I sold one of these BRICKS of MP3CD players recently for E50 to some guy who didn't know how useless it was....
Didn't like long filenames. Would sometimes handle them, sometimes not. Couldn't go down more than a few layers of directories. No filename display. No remote control
But hey, it did feel great to have my entire music collection (it was 2000, I was a kid, and my CD collection did fit into 700MB at 96K) on one disc.
I also still use a 64MB JazPiper a lot... well, its 32MB base, 32MB SmartMedia cards, which I've got loads of. And Linux/BeOS drivers courtesy of DVD Jon...
Microsoft, who pay *extremely little tax here*, come nowhere close to contributing 20% of the countries tax revenue.
The patent legislation was pushed, heavily, by McCreevy and Ahern. However, it will hurt Ireland more than it benefits us, as we have many small software vendors, and a lot of commercial opensource - Sun JDS and RedHat spring to mind. Apple don't persue many of their patents that OSS violates - Freetype comes to mind. Microsoft may care, but its not like they *make* software here - they box it and translate it.
pre-release, although fairly working for the user (not the developer, though - bad, undocumented changes, broken headers, etc)
64MB is a figure for 'running well'. My PowerMacintosh machine running 5.03 was on 8MB, and now is on 32MB. With a meg being stolen for VRAM.
BeOS would USE all the RAM you gave it. It most certianly didn't NEED.
BeOS 5.1 (November 2001) is usable on 64MB. Windows XP (October 2001) is not.
On 256MB, BeOS 5.1 will look like its using a huge amount. That is because virtually *the entire damn OS*, which is in the region of 200MB installed, including all the manuals, headers, and all that, is cached into RAM. Windows doesn't do that - its just using 160MB because it needs to.
More accurately, they stopped using a commercial C compiler (Metrowerks C) on x86 and moved to GCC - where they didn't have to pay for uncrippled gubbins, obviously.
Having to still work with BeOS's mwcc on PPC, that was probably the only decent decision that they made in that era.
Developers could still get R4/R4.5 free but they had to prove themselves, unlike when Be were throwing it at you - there were somewhere in the region of 5x the number of registered developers as there are *applications* for BeOS.
$ sh --version
GNU bash, version 2.03.0(1)-release (i586-pc-beos)
Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Right. BeOS hasn't got the 'UNIX command line' then, has it?
Based on whats in/boot/beos/bin and/boot/home/config/bin on my machine (python, perl, gcc, svn, cvs, as well as all the based *-utils gnu packages), I think you'll find you would have had just as much of a command line on BeOS as in MacOS X. The Terminal application has been included since, err, ever. It was there in 1996 when Apple were musing over them.
I have bash3 built here somewhere, I just couldn't be bothered installing it...
Is that it now comes with a Mozilla plugin. So you can view OO.o and Office documents in Firefox/Netscape/Mozilla and print them or export them to PDF from the browser interface.
Only one step away from the browser becoming the OS then:-p
Did I say I meant the EPA in the US
Just because the US government uses an acronym doesn't mean that others can't. Their IRISH plants meant IRISH EPA limits, is what I said.
You get this whinging around every major industrial plant, and indeed every Intel plant
They're well within the EPA (Ireland) limits at their Irish plants. We still have whingers. Including one guy who insisted the yellow colour of the steam at night was in fact sulphur and not just the uplighters they have...
Lots. GMX provide you with WebDAV, Ireland On Line did/do. Both free. Both can be used for Outlook calanders, or iCal calanders, or Evolution calanders...
Mine (does|did, not checked in a few months). However, it is true that you'll lose it if you don't check it regularly. Although mines still there and I stopped paying my dialup subscription a year ago
Making you pay for what your ISP will usually provide for free? No decent ISP doesn't provide that level of content package. Just because nobody uses it doesn't mean its not there...
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Sorry to piss on the parade here, but XFM, then Alices Resturant, were streaming on the web in 1992
13 years ago.
http://www.xfmdublin.com/
Now, who the hell *listened* to them, I dunno; as I was unable to get a decent net connection in this city till 2004..
I also doubt they were the first, but it proves WXYC *weren't* the first.
I sold one of these BRICKS of MP3CD players recently for E50 to some guy who didn't know how useless it was.... Didn't like long filenames. Would sometimes handle them, sometimes not. Couldn't go down more than a few layers of directories. No filename display. No remote control But hey, it did feel great to have my entire music collection (it was 2000, I was a kid, and my CD collection did fit into 700MB at 96K) on one disc. I also still use a 64MB JazPiper a lot... well, its 32MB base, 32MB SmartMedia cards, which I've got loads of. And Linux/BeOS drivers courtesy of DVD Jon...
Microsoft, who pay *extremely little tax here*, come nowhere close to contributing 20% of the countries tax revenue. The patent legislation was pushed, heavily, by McCreevy and Ahern. However, it will hurt Ireland more than it benefits us, as we have many small software vendors, and a lot of commercial opensource - Sun JDS and RedHat spring to mind. Apple don't persue many of their patents that OSS violates - Freetype comes to mind. Microsoft may care, but its not like they *make* software here - they box it and translate it.
pre-release, although fairly working for the user (not the developer, though - bad, undocumented changes, broken headers, etc) 64MB is a figure for 'running well'. My PowerMacintosh machine running 5.03 was on 8MB, and now is on 32MB. With a meg being stolen for VRAM.
ehh?
BeOS would USE all the RAM you gave it. It most certianly didn't NEED.
BeOS 5.1 (November 2001) is usable on 64MB. Windows XP (October 2001) is not.
On 256MB, BeOS 5.1 will look like its using a huge amount. That is because virtually *the entire damn OS*, which is in the region of 200MB installed, including all the manuals, headers, and all that, is cached into RAM. Windows doesn't do that - its just using 160MB because it needs to.
More accurately, they stopped using a commercial C compiler (Metrowerks C) on x86 and moved to GCC - where they didn't have to pay for uncrippled gubbins, obviously. Having to still work with BeOS's mwcc on PPC, that was probably the only decent decision that they made in that era. Developers could still get R4/R4.5 free but they had to prove themselves, unlike when Be were throwing it at you - there were somewhere in the region of 5x the number of registered developers as there are *applications* for BeOS.
$ sh --version GNU bash, version 2.03.0(1)-release (i586-pc-beos) Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Right. BeOS hasn't got the 'UNIX command line' then, has it? Based on whats in /boot/beos/bin and /boot/home/config/bin on my machine (python, perl, gcc, svn, cvs, as well as all the based *-utils gnu packages), I think you'll find you would have had just as much of a command line on BeOS as in MacOS X. The Terminal application has been included since, err, ever. It was there in 1996 when Apple were musing over them.
I have bash3 built here somewhere, I just couldn't be bothered installing it...
Eh?
Speak Irish?
Born and raised in Ireland, lived here all my life. Can't speak a word of Irish...
We don't actually speak it, its just a sham for the american tourists and the Gaelthact Grant man.
Is that it now comes with a Mozilla plugin. So you can view OO.o and Office documents in Firefox/Netscape/Mozilla and print them or export them to PDF from the browser interface. Only one step away from the browser becoming the OS then :-p
Looking quickly at this story in my RSS reader, I saw "Microsoft acquires Connectiva"....
Did I say I meant the EPA in the US Just because the US government uses an acronym doesn't mean that others can't. Their IRISH plants meant IRISH EPA limits, is what I said.
You get this whinging around every major industrial plant, and indeed every Intel plant
They're well within the EPA (Ireland) limits at their Irish plants. We still have whingers. Including one guy who insisted the yellow colour of the steam at night was in fact sulphur and not just the uplighters they have...
Lots. GMX provide you with WebDAV, Ireland On Line did/do. Both free. Both can be used for Outlook calanders, or iCal calanders, or Evolution calanders...
Mine (does|did, not checked in a few months). However, it is true that you'll lose it if you don't check it regularly. Although mines still there and I stopped paying my dialup subscription a year ago
Making you pay for what your ISP will usually provide for free? No decent ISP doesn't provide that level of content package. Just because nobody uses it doesn't mean its not there...