Considering that they used both faked images (on TV, allegedly showing mass graves) and "cyberterrorism" against Serbia, it's hypocritical that the Pentagon first called these actions war crimes.
All you need is a couple of bunny suits, a few friends (who can stop laughing for a while) as actors and a camcorder...:-) (does anyone know where I could buy such suits?)
that not the second version (called McKinley), as recently suggested, is now hoped to be the breakthrough for the IA64 design, but the third, which would carry the oh-so-spectacular name "Tritanium".:-)
I havent read the Franginpani/Petal papers recently, so I can only guess - but it seems likely that it is necessary for fault-tolerance and the project uses clusters specifically to achieve higher performance as well (so the disk speed becomes less of a burden).
The thing i like about KDE is that the rest of my family (mostly computer illiterate) can sit down at a KDE desktop and start using it directly.
Most everything is where a windows user would expect it to be, yet it's different and more powerful enough for them to start recognizing the power of linux.
That's exactly what I don't like about KDE (and all similar projects). It tries to mimick Windows, which has simply a bloated, far too complicated UI. People need to get used to many completely unintuitive UI quirks to use Windows, and the same is true for KDE. Just put someone who *isn't* used to using computers at all in front of Windows or KDE and see for yourself... If you think that it isn't possible to operate complex things like computers with simple, intuitive interfaces, consider that most of the time, you don't control *all* the features of the computer, although the UIs seem to want to force you to by putting buttons, menus etc. under your nose, while at the same time they prevent you from doing some things for no particular reasons other than sloppy design (for example: can I hide all those useless tray icons? can I change the background color of all windows, without making it impossible to see the contents of those windows that insist on having particular foreground colors? etc....). If this is a PC disease, I hope that we'll soon have many simpler task-specific devices for getting our jobs done...
I don't think the market for such a device is very large. WinCE failed because you can get very powerful laptops at similar size and weight, just at a slightly higher price (just look at the latest sub-notebook offerings from Sony, Sharp, IBM), so I wonder if the Psion 7 will sell well at US$1000. I'd find one useful at half the price, but for $1000 I expect to have at least some disk storage (which would fit easily in that form factor).
Hasn't this been posted before? Perhaps it would be a good idea to compare URLs in new and already posted articles to avoid multiple postings of the same subject/URL.
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I wonder when people will finally realize that with the huge amount of different library versions installed on Linux systems, it's pointless to distribute dynamically linked binaries, unless you're a developer building a package as part of a distribution. The correct way to build distribution-independent, nearly hassle-free binaries is to make them statically linked (but even that doesn't protect you from the braindead libc incompatibilities due to configuration files in different locations).
Linus might be reluctant to include contributions with novel ideas in the kernel, but sooner or later he'll have to change that (or modify the kernel design so that more parts can be exchanged easily), since more developers and companies will be very interested in having their contributions included. If this finally happens, a lot more innovations will happen in one place, giving Linux a big advantage...
One problem I can see is that vendors with custom Unix versions will probably be unable to contribute patented ideas to Linux, though I'm not sure about this. It may also happen that, if Linus can't be persuaded to accept enough contributions from large companies, one of them could decide to start maintaining their own branch of the kernel, which would probably divide the Linux base between corporate/hobbyist users again (as the former would be more likely to use the "corporate" branch of Linux).
Hire people who will post slanderous messages about your client's competitors, or positive messages about your clients on/. and similar places. Don't keep any personal records on them, or what jobs you assigned to them, to prevent them from being sued. Many companies will rush to pay for your services, esp. that Redmond-based firm with the inflated stock value, which seems to be spending a lot of money for that kind of activities at the moment.
"NT for successful businesses" my a**, last time I saw NT running in a company, it was used for a Mail/Web/DNS/Proxy-Server - every time the proxy server crashed (several times every day), it took down all other services with it...
Run Xvnc (http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/download.html) on the server and the BeOS port of vncviewer (http://abstrakt.ch/be/) on the BeOS workstation. Using VNC is slower than using a local X server, but it has advantages too (e.g. you can just switch off the workstation and the apps keep running on the server until you re-connect).
SPECint95 rating of 111 for 1 200MHz CPU? You must be dreaming. The highest official single-CPU SPECint95 ratings belong to the Compaq XP1000 with 37.5 (1 x 21264A CPU at 667MHz) . Be careful with that stuff you've been smoking.
Someone ought to do a MGR port to the fb device. I've started an MGR-under-X port (MGR in an X window), but it's not going well. However:
MGR renders its fonts in such a way, that they need to be kept in memory as bitmaps. This can use up a lot of memory, I suppose. On the other hand, it looks like it makes anti-aliased fonts possible without any incompatibilities (as opposed to X).
MGR needs a lot of extensions to cope with 24 bit displays, 3d acceleration, keymaps etc.... Plain, traditional MGR won't do, but it's a good start.
Looks like a very carefully crafted port of the game. It even runs in a 640x480x8 bit VNC window! Loki definitely know what they're doing. I will buy this not only because it's an appealing game, but because it'll probably be of historical value at some point:-) (first successful commercial game for Linux)
Have you ever read the ICQ messenger license agreement? They clearly state that they want to scan the messages as well as other data (such as files on disk) for information and use it for advertising purposes, as well as selling the information. It wouldn't surprise me if other vendor's messenger software didn't have similar functionality... I stopped using ICQ on Windows because of this and will certainly never use a closed-source messaging client again.
Sounds more like sponsoring to me, but I'm not ignorant enough to claim that R&D is usually much different. Was the offer you described the actual one? I very much suspected that Linus was hired for a specific task - continue to work on Linux and make sure that it works well on whatever Transmeta is working on.
The servers could occasionally send out some blocks that have been checked already. A client can't distinguish those from unchecked blocks. Of course, the clients would have to send back some sort of checksum for each block that could only be produced from a complete, correct process (e.g. a CRC32 of all last words obtained for all keys in the block could be calculated quickly). As far as I can tell, GIMPS uses such a scheme successfully (although the clients know when they're getting previously checked input).
There are companies that don't have a product while claiming to do so, but there are also companies that may or may not have a product and will keep quiet about it until it's ready. Transmeta never claimed to have "the next big thing", although one could argue that the way they're shrouding themselves in mystery is just a strategy to attract more media attention, rather than the result of a professional attitude and being certain of the superiority of their product.
Common sense tells me that they couldn't keep so many extremely bright people occupied and happy (especially those from academia) if they weren't making any progress, so I assume that that's what they're making. On the other hand, they seem to have limitless funding possibilities, so they might be getting dangerously close to the academic way of doing things (never finishing something because there's no economic need to do so - my apologies for this generalisation!).
As for what exactly they're doing - I'd be very surprised if it was something other than the sum of the parts of leaked/known information that have been around, i.e. a CPU that can emulate many architectures efficiently (with hardware support for dynamic translation), coupled with an OS that supports execution of binaries for various platforms (either in one environment, or with parallel execution of virtual systems as in VMWare). I've always thought that the name "Transmeta" itself was a bit of a giveaway. I wish them good luck and hope their product will eventually be cheap enough to compete with the successors of current architectures (Celeron 666 running boring multi-boot systems).
How did you install the RPMs which were then listed with both old and new versions in the RPM database? It sounds like you used "rpm -i --force" instead of "rpm -U", or, if I understood this correctly, that's what kpackage did. Perhaps you told it to "install" instead of "upgrade" somewhere? (otherwise it's a bug in kpackage that should be fixed)
To get the full names, use "rpm -qp" on a non-installed package or have a look at the "full-names" directory on the CD or on the ftp server.
That is in true, but I have yet to see an open source cross-development environment for Linux and Win32 which covers most of the capabilities of both platforms. Java seems like a good choice by design (with its libraries covering GUI, networking etc.), but I miss an easy way of installing a Java application (i.e. other than "install JDK 1.X.Y first" etc.).
(oh, and to prevent this posting from being considered "redundant" in the./ sense: Linux is cool! Linux is great! Windows sucks!).
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Considering that they used both faked images (on TV, allegedly showing mass graves) and "cyberterrorism" against Serbia, it's hypocritical that the Pentagon first called these actions war crimes.
All you need is a couple of bunny suits, a few friends (who can stop laughing for a while) as actors and a camcorder... :-) (does anyone know where I could buy such suits?)
that not the second version (called McKinley), as recently suggested, is now hoped to be the breakthrough for the IA64 design, but the third, which would carry the oh-so-spectacular name "Tritanium". :-)
I havent read the Franginpani/Petal papers recently, so I can only guess - but it seems likely that it is necessary for fault-tolerance and the project uses clusters specifically to achieve higher performance as well (so the disk speed becomes less of a burden).
xFS is here (with source). An interesting project is Frangipa ni, but it is not available to the unwashed Linux masses. :-/
Most everything is where a windows user would expect it to be, yet it's different and more powerful enough for them to start recognizing the power of linux.
That's exactly what I don't like about KDE (and all similar projects). It tries to mimick Windows, which has simply a bloated, far too complicated UI. People need to get used to many completely unintuitive UI quirks to use Windows, and the same is true for KDE. Just put someone who *isn't* used to using computers at all in front of Windows or KDE and see for yourself... If you think that it isn't possible to operate complex things like computers with simple, intuitive interfaces, consider that most of the time, you don't control *all* the features of the computer, although the UIs seem to want to force you to by putting buttons, menus etc. under your nose, while at the same time they prevent you from doing some things for no particular reasons other than sloppy design (for example: can I hide all those useless tray icons? can I change the background color of all windows, without making it impossible to see the contents of those windows that insist on having particular foreground colors? etc. ...). If this is a PC disease, I hope that we'll soon have many simpler task-specific devices for getting our jobs done...
I don't think the market for such a device is very large. WinCE failed because you can get very powerful laptops at similar size and weight, just at a slightly higher price (just look at the latest sub-notebook offerings from Sony, Sharp, IBM), so I wonder if the Psion 7 will sell well at US$1000. I'd find one useful at half the price, but for $1000 I expect to have at least some disk storage (which would fit easily in that form factor).
Hasn't this been posted before? Perhaps it would be a good idea to compare URLs in new and already posted articles to avoid multiple postings of the same subject/URL.
I wonder when people will finally realize that with the huge amount of different library versions installed on Linux systems, it's pointless to distribute dynamically linked binaries, unless you're a developer building a package as part of a distribution. The correct way to build distribution-independent, nearly hassle-free binaries is to make them statically linked (but even that doesn't protect you from the braindead libc incompatibilities due to configuration files in different locations).
One problem I can see is that vendors with custom Unix versions will probably be unable to contribute patented ideas to Linux, though I'm not sure about this. It may also happen that, if Linus can't be persuaded to accept enough contributions from large companies, one of them could decide to start maintaining their own branch of the kernel, which would probably divide the Linux base between corporate/hobbyist users again (as the former would be more likely to use the "corporate" branch of Linux).
"NT for successful businesses" my a**, last time I saw NT running in a company, it was used for a Mail/Web/DNS/Proxy-Server - every time the proxy server crashed (several times every day), it took down all other services with it...
Run Xvnc (http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/download.html) on the server and the BeOS port of vncviewer (http://abstrakt.ch/be/) on the BeOS workstation. Using VNC is slower than using a local X server, but it has advantages too (e.g. you can just switch off the workstation and the apps keep running on the server until you re-connect).
... possibilities for the gov't. Of course, I'm just guessing.
SPECint95 rating of 111 for 1 200MHz CPU? You must be dreaming. The highest official single-CPU SPECint95 ratings belong to the Compaq XP1000 with 37.5 (1 x 21264A CPU at 667MHz) . Be careful with that stuff you've been smoking.
Perhaps we're all the result of a similar burial of an early Martian astronaut ... Makes you think, doesn't it? :-)
Looks like a very carefully crafted port of the game. It even runs in a 640x480x8 bit VNC window! Loki definitely know what they're doing. I will buy this not only because it's an appealing game, but because it'll probably be of historical value at some point :-) (first successful commercial game for Linux)
Sounds more like sponsoring to me, but I'm not ignorant enough to claim that R&D is usually much different. Was the offer you described the actual one? I very much suspected that Linus was hired for a specific task - continue to work on Linux and make sure that it works well on whatever Transmeta is working on.
Am I missing something? Comments?
Common sense tells me that they couldn't keep so many extremely bright people occupied and happy (especially those from academia) if they weren't making any progress, so I assume that that's what they're making. On the other hand, they seem to have limitless funding possibilities, so they might be getting dangerously close to the academic way of doing things (never finishing something because there's no economic need to do so - my apologies for this generalisation!).
As for what exactly they're doing - I'd be very surprised if it was something other than the sum of the parts of leaked/known information that have been around, i.e. a CPU that can emulate many architectures efficiently (with hardware support for dynamic translation), coupled with an OS that supports execution of binaries for various platforms (either in one environment, or with parallel execution of virtual systems as in VMWare). I've always thought that the name "Transmeta" itself was a bit of a giveaway. I wish them good luck and hope their product will eventually be cheap enough to compete with the successors of current architectures (Celeron 666 running boring multi-boot systems).
To get the full names, use "rpm -qp" on a non-installed package or have a look at the "full-names" directory on the CD or on the ftp server.
(oh, and to prevent this posting from being considered "redundant" in the ./ sense: Linux is cool! Linux is great! Windows sucks!).