...but there's still another thirty or so billion to go before that's complete.
It'd be nice to spread even 10% of that win around a few FOSS projects, wouldn't it? New super-server and a lifetime supply of bits for each of your fifty-two favourite projects.
I kid you not! A Memphis court has actually ruled that Federal Income Tax is voluntary! We really need a ruling like that here in Oz: "be a good pollie or I'm not paying any taxes!" (-:
They're not the 'Mostly-Free Software Foundation' or even the '99.999% Free Software Foundation'.
This is both their best and most irritating feature. RMS makes an excellent obstinancy server - until comes the day you have a reason to change is mind. (-:
However, no GPL, no Linux. No Linux, no answer to the likes of Microsoft - and IBM would've simple absorbed any BSD-style OS players' software instead of piling onto the bandwagon. To be sure, a BSD-licenced OS may have arisen if Linux had not, and it may yet turn out that the BSDs end up more popular than Linux, but I think that without the GPLed Linux to go icebreaker for them the *BSDs wouldn't have done as well as they have.
Probably my bad for not checking. I have a VMS-fan friend who keeps raving about it and speaks of compiling stuff within it but possibly he also has a developers' licence.
Releasing the original VMS sources would be interesting for the help it gave the WINE crew, since NT started as a clone of it (or at least of MICA, a VMS semi-fork).
I don't get it? Updates to an obseleted arch?
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GCC 3.3.1 Released
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· Score: 0, Redundant
m68k-specific
7594 [m68k] ICE on legal code associated with simplify-rtx 10557 [m68k] ICE in subreg_offset_representable_p 11054 [m68k] ICE in reg_overlap_mentioned_p
...yet this is a supposedly obselete architecture?
These enhancement would make it compile slower...
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GCC 3.3.1 Released
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· Score: 3, Informative
Jan Hubicka, SuSE Labs, has contributed a new superblock formation pass enabled using -ftracer. This pass simplifies the control flow of functions allowing other optimizations to do better job.
He also contributed the function reordering pass (-freorder-functions) to optimize function placement using profile feedback.
It remains to be seen whether the extra performance gained by running these would offset the extra time spent running them, especially under a self-built version of gcc. The reorder-functions option was way overdue in gcc.
BTW: "bug-fix release, my ass." You don't add stuff like this in a bug-fix release.
Oops, and there goes varargs.h...
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GCC 3.3.1 Released
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· Score: 4, Interesting
The -traditional C compiler option has been removed. It was deprecated in 3.1 and 3.2. (Traditional preprocessing remains available.) The header, used for writing variadic functions in traditional C, still exists but will produce an error message if used.
Bugger, that's gunner make a lot of older stuff harder to compile. Is there any particular reason that the grim reaper went postal with this version?
i386, MC68000 and others obseleted?
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GCC 3.3.1 Released
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· Score: -1, Troll
How am I going to compile stuff for my old 68K (Mac) and '386 machines now?
...deserves more cheering than they got for the improvements which have been made.
Sure, Apple are at heart more or less as greedy and controlling as the next company, but consider how much of MS-Windows, OS/400 or Solaris has been distributed on terms anything like as good as these. Then can you tell me that a step forward hasn't been made here?
I believe that FSF are right to point out the remaining deficiencies in the licence, but they really could have put more effort into thanking Apple for coming to the party as much as they have.
Here's a suggestion for the FSF: set up a Corporate Heroes page, and put stuff like OpenVMS, OpenOffice.org and so on which has been GPLed by a corporation up in there in big print with links and logos. Then add a link to an "honourable mentions" page which mentions (in fine print, no logos) efforts like Apple's which are incomplete or grudging, but yet are progress in the right direction. ANy who care will get the hint. (-:
The scrolling's easy to adapt to, and the middle-button-paste thing is just bonzer. Swipe console window, move mouse to browser, click, done. Swipe non-linked URL in browser, click, done. Swipe or double-click search term in browser window, Ctrl-click, searching... done. KDE rocks, never mind the resource useage. For the user, by the user, of the user. (-:
Try this one for USD$24.99. Or if you're in Oz, wander into the stationery section of any Big W store and buy a "GO TECH COMPUTERWARE OPTICAL MINI MOUSE" (keycode 4392347, barcode 9329555132099) for AUD$22.95.
Postscript is no more "written" than 386 machine code. Both are generated by a computer processing a higher-level description that is more amenable to human understanding.
Like MS-Word's internal format, yeah, rii-ight... (-:
Anyhoo, I'd like to see the higher-level description that produced this. (-:
Uh... doesn't triple-RPG imply three Hollerith cards across a line? Which means I need 240 characters - not counting card margins and edges - across the screen to program it.
I've been using the two scroll wheels on my mouse for, well, scrolling. But maybe it would be better to configure one of the side buttons (which I don't use) as a lock and use the mouse itself for scrolling?
Alternatively, I could use two mice... which would absolutely rock in a tank game (one mouse == tracks (wheel == engine), other == turret (wheel = elevation)).
I'm using an AOpen Optical OpenEye Wheel Mouse O-35G, which has a second wheel. To quote the XFree86 documentation on the ZAxisMapping directive, The last example is useful for the mouse with two wheels of which the second wheel is used to generate horizontal scroll action, and the mouse which has a knob or a stick which can detect the horizontal force applied by the user. The motion of the second wheel will be mapped to the buttons N3, for the negative direction, and N4, for the positive direction. - which is what I do.
Actually, I use the clicky (top) wheel for left-right and the non-clicky (bottom) wheel for up/down because it's too easy to click when you're pelting down a document. Even more so with Microsoft mice, so I'm betting that getting it right with their proposed mutant mouse is going to be something of an art.
I like the AOpen because it's light, and easy for little children to use. They tend to struggle with the heavier mice. However, I've recently found an even better one, a tiny scroll-wheel optical not much larger than a matchbox. They're sold, of all places, in Big W stores (a kind of KMart-ish branch of Woolworths) here in Australia. I don't have the original packaging, so I can't tell you what they're marketed as (will reply to this with details if I get another one) but the markings on the bottom say this:
GO TECH
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MESSAGE: Exactly what versions of the Linux kernel do you say I should buy a licence for? Is your IP in any of the 2.3.* kernels leading up to 2.4? If not, which is the earliest version of 2.4 with your IP in it?
regb@sco.com may still work. How many spammer databases d'you think you can get it into in the next two hours? (-:
This URL is crafted especially with their confirm bot in mind.
Another thought crossed my mind, but I don't know how effective it would be:
while true; do lynx -dump '$ABOVE_URL' >/dev/null; sleep 1; done
A few score of those going for the next few days might give them something to think about. It might also be interesting to work down a list of sensitive email addresses (e.g. SCO's own internal addresses) and see what eventuated.
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...and his own agenda.
...what's the account number, and what authority do I need to fa^H^Hpossess to access it? (-:
...if it only bit derivatives of Mosaic. Serve Microsoft right for shafting SpyGlass Systems, that would. (-:
It'd be nice to spread even 10% of that win around a few FOSS projects, wouldn't it? New super-server and a lifetime supply of bits for each of your fifty-two favourite projects.
I kid you not! A Memphis court has actually ruled that Federal Income Tax is voluntary! We really need a ruling like that here in Oz: "be a good pollie or I'm not paying any taxes!" (-:
This is both their best and most irritating feature. RMS makes an excellent obstinancy server - until comes the day you have a reason to change is mind. (-:
However, no GPL, no Linux. No Linux, no answer to the likes of Microsoft - and IBM would've simple absorbed any BSD-style OS players' software instead of piling onto the bandwagon. To be sure, a BSD-licenced OS may have arisen if Linux had not, and it may yet turn out that the BSDs end up more popular than Linux, but I think that without the GPLed Linux to go icebreaker for them the *BSDs wouldn't have done as well as they have.
True. If you have to edit it at all, this isn't much extra work.
Given the generality of the g'grantparent question, I suspect the answer applies anyway. (-:
Releasing the original VMS sources would be interesting for the help it gave the WINE crew, since NT started as a clone of it (or at least of MICA, a VMS semi-fork).
...yet this is a supposedly obselete architecture?
It remains to be seen whether the extra performance gained by running these would offset the extra time spent running them, especially under a self-built version of gcc. The reorder-functions option was way overdue in gcc.
BTW: "bug-fix release, my ass." You don't add stuff like this in a bug-fix release.
Bugger, that's gunner make a lot of older stuff harder to compile. Is there any particular reason that the grim reaper went postal with this version?
How am I going to compile stuff for my old 68K (Mac) and '386 machines now?
Sure, Apple are at heart more or less as greedy and controlling as the next company, but consider how much of MS-Windows, OS/400 or Solaris has been distributed on terms anything like as good as these. Then can you tell me that a step forward hasn't been made here?
I believe that FSF are right to point out the remaining deficiencies in the licence, but they really could have put more effort into thanking Apple for coming to the party as much as they have.
Here's a suggestion for the FSF: set up a Corporate Heroes page, and put stuff like OpenVMS, OpenOffice.org and so on which has been GPLed by a corporation up in there in big print with links and logos. Then add a link to an "honourable mentions" page which mentions (in fine print, no logos) efforts like Apple's which are incomplete or grudging, but yet are progress in the right direction. ANy who care will get the hint. (-:
The scrolling's easy to adapt to, and the middle-button-paste thing is just bonzer. Swipe console window, move mouse to browser, click, done. Swipe non-linked URL in browser, click, done. Swipe or double-click search term in browser window, Ctrl-click, searching... done. KDE rocks, never mind the resource useage. For the user, by the user, of the user. (-:
...all of those 40-something design engineers in places like Sony are working so hard to make three-meter LCD displays affordable? (-:
Try this one for USD$24.99. Or if you're in Oz, wander into the stationery section of any Big W store and buy a "GO TECH COMPUTERWARE OPTICAL MINI MOUSE" (keycode 4392347, barcode 9329555132099) for AUD$22.95.
Like MS-Word's internal format, yeah, rii-ight... (-:
Anyhoo, I'd like to see the higher-level description that produced this. (-:
(-: deem g/d/r included :-)
Alternatively, I could use two mice... which would absolutely rock in a tank game (one mouse == tracks (wheel == engine), other == turret (wheel = elevation)).
...was three times as good as that!
Actually, I use the clicky (top) wheel for left-right and the non-clicky (bottom) wheel for up/down because it's too easy to click when you're pelting down a document. Even more so with Microsoft mice, so I'm betting that getting it right with their proposed mutant mouse is going to be something of an art.
I like the AOpen because it's light, and easy for little children to use. They tend to struggle with the heavier mice. However, I've recently found an even better one, a tiny scroll-wheel optical not much larger than a matchbox. They're sold, of all places, in Big W stores (a kind of KMart-ish branch of Woolworths) here in Australia. I don't have the original packaging, so I can't tell you what they're marketed as (will reply to this with details if I get another one) but the markings on the bottom say this:
(the (/) being the tick-over-circle symbol).Their stock seems to be heading for the deck as we type.
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Exactly what versions of the Linux kernel do you say I should buy a licence for? Is your IP in any of the 2.3.* kernels leading up to 2.4? If not, which is the earliest version of 2.4 with your IP in it?
regb@sco.com may still work. How many spammer databases d'you think you can get it into in the next two hours? (-:
Another thought crossed my mind, but I don't know how effective it would be:
A few score of those going for the next few days might give them something to think about. It might also be interesting to work down a list of sensitive email addresses (e.g. SCO's own internal addresses) and see what eventuated.