Glossy screens just don't work on laptops.
Glossy screens are like the emperor's new clothes. People think they are better, but in the real world, they aren't.
Glossy screens are a poor choice for photographers.
Apparently, most CNC machining is done over parallel ports. The interfaces seem easier to design/program for, but it is also claimed that there are real latency issues with USB. The bandwidth is great, but the latency is too great. The G-code is interpeted to very short bursts of control data, which might be something that the USB people never saw coming. I think that the parallel port can control several motors--at once, sending instructions at each clock cycle.
Perhaps it's a OS issue, and possible to overclock the polling, but I haven't checked that.
[It's kind of awful that I've looked at getting a parallel port for my Thinkpad T61P. Argh! I have an old parallel-only plotter too; sigh.]
Anyone who puts blue light in the interior of a car that is driven at night is an fool. It is a long established fact that blue light temporary night vision; deep red is less harmful to your night vision.
Perhaps, panic is a little strong. At the same time, programing languages such as Occam, that are built from the ground up seem very provocative now. Perhaps Occam's syntax could modified to a Python-type syntax for a more popularity.
[Although, personally, I prefer Occam's syntax over that of C's.]
Whether or not who gets what chunk of the pie isn't as significant as the change that flash memory and the ultra portables such as the EEE PC have brought about: Not since the 1990s has the size and hardware requirements of a "full featured" operating system been an issue.
Terms like bloat, needless redundancy, inefficient, memory-hog, slow, have not had as much meaning as they have lately.
Solid State hard drive capacities will increase, but what a refreshing look at the reality and wastefulness of so many operating systems and programs.
Taking note: Even as SSD capacities increase, the requirement to not endlessly grind on them will not in the near future decrease.
Who foresaw that the maker of these CRT screens would dare put rootkits on so many computers?
Currently, the word "rootkit" is not considered a word by my spellchecker, but I am sure that future spellcheckers will include "rootkit," and its popularity and inclusion will be another Sony innovation : P
I generally don't changed my sleeping patterns for daylight saving time. I find it too disruptive.
As most sane people, I want an end to DST.
45nm GPUs will be a benefit gamer.
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Fourty-Five nanometer GPUs will be a benefit gamer, until then, Nvidia, ATI, and Intel should work more on 2D power consumption, and adaptive underclocking.
One of the strengths of personal computers is that they can act autonomously. Decentralization means reliability. It means that no one can control your data, no one can deny you from it. It means that no terrorist, no hardware or software failure can take out a single company leaving all the others dead in the water.
What a needless waste of bandwidth running large applications, such as office applications on the internet would be. If every application ran from the internet, there would be little bandwidth left for anyone.
Solid state drives are new, but they won't be small for long. So, the whole air-thing is a moot point.
For those who are too young to remember.... At one time, computers and software was very expensive, they had these things called "mainframes," and they would connect these things called "dumb terminals" to them. The reason why they were called "dumb terminals" is they couldn't do anything without the mainframe, really, I'm not kidding you. Anyway, sometimes the "mainframe" would "go down." That didn't mean the same thing then as it meant today, in fact, it meant something very very bad. It meant that everyone in the office had nothing to do except talk at the water cooler. Years later they started making personal computers. They were cheap, and they helped people work even without the "mainframe." As time went on, and the software that ran on the personal computers became big, and fat, and bloated, and do you know what else, some of it became so expensive that people couldn't use them any more, so they didn't. One day, a man became upset that some people still had some money left in their pockets, so do you know what they did, that's right, they hired some marketing people and some programmers to make these things called "Web Applications." They fooled everyone. The man made lots of money, and that made him very happy, until one fateful day in an office, a "Web Application" wouldn't work, and for the first time in many years two people walked to the water cooler to talk. One of them said, "We've reduced our PCs to the level of dumb terminals." The other one said, "Yea, terminals hooked up to someone else's mainframe." They laughed, and laughed, and went to make some coffee.
by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15, @06:10AM (#22432514)
(Well, so much for my Positive Karma...)
Start a war with inaccurate information, thousands of people die; no one is held accountable.
Out a CIA agent for political retribution; no one is held accountable.
Illegal wiretap; no one is held accountable.
Do an Olie North on your Email folders, no one is held accountable.
Everyone just believes that they can do just what they damn well please.
Bush's and his party are the worst threat the United States and its Constitution has ever faced.
We make jokes, but we forget that Bush is a few yards away from the button that sends thousands of nuclear warheads into the sky.
Impeach the Traitors!
If you have a little extra processor time, you could help SETI. I believe they have more data than they can search through. The client that loads SETI also can do a number of other projects, such as folding. The client can be throttled, and set to only run while the machines are not being used, akin to the time you might be running screensavers.
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/
With the extra space, you could always use Clonezilla to back up one machine on another.
I also want to add that some people are having success running OS9 under MESS/XMESS, but I don't know how to configure it yet. I am going to do an experiment to see if the VCC emulator will run under Wine : )
Back in the 1980's, I had a Color Computer 3, which was a pretty anemic machine, but it ran Microware's OS9 Level II. The Color Computer had a 6809b processor, which could only natively map 64K into its address space. Additional hardware allowed OS9 to map any eight of 8K blocks into the processor. Of that 64K, the entire kernel was eight kilobytes. The OS was a real-time multi-user windowing operating system.
My old system had 3-1/5 720K disks. The whole operating system fit on one disk. Adding another disk gave you a primitive graphical file manager.
Some Quicky Instructions: The emulator emulates this expansion-slot thing called a Multipak, in which you drop the "502 floppy controller" into, in which you can mount the (360k) disk images, as seen above. From there you can boot, by typing: DOS
You can load/unload commands at will, and load a bunch of merged ones with: load utilpak1
Be careful with the commands deldir (rmdir) dsave (xcopy) os9gen and cobbler...and format too. If you have external floppys the emulator can format them, if so mounted!
A little cramped for virtual-storage? You can install a virtual hard disk controller into the Multipak, and mount this virtual disk image virtual controller. http://vcc6809.bravehost.com/bin/nitros9.zip
To boot from the virtual hard disk, change the FD-502 disk controller settings to RGBDOS. To boot from the virtual HD, Mount the HDD controller in the multipack which was a slot expansion thing. To boot, type DOS253
But ick, a small 32 column screen. You can fix it by:
wcreate/w1 -s=2 0 0 80 24 00 02 02 shell i=/w1&
No change? Press [Home] you just opened another virtual terminal and forked an shell to it. You can press [F11] for fullscreen, [F10] to kill the status line.
On the OS9 disks, you can find Basic09 and it's runtime RunB. For it's day, Basic09 was arguably the best compiled basic offered anywhere. Basic09/RunB/OS9 allowed dll-style basic programming in the 1980s. Today, you would find its error handling lacking, as actually requiring a line number, and C programmers would miss the case/switch statements.
The asm source code is out there for both OS9 and NitrOS9, which is OS9 modded for the Hitachi 6309.
Enjoy : )
At times I do wonder why the Linux kernal has to be recompiled for hardware changes. The kernel modules are a step in the right direction, but why is everyone still loading Nvidia TNT support? The kernel should be the kernel and that's it, and whatever hardware you have should be abstracted, and at least separable. Linux doesn't have commands like cobbler and OS9 gen to build a bootstrap from compiled modules. While the kernel modules are a good idea, why aren't they used for all devices? Flash drives are still being mounted as SCSI's? Because the kernel isn't modular, and it makes it harder to swap out device support for the end user.
Three cheers and a phat military contract for everyone, but what's going to protect the planes from lasers.
Come to think of it the lasers, aren't going to be able to stop very many bullets at once.
Want to learn about GUI design--then study GUI's, and how user interact with them. Because you are aware of GUI's you will notice what you like and don't like. In the end I don't think there is much to be learned about interaction--from a media that does not allow it.
[There are also lot of Graphic layout magazines, and websites that probably represent the worst in graphic layout.]
There are a lot of good and bad user interface designs. A good place to look for bad GUI design are 3D design programs and development tools meant to be used by a company internally. Almost all Flash-powered GUI's on websites are artful, strange, and awful.
What's good in GUIs is harder to come up with, because the best GUIs go unnoticed. Ask yourself, what program do I use every day, and have not cursed at it? Because the answers to that question are few, I would be wary of any preexisting GUI knowledge.
In 10 years, both incandescent as well compact-florescent lights will be obsolete for home indoor lighting. LED's might be made from toxic chemicals too, but they can last a long time, they are hard to break, and they are pretty darn efficient.
"This is the LED light my grandfather used, still works."
The implications are that real people are going to lose their jobs, their cars, their homes, and their financial futures. I imagine that a few greedy people, making a few foolish actions brought about the end of SCO, and the rest of the employees, who had no say, are going home to pick up the pieces of their lives.
Its as if the entire world willed SCO to perish, perhaps justly so, but if I may get Taoist on you all for a moment--victory is celebrated with a funeral.
Every video game I have I bought legally. In fact every piece of software I own, I own legally.
Does the uninstaller uninstall the DRM cleanly or not?
Why wasn't there a DRM rootkit or protected registry warning given?
Laws creating a gulf of disparity between themselves and the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights will erode the indivisibility of the United States.
How many times do I have to state it, now repeat after me:
The Internet is not my baby sitter. The Internet is not a pacifier. Real kids need real parenting. I cannot protect my kids from the truth. Leaving kids alone on the Internet is almost as bad as leaving them on a streetcorner. If I am for censorship, I am a bad American Citizen. Any filtering will be used for ill-deeds. Creating a kid-safe Internet will compromise its integrity. "For the kids" is a threadbare political argument used to push an unjust un-Constitutional agenda forward. Filtering is the first step in censoring.
It is the the World Wide Web--Not Romper Room! Keep your laws off my Internet!
If you look at the list of bugs, some are quite nasty.
* You cannot print
* PDF export does not properly work as thetext won't show on the page right
* Starting OpenOffice.org from a shared folder does not work
* Copy and paste does not fully work
* OpenOffice.org will crash after quitting
* Some text is not drawn in places like Impress
* Impress will not recognise multiple monitors
I download a lot of "beta" and "Alpha" software. I have never seen piece of software released that the developers knew it constantly crashes. If is so rough that I found two typos in the known bugs.
They spent years twiddling their thumbs why people asked them to port OpenOffice to OSX. They had a X11 version of OpenOffice, but X11 is not the standard for Macs, it's an option. They waited a while longer for the Openoffice API's were changed. NeoOffice showed them up a little, and now more people are buying Macs, and they were wondering what's going on with OpenOffice.org. They questioned the Sun's steering committee's influence. So, succumbing to pressure, they, and a lot of hardworking volunteers, created an alpha.
So, they proved their point. Technically, they are making progress. Software often has a lot of bugs when it's released, but usually not a known repeatable crash. It appears that they met some kind of self-imposed time limit.
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Glossy screens just don't work on laptops. Glossy screens are like the emperor's new clothes. People think they are better, but in the real world, they aren't. Glossy screens are a poor choice for photographers.
Apparently, most CNC machining is done over parallel ports. The interfaces seem easier to design/program for, but it is also claimed that there are real latency issues with USB. The bandwidth is great, but the latency is too great. The G-code is interpeted to very short bursts of control data, which might be something that the USB people never saw coming. I think that the parallel port can control several motors--at once, sending instructions at each clock cycle. Perhaps it's a OS issue, and possible to overclock the polling, but I haven't checked that. [It's kind of awful that I've looked at getting a parallel port for my Thinkpad T61P. Argh! I have an old parallel-only plotter too; sigh.]
Anyone who puts blue light in the interior of a car that is driven at night is an fool. It is a long established fact that blue light temporary night vision; deep red is less harmful to your night vision.
Perhaps, panic is a little strong. At the same time, programing languages such as Occam, that are built from the ground up seem very provocative now. Perhaps Occam's syntax could modified to a Python-type syntax for a more popularity.
[Although, personally, I prefer Occam's syntax over that of C's.]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam_programming_language
I think that a tread aware programming language would be good in our multi-core world.
Whether or not who gets what chunk of the pie isn't as significant as the change that flash memory and the ultra portables such as the EEE PC have brought about: Not since the 1990s has the size and hardware requirements of a "full featured" operating system been an issue. Terms like bloat, needless redundancy, inefficient, memory-hog, slow, have not had as much meaning as they have lately. Solid State hard drive capacities will increase, but what a refreshing look at the reality and wastefulness of so many operating systems and programs. Taking note: Even as SSD capacities increase, the requirement to not endlessly grind on them will not in the near future decrease.
Who foresaw that the maker of these CRT screens would dare put rootkits on so many computers? Currently, the word "rootkit" is not considered a word by my spellchecker, but I am sure that future spellcheckers will include "rootkit," and its popularity and inclusion will be another Sony innovation : P
I generally don't changed my sleeping patterns for daylight saving time. I find it too disruptive. As most sane people, I want an end to DST.
Fourty-Five nanometer GPUs will be a benefit gamer, until then, Nvidia, ATI, and Intel should work more on 2D power consumption, and adaptive underclocking.
One of the strengths of personal computers is that they can act autonomously. Decentralization means reliability. It means that no one can control your data, no one can deny you from it. It means that no terrorist, no hardware or software failure can take out a single company leaving all the others dead in the water.
What a needless waste of bandwidth running large applications, such as office applications on the internet would be. If every application ran from the internet, there would be little bandwidth left for anyone.
Solid state drives are new, but they won't be small for long. So, the whole air-thing is a moot point.
For those who are too young to remember.... At one time, computers and software was very expensive, they had these things called "mainframes," and they would connect these things called "dumb terminals" to them. The reason why they were called "dumb terminals" is they couldn't do anything without the mainframe, really, I'm not kidding you. Anyway, sometimes the "mainframe" would "go down." That didn't mean the same thing then as it meant today, in fact, it meant something very very bad. It meant that everyone in the office had nothing to do except talk at the water cooler. Years later they started making personal computers. They were cheap, and they helped people work even without the "mainframe." As time went on, and the software that ran on the personal computers became big, and fat, and bloated, and do you know what else, some of it became so expensive that people couldn't use them any more, so they didn't. One day, a man became upset that some people still had some money left in their pockets, so do you know what they did, that's right, they hired some marketing people and some programmers to make these things called "Web Applications." They fooled everyone. The man made lots of money, and that made him very happy, until one fateful day in an office, a "Web Application" wouldn't work, and for the first time in many years two people walked to the water cooler to talk. One of them said, "We've reduced our PCs to the level of dumb terminals." The other one said, "Yea, terminals hooked up to someone else's mainframe." They laughed, and laughed, and went to make some coffee.
That could be the ugliest phone I have ever seen.
by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15, @06:10AM (#22432514) (Well, so much for my Positive Karma...) Start a war with inaccurate information, thousands of people die; no one is held accountable. Out a CIA agent for political retribution; no one is held accountable. Illegal wiretap; no one is held accountable. Do an Olie North on your Email folders, no one is held accountable. Everyone just believes that they can do just what they damn well please. Bush's and his party are the worst threat the United States and its Constitution has ever faced. We make jokes, but we forget that Bush is a few yards away from the button that sends thousands of nuclear warheads into the sky. Impeach the Traitors!
If you have a little extra processor time, you could help SETI. I believe they have more data than they can search through. The client that loads SETI also can do a number of other projects, such as folding. The client can be throttled, and set to only run while the machines are not being used, akin to the time you might be running screensavers. http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ With the extra space, you could always use Clonezilla to back up one machine on another.
Microsoft Windows is Dying
I also want to add that some people are having success running OS9 under MESS/XMESS, but I don't know how to configure it yet. I am going to do an experiment to see if the VCC emulator will run under Wine : )
Back in the 1980's, I had a Color Computer 3, which was a pretty anemic machine, but it ran Microware's OS9 Level II. The Color Computer had a 6809b processor, which could only natively map 64K into its address space. Additional hardware allowed OS9 to map any eight of 8K blocks into the processor. Of that 64K, the entire kernel was eight kilobytes. The OS was a real-time multi-user windowing operating system.
/w1 -s=2 0 0 80 24 00 02 02
My old system had 3-1/5 720K disks. The whole operating system fit on one disk. Adding another disk gave you a primitive graphical file manager.
Don't believe me? Here we go!
VCC Emulator:
http://vcc6809.bravehost.com/index.html
You need OS9 Level II Disk Images:
http://vcc6809.bravehost.com/disks/os9l2.zip
Some Quicky Instructions:
The emulator emulates this expansion-slot thing called a Multipak, in which you drop the "502 floppy controller" into, in which you can mount the (360k) disk images, as seen above. From there you can boot, by typing: DOS
You can load/unload commands at will, and load a bunch of merged ones with:
load utilpak1
There is a manual here. Check out the technical section, the whole OS is a re-enterent tree!
http://www.clubltdstudios.com/coco/downunder/OS9/OS9_Level_2.zip
Be careful with the commands deldir (rmdir) dsave (xcopy) os9gen and cobbler...and format too. If you have external floppys the emulator can format them, if so mounted!
A little cramped for virtual-storage? You can install a virtual hard disk controller into the Multipak, and mount this virtual disk image virtual controller.
http://vcc6809.bravehost.com/bin/nitros9.zip
To boot from the virtual hard disk, change the FD-502 disk controller settings to RGBDOS. To boot from the virtual HD, Mount the HDD controller in the multipack which was a slot expansion thing. To boot, type DOS253
But ick, a small 32 column screen. You can fix it by:
wcreate
shell i=/w1&
No change? Press [Home] you just opened another virtual terminal and forked an shell to it. You can press [F11] for fullscreen, [F10] to kill the status line.
There's more disks here:
http://www.clubltdstudios.com/coco/downunder/OS9/
On the OS9 disks, you can find Basic09 and it's runtime RunB. For it's day, Basic09 was arguably the best compiled basic offered anywhere. Basic09/RunB/OS9 allowed dll-style basic programming in the 1980s. Today, you would find its error handling lacking, as actually requiring a line number, and C programmers would miss the case/switch statements.
The asm source code is out there for both OS9 and NitrOS9, which is OS9 modded for the Hitachi 6309.
Enjoy : )
At times I do wonder why the Linux kernal has to be recompiled for hardware changes. The kernel modules are a step in the right direction, but why is everyone still loading Nvidia TNT support? The kernel should be the kernel and that's it, and whatever hardware you have should be abstracted, and at least separable. Linux doesn't have commands like cobbler and OS9 gen to build a bootstrap from compiled modules. While the kernel modules are a good idea, why aren't they used for all devices? Flash drives are still being mounted as SCSI's? Because the kernel isn't modular, and it makes it harder to swap out device support for the end user.
Three cheers and a phat military contract for everyone, but what's going to protect the planes from lasers. Come to think of it the lasers, aren't going to be able to stop very many bullets at once.
Want to learn about GUI design--then study GUI's, and how user interact with them. Because you are aware of GUI's you will notice what you like and don't like. In the end I don't think there is much to be learned about interaction--from a media that does not allow it. [There are also lot of Graphic layout magazines, and websites that probably represent the worst in graphic layout.] There are a lot of good and bad user interface designs. A good place to look for bad GUI design are 3D design programs and development tools meant to be used by a company internally. Almost all Flash-powered GUI's on websites are artful, strange, and awful. What's good in GUIs is harder to come up with, because the best GUIs go unnoticed. Ask yourself, what program do I use every day, and have not cursed at it? Because the answers to that question are few, I would be wary of any preexisting GUI knowledge.
In 10 years, both incandescent as well compact-florescent lights will be obsolete for home indoor lighting. LED's might be made from toxic chemicals too, but they can last a long time, they are hard to break, and they are pretty darn efficient. "This is the LED light my grandfather used, still works."
The implications are that real people are going to lose their jobs, their cars, their homes, and their financial futures. I imagine that a few greedy people, making a few foolish actions brought about the end of SCO, and the rest of the employees, who had no say, are going home to pick up the pieces of their lives. Its as if the entire world willed SCO to perish, perhaps justly so, but if I may get Taoist on you all for a moment--victory is celebrated with a funeral.
While we are at it, would someone please impeach Bush?
Every video game I have I bought legally. In fact every piece of software I own, I own legally. Does the uninstaller uninstall the DRM cleanly or not? Why wasn't there a DRM rootkit or protected registry warning given?
Laws creating a gulf of disparity between themselves and the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights will erode the indivisibility of the United States.
How many times do I have to state it, now repeat after me:
The Internet is not my baby sitter.
The Internet is not a pacifier.
Real kids need real parenting.
I cannot protect my kids from the truth.
Leaving kids alone on the Internet is almost as bad as leaving them on a streetcorner.
If I am for censorship, I am a bad American Citizen.
Any filtering will be used for ill-deeds.
Creating a kid-safe Internet will compromise its integrity.
"For the kids" is a threadbare political argument used to push an unjust un-Constitutional agenda forward.
Filtering is the first step in censoring.
It is the the World Wide Web--Not Romper Room!
Keep your laws off my Internet!
People who have nothing to hide, have nothing to fear from O.b.i.t. .
--From Outer Limits
Should the taxpayers bear the burden of this man's retirement?
Please, impeach Bush.
Worst president ever.
If you look at the list of bugs, some are quite nasty.
t ml
* You cannot print
* PDF export does not properly work as thetext won't show on the page right
* Starting OpenOffice.org from a shared folder does not work
* Copy and paste does not fully work
* OpenOffice.org will crash after quitting
* Some text is not drawn in places like Impress
* Impress will not recognise multiple monitors
I download a lot of "beta" and "Alpha" software. I have never seen piece of software released that the developers knew it constantly crashes.
If is so rough that I found two typos in the known bugs.
http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/aqua.h
They spent years twiddling their thumbs why people asked them to port OpenOffice to OSX. They had a X11 version of OpenOffice, but X11 is not the standard for Macs, it's an option. They waited a while longer for the Openoffice API's were changed. NeoOffice showed them up a little, and now more people are buying Macs, and they were wondering what's going on with OpenOffice.org. They questioned the Sun's steering committee's influence. So, succumbing to pressure, they, and a lot of hardworking volunteers, created an alpha.
So, they proved their point. Technically, they are making progress. Software often has a lot of bugs when it's released, but usually not a known repeatable crash. It appears that they met some kind of self-imposed time limit.