Pretty easy. Kinda pointless imo. I have a nice IBM box hosted with linux on it, as well as a pretty decent desktop which dual boots win2k/debian. I did dual boot debian/macosx for a while but I ended up spending all my time in OS X anyway.
It'd be perfectly possible to run their own app on it under linux without breaking the GPL, just like you can run Quake3a on your linux machine without breaking the GPL.
4 : a machine for converting any of various forms of energy into mechanical force and motion; also : a mechanism or object that serves as an energy source <black holes may be the engines for quasars>
ISTR that the DEC Alpha's EV bus protocol was named after 'Electric Vlastic' where Vlastic is a brand of pickles. I guess their engineers liked doing this too.
If you run the console.app it'll grab stack traces of things that crash. Doesn't really help as I lack the source to terminal.app, but it is vaguely consoleing.
Back when I first used linux I used to purposefully remove vi because I didn't know how to quit it. It scared me. So it's quite likely that there are unix-like machines that don't have vi on them.
True. It's not just that they have short lifetimes, but different colours have different lifetimes. As of last year (when I last look at the subject in any detail) the red OLEDs had 20,000+ hour lifetimes, green had 10,000h+ and blue had ~1000h.
So your display would start off white, then slowly go yellow.
* Keyboard/mouse DIN - 5. Works OK, but hard to orient. Making mouse and keyboard identical was stupid. Feel not very satisfying. Evolution at work, the tranition from DIN to minidin occured at the same time as the transition away from serial mice.
* AC Power cord to power supply - 9. Very satisfying feel. Easy to use.
Ah, yes, the trusty IEC connector. AKA kettleleads in the UK. Great things, pity the distribution boards are so expensive.
* AC Power cord to wall outlet - 6. A true classic. Rated down because of childhood memories of annoying transition to 3-prong grounded outlets. Could have used better protection against fingers/children.
I'd not give US wall plugs more than a 3. At least they have flat connectors, unlike those crappy EU ones. Unsheathed, tinny wobbly little things. UK three-pin plugs are far better. * 1/8-inch audo jacks - 8. Easy to use. It would be better if all audio equipment would use the same connector (i.e., no 1/4-inch or RCA jacks). Not robust enough, I've wrecked a couple of these.
* USB connector - 9. Sure beats previous solutions. Would be nice if the up/down orientation distinction was more obvious.
OK. I guess.
* RJ-11/RJ-45 modem/network - 8. Very convenient; elegant design. Achilles heel: if you try to pull the cable out of a tangle of wires, you're likely to break the little retaining tab and ruin the cable.
Agreed
* 15-pin VGA video - 5. Hard to orient, screws are inconvenient (but easier than the 3-BNC connector alternative). Technical achievement award to those who figured out how to kludge 1600x1200 signal frequencies through this thing.
Should see old SUN equipment, the connector contains little coax connectors.
* 9-pin serial connector - 3. Boring. Same problems as VGA. Should have been done with 2 or 3 pins. (Old larger serial connectors rate a 1 for total overkill.)
Most of the extra pins have a use. Flow control for a start. Important when you're going to throughput with as little silicon as possible.
* Parallel printer connector - 1. Choosing to save money by not putting a shift register in the printer was one of the most unfortunate decisions in the history of personal computing. How many kilotons of copper have been needlessly wasted on all those wires? Cable is thick, heavy and expensive. This is a classic example of how the marketplace can converge on a suboptimal solution and then get locked in.
Greater throughput than other tech at the time. Similar connections were used for scsi.
* Centronix printer connector - 1. See previous entry. This end is especially bulky and cheap feeling, to boot.
The good thing about these is that they're rated for about 50V. If you have a lot of relays to control these things are ideal, and commonplace.
* Internal IDE connection - 3. Ribbon cable is hard to manage. Master/slave business is a hassle. Doesn't seem to be a clear standard on orientation keying. Hard to tell when properly seated. Max length too short.
Designed to a price.
* Internal SCSI connection - 3. Same problems as IDE (except for length limitation), plus additional confusion over terminations, ID numbers, and incompatible speeds and widths.
More modern internal SCSI should have D-shaped connectors, nicer.
* CD-ROM audio - 6. Not too bad, once you track down where the connection is on the motherboard.
The latch is a mixed blessing, good in that you don't knock it out, bad in that it's really hard to release when it's clustered up with the rest of the junk on a mobo.
* Hard drive power. - 9. Surprisingly easy to use, given the amperage it must support. The twisting behavior is really nice. I've never had problems with these.
MOLEX. I've had these fall apart on cheap PSUs.
* Motherboard power - 7. Doesn't stand out much, no big problems.
No problems, as long as you're using standard equipment. Some large manufacturers pull tricks like swapping positions of different power levels. A multimeter helps.
* Misc motherboard stake pin connections - 2. No physical alignment constraints and poor silkscreen markings make these a big hassle.
Cheapness rules here
* ISA Slots - 3. The lack of a proper mechanical specification for these caused a lot of alignment headaches. It's a good thing you could use the slot screw to get the thing all the way in with brute force. Things got better once most cards shrunk to the size of a business card; less to go wrong.
Yet another near-dead connector. Lasted well considering. I've had more problems seating PCI cards with their smaller connectors.
* PCI Slots - 6. Relatively unexciting.
Ayup. You missed AGP. I'm amazed how densely that bastard is packed;). * PCMCIA Slots - 8. I'm amazed at how all of those tiny pins connect without getting crushed. Good feel, ejection button is fun.
Not much finer than an IDE connector, and a better alignment system.
Missing: slot1 (pretty good, but obviously a dead end) 7, Socket7, 8, A, 370 etc etc. some great fun with no alignement, socket 8 worthy mention for being two different pin densities in the same connector. 3-9 Firewire: good design, 10 Floppy power: what internal power supply should be:) BNC.. great for signals Triax, for studio and location video feed: FAR TOO PICKY 2 FC and other fibre connectors, incredible, they do near instantly what takes me by hand about 5min.
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Pretty easy. Kinda pointless imo. I have a nice IBM box hosted with linux on it, as well as a pretty decent desktop which dual boots win2k/debian. I did dual boot debian/macosx for a while but I ended up spending all my time in OS X anyway.
Here are the instructions I used: Branden's Guide to Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 onto an Apple iBook
Given that the story submitter is obviously the guy who posted it on ebay.
Anyone want to buy a 'modded' 486.
By modded I mean completely destroyed and useless. I found it in the loft of a place I moved into, gutted it for parts and burnt the remains.
It'd be perfectly possible to run their own app on it under linux without breaking the GPL, just like you can run Quake3a on your linux machine without breaking the GPL.
Gah. Use that flashy switch of yours to make sure my box has enough bandwidth!
(oPless colo's hexus and also my sexy Netfinity 4000R)
Um, why? Merriam-Webster:
This would seem to fit.
ISTR that the DEC Alpha's EV bus protocol was named after 'Electric Vlastic' where Vlastic is a brand of pickles. I guess their engineers liked doing this too.
If you run the console.app it'll grab stack traces of things that crash. Doesn't really help as I lack the source to terminal.app, but it is vaguely consoleing.
(-50,000, pun)
Back when I first used linux I used to purposefully remove vi because I didn't know how to quit it. It scared me. So it's quite likely that there are unix-like machines that don't have vi on them.
True. It's not just that they have short lifetimes, but different colours have different lifetimes. As of last year (when I last look at the subject in any detail) the red OLEDs had 20,000+ hour lifetimes, green had 10,000h+ and blue had ~1000h.
So your display would start off white, then slowly go yellow.
When something looks like bullshit, but you're not sure, check the poster's record.
This guy could troll for his country.
OK, who's the spy?
Round up all the trolls....
ffmpeg/ffserver does this for audio and video, no ogg support yet afaik.
At their release consoles will nearly always edge ahead of PCs, but after a few months the PCs will have caught up power wise, if not game wise.
I'd like to reference Penny Arcade's latest strip which I think covers the situation accurately
As I understand it, prior art has to be brought up during legal proceedings.
Think about the hassle when the existing channels remerged. Who would get to keep ops?
It's due to our chanserv. There are a large number of channels which are empty except for the channel service bot for most of the time.
For details see our site
Not trivial. The idle time is only known to the server that the user resides upon.
As a fellow QuakeNet oper, I agree and also moo.
:)
Let me proof-read your post next time tho' BF
Going by this story, copious amounts of crack.
If I made a hangman's noose from single mode silica fibre your neck would break before the fibre did.
I mentioned in another story how tough fibre is. Telecomms fibre takes quite a lot to damage it.
Sun's old OpenView used to have all its cursors as fonts. Great fun changing it. Well, a little fun at least.
maybe in preparation for higher resolutions (dpi) which will be becoming more mainstream soon.
Yes, but by the time you've downloaded it to check the checksum you've wasted n hours downloading trash.
* Keyboard/mouse DIN - 5. Works OK, but hard to orient. Making mouse and keyboard identical was stupid. Feel not very satisfying.
;).
:)
Evolution at work, the tranition from DIN to minidin occured at the same time as the transition away from serial mice.
* AC Power cord to power supply - 9. Very satisfying feel. Easy to use.
Ah, yes, the trusty IEC connector. AKA kettleleads in the UK. Great things, pity the distribution boards are so expensive.
* AC Power cord to wall outlet - 6. A true classic. Rated down because of childhood memories of annoying transition to 3-prong grounded outlets. Could have used better protection against fingers/children.
I'd not give US wall plugs more than a 3. At least they have flat connectors, unlike those crappy EU ones. Unsheathed, tinny wobbly little things. UK three-pin plugs are far better.
* 1/8-inch audo jacks - 8. Easy to use. It would be better if all audio equipment would use the same connector (i.e., no 1/4-inch or RCA jacks).
Not robust enough, I've wrecked a couple of these.
* USB connector - 9. Sure beats previous solutions. Would be nice if the up/down orientation distinction was more obvious.
OK. I guess.
* RJ-11/RJ-45 modem/network - 8. Very convenient; elegant design. Achilles heel: if you try to pull the cable out of a tangle of wires, you're likely to break the little retaining tab and ruin the cable.
Agreed
* 15-pin VGA video - 5. Hard to orient, screws are inconvenient (but easier than the 3-BNC connector alternative). Technical achievement award to those who figured out how to kludge 1600x1200 signal frequencies through this thing.
Should see old SUN equipment, the connector contains little coax connectors.
* 9-pin serial connector - 3. Boring. Same problems as VGA. Should have been done with 2 or 3 pins. (Old larger serial connectors rate a 1 for total overkill.)
Most of the extra pins have a use. Flow control for a start. Important when you're going to throughput with as little silicon as possible.
* Parallel printer connector - 1. Choosing to save money by not putting a shift register in the printer was one of the most unfortunate decisions in the history of personal computing. How many kilotons of copper have been needlessly wasted on all those wires? Cable is thick, heavy and expensive. This is a classic example of how the marketplace can converge on a suboptimal solution and then get locked in.
Greater throughput than other tech at the time. Similar connections were used for scsi.
* Centronix printer connector - 1. See previous entry. This end is especially bulky and cheap feeling, to boot.
The good thing about these is that they're rated for about 50V. If you have a lot of relays to control these things are ideal, and commonplace.
* Internal IDE connection - 3. Ribbon cable is hard to manage. Master/slave business is a hassle. Doesn't seem to be a clear standard on orientation keying. Hard to tell when properly seated. Max length too short.
Designed to a price.
* Internal SCSI connection - 3. Same problems as IDE (except for length limitation), plus additional confusion over terminations, ID numbers, and incompatible speeds and widths.
More modern internal SCSI should have D-shaped connectors, nicer.
* CD-ROM audio - 6. Not too bad, once you track down where the connection is on the motherboard.
The latch is a mixed blessing, good in that you don't knock it out, bad in that it's really hard to release when it's clustered up with the rest of the junk on a mobo.
* Hard drive power. - 9. Surprisingly easy to use, given the amperage it must support. The twisting behavior is really nice. I've never had problems with these.
MOLEX. I've had these fall apart on cheap PSUs.
* Motherboard power - 7. Doesn't stand out much, no big problems.
No problems, as long as you're using standard equipment. Some large manufacturers pull tricks like swapping positions of different power levels. A multimeter helps.
* Misc motherboard stake pin connections - 2. No physical alignment constraints and poor silkscreen markings make these a big hassle.
Cheapness rules here
* ISA Slots - 3. The lack of a proper mechanical specification for these caused a lot of alignment headaches. It's a good thing you could use the slot screw to get the thing all the way in with brute force. Things got better once most cards shrunk to the size of a business card; less to go wrong.
Yet another near-dead connector. Lasted well considering. I've had more problems seating PCI cards with their smaller connectors.
* PCI Slots - 6. Relatively unexciting.
Ayup. You missed AGP. I'm amazed how densely that bastard is packed
* PCMCIA Slots - 8. I'm amazed at how all of those tiny pins connect without getting crushed. Good feel, ejection button is fun.
Not much finer than an IDE connector, and a better alignment system.
Missing:
slot1 (pretty good, but obviously a dead end) 7,
Socket7, 8, A, 370 etc etc. some great fun with no alignement, socket 8 worthy mention for being two different pin densities in the same connector. 3-9
Firewire: good design, 10
Floppy power: what internal power supply should be
BNC.. great for signals
Triax, for studio and location video feed: FAR TOO PICKY 2
FC and other fibre connectors, incredible, they do near instantly what takes me by hand about 5min.
It would not be open source if you had that clause in the license. I hope you were joking.