Just to play the total Devil's Advocate here: How did you think you were paying for using Facebook? That content you generated as a user stopped being yours the moment you generated it for Facebook. Your status updates are the quarters that go into the slot to make the machine go. That you can get that data back in *any* form is just Facebook being gracious.
For what it's worth, the headline is inaccurate: This is not a Mozilla project, nor even a Mozilla Labs project. Chromeless is a Mozilla Labs project, on top of which Webian Shell is built. Webian Shell is a nifty looking thing, but it's not an official Mozilla Statement on the FUTURE OF APPLICATIONS and a CHALLENGE TO CHROMEOS or whatever crap is being assumed here. It's just some dude playing with a concept.
Checked out Directory Administrator. My biggest beef with it is that it seems to be hardcoded to manage posixUser and posixGroup objects, which we don't use at all. So it looks pretty but doesn't let me Administrate my Directory, as the title would suggest:)
Can I buy a dreamcast, a keyboard, connect it to the internet and have it run a browser?
Yes.
A Broadband Adapter for each would be ideal, but might be rare/expensive. What might be cheaper yet kludgier, would be to set up some sort of modem-to-modem connection between the DC out-of-box 56k and some cheap modems set up in NAT gateway PCs. But that would be VERY kludgy
Screw Linksys. Get an SMC Barricade NAT router (Review at http://hwreviews.netscape.com/hardware/0-7052-405- 2319870.html)
Like the Linksys boxen: It's a 4 port 10/100 switch. It's web administratable. It does NAT. It does port forwarding, etc. However, it also does printer sharing, can share a cable modem OR a 56K modem on a serial connection (no USB modems). Oh, and it's cheap. Mine works great. Even dials up the modem for me when the cable modem goes down for slow backup.
Really? Damn.. was thinking of getting another one of these, since I managed to get one the day it came out for about $60. I was so happy with how easy it was to drop on my home LAN behind the NAT box and start talking trash on Quake III:)
So sad that this box has been put out to pasture so quickly.
You know, I think Worf's comment was meant to be a joke.
The explanation is that it's a TV show, and back then they had bad make-up. Let's just assume that how they look now is how they've always been meant to look, and be done with it.
Hell, at one point, I think the Klingons were supposed to be modeled after the Russians, but that kinda drifted away...
Hmm.. that might be getting close, though the indices with maintenance and searching are pretty integral to BFS, along with the whole query and live query system.
Though... maybe it wouldn't be too hard to work that into XFS. Most of what I know comes from undergrad Comp Sci classes and a few readings of the BFS file systems book.
I really wish someone would include BFS-style attributes in an Open Source file system. Hell, I really really wish my Mac OS X installation had it. Steve Best kind of dismisses the Live Queries it as "similar to a change notification mechanism," since he admitted he wan't really familiar with it... but it's more than that.
In BFS, (although I'm probably going to butcher this explanation) the system actually retains the optimized parsed tree of the query, and monitors the modification times of the individual indices used in the search. When one of those times changes, the system re-queries just that branch of the tree rather than re-processing the entire query. Is very neat. Oh, yeah, and there's some notification going on.
Bah... I just really want a native file system with arbitrary indexed attributes so I can run SQL/LDAP-like queries against my non-Be machines too...
Umm... actually, they do still exist. They just got purchased by Apple. NeXTStep/OpenStep is the foundation for Mac OS X. And I swear that the NeXT cube was the inspiration for the Mac cube, but I can't back it up.
So... NeXT is now Apple.
Napster, Inc. recently closed a $15 million Series C venture capital funding round. The round was led by Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, with additional investments from Angel Investors LP and other existing investors. As part of the investment in Napster, Hummer Winblad partners Hank Barry and John Hummer joined the Board of Directors and Hank Barry assumed the role of interim CEO.
I think that this means that they are not entirely free to all "jump ship and do something else". When you accept funding for your company, there are all sorts of things you have to agree to, and I wouldn't be surprised if the VC's are hounding them to do SOMETHING, to get that damn money pit back above water.
Well, you can either build the latest bleeding-edge CVS checkouts, as petard suggests, or you can look here:
http://www.macgimp.org/sections.php?op=listartic le s&secid=1
They point you to XDarwin as based on the latest release, and then to some binaries compiled with rootless X to replace a few binaries from your X install. I've yet to really have it crash hard or anything. Only major drawback I've had so far, other than a few little wonky things, is that you need to start it from a shell rather than from an icon on the desktop.
Oh yeah, and you *will* need a window manager, and a panel of some sort would be nice so that you don't lose those minimized windows (since there's no root window to throw them on).
For something quick, I've been using this panel:
http://www.chatjunkies.org/fspanel/
And trying to decide between the PWM and Sawfish as window managers.
To me, running Linux on an iBook seems pretty silly when Mac OS X is available. Yeah, yeah, I know, it's Linux and it's free and it's the Right Thing to Do, because it Can Be Done... but c'mon, you can get pretty much any software you'd expect under Linux via Fink and the Darwin Ports collection. Run a nice window manager and rootless X, and you can get pretty much any app you like.
And then you can start looking at Cocoa and all the nifty things that are going to be coming from the NextStep/OpenStep legacy... IMHO, Apple's gotten the job done in creating a solid, usable UNIX desktop, as well as a mature, unified app framework.
Blah. Anyway, if you want Linux, don't waste your money on Apple hardware. Just stick with some cheap ol' Intel stuff. Go buy a used Sony Vaio, like my old one I'll be eBay'ing soon.:)
As for Ogg Vorbis, it's coming out of my iBook speakers right now. I use
Unsanity Echo, and sometimes Audion.
It'd be great if Lionhead released their source, including the gesture recognition. But why wait, then there's...
LibStroke - a stroke translation library
Implemented in C, and with a transliterated Java version included as well.
strokes-mode.el - a strokes recognition minor-mode for emacs
Go easier on your wrists, take a break from C-M-A-|, and make vague mouse wavings at emacs to make it do your bidding.
IMHO, the algorithm used in strokes-mode seems much nicer than that in Black & White, or even libstroke. It could be just a matter of parameters, since for all I know B&W and libstroke could use pretty much the same algorithm as strokes-mode.el.
I'm already looking at tweaking the Java libstroke class to play around with it in a few Java apps I'm poking at.
Slashdot Mirror
Umm... I play Pandora & Spotify all the time in my car from my Android phone. Navigation cuts into the music with directions, too.
Just to play the total Devil's Advocate here: How did you think you were paying for using Facebook? That content you generated as a user stopped being yours the moment you generated it for Facebook. Your status updates are the quarters that go into the slot to make the machine go. That you can get that data back in *any* form is just Facebook being gracious.
For what it's worth, the headline is inaccurate: This is not a Mozilla project, nor even a Mozilla Labs project. Chromeless is a Mozilla Labs project, on top of which Webian Shell is built. Webian Shell is a nifty looking thing, but it's not an official Mozilla Statement on the FUTURE OF APPLICATIONS and a CHALLENGE TO CHROMEOS or whatever crap is being assumed here. It's just some dude playing with a concept.
And besides, finding life that uses oxygen means we're more likely to find life similar to ours, so we can have sex with it.
Funny, I've been doing this for almost a year now with my Treo 300 using PalmVNC and TGSSH.
OmniOutliner
StickyBrain
And I swear I've seen it in a few others. I don't think Microsoft has a particular claim on that UI widget.
Checked out Directory Administrator. My biggest beef with it is that it seems to be hardcoded to manage posixUser and posixGroup objects, which we don't use at all. So it looks pretty but doesn't let me Administrate my Directory, as the title would suggest :)
Can I buy a dreamcast, a keyboard, connect it to the internet and have it run a browser?
Yes.
A Broadband Adapter for each would be ideal, but might be rare/expensive. What might be cheaper yet kludgier, would be to set up some sort of modem-to-modem connection between the DC out-of-box 56k and some cheap modems set up in NAT gateway PCs. But that would be VERY kludgy
Screw Linksys. Get an SMC Barricade NAT router (Review at http://hwreviews.netscape.com/hardware/0-7052-405- 2319870.html)
Like the Linksys boxen: It's a 4 port 10/100 switch. It's web administratable. It does NAT. It does port forwarding, etc. However, it also does printer sharing, can share a cable modem OR a 56K modem on a serial connection (no USB modems). Oh, and it's cheap. Mine works great. Even dials up the modem for me when the cable modem goes down for slow backup.
Really? Damn.. was thinking of getting another one of these, since I managed to get one the day it came out for about $60. I was so happy with how easy it was to drop on my home LAN behind the NAT box and start talking trash on Quake III :)
So sad that this box has been put out to pasture so quickly.
Nope, OS X is the brand name, v10.1 is the actual version.
Uuh, what?
:) Get back to your porting. Eat your mush.
Was writing this post the best use of your time?
...or OmniWeb (beautiful plumage!)
...or Mozilla (hey, it runs!)
:)
You know, I think Worf's comment was meant to be a joke.
The explanation is that it's a TV show, and back then they had bad make-up. Let's just assume that how they look now is how they've always been meant to look, and be done with it.
Hell, at one point, I think the Klingons were supposed to be modeled after the Russians, but that kinda drifted away...
Hmm.. that might be getting close, though the indices with maintenance and searching are pretty integral to BFS, along with the whole query and live query system.
Though... maybe it wouldn't be too hard to work that into XFS. Most of what I know comes from undergrad Comp Sci classes and a few readings of the BFS file systems book.
I really wish someone would include BFS-style attributes in an Open Source file system. Hell, I really really wish my Mac OS X installation had it. Steve Best kind of dismisses the Live Queries it as "similar to a change notification mechanism," since he admitted he wan't really familiar with it... but it's more than that.
In BFS, (although I'm probably going to butcher this explanation) the system actually retains the optimized parsed tree of the query, and monitors the modification times of the individual indices used in the search. When one of those times changes, the system re-queries just that branch of the tree rather than re-processing the entire query. Is very neat. Oh, yeah, and there's some notification going on.
Bah... I just really want a native file system with arbitrary indexed attributes so I can run SQL/LDAP-like queries against my non-Be machines too...
Umm... actually, they do still exist. They just got purchased by Apple. NeXTStep/OpenStep is the foundation for Mac OS X. And I swear that the NeXT cube was the inspiration for the Mac cube, but I can't back it up. So... NeXT is now Apple.
Go check out: The blurb about Napster as a company.
In particular:
Funding
Napster, Inc. recently closed a $15 million Series C venture capital funding round. The round was led by Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, with additional investments from Angel Investors LP and other existing investors. As part of the investment in Napster, Hummer Winblad partners Hank Barry and John Hummer joined the Board of Directors and Hank Barry assumed the role of interim CEO.
I think that this means that they are not entirely free to all "jump ship and do something else". When you accept funding for your company, there are all sorts of things you have to agree to, and I wouldn't be surprised if the VC's are hounding them to do SOMETHING, to get that damn money pit back above water.
Well, you can either build the latest bleeding-edge CVS checkouts, as petard suggests, or you can look here:
c le s&secid=1
http://www.macgimp.org/sections.php?op=listarti
They point you to XDarwin as based on the latest release, and then to some binaries compiled with rootless X to replace a few binaries from your X install. I've yet to really have it crash hard or anything. Only major drawback I've had so far, other than a few little wonky things, is that you need to start it from a shell rather than from an icon on the desktop.
Oh yeah, and you *will* need a window manager, and a panel of some sort would be nice so that you don't lose those minimized windows (since there's no root window to throw them on).
For something quick, I've been using this panel:
http://www.chatjunkies.org/fspanel/
And trying to decide between the PWM and Sawfish as window managers.
To me, running Linux on an iBook seems pretty silly when Mac OS X is available. Yeah, yeah, I know, it's Linux and it's free and it's the Right Thing to Do, because it Can Be Done... but c'mon, you can get pretty much any software you'd expect under Linux via Fink and the Darwin Ports collection. Run a nice window manager and rootless X, and you can get pretty much any app you like.
:)
And then you can start looking at Cocoa and all the nifty things that are going to be coming from the NextStep/OpenStep legacy... IMHO, Apple's gotten the job done in creating a solid, usable UNIX desktop, as well as a mature, unified app framework.
Blah. Anyway, if you want Linux, don't waste your money on Apple hardware. Just stick with some cheap ol' Intel stuff. Go buy a used Sony Vaio, like my old one I'll be eBay'ing soon.
As for Ogg Vorbis, it's coming out of my iBook speakers right now. I use
Unsanity Echo, and sometimes Audion.
Well, your keyboard isn't that small. Who cares if the main tower/cpu/whatever becomes microscopic?
So, unless you're doing something funky and inadvisable to your motherboard on a regular basis with your gigantic digits....
Uhh... if you had quoted that in context , like so:
[...]to say nothing of utterly embarassing any other weblog software available for free, and written by us, and codenamed after a cartoon [...]
I think they're talking about VERSION 1.0 OF SLASHCODE ITSELF
I do hope you were kidding/trolling.
Umm, not sure if you already knew this or not... but that is Sony's strategy (or at least was) for the PS2.
It'd be great if Lionhead released their source, including the gesture recognition. But why wait, then there's...
LibStroke - a stroke translation library
Implemented in C, and with a transliterated Java version included as well.
strokes-mode.el - a strokes recognition minor-mode for emacs
Go easier on your wrists, take a break from C-M-A-|, and make vague mouse wavings at emacs to make it do your bidding.
IMHO, the algorithm used in strokes-mode seems much nicer than that in Black & White, or even libstroke. It could be just a matter of parameters, since for all I know B&W and libstroke could use pretty much the same algorithm as strokes-mode.el.
I'm already looking at tweaking the Java libstroke class to play around with it in a few Java apps I'm poking at.
Funny, I have a Kensington Turbo Mouse trackball, one of those big Arcade Centipede trackballs. And the heal miracle is the easiest one for me to do :)
I have trouble with the shields...