Porting this to GNU/Linux or BSD or whatever - as it was suggested here - should be pretty hard. I didn't look at the sources, but I suppose it was neither written for a POSIX environment nor does it use a GUI toolkit that is available on any other platform than the AMIGAish (MUI afaik - there once was a free MUI clone for X11 http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/3883/z une/). So rewriting an Ambient-like Desktop for X11 from scratch might even be easier than porting it. But the free sources should be pretty interesting for the AROS folks.
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Let me suggest Blosxom to you. It's a blog system, it's file based, it's plain text, it's customizable. Perfectly well suited for someone who's a master of only vi:)
well, it looks really nice, I've seen it running at CeBit last Saturday and I think a 3D desktop environment may be the right direction to go in the long term, but right now the whole thing is nothing more but eyecandy. The CD application is rather useless imho and afaik there's no additional functionality that you don't have in standart desktop environments these days (ok, there IS the ability to move the windows in the 3d dimension and rotate them etc., but what do you gain from that ability?). What really confuses me is that the guy at the sun desktop booth told me and some other folks that they would not release this to the public and it's only a prove of concept etc. After I got home I checked the FAQ at their site and it said they're looking into releasing it under some open source license, but for sure there will be some public API by summer...?!?
We have net connections here (well, I'm not in the gym yet, but in some weird room of the student's administration next to it). Just ssh allowed, two IPs. What a good time to play with some tunnels....
well, I'm really looking forward to sleeping in the gym..... (hahahahahahahaha, never take me serious)......
Ok, I guess it's the right moment to turn insane NOW
I was talking about R5, not the older releases. Sorry, I guess I didn't point this out clearly (and I don't reboot that often:P what a sin under windows...)
ok, just to make this clear.... there's no native port of Lotus Notes to Linux and according to some IBM folks I talked to at the German Linux World Expo last year IBM does not plan to port Notes to Linux due to heavy use of APIs for which no linux equivalent is available (which sounds pretty stupid to me imho but that's what those guys told me). Indeed the notes client (I guess I tried out 5.3 or something like this once) works fine under wine.
The domino server has been ported to linux some time ago (afair back in early 2000 or even 99; search on/....) and it works well, too. It doesn't eat up as much memory as the windows version (back then when it was ported, the Lotus folks declared they had it "running" (like a snail, I guess) on 16 MBs of RAM. I never even tried to get a Domino server running on less than 256 MBs of RAM under Windows as even with that amount of memory a server with a tiny amount of users (less than 30) would go down on his knees pretty soon, if you have large DBs.
Well, I am sure that this'll provide better performance than the old MIPS based design. Those boxen were horibly slow:/ AND I ran into trouble running some software after compiling it for timing reasons (=> imho this indicates that the Linux kernel still runs best on i386 based hardware as I'm pretty sure that this was a kernel problem). Although I'm not a performance-junkie I think using the K6 in the later RaQs wasn't the right choice either. Looking at the price of a Raq a "stronger" CPU would have been more appropiate.
Mobility Electronics sells a universal docking station, which you attach to one of your notebook's pcmcia slots. It has 3 PCI slots, a usb hub, ps/2,seriell and parallel connectors, but I guess it's not exactly what you are searching for as it's nearly the size of a normal mini tower, which doesn't make it portable (imho (well, of course you may run around with a tower, but I don't think you want to:9)). Another major drawback of this device is its price of $599:/. If it would be less expensive, I think I'd get one....
...and unless you are using Windows you can simply fake your MAC address. yeah:)
depending on your NIC you can change your MAC "permanently" (hardware side) as well
Online companies will certainly also make use in future of a controversial feature called IPv6, designed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF ). At present, the anonymity of most Internet users is more or less protected because service providers generally assign a different IP address each time someone logs on. But IPv6 includes a new, expanded IP address, part of which is the unique serial number of each computer?s network-connection hardware. Every data packet sent will carry a user?s electronic fingerprints.
So IPv6 is a feature? I always thought it's a protocol... Anyways...
There are no more privacy issues with IPv6 (read: no more than there are with IPv4 *g*).
Read the comments to this AskSlashdot to gain enlightenment:*)
The IP doesn't NEED to contain the MAC; THAT's just an optional feature
Maybe you have heard of Mandrake? yes, of course.
The Cooker distro from Mandrake has both, 2.2.18 and 2.4.0 sorry, I didn't know that they have both the final 2.2.18 and 2.4.0.
And Cooker IS the best linux distro by far.
Wanna start the Linux distro war *g*. I think debian's far better than Mandrake will ever be. But I am sure Mandrake's the best Linux distribution for the desktop around. Well, I guess enough people discussed it before, so let's stop with this.
Maybe I am wrong, but I don't know any other distribution that uses 2.2.18 yet (well, any other major distribution). SuSE doesn't, Red Hat doesn't etc.
Personally I'd like to see support (latest modutils...) for kernel 2.4 in one of them
btw I'd like to study at least one semester in the US when I finish school. Are there any information available online on how to do this (I am from Germany)?
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I didn't try it out myself, but maybe something like vimperator could help? http://vimperator.mozdev.org/
It makes firefox behave like vim.
Isn't quite a large part of history old "news"?
Porting this to GNU/Linux or BSD or whatever - as it was suggested here - should be pretty hard. I didn't look at the sources, but I suppose it was neither written for a POSIX environment nor does it use a GUI toolkit that is available on any other platform than the AMIGAish (MUI afaik - there once was a free MUI clone for X11 http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/3883/z une/). So rewriting an Ambient-like Desktop for X11 from scratch might even be easier than porting it. But the free sources should be pretty interesting for the AROS folks.
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Others even plan on developing a full RubyOS , but there hasn't been much work done yet afaik
Let me suggest Blosxom to you. It's a blog system, it's file based, it's plain text, it's customizable. Perfectly well suited for someone who's a master of only vi :)
well, it looks really nice, I've seen it running at CeBit last Saturday and I think a 3D desktop environment may be the right direction to go in the long term, but right now the whole thing is nothing more but eyecandy. The CD application is rather useless imho and afaik there's no additional functionality that you don't have in standart desktop environments these days (ok, there IS the ability to move the windows in the 3d dimension and rotate them etc., but what do you gain from that ability?). What really confuses me is that the guy at the sun desktop booth told me and some other folks that they would not release this to the public and it's only a prove of concept etc. After I got home I checked the FAQ at their site and it said they're looking into releasing it under some open source license, but for sure there will be some public API by summer...?!?
... is such a nice thing ....
Larry Ewing holds the copyright on Tux.
We have net connections here (well, I'm not in the gym yet, but in some weird room of the student's administration next to it). Just ssh allowed, two IPs. What a good time to play with some tunnels ....
well, I'm really looking forward to sleeping in the gym ..... (hahahahahahahaha, never take me serious) ......
Ok, I guess it's the right moment to turn insane NOW
I was talking about R5, not the older releases. Sorry, I guess I didn't point this out clearly (and I don't reboot that often :P what a sin under windows ...)
btw domino sucks anyway
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Well, I am sure that this'll provide better performance than the old MIPS based design. Those boxen were horibly slow :/ AND I ran into trouble running some software after compiling it for timing reasons (=> imho this indicates that the Linux kernel still runs best on i386 based hardware as I'm pretty sure that this was a kernel problem). Although I'm not a performance-junkie I think using the K6 in the later RaQs wasn't the right choice either. Looking at the price of a Raq a "stronger" CPU would have been more appropiate.
Mobility Electronics sells a :9)). Another major drawback of this device is its price of $599 :/. If it would be less expensive, I think I'd get one ....
universal docking station, which you attach to one of your notebook's pcmcia slots. It has 3 PCI slots, a usb hub, ps/2,seriell and parallel connectors, but I guess it's not exactly what you are searching for as it's nearly the size of a normal mini tower, which doesn't make it portable (imho (well, of course you may run around with a tower, but I don't think you want to
...and unless you are using Windows you can simply fake your MAC address. :)
yeah
depending on your NIC you can change your MAC "permanently" (hardware side) as well
Online companies will certainly also make use in future of a controversial feature called IPv6, designed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF ). At present, the anonymity of most Internet users is more or less protected because service providers generally assign a different IP address each time someone logs on. But IPv6 includes a new, expanded IP address, part of which is the unique serial number of each computer?s network-connection hardware. Every data packet sent will carry a user?s electronic fingerprints.
... Anyways ...
:*)
So IPv6 is a feature? I always thought it's a protocol
There are no more privacy issues with IPv6 (read: no more than there are with IPv4 *g*).
Read the comments to this AskSlashdot to gain enlightenment
The IP doesn't NEED to contain the MAC; THAT's just an optional feature
Maybe you have heard of Mandrake?
yes, of course.
The Cooker distro from Mandrake has both, 2.2.18 and 2.4.0
sorry, I didn't know that they have both the final 2.2.18 and 2.4.0.
And Cooker IS the best linux distro by far.
Wanna start the Linux distro war *g*. I think debian's far better than Mandrake will ever be. But I am sure Mandrake's the best Linux distribution for the desktop around. Well, I guess enough people discussed it before, so let's stop with this.
So 2.2.18 is all most people need? Maybe, but I'd have expected a little bit more "neophilia" from a person reading /. :p
yes, it is. Exactly what I did when I wasn't in the mood to fuck around with the installation of the latest modutils once. And it worked just fine
Maybe I am wrong, but I don't know any other distribution that uses 2.2.18 yet (well, any other major distribution). SuSE doesn't, Red Hat doesn't etc. ...) for kernel 2.4 in one of them
Personally I'd like to see support (latest modutils
yet another good method for teachers to get students they don't like to leave school, isn't it? Psycho terror, bad grades and now that ...
well, it's just due to the "hackish" fetish for recursive Acronyms :*)
btw I'd like to study at least one semester in the US when I finish school. Are there any information available online on how to do this (I am from Germany)?
That's nice. I'd like to know if there'll be a galeon version using it as not everybody has the amount of RAM you need to "use" Mozilla
a) use English b) stop writing bullshit
a) benutze die Englische Sprache b) hör auf scheisse zu schreiben