigs worth of songs.
All in all, I love my pjb100. I use it almost every single day on the bus and at work and it boosts the quality of life much more than any other gadget I can think of. Still, I wish the firmware was OS so that somebody smarter than me could add features;-) Not that the original Compaq guys didn't do a good job, the thing NEVER crashes.
You can purchase it at http://www.mp3factorydirect.com
The "Omnimax" is the domed one. Its the same film (70mm?) and sound reels (they keep sound seperate, I think), but the projection and audio setup is different.
Yeah, eventually, as in "not soon enough to matter". As if IBM's purchase of PwC won't slow it down enough, the last thing that big ol' lumbering IBM could do is take on MS through a purchase during the next two years. Hell, it would probably hurt IBM more than helping it, considering the amount of $$ they make on MS solutions.
One company wouldn't be able to take on Microsoft, especially not a company that was purchased and integrated. You just can't do that without some severe growing pains. Microsoft is huge, but they've learned how to do it. They can still move faster than any other big-ish company out there (damn them).
Well they wouldn't have to merge them, they'd just port Aqua over to solaris (if they didn't just maintain both). I almost be that porting to solaris would be easier than porting darwin to sparc.
Here is one thing to think about: each company usually has cooler looking cases than their wintel counterparts. Hrrrm... now if they brought SGI into the picture then we'd have some serious looking rigs on our desks.
Oh wait... no... this would be awesome... All the new Sun's would have Titanium style cases. Awesome! And they would have a big apple/sun logo etched into the metal... Oh wow, the server room would have more silver in it than a rich wife in the burbs who just traded her car in for all stainless steel appliances.
Listen Dude. That was somebody else's rumor. THIS ONE is mine. Did they have the OpenOffice spin? No. Was MacOS UNIX then? No, it wasn't. Was the powerpc chip too slow to keep up with intel back then? Ooops! I guess that's always been the case.
My Sun/Apple "rumor" is way cooler than any of those other out of date rumors.
The Snapple thing IS funny, though. I give props to the rumors before mine. I'm truly standing on the shoulder's of giants.
No kidding. Isn't it funny how the western economy gets more and more fake everyday?
Market forces are remarkably similar to daytime soap operas except that the soaps are written and controlled by a small group of people... oh fuck.
We're all just pawns, aren't we? Shit. At least they give us beer to make us stupid enough to not notice the fact that... that uh... hey, is that the 2002 Explorer? Wow man, I bet Sarah will come back to you when she sees that shit. Does it have a TV inside?
Maybe they are denying this news because in truth SUN AND APPLE ARE MERGING!!!
Wouldn't that make a great little conspiracy story? Come on, think about it. Sun has positioned themselves such that they need desktop software and Apple SHOULD be looking to G4/5 alternatives, particulary 64 bit options if they want to maintain any customers in the movie industry. The sparc wouldn't be a poor choice, since it seems like its roadmap goes farther than the vanilla powerpc chips.
Okay, it would be pretty un-applish to want to port Aqua to solaris rather than darwin, but you never know. Or the apple/sun conglomerate could maintain 3 difference unixes (don't forget that Sun has a linux distro coming out). It should would strengthen both companies pitch to the business sector since the whole office could come from one vendor (server, clients and office software). You can even picture what the new logo would be: a purple apple with sunbeams gracing one side, casting a shadow northward... no, farther north... yeah, past Oregon.. yeah, that far northward.
Come on silicon valley! Mount a RISC offensive against Redmond!
I had to stop using tripwire because my databases, compressed, wouldn't fit on a floppy anymore. I imagine that quite a few people have run into this in the race to fill up big new hard drives.
No kidding. There is ONE document that appears to be binhex'd or encrypted or something. I tried to do something with it, but gave up after about ten minutes. I guess that they are too early in the project to be sharing much.
I've been wondering if a new solution for the "money problems" involved in running a big site could be solved in part with freenet or some other distributed peer to peer network system. People would, it some sense, be donating their bandwidth. I don't know how you would insure that you were getting the actual site and not a rip-off, though.
I used to think this way, till I realized that CD/DVD style media is laking in durability. I don't understand why they didn't make cd's similar to minidisc's, where there is a protective case surrounding the media. Perhaps it was limiting to speed, or a danger to the media in and of itself.
Regardless, I'm tired to renting skippy-dvd's and I'm tired of having un-rippable cd's from one fragile drop-to-the-top. Optical media would at least solve this problem, since it removes the need for media to be spun.
How many hundreds of cd's will I own before something better comes out (quality and durability)? If it wasn't for ripping onto my pjb for work and mobile listening, I would probably be back to vinyl.
When I was first learning vi (I used emacs first - and still do for everything but admin work) I would have files full of ':wq!:q!:' all at the bottom.
I always imagine Timothy, Taco and the rest writing replies to grammatical nazis and "posted already" folks, abandoning halfway through with a series of spit, curses and vi context mistakes. If anybody ever hacks into their laptops, dead.letter is the first thing to read;-)
I am using an applet in mozilla right now. I do have the java plugin installed, so maybe you can try that. Honestly, I'm exactly sure why I need the plugin, but hey, it works.
Did you notice the quote from one exec/manager who explicity expressed that their reasons for moving were not based on preference or politics, but on cost?
If the only reason for linux is the political aspect of it, then I'm afraid many zealots are fighting for a lost cause. Personally, I like the polital aspects of using Linux/GPL/etc.. software, but seperately I also enjoy the other aspects, including productivity, cost, openness (which isn't neccessarily political) and the geek factor.
I'm really surprised to hear people talk about previous problems with kmail. I've been using it exclusively at work for over 2 years and its by far the best email client I've used. It never crashes, never corrupts, and it's simple, fast and easy.
Jeez, maybe I'm not the power user that I though I was;-)
I'm actually waiting to use kde3.0 until the second release. 2.2(.2?) is so stable at work that I don't want to risk mucking anything up.
No kidding. The Tattered Cover is easily one of the best bookstores in the US (Powell's in Portland, despite some labor issues, is also another great one). I haven't lived in Denver for several years, but TC is still the standard that I compare all other bookstores to.
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Ahem. I appear to have "remembered my form values" via mozilla at some point, which means that "what about the helios" got inserted for me based on a post several months ago
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Many folks have commented that this is just a command line, when it sounds like much more. It reminds me of the scriptable capabilities of KDE though the dcopclient utility. In other words, it provides dynamic and manipulative access to running systems without prior knowledge of their interfaces.
Sure, bash + vi + kill -HUP is provides some level of dynamic configuration, but it assumes prior knowledge of configuration file formats and whatnot. Also, there appears to be a desire for trans-network discovery as well.
eh?
Yeah, when Worldcom bites the dust we might need to organize "Hands Around the World" just to read /.
:-)
Genetic engineering is going to become a much higher priority for geeks as soon as they need to overclock THAT bus
Riiiight. ESPECIALLY NOT those people who build beowolf clusters out of alphas. Nope, not them for sure.
Really, your logic isn't very logical, nor does it apply to the real world (at least not in all cases).
Uh, about numbers 3 & 5:
Almost all the software on your system was either compiled by or is run by something that was compiled by the GNU compiler. I know that you address this in #3, but puleeeeease, that must be flamebait.
Every process running on your machine makes use of the GNU libc libraries. Ever look to see where
Wait wait wait, this will be the best test: remove
I can't find the link, but there was a good summary of a discussion (kernel cousin?) between users and distribution developers about the upcoming release plans for gcc. Apple had commiting to not upgrading to 3.2, but they would think about backporting bug fixes into their tree. Since they are the main distribution point for gcc for OSX, they'll be able to control it.
Do they skip easily? He does want to take it running, so that may be a contraint.
I use my PJB100 about 4 hours a day. It has a linux kernel module available (but possibly not maintained) and a very nice open source command line tool (thanks folks!). I've never used my pjb with anything other than linux and haven't had any problems.
;-) Not that the original Compaq guys didn't do a good job, the thing NEVER crashes.
Pro's:
upgradable hard drive - I'm putting a 40 gig in this weekend, up from 20
rechargable lithium ion battery (internal)
battery lasts ~7-8 hours if you don't modify the playlist too often
sounds better than most other mp3 products I've listened too.
linux, mac, and windows clients
the firmware is very very stable
Con's
The company that makes it is almost invisible
The firmware is stable, but also never gets upgrade
(and worse) the firmware is closed source
Its not as pretty as the ipod
It does not have a regular filesystem, which limits its potential use as a usb harddrive
USB isn't as fast as firewire (ipod)
It's expensive
It could be smaller. Jogging? You would need to hold it or have a fanny pack. it's too heavy for a belt.
It comes with a car cigarette adaptor
The table of contents is constrained by a max size, which makes multiple playlists impossible when you've got 20 gigs worth of songs.
All in all, I love my pjb100. I use it almost every single day on the bus and at work and it boosts the quality of life much more than any other gadget I can think of. Still, I wish the firmware was OS so that somebody smarter than me could add features
You can purchase it at http://www.mp3factorydirect.com
The "Omnimax" is the domed one. Its the same film (70mm?) and sound reels (they keep sound seperate, I think), but the projection and audio setup is different.
Yeah, eventually, as in "not soon enough to matter". As if IBM's purchase of PwC won't slow it down enough, the last thing that big ol' lumbering IBM could do is take on MS through a purchase during the next two years. Hell, it would probably hurt IBM more than helping it, considering the amount of $$ they make on MS solutions.
One company wouldn't be able to take on Microsoft, especially not a company that was purchased and integrated. You just can't do that without some severe growing pains. Microsoft is huge, but they've learned how to do it. They can still move faster than any other big-ish company out there (damn them).
Well they wouldn't have to merge them, they'd just port Aqua over to solaris (if they didn't just maintain both). I almost be that porting to solaris would be easier than porting darwin to sparc.
Here is one thing to think about: each company usually has cooler looking cases than their wintel counterparts. Hrrrm... now if they brought SGI into the picture then we'd have some serious looking rigs on our desks.
Oh wait... no... this would be awesome... All the new Sun's would have Titanium style cases. Awesome! And they would have a big apple/sun logo etched into the metal... Oh wow, the server room would have more silver in it than a rich wife in the burbs who just traded her car in for all stainless steel appliances.
Listen Dude. That was somebody else's rumor. THIS ONE is mine. Did they have the OpenOffice spin? No. Was MacOS UNIX then? No, it wasn't. Was the powerpc chip too slow to keep up with intel back then? Ooops! I guess that's always been the case.
My Sun/Apple "rumor" is way cooler than any of those other out of date rumors.
The Snapple thing IS funny, though. I give props to the rumors before mine. I'm truly standing on the shoulder's of giants.
No kidding. Isn't it funny how the western economy gets more and more fake everyday?
Market forces are remarkably similar to daytime soap operas except that the soaps are written and controlled by a small group of people... oh fuck.
We're all just pawns, aren't we? Shit. At least they give us beer to make us stupid enough to not notice the fact that... that uh... hey, is that the 2002 Explorer? Wow man, I bet Sarah will come back to you when she sees that shit. Does it have a TV inside?
Have you fed your Illuminati lately?
Maybe they are denying this news because in truth SUN AND APPLE ARE MERGING!!!
Wouldn't that make a great little conspiracy story? Come on, think about it. Sun has positioned themselves such that they need desktop software and Apple SHOULD be looking to G4/5 alternatives, particulary 64 bit options if they want to maintain any customers in the movie industry. The sparc wouldn't be a poor choice, since it seems like its roadmap goes farther than the vanilla powerpc chips.
Okay, it would be pretty un-applish to want to port Aqua to solaris rather than darwin, but you never know. Or the apple/sun conglomerate could maintain 3 difference unixes (don't forget that Sun has a linux distro coming out). It should would strengthen both companies pitch to the business sector since the whole office could come from one vendor (server, clients and office software). You can even picture what the new logo would be: a purple apple with sunbeams gracing one side, casting a shadow northward... no, farther north... yeah, past Oregon.. yeah, that far northward.
Come on silicon valley! Mount a RISC offensive against Redmond!
I had to stop using tripwire because my databases, compressed, wouldn't fit on a floppy anymore. I imagine that quite a few people have run into this in the race to fill up big new hard drives.
No kidding. There is ONE document that appears to be binhex'd or encrypted or something. I tried to do something with it, but gave up after about ten minutes. I guess that they are too early in the project to be sharing much.
Busted.
;-) I usually read the articles before opening my pie hole. Really, I swear!
;-)
I was on my way out the door and posted without reading the article
Now I'm getting home and I'm tired, so I'm posting again... without reading the article
LWN is one of my favorite and daily sites.
I've been wondering if a new solution for the "money problems" involved in running a big site could be solved in part with freenet or some other distributed peer to peer network system. People would, it some sense, be donating their bandwidth. I don't know how you would insure that you were getting the actual site and not a rip-off, though.
I used to think this way, till I realized that CD/DVD style media is laking in durability. I don't understand why they didn't make cd's similar to minidisc's, where there is a protective case surrounding the media. Perhaps it was limiting to speed, or a danger to the media in and of itself.
Regardless, I'm tired to renting skippy-dvd's and I'm tired of having un-rippable cd's from one fragile drop-to-the-top. Optical media would at least solve this problem, since it removes the need for media to be spun.
How many hundreds of cd's will I own before something better comes out (quality and durability)? If it wasn't for ripping onto my pjb for work and mobile listening, I would probably be back to vinyl.
Har har har!
;-)
When I was first learning vi (I used emacs first - and still do for everything but admin work) I would have files full of ':wq!:q!:' all at the bottom.
I always imagine Timothy, Taco and the rest writing replies to grammatical nazis and "posted already" folks, abandoning halfway through with a series of spit, curses and vi context mistakes. If anybody ever hacks into their laptops, dead.letter is the first thing to read
I am using an applet in mozilla right now. I do have the java plugin installed, so maybe you can try that. Honestly, I'm exactly sure why I need the plugin, but hey, it works.
Did you notice the quote from one exec/manager who explicity expressed that their reasons for moving were not based on preference or politics, but on cost?
If the only reason for linux is the political aspect of it, then I'm afraid many zealots are fighting for a lost cause. Personally, I like the polital aspects of using Linux/GPL/etc.. software, but seperately I also enjoy the other aspects, including productivity, cost, openness (which isn't neccessarily political) and the geek factor.
I'm really surprised to hear people talk about previous problems with kmail. I've been using it exclusively at work for over 2 years and its by far the best email client I've used. It never crashes, never corrupts, and it's simple, fast and easy.
;-)
Jeez, maybe I'm not the power user that I though I was
I'm actually waiting to use kde3.0 until the second release. 2.2(.2?) is so stable at work that I don't want to risk mucking anything up.
No kidding. The Tattered Cover is easily one of the best bookstores in the US (Powell's in Portland, despite some labor issues, is also another great one). I haven't lived in Denver for several years, but TC is still the standard that I compare all other bookstores to.
At least hippies speak english.
Thanks!