I'm pretty sure there have been a few 'PPC' Thinkpads in the past, actually 'Power Architecture' machines that ran AIX. I recall reading about such hardware somewhere. I have a Power 1 machine, an early RS/6000 workstation. It runs AIX. The Power 1 processor isn't a single chip, it's a set of chips.
A lot of the chips that people assume are 'made in xxx' (substitute cheap third world country name) are packaged in said third world country, but the dies are shipped there from a place like the USA or Ireland, with fairly expensive but highly skilled labor forces. It's very expensive to staff a fab, but die bonding and packaging can be done by low-paid staff.
It's the Tab Window Manager. It's fully doccumented in O'Reilly's 'Definitive Guide to the X Windows System,' the big 8-volume set considered the 'official documentation' for X.
The man page for Slackware has twm(1) headed:
'twm- The Tab Window Manager for the X Window System'
I can't find it called that in O'Reilly's Volume 3 'X Window System User's Guide'
X is neat, and it's cool to deal with it at it's roots once in awhile. You can't run much more than TWM on, for instance, a Mac SE/30 with it's one-bit 512x342 screen. TWM runs great though, for a nice game of GNU Chess under NetBSD.
What about us FVWM2 and Tab Window Manager (twm) (it's kinda nice, actually, and is 'built into' the base X11 distribution, i.e. it;s there by default on NetBSD, without having to add a single thing)?
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Universities are crowded with people who decided to take more classes instead of getting out and dealing with the real world. There are a number of actual scientists engaging in 'real science' at Universities, but they are also a HELL of a magnet for the kind of people who can't fit into the real world. Everybody knows a few weird old lab-gnomes who never made the transition off campus.
Not to cruelly attack said gnomes, but they aren't living in the real world.
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The chances of contracting the HIV virus if you are in a monogamous relationship is far, far reduced.
A lot of wiggly lovebunnies are still in denial about this for some reason. Sorry, guys.
Perhaps the 'old morality' had a bit of a point. Parts of it, anyhow. If you can't deal with the old moraility whole-cloth, let's forge a new morality that makes sense.
Don't call them terrorists- call them rebels or whatever, but not terrorists.
Sorry. They meet most common definitions of the term 'terrorist.' Stealthy strikes indiscrimnate of military and civillian targets, aiming to strike terror into a populace and disrupt moves toward an election.
And please don't spread astroturf stories about 'recruiting more fighters.' Unless you've been in Iraq and have actual observations to relay, your 'reverse-chickenhawk' speculation is just that.
they could start by unsealing the usernames of all these anonymous cowards on/.
I'm not sure what you're getting at. Let's start by having your IP logged and posted as part of your comment, plus your real name (it isn't techsoldaten, I presume) and a physical address.
OS/2 was capable of running 16-bit Windows apps. I knew a whole development team that was stuck on OS/2 desktops (developing an embedded application targeted at OS/2) who were trapped, deeply, in OS/2 desktops up until 1999. Boy those folks hated OS/2. Would you want to have been running Office 4.3 (Win 16 version) in 1999?
Netscape delighted, for a long time, in introducing proprietary Netscape-only extensions.
They would have owned the entire WWW if they'd been able to get away with it. They had proprietary Brower/Server plans that aren't any better/worse than Microsoft's plans.
IOW: we'd all hate Netscape at this point, if Microsoft hadn't taken them down.
Mind you this was before MSN existed, and the deal lasted until just the other year.
MSN existed long before you claim. There was a prototype MSN included with the Windows 95 beta. In fact, Windows 95 beta users had MSN dialup access for free, until the Windows 95 release.
MSN at the time was intended to compete head-to-head with AOL and other Online Services. Read: the Internet wasn't it's main focus.
Zilog makes a big chunk of the embedded controllers that go into remote controls. When I attended a Zilog seminar a number of years back, they had a lot of IR Remote features all built up and ready to roll with their Z8 processors. That's a hurtful 'niche' for the great Z-80 folks to have fallen to, though.
Are you implying they chose 'Linux' and said 'that's it, that's all we are going to be evaluating'?
Because that's probably an error. It's reasonable to assume theyve decided to spend some time evaluating and working with Linux. It's unreasonable to assume this is an endorsement of Linux over other options.
There's probably a team involved with OpenBSD, NetBSD, etc. There probably isn't as big a public brouhaha being made about said team.
I certainly don't know exactly what projects the NSA is working on and which they're ignoring (if any). I doubt if anybody who can post in this forum openly knows.
It's fun to say that they've "Endorsed" linux, and it's a good bullet point for evangelism. That's about it.
In other news, IBM has developed a 'virtual machine' framework under which their core software (closed source) running on System 390 mainframes allows Linux (and Linux apps!) to run on their hardware.
To give them the benefit of the doubt, they could be claiming that within their secured environment, Linux applications, even the dreaded 'open source' ones, can run more securely. It's not that complex a claim, they're saying that their underlying OS is more secure. It's like saying making Open Source apps run on Irix or Solaris, etc.
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I'm pretty sure there have been a few 'PPC' Thinkpads in the past, actually 'Power Architecture' machines that ran AIX. I recall reading about such hardware somewhere. I have a Power 1 machine, an early RS/6000 workstation. It runs AIX. The Power 1 processor isn't a single chip, it's a set of chips.
A lot of the chips that people assume are 'made in xxx' (substitute cheap third world country name) are packaged in said third world country, but the dies are shipped there from a place like the USA or Ireland, with fairly expensive but highly skilled labor forces. It's very expensive to staff a fab, but die bonding and packaging can be done by low-paid staff.
It's the Tab Window Manager. It's fully doccumented in O'Reilly's 'Definitive Guide to the X Windows System,' the big 8-volume set considered the 'official documentation' for X.
The man page for Slackware has twm(1) headed:
'twm- The Tab Window Manager for the X Window System'
I can't find it called that in O'Reilly's Volume 3 'X Window System User's Guide'
X is neat, and it's cool to deal with it at it's roots once in awhile. You can't run much more than TWM on, for instance, a Mac SE/30 with it's one-bit 512x342 screen. TWM runs great though, for a nice game of GNU Chess under NetBSD.
What about us FVWM2 and Tab Window Manager (twm) (it's kinda nice, actually, and is 'built into' the base X11 distribution, i.e. it;s there by default on NetBSD, without having to add a single thing)?
Universities are crowded with people who decided to take more classes instead of getting out and dealing with the real world. There are a number of actual scientists engaging in 'real science' at Universities, but they are also a HELL of a magnet for the kind of people who can't fit into the real world. Everybody knows a few weird old lab-gnomes who never made the transition off campus.
Not to cruelly attack said gnomes, but they aren't living in the real world.
The chances of contracting the HIV virus if you are in a monogamous relationship is far, far reduced.
A lot of wiggly lovebunnies are still in denial about this for some reason. Sorry, guys.
Perhaps the 'old morality' had a bit of a point. Parts of it, anyhow. If you can't deal with the old moraility whole-cloth, let's forge a new morality that makes sense.
Don't call them terrorists- call them rebels or whatever, but not terrorists.
Sorry. They meet most common definitions of the term 'terrorist.' Stealthy strikes indiscrimnate of military and civillian targets, aiming to strike terror into a populace and disrupt moves toward an election.
And please don't spread astroturf stories about 'recruiting more fighters.' Unless you've been in Iraq and have actual observations to relay, your 'reverse-chickenhawk' speculation is just that.
The Iraqi people will bring freedom to their own country, with elections.
rather than telling the difference between a guerilla carrying an RPG and a farmer carrying a section of irrigation pipe.
Do farmers really carry irrigation pipe in battle zones?
Perhaps we can pass out leaflets warning said farmers.
Fewer of 'theirs' if they get a f-ing clue and give up sooner.
Where is your picture posted, dude? Let's have a look.
they could start by unsealing the usernames of all these anonymous cowards on /.
I'm not sure what you're getting at. Let's start by having your IP logged and posted as part of your comment, plus your real name (it isn't techsoldaten, I presume) and a physical address.
A.C. would be totally out. 'Unseal usernames'??
Yep. Trade Secrets are a legitimate, if risky, method of protecting IP.
Just about anything makes Rathergate look amateur. It's off-topic, but what the hell was Rather thinking?
OS/2 was capable of running 16-bit Windows apps. I knew a whole development team that was stuck on OS/2 desktops (developing an embedded application targeted at OS/2) who were trapped, deeply, in OS/2 desktops up until 1999. Boy those folks hated OS/2. Would you want to have been running Office 4.3 (Win 16 version) in 1999?
Netscape delighted, for a long time, in introducing proprietary Netscape-only extensions.
They would have owned the entire WWW if they'd been able to get away with it. They had proprietary Brower/Server plans that aren't any better/worse than Microsoft's plans.
IOW: we'd all hate Netscape at this point, if Microsoft hadn't taken them down.
Originally. I would bet good money that there's not a single bit of Mosaic code in modern Netscape or IE.
What are popups?
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Those old things still exist???
Mind you this was before MSN existed, and the deal lasted until just the other year.
MSN existed long before you claim. There was a prototype MSN included with the Windows 95 beta. In fact, Windows 95 beta users had MSN dialup access for free, until the Windows 95 release.
MSN at the time was intended to compete head-to-head with AOL and other Online Services. Read: the Internet wasn't it's main focus.
Zilog makes a big chunk of the embedded controllers that go into remote controls. When I attended a Zilog seminar a number of years back, they had a lot of IR Remote features all built up and ready to roll with their Z8 processors. That's a hurtful 'niche' for the great Z-80 folks to have fallen to, though.
Nice troll.
Nice fishie. Why did you bite on his fishing plug?
He's moderated down into the mud and you're just encouraging us to click on the 'below current threshold' link to see what he said that riled you.
Are you implying they chose 'Linux' and said 'that's it, that's all we are going to be evaluating'?
Because that's probably an error. It's reasonable to assume theyve decided to spend some time evaluating and working with Linux. It's unreasonable to assume this is an endorsement of Linux over other options.
There's probably a team involved with OpenBSD, NetBSD, etc. There probably isn't as big a public brouhaha being made about said team.
I certainly don't know exactly what projects the NSA is working on and which they're ignoring (if any). I doubt if anybody who can post in this forum openly knows.
It's fun to say that they've "Endorsed" linux, and it's a good bullet point for evangelism. That's about it.
In other news, IBM has developed a 'virtual machine' framework under which their core software (closed source) running on System 390 mainframes allows Linux (and Linux apps!) to run on their hardware.
Does this mean that one frozen version of Linux is certified?
Does this mean an approved, well characterized set of binaries has been certified?
To give them the benefit of the doubt, they could be claiming that within their secured environment, Linux applications, even the dreaded 'open source' ones, can run more securely. It's not that complex a claim, they're saying that their underlying OS is more secure. It's like saying making Open Source apps run on Irix or Solaris, etc.