I'm currently installing Solaris 10 onto my G4 Powerbook, using Virtual PC. I have a coworker sitting next to me and he's running it (build 70) on his powerbook with vPC too.
To address your questions: - Is Solaris supported on Intel86 architecture or not? Yes, very much so. Some of Sun's highest selling servers are x86 (but based on AMD): link. It's also rumored (yes, I know, rumor, but wait a few months 'till it's out) that Solaris 10 is currently the fastest OS on x86.
- Does Sun sell Cobalt appliances or not? Not anymore, those have been EOL'd, and rightly so, that was a bad purchase. link.
- Does Sun resell Linux or not? Today, is it RedHat or Suse? Yes, they resell Linux, and they sell SuSE, Red Hat, the Sun Java Desktop System, and the Java Enterprise System (based on SuSE). link.
- Is Java a programming language or is it a more General Product? What does "Sun Java Desktop" have to do with Java? Well, it would seem that the Java Programming language is a language. But it would also seem that Sun wants to leverage the familiarty of the name Java towards other products (Java Desktop, Java Enterprise System) . Not the best marketing move but thats not what Sun spends most of it's money on.
- Can I redistrute the JDK with my own applications or not? Wait, just javac? I dont' know.
- Is Java called 'Java', 'Java Two', 'Java one-point-two-and-above' or 'Java Five-point-oh'? If you're going to bitch about naming conventions, Java would be a great candidate, but I'm sure there are many other deserving software packages.
- Where is Java installed today?/usr/j2se ?/usr/jre1.4.1_05b1?/usr/java?/usr/java1.3? C:\jdk1.4.1_03? C:\Program Files\jdk1.4.1_03??? C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.2_04 ? Doesn't it ask you where it should install? I think this is your fault as the administrator of your own computer.
Not only is "NADA" an inaccurate way of describing how much support is out there, but, if you run Solaris on Sun you probably have access to a very well run Support system.
CmdrTaco still uses a modem to work from home? What happened to the slashdot house? That modern oasis of nerdlyness with a mythical amount of bandwidth?
I think what the poster meant by "anti-personel" was a smaller hand-held rocket launcher as in Q3. The picture you linked to michael was a rocket launcher used to attack tanks, and bunkers, not humans.
The UltraSPARCIII chips running at "only" 900mhz is still much faster than a Pentium class chip running at equivalent speeds. This is completely different architecture than x86.
Napster, SETI@home, Freenet, Gnutella, Jabber and.Net (Microsoft's big P2P gamble)
As far as I know.NET is not a peer to peer piece of software. Its a development tool to integrate third party applications with each other in a web based fasion.
I dont mean to flame, but I asked my girlfriend to read this article objectively and tell me what she thought. She came back with a feeling that the author wasn't a profesional writer, and couldn't follow because of organizational problems. I wholely agree, and would like to point out that this is a constant in all of Katz's articles for slashdot.
"It's weird that you would want to write when you obviously can't." --my girlfriend
Trying to break it is all well and good, but what if you cant? What if this is done is such a way as to make it impossible for you to break? I think one of the most effective ways to deal with this would be to boycott whichever albums use it. If they think mp3s will hurt thier sales, show them that taking away this ability will hurt thier sales even more.
Being a Solaris admin, I mainly use ksh for scripts. I know that Solaris ships with an older version of ksh (quite old as i know it), and lacks certain features that the latest versions of ksh has. I heard you're trying to make ksh more of an interpreted language, much like Perl or Python, and i would love to have that kind of functionality.
My question is: Are you working with Sun to include a newer version of ksh with thier operating system?
I don't know anything about what the future will hold, but, I do know that I got a car out of that whole stock thing.;)
IPO'ing at 19 was interesting, to say the least. I'm currently at another pre-ipo company, but, it doesnt seem like we'll be going public for a bit, due to the recent unprofitability of '.com' ipo's. I'm just lucky to be working for a company which is well managed and sees this as "not-a-good-ipo-time". I'd hate to ipo at $6/share, and then see it drop to $2/share, after an ipo starting at $6/share, and then shooting to $160/share, it just wouldnt have that certain something. (even though now that certain company is now at $2/share)
I started watching it thinking "The lone gunmen will be in it, it can only be good." but instead, i got a crappy story, and the rehashed AI gone wrong premise. So, anyway, this didnt touch on anny current issues regarding violence in games, or at least i didnt see much.
I think that the increasing traffic is due to places like deja.com, where people hit it, and think that they are on just another website. Thats because deja does a good job of masking usenet as a bunch of people there to talk about products, for deja. Quite smart really.
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Thanks to the original poster for defining what "AQ" is supposed to be, double thanks to the editor for just posting this without clarification.
I'm currently installing Solaris 10 onto my G4 Powerbook, using Virtual PC. I have a coworker sitting next to me and he's running it (build 70) on his powerbook with vPC too.
It's possible.
To address your questions:
/usr/j2se ? /usr/jre1.4.1_05b1? /usr/java? /usr/java1.3? C:\jdk1.4.1_03? C:\Program Files\jdk1.4.1_03??? C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.2_04 ?
- Is Solaris supported on Intel86 architecture or not?
Yes, very much so. Some of Sun's highest selling servers are x86 (but based on AMD): link. It's also rumored (yes, I know, rumor, but wait a few months 'till it's out) that Solaris 10 is currently the fastest OS on x86.
- Does Sun sell Cobalt appliances or not?
Not anymore, those have been EOL'd, and rightly so, that was a bad purchase. link.
- Does Sun resell Linux or not? Today, is it RedHat or Suse?
Yes, they resell Linux, and they sell SuSE, Red Hat, the Sun Java Desktop System, and the Java Enterprise System (based on SuSE). link.
- Is Java a programming language or is it a more General Product? What does "Sun Java Desktop" have to do with Java?
Well, it would seem that the Java Programming language is a language. But it would also seem that Sun wants to leverage the familiarty of the name Java towards other products (Java Desktop, Java Enterprise System) . Not the best marketing move but thats not what Sun spends most of it's money on.
- Can I redistrute the JDK with my own applications or not? Wait, just javac?
I dont' know.
- Is Java called 'Java', 'Java Two', 'Java one-point-two-and-above' or 'Java Five-point-oh'?
If you're going to bitch about naming conventions, Java would be a great candidate, but I'm sure there are many other deserving software packages.
- Where is Java installed today?
Doesn't it ask you where it should install? I think this is your fault as the administrator of your own computer.
I would wager that Roomba the automatic vacuum robot has accounted for the household robots' numbers.
I'd like to address that "NADA" with the following:
- docs.sun.com: Every one of Sun's documents, all right there, free.
- sunsolve.sun.com: a wealth of information, patches, and bug reports.
- Sun Freeware: Free binaries of common open source programs, includes documentation.
- groups.google.com: Duh, tons of Solaris help here.
Not only is "NADA" an inaccurate way of describing how much support is out there, but, if you run Solaris on Sun you probably have access to a very well run Support system.CmdrTaco still uses a modem to work from home? What happened to the slashdot house? That modern oasis of nerdlyness with a mythical amount of bandwidth?
I think what the poster meant by "anti-personel" was a smaller hand-held rocket launcher as in Q3. The picture you linked to michael was a rocket launcher used to attack tanks, and bunkers, not humans.
Don't feed the trolls.
A while back a friend and I put together a script to randomly search for 2 words and generate statistics on number of matches, here are our results.
What do you mean impossible?
And why is this modded up to 3?
We see Galadriel in her swan boat when the fellowship is leaving Lothlorien.
but can apple give you a 64 processor machine?
The UltraSPARCIII chips running at "only" 900mhz is still much faster than a Pentium class chip running at equivalent speeds. This is completely different architecture than x86.
Now, instead of "The Bomb" a rival country could be considered a threat if they have "The Asteroid".
Napster, SETI@home, Freenet, Gnutella, Jabber and .Net (Microsoft's big P2P gamble)
.NET is not a peer to peer piece of software. Its a development tool to integrate third party applications with each other in a web based fasion.
As far as I know
I dont mean to flame, but I asked my girlfriend to read this article objectively and tell me what she thought. She came back with a feeling that the author wasn't a profesional writer, and couldn't follow because of organizational problems. I wholely agree, and would like to point out that this is a constant in all of Katz's articles for slashdot.
"It's weird that you would want to write when you obviously can't." --my girlfriend
I really can't find this book anywhere on the internet.
I was looking for that neat sound the transformers make when they do thier thing. But I only found songs, and movie clips, not just that sound. :(
Trying to break it is all well and good, but what if you cant? What if this is done is such a way as to make it impossible for you to break? I think one of the most effective ways to deal with this would be to boycott whichever albums use it. If they think mp3s will hurt thier sales, show them that taking away this ability will hurt thier sales even more.
Being a Solaris admin, I mainly use ksh for scripts. I know that Solaris ships with an older version of ksh (quite old as i know it), and lacks certain features that the latest versions of ksh has. I heard you're trying to make ksh more of an interpreted language, much like Perl or Python, and i would love to have that kind of functionality.
My question is: Are you working with Sun to include a newer version of ksh with thier operating system?
csh is NOT the default shell in Solaris, sh is.
--"Death of the internet predicted..."
Interesting how you predict the death of the internet here, one of the most popular sites on the internet.
Thats like saying how much better counter-strike beta3 was better than the latest, and you're telling me FROM THE CONSOLE OF THE GAME.
I don't know anything about what the future will hold, but, I do know that I got a car out of that whole stock thing. ;)
IPO'ing at 19 was interesting, to say the least. I'm currently at another pre-ipo company, but, it doesnt seem like we'll be going public for a bit, due to the recent unprofitability of '.com' ipo's. I'm just lucky to be working for a company which is well managed and sees this as "not-a-good-ipo-time". I'd hate to ipo at $6/share, and then see it drop to $2/share, after an ipo starting at $6/share, and then shooting to $160/share, it just wouldnt have that certain something. (even though now that certain company is now at $2/share)
I started watching it thinking "The lone gunmen will be in it, it can only be good." but instead, i got a crappy story, and the rehashed AI gone wrong premise.
So, anyway, this didnt touch on anny current issues regarding violence in games, or at least i didnt see much.
Best scene: When donkeylips gets shot.
I think that the increasing traffic is due to places like deja.com, where people hit it, and think that they are on just another website. Thats because deja does a good job of masking usenet as a bunch of people there to talk about products, for deja. Quite smart really.
Its got to be Guttenberg's printing press.