For what I've just read: Congratulations Richard, you finally did it. I know the poster of the message I'm just replying to congratulated you first, but I want to do it either.
Now I hope not to find out that this was not true when I get to compile the kernel....
I think transporting boats through continental land is already a good hack. Now if this way of transporting boats saves you the time to travel all around South América then it's a big hack.
I don't know you, but with only 15 IRQs I prefer to buy ISA cards which still use jumpers so I can control which IRQs I want to use.
And this is because my BIOS is so "SMART" that it does not want to use the IRQ 12 for a PCI card even if I explicitly specified not to use any serial mouse neither it's IRQ (12). The same happens with the second serial port and IRQ 3.
So if I want to use any of these IRQs I have to use a card with jumpers and set them to either IRQ 3 or 12 or 7 (the parport) and this is the only thing I can do if I begin running out of IRQs.
What will happen when I am no longer able to purchase a MB with ISA slots where I can use jumpers to choose the IRQs I like for my cards?
What will I do to all the ISA cards with jumpers I have purchased during the years?
What will I do if Linux USB support and Fire Wire support are not ready yet when that moment arrives?
Will some day Alan Cox and Linus say yes to Devfs so I can know with more accuracy where to find my USB, SCSI and Fire Wire devices without the need to have 10 000+/dev nodes for every possible piece of hardware I can plug in my machine?
Have you ever thaugt every time you purchase a MS product a significant percentage of the amount of money you pay is destined to the continuously growing lawyers group in charge of defending MS against each of the continuously growing in number lawsuits against MS.
If this situation keeps growing Microsoft's sales will hardly be enough to pay all the lawyers working for them.
Freshmeat is a references repository where you find the links to each project's home page and download places, but (as Murphy said) when you find in Freshmeat the app you need the most, the ftp server where the app is suposed to reside is offline and the project's home page is offline also. You then just end with a bunch of useless references.
The need is for a central FTP repository (with enough mirrors) where every project leader should upload every project's release.
Then Freshmeat should have the reference to the project's home and to the directory in the repository where you can get the sources.
>Give me a C/C++ program that has threading. Next get that to even pretend to work cross platform. It ain't gonna happen. Give credit where credit is due!
Forgetting about Apache and The Gimp:
C code which includes the GTK headers and is compiled and linked against the GTK libraries is proven to work the same in both Linux (or BSD or Solaris) and Windows.
And let's not forget about Perl and PHP, they are really portable languages, I've written PHP applications in apache/Windows and just tared the directories and untared them in a Linux box and works exactly the same and then to Solaris and guess what?
Now that nanotechnology is getting into the exponential-growth part of the curve, I'm just looking forward to see the first nanodetectors: You could use nanosensors spread along the way of capilar chromatographic tubes to monitor all the components in their way out of the column and to notice about the existence of components which get trapped into the column in order to increment the temperature. Also you could program your chromatograph to increment the temperature depending of the separation being achieved through the column. Nanodetectors should (for their nanosize) be able to detect even smaller quantities of substances. We could instead of using a regular-sized detector use an array of nanodetectors and read from all of them in parallel so we can get rid of noice by statistical means while at the same time detecting small quantities of substances which with the regular-sized detectors just get lost into the noise or improve the acuracy of their measurement. We could also use nano interferometer-diode arrays to scan with unprecedent acuracy and sample rate many wave lengths at the same time.Then we will need a Beowulf just to get the spectrum from each of the nano interferograms in a way real-time relative to the sample rate.
Telephone lines are known to be the most expensive in all the world, but how about geting one or more E1s for a whole building and share the rate and bandwidth between all the people living there? It seems that if high-bandwidth prices start getting lower every building (or group of buildings) can have it's own PBX (or router or both) and let the telephone companies in charge of only high-bandwidth services which have to be cheap.
After all the promises Java failed to turn into reality (maybe because of MS, maybe because of any other factors), the only language which has proven to be 100% portable is C. I love Java the promise od 'write once, run anywhere', but after all it's just a promise and has not been reached yet. C programs like Apache, GIMP, etc. are well known to be compatible with this 'write once, run anywhere' promise and also are extremely fast and powerfull. So, why not you choose your favorite CORBA library written in C and join the development team to add the features you need? It seems fair to me.
If this potential bandwidth increment means that telephone companies can carry even more telephone lines for a lower price and still charge us the same rates I totally disagree with this kind of technology advances. Telephone companies should realize it's time to offer higher bandwidth services for lower prices, they will still be making money while bringing benefits to their clients (us) instead of just getting every time richer with the 3rd world services they currently offer charging 1st world rates.
From my personal point of view I prefer an AMD CPU than the Cyrix they are planning to use in their sub-200 PC. Hopefully the AMD prices will get lower also and it will be possible to have the sub-200 machine with an AMD CPU and in that case I want one. About the plans of building machines with windows 98: Who needs to pay $200 more for a piece of software that is going to be uninstalled later on in order to install Linux. They should be reconsidering there's really no good business with Win98; after all, who needs it?. And about the lach of CD: I don't need to get a new CD with each machine I buy, I already have many CD players at home so I can use any of them.
> And I refuse to buy RAM for more than a buck a meg.
This fall of prices is the best I've heared in a month, prices have been almost $2US/M and I am definitely not paying that huge amount of money because three months ago I purchased the same 128M dimms at $0.8US/M.
I hope memory prices fall below $0.5US/M so I can buy other 256M for my machine.
Since Linux has been so portable in the last years, I think they just need to port Linux to their platform and you get Yet Another Hardware Platform To Choose For Your Linux.
When a 1ms delay means the difference between live and death a real time OS is the only one which can _always_ keep the patient alive while the other OSes can loose 1% or 0.1% of patients, who cares?
All the it's old news replies are because it's _really_ old news and every body knows that.
But any ways, you should give it a try, I haven't seen any other OS in the world doing the same (OS+GUI+WM+Browser+JS) It's just too much for the rest of the OSes
You just need to use the included text editor and start modifying the htmls to see the changes. Of course, as it's all in RAM, when you turn your machine off everything will be lost but in the meanwhile the filesystem works as enough as any other filesystem.
Slashdot Mirror
0:27 GMT-6 it's working.
I've just downloaded the 3 files.
For what I've just read:
Congratulations Richard, you finally did it.
I know the poster of the message I'm just replying to congratulated you first, but I want to do it either.
Now I hope not to find out that this was not true when I get to compile the kernel....
If Miguel wins I'll consider start using Gnome...
They work in such a similar way to real life viruses that they deserve the right to be called a big hack
I think transporting boats through continental land is already a good hack. Now if this way of transporting boats saves you the time to travel all around South América then it's a big hack.
If nerd means drunk I prefer that, specially on weekends...
In my last post I wrote 'Fire Wire', but now I've just read 'Firewire'.
Which of them is the correct one?
I don't know you, but with only 15 IRQs I prefer to buy ISA cards which still use jumpers so I can control which IRQs I want to use.
/dev nodes for every possible piece of hardware I can plug in my machine?
And this is because my BIOS is so "SMART" that it does not want to use the IRQ 12 for a PCI card even if I explicitly specified not to use any serial mouse neither it's IRQ (12). The same happens with the second serial port and IRQ 3.
So if I want to use any of these IRQs I have to use a card with jumpers and set them to either IRQ 3 or 12 or 7 (the parport) and this is the only thing I can do if I begin running out of IRQs.
What will happen when I am no longer able to purchase a MB with ISA slots where I can use jumpers to choose the IRQs I like for my cards?
What will I do to all the ISA cards with jumpers I have purchased during the years?
What will I do if Linux USB support and Fire Wire support are not ready yet when that moment arrives?
Will some day Alan Cox and Linus say yes to Devfs so I can know with more accuracy where to find my USB, SCSI and Fire Wire devices without the need to have 10 000+
But... rc5 has not finished, has it?
Have you ever thaugt every time you purchase a MS product a significant percentage of the amount of money you pay is destined to the continuously growing lawyers group in charge of defending MS against each of the continuously growing in number lawsuits against MS.
If this situation keeps growing Microsoft's sales will hardly be enough to pay all the lawyers working for them.
Freshmeat is a references repository where you find the links to each project's home page and download places, but (as Murphy said) when you find in Freshmeat the app you need the most, the ftp server where the app is suposed to reside is offline and the project's home page is offline also. You then just end with a bunch of useless references.
The need is for a central FTP repository (with enough mirrors) where every project leader should upload every project's release.
Then Freshmeat should have the reference to the project's home and to the directory in the repository where you can get the sources.
Isn't it Yet Another Microsoft's Monopoly Activity to be included in the DOJ vs MS trial?
>Give me a C/C++ program that has threading. Next get that to even pretend to work cross platform. It ain't gonna happen. Give credit where credit is due!
Forgetting about Apache and The Gimp:
C code which includes the GTK headers and is compiled and linked against the GTK libraries is proven to work the same in both Linux (or BSD or Solaris) and Windows.
And let's not forget about Perl and PHP, they are really portable languages, I've written PHP applications in apache/Windows and just tared the directories and untared them in a Linux box and works exactly the same and then to Solaris and guess what?
Now that nanotechnology is getting into the exponential-growth part of the curve, I'm just looking forward to see the first nanodetectors:
You could use nanosensors spread along the way of capilar chromatographic tubes to monitor all the components in their way out of the column and to notice about the existence of components which get trapped into the column in order to increment the temperature. Also you could program your chromatograph to increment the temperature depending of the separation being achieved through the column.
Nanodetectors should (for their nanosize) be able to detect even smaller quantities of substances. We could instead of using a regular-sized detector use an array of nanodetectors and read from all of them in parallel so we can get rid of noice by statistical means while at the same time detecting small quantities of substances which with the regular-sized detectors just get lost into the noise or improve the acuracy of their measurement.
We could also use nano interferometer-diode arrays to scan with unprecedent acuracy and sample rate many wave lengths at the same time.Then we will need a Beowulf just to get the spectrum from each of the nano interferograms in a way real-time relative to the sample rate.
Telephone lines are known to be the most expensive in all the world, but how about geting one or more E1s for a whole building and share the rate and bandwidth between all the people living there? It seems that if high-bandwidth prices start getting lower every building (or group of buildings) can have it's own PBX (or router or both) and let the telephone companies in charge of only high-bandwidth services which have to be cheap.
s/C/C\/C\+\+/g
I hope this is enough to keep C++ advocates in calm.
After all the promises Java failed to turn into reality (maybe because of MS, maybe because of any other factors), the only language which has proven to be 100% portable is C.
I love Java the promise od 'write once, run anywhere', but after all it's just a promise and has not been reached yet. C programs like Apache, GIMP, etc. are well known to be compatible with this 'write once, run anywhere' promise and also are extremely fast and powerfull.
So, why not you choose your favorite CORBA library written in C and join the development team to add the features you need? It seems fair to me.
Maybe they are not for CAD, but they should at least be a decent platform for Quake 2
If this potential bandwidth increment means that telephone companies can carry even more telephone lines for a lower price and still charge us the same rates I totally disagree with this kind of technology advances.
Telephone companies should realize it's time to offer higher bandwidth services for lower prices, they will still be making money while bringing benefits to their clients (us) instead of just getting every time richer with the 3rd world services they currently offer charging 1st world rates.
From my personal point of view I prefer an AMD CPU than the Cyrix they are planning to use in their sub-200 PC.
Hopefully the AMD prices will get lower also and it will be possible to have the sub-200 machine with an AMD CPU and in that case I want one.
About the plans of building machines with windows 98: Who needs to pay $200 more for a piece of software that is going to be uninstalled later on in order to install Linux. They should be reconsidering there's really no good business with Win98; after all, who needs it?.
And about the lach of CD: I don't need to get a new CD with each machine I buy, I already have many CD players at home so I can use any of them.
> And I refuse to buy RAM for more than a buck a meg.
This fall of prices is the best I've heared in a month, prices have been almost $2US/M and I am definitely not paying that huge amount of money because three months ago I purchased the same 128M dimms at $0.8US/M.
I hope memory prices fall below $0.5US/M so I can buy other 256M for my machine.
Since Linux has been so portable in the last years, I think they just need to port Linux to their platform and you get Yet Another Hardware Platform To Choose For Your Linux.
Seems very easy to be true. What do you think?
When a 1ms delay means the difference between live and death a real time OS is the only one which can _always_ keep the patient alive while the other OSes can loose 1% or 0.1% of patients, who cares?
All the it's old news replies are because it's _really_ old news and every body knows that.
But any ways, you should give it a try, I haven't seen any other OS in the world doing the same (OS+GUI+WM+Browser+JS) It's just too much for the rest of the OSes
You just need to use the included text editor and start modifying the htmls to see the changes.
Of course, as it's all in RAM, when you turn your machine off everything will be lost but in the meanwhile the filesystem works as enough as any other filesystem.