the DOS-like Multi-user Operating System (MOS). I remember seeing it run on a 386/25. You could shadow users' Wordperfect actions, or stay in yer own. A DOS based terminal server. Was nice.
-Steve
Very true. People who are prejudiced about age will, by definition, think less of you because of your youth than they most likely 'Should'.
However, experience, having 'done the time', working your way up, etc. are all very important things that come with age. I am 28 now with a very young face. As as result I have had much of the prejudice. That was till I kept job-hopping up the ladder from place to place. You also learn that how young you 'act' and 'appear' may have more to do with it than actual physical youth.
-Steve
I use my palm more for bathroom material than anything else. Avantgo syncs up everything I need and I don't have to dig for a magazine when nature comes-a-knockin!
Now, I usually share your viewpoint, that/. is a little more anti-MS than it should be. However... One merely has to look at the palm and the ipaq to see that they are different beasts.
One is a basic device designed for simplicity, the other is a more encompassing device.
The palm Vx can last a month (yes, I do) between charges. It rarely crashes. Holds all my crap and is small, fitting into a Coach case with chackbook, cards, etc.
The iPAQ is much larger/heavier. The screen is HUGE and BRIGHT and CLEAR (sony did a great job making that for them). But it eats its charge QUICKLY.
Also, the palm is more durable. I have dropped both Palm V's and iPAQ's and the magnesium case lasts much longer, protects much better.
They are both nice devices and compete handily in the market. Palm would be losing much more marketshare if Compaq had production where it needs to be for the devices. However, they are different devices for different purposes.
I'd say that is a fair assessment. Bleah.
-Steve
I have used CDPD in testing for work. Not a chance. CDPD is way too slow. As is CDMA. Maybe the new 144Kbit wireless broadband might work. Otherwise we are stuck at turn based network games. Anything else would be like playing Tacops UT on a W2K server with the 2 minutes of 2000msec lag bug.
-Steve
...that we will get a 'terms of usage' front page for every web server you connect to? That is the only way that you could say that someone can legally restrict how you use their systems' resources.
'Cause a Bot doesn't use up any more bandwidth or system time than I do when I keep hitting 'refresh' to see something update, or bids change.
They can't accuse the bot of doing anything wrong without accusing every user of the page. Unless they have a terms of use page first.
I think we are unsure as to what the need really is in this situation. I am pretty sure it's not failover or high availability boxes. That solution is already present thanks to all the eeekspenseev Cisco hardware. In order to cooperate with said box, you need to bind the same IP addy to two Network Interfaces, each interface going to a different switch. You need to do this again for a total of 4 interfaces, using 2 IP addys. In addition, you need to move to the said interface for a said IP if the primary interface fails.
A lot of people are asking what the diff between this ISO and the multi-CD set they sell. And I will be redundant and state that the 'Eval' ISO is a full install of linux itself, and some of the extra packages, but no copywrighted software.
This CD is great if you don't feel like coughing up $50 every 3 mos. for the new distro. You can do the base install from the CD, and you get the basics (YaST2, XFree 4.0, E, Gnome, K, etc). You will prolly look at it and go, 'Hey there is no kjukebox package! I wanna play my mp3's!' And this is where the magic of SuSE comes in.
You can do the base install from the EVAL.ISO, then launch yast (from any shell or xterm), and do all your user admin crap, etc. Then go to the adjustment of install and get the REST of the 6.4 full install packages via automated FTP/install within YaST!
This is great because you can do the core install off of the CD and not hog all the bandwidth doing the base install. The point is moot if you have a T3, but for those of us in the DSL stone age (only 384 incoming), this can save a lot of time!
OS Support: Win9x -> full boat support. (OpenGL, Dx7, etc) WinNT/2K -> nearly full support (dual-head monitors are locked in refresh, I think) Be -> Full driver set released (haven't touched it) XFree 3.4.x -> full accelerated support. XFree 4.x -> base support done. DRI work is being done by Precision Insight. GLX/OpenGL -> Utah-GLX-DEV team has everything working really well.
I'd say _THIS_ is the card for the best linux performance.
Anyone know if and when Q2 would be GPLed? If? Well... Half-Life, Sin and others might not feel too keen on this right?
I think that because the licenses for Half Life, Sin, etc. are children of the original license, they are grandfathered and are thus not required to open *eir source.
I also think I remember reading somewhere that Half-Life is a HEAVILY modified Q1 engine, not Q2 at all. Anyone know more about this?
For a site that prides itself on being the more 'technical', avoiding the general prattfalls and such that most 'News' sites fall into, the headline has an issue.
The headline, <i>'American Road Trip',</i> is generally ignorant. Go to anywhere in the Americas, yet outside of the US and claim you are 'American'. You will almost be smacked and informed that they are also. From Chile's Tierra del Fuego to the Nortern-most province of Canada all the citizens are 'Americans'. The phrase 'American' implies that they are not.
Granted, I live in USA, yadda yadda, but can this geocentricism be productive in this time of 'Global Thought'?
>I predict that Xerox and 3Com will come to some >sort of agreement (stock, anyone? - but more >likely cross licensing patents) before Palm has >their IPO.
It is in 3COM's best interest to settle this beforehand. 3Com will have to pay a retroactive royalty for the palms that already shipped, no doubt, and then pay out a nifty dollar per palm sold tax.
If you raise the production cost of each Graffiti-based device by $1, it shouldn't affect end sales adversely.
My prediction: 3Com will settle the suit with a lump sum, plus a per device charge later. Palm will spin off making zillions for 3com in the outing, cancelling the relatively minor lump sum for graffiti. Next, Palm will happily eat the per unit cost addition and continue to make cash like a madman for both themselves and 3Com.
I just have a couple of minor itches I need to scratch:
1. Why wasn't handspring (run by the original makers of Palms) mentioned in the suit? Are they covered by the fact that they (do they?) license the OS from 3Com/Palm?
2. Palm Computing was a solo company. Got bought by 3com. Spun off by 3com. Doesn't that seem like the long way to get back where you started?
Caveat 1: OpenGL WILL be supported in the first service pack at the system level. Not there yet. You CAN get opengl drivers for your video cards, but good luck for system support. (See caveat 2 below) So, good luck with the nifty opengl-only games (tribes?)
Caveat 2: Directx7 should be a wonderful step up, but the hardware manufacturers have to step up to the plate with the drivers. I tried a couple RC's of Win2K (including RTM) and the beta drivers for my Matrox G200 were not directx7 compatible. Have heard of similar things with some Nvidia chipsets too. Also plan on the drivers coming out in delayed fashion: 3dfx is going to work on their Dx7 Voodoo3000 drivers before they are going to waste time on the Voodoo2. By this token lesser known cards/takeover cards may be delyaed (S3 stuff? STB? etc..)
Caveat 3: Just because a game runs in directx does not mean it will run on NT. Battlezone II (schweet game, btw) absolutely states it will not work under Win2K or any NT variant. (It has been tested by a friend.) And this is a recent game that has most likely been tested on Win2K, and they prolly tried to fix whatever the issues were. But no dice for them. Maybe addressed in a BZII Patch.
So, yes directx7 is da bomb and all dat... but as with all things Microsoft, give it 6 months to a year.
After browsing a few of these I think I may have something... You should use a case within a case.
The 'inside case' will be sealed, only power wires, antenna and whatever other connectors should leave it. In there you have a temperature triggered Peltier cooler with the hot side on the outside of the inside box. This will allow some cooling to keep it all from frying in the cpu box. In addition, make everything solid state and pack the pupppy with silica gel so that there is no possibility of moisture condensing (hopefully you pack it in a dry environment to mimize this anyhow.) Also, a possibility is: can you reverse the polarity on the peltier to heat the inside case/cpu if you live in antarctica?
(Also an additional thought for the inside case: double layered enclosure with silicon (or other temp insulator) between the two layers of metal case. You attach the 'outside' part of the peltier to the outer panel directly, so that you are not fighting yourself and trying to heat the case while chilling its' contents, or vice versa. Hopefully the insulation will let the outer one dissipate heat/cold and let the inside layer stay at a respectable temperature.)
You have a couple of options for the outside box. All this is for is to circulate air over the inside box and provide for some extreme weather/bb-gun attacks. You could make it a large dingamabobber with a fan (do they sell outdoor fans?) or something like that to normalize the temperature. Or you can try to utilize chimney properties to create currents across the inner box.
This way, you should be able to have a sealed enclosure that is relatively well shielded from the elements. Additionally, if all you are doing is repeating a 100Mb/s signal a small 486 chip should prolly be good enough for you, and that will be relatively secure at various temperatures. (And I think the company that made the 'smallest apache server' shown somewhere on slashdot a few months ago said they were planning on making their PC-on-a-SIMM a reality with low power consumption and a 486 with enough RAM to do you well.)
One question for you is also monitoring? You may want to look into giving each of these 'repeaters' a valid IP address, and use SNMP to measure temperatures, faults, and other such data.
I was recently job hunting (IT Infrastructure, 3rd level) and was having a hell of a time finding anything. It seems a LOT of companies are holding off on starting anything new till the date flip (refuse to say that thing that rhymes 'WhyBlueJay')... I finally got lucky and don't even have to work over new years!
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the DOS-like Multi-user Operating System (MOS). I remember seeing it run on a 386/25. You could shadow users' Wordperfect actions, or stay in yer own. A DOS based terminal server. Was nice. -Steve
...or stoned...
Very true. People who are prejudiced about age will, by definition, think less of you because of your youth than they most likely 'Should'. However, experience, having 'done the time', working your way up, etc. are all very important things that come with age. I am 28 now with a very young face. As as result I have had much of the prejudice. That was till I kept job-hopping up the ladder from place to place. You also learn that how young you 'act' and 'appear' may have more to do with it than actual physical youth. -Steve
I use my palm more for bathroom material than anything else. Avantgo syncs up everything I need and I don't have to dig for a magazine when nature comes-a-knockin!
-Steve
Now, I usually share your viewpoint, that /. is a little more anti-MS than it should be. However... One merely has to look at the palm and the ipaq to see that they are different beasts.
One is a basic device designed for simplicity, the other is a more encompassing device.
The palm Vx can last a month (yes, I do) between charges. It rarely crashes. Holds all my crap and is small, fitting into a Coach case with chackbook, cards, etc.
The iPAQ is much larger/heavier. The screen is HUGE and BRIGHT and CLEAR (sony did a great job making that for them). But it eats its charge QUICKLY.
Also, the palm is more durable. I have dropped both Palm V's and iPAQ's and the magnesium case lasts much longer, protects much better.
They are both nice devices and compete handily in the market. Palm would be losing much more marketshare if Compaq had production where it needs to be for the devices. However, they are different devices for different purposes.
I'd say that is a fair assessment. Bleah.
-Steve
I have used CDPD in testing for work. Not a chance. CDPD is way too slow. As is CDMA. Maybe the new 144Kbit wireless broadband might work. Otherwise we are stuck at turn based network games. Anything else would be like playing Tacops UT on a W2K server with the 2 minutes of 2000msec lag bug. -Steve
...that we will get a 'terms of usage' front page for every web server you connect to? That is the only way that you could say that someone can legally restrict how you use their systems' resources.
'Cause a Bot doesn't use up any more bandwidth or system time than I do when I keep hitting 'refresh' to see something update, or bids change.
They can't accuse the bot of doing anything wrong without accusing every user of the page. Unless they have a terms of use page first.
-Steve
I think we are unsure as to what the need really is in this situation. I am pretty sure it's not failover or high availability boxes. That solution is already present thanks to all the eeekspenseev Cisco hardware. In order to cooperate with said box, you need to bind the same IP addy to two Network Interfaces, each interface going to a different switch. You need to do this again for a total of 4 interfaces, using 2 IP addys. In addition, you need to move to the said interface for a said IP if the primary interface fails.
Umm, it's MVS, not VMS. MVS is run by 390 machines, VMS is run by VAX'es and Digital Alpha chips. -Steve
A lot of people are asking what the diff between this ISO and the multi-CD set they sell. And I will be redundant and state that the 'Eval' ISO is a full install of linux itself, and some of the extra packages, but no copywrighted software.
This CD is great if you don't feel like coughing up $50 every 3 mos. for the new distro. You can do the base install from the CD, and you get the basics (YaST2, XFree 4.0, E, Gnome, K, etc). You will prolly look at it and go, 'Hey there is no kjukebox package! I wanna play my mp3's!' And this is where the magic of SuSE comes in.
You can do the base install from the EVAL.ISO, then launch yast (from any shell or xterm), and do all your user admin crap, etc. Then go to the adjustment of install and get the REST of the 6.4 full install packages via automated FTP/install within YaST!
This is great because you can do the core install off of the CD and not hog all the bandwidth doing the base install. The point is moot if you have a T3, but for those of us in the DSL stone age (only 384 incoming), this can save a lot of time!
-Steve
And this is the reason I am not a programmer. Enjoy yerselves, boys and girls.
-Steve
The subject is the message.
-Steve
OS Support:
Win9x -> full boat support. (OpenGL, Dx7, etc)
WinNT/2K -> nearly full support (dual-head monitors are locked in refresh, I think)
Be -> Full driver set released (haven't touched it)
XFree 3.4.x -> full accelerated support.
XFree 4.x -> base support done. DRI work is being done by Precision Insight.
GLX/OpenGL -> Utah-GLX-DEV team has everything working really well.
I'd say _THIS_ is the card for the best linux performance.
-Steve
Anyone know if and when Q2 would be GPLed? If? Well... Half-Life, Sin and others might not feel too keen on this right?
I think that because the licenses for Half Life, Sin, etc. are children of the original license, they are grandfathered and are thus not required to open *eir source.
I also think I remember reading somewhere that Half-Life is a HEAVILY modified Q1 engine, not Q2 at all. Anyone know more about this?
-Steve
Okay, this is not an attempt to a flame but...
For a site that prides itself on being the more 'technical', avoiding the general prattfalls and such that most 'News' sites fall into, the headline has an issue.
The headline, <i>'American Road Trip',</i> is generally ignorant. Go to anywhere in the Americas, yet outside of the US and claim you are 'American'. You will almost be smacked and informed that they are also. From Chile's Tierra del Fuego to the Nortern-most province of Canada all the citizens are 'Americans'. The phrase 'American' implies that they are not.
Granted, I live in USA, yadda yadda, but can this geocentricism be productive in this time of 'Global Thought'?
-Steve
P.S. (sorry for the rushed format, I am at work)
Dude, the second site in yer sig (www.kmfms) is absolutely hilarious! -Steve
Dude, the second site in yer sig (www.kmfms) is absolutely hilarious!
>I predict that Xerox and 3Com will come to some
>sort of agreement (stock, anyone? - but more
>likely cross licensing patents) before Palm has
>their IPO.
It is in 3COM's best interest to settle this beforehand. 3Com will have to pay a retroactive royalty for the palms that already shipped, no doubt, and then pay out a nifty dollar per palm sold tax.
If you raise the production cost of each Graffiti-based device by $1, it shouldn't affect end sales adversely.
My prediction: 3Com will settle the suit with a lump sum, plus a per device charge later. Palm will spin off making zillions for 3com in the outing, cancelling the relatively minor lump sum for graffiti. Next, Palm will happily eat the per unit cost addition and continue to make cash like a madman for both themselves and 3Com.
I just have a couple of minor itches I need to scratch:
1. Why wasn't handspring (run by the original makers of Palms) mentioned in the suit? Are they covered by the fact that they (do they?) license the OS from 3Com/Palm?
2. Palm Computing was a solo company. Got bought by 3com. Spun off by 3com. Doesn't that seem like the long way to get back where you started?
-Steve
Once again in the case of Microsoft, yes and no.
Caveat 1: OpenGL WILL be supported in the first service pack at the system level. Not there yet. You CAN get opengl drivers for your video cards, but good luck for system support. (See caveat 2 below) So, good luck with the nifty opengl-only games (tribes?)
Caveat 2: Directx7 should be a wonderful step up, but the hardware manufacturers have to step up to the plate with the drivers. I tried a couple RC's of Win2K (including RTM) and the beta drivers for my Matrox G200 were not directx7 compatible. Have heard of similar things with some Nvidia chipsets too. Also plan on the drivers coming out in delayed fashion: 3dfx is going to work on their Dx7 Voodoo3000 drivers before they are going to waste time on the Voodoo2. By this token lesser known cards/takeover cards may be delyaed (S3 stuff? STB? etc..)
Caveat 3: Just because a game runs in directx does not mean it will run on NT. Battlezone II (schweet game, btw) absolutely states it will not work under Win2K or any NT variant. (It has been tested by a friend.) And this is a recent game that has most likely been tested on Win2K, and they prolly tried to fix whatever the issues were. But no dice for them. Maybe addressed in a BZII Patch.
So, yes directx7 is da bomb and all dat... but as with all things Microsoft, give it 6 months to a year.
-Steve
Wow, that had to suck... Hope things are okay...
Someone give this person good karma, they need it!
-Steve
Can anyone tell us who the Provider was?
-Steve
After browsing a few of these I think I may have something... You should use a case within a case.
The 'inside case' will be sealed, only power wires, antenna and whatever other connectors should leave it. In there you have a temperature triggered Peltier cooler with the hot side on the outside of the inside box. This will allow some cooling to keep it all from frying in the cpu box. In addition, make everything solid state and pack the pupppy with silica gel so that there is no possibility of moisture condensing (hopefully you pack it in a dry environment to mimize this anyhow.) Also, a possibility is: can you reverse the polarity on the peltier to heat the inside case/cpu if you live in antarctica?
(Also an additional thought for the inside case: double layered enclosure with silicon (or other temp insulator) between the two layers of metal case. You attach the 'outside' part of the peltier to the outer panel directly, so that you are not fighting yourself and trying to heat the case while chilling its' contents, or vice versa. Hopefully the insulation will let the outer one dissipate heat/cold and let the inside layer stay at a respectable temperature.)
You have a couple of options for the outside box. All this is for is to circulate air over the inside box and provide for some extreme weather/bb-gun attacks. You could make it a large dingamabobber with a fan (do they sell outdoor fans?) or something like that to normalize the temperature. Or you can try to utilize chimney properties to create currents across the inner box.
This way, you should be able to have a sealed enclosure that is relatively well shielded from the elements. Additionally, if all you are doing is repeating a 100Mb/s signal a small 486 chip should prolly be good enough for you, and that will be relatively secure at various temperatures. (And I think the company that made the 'smallest apache server' shown somewhere on slashdot a few months ago said they were planning on making their PC-on-a-SIMM a reality with low power consumption and a 486 with enough RAM to do you well.)
One question for you is also monitoring? You may want to look into giving each of these 'repeaters' a valid IP address, and use SNMP to measure temperatures, faults, and other such data.
-Steve
Someone moderate the previous post up...
-Steve
> Also is there any TV coverage of this, maybe on ZDTV? You mean the same ZDTV that was recently purchased by Microsoft? -Steve
I was recently job hunting (IT Infrastructure, 3rd level) and was having a hell of a time finding anything. It seems a LOT of companies are holding off on starting anything new till the date flip (refuse to say that thing that rhymes 'WhyBlueJay')... I finally got lucky and don't even have to work over new years!
-Steve