If I were sitting down to hack away at something that cannot be done (sanely, correctly, speedily, etc) without regex, I would rather have a "Cookbook" with more than enough information than adding to my work and stress load by having to scrape up what I needed (or worse, maybe *not*) on the Interweb.
AmigaBASIC was the same way. I knew enough basic BASIC to pull off some things, but without a (thick) handy manual, it's just not as much fun.
Are you talking about the Pixar box or a NexT? FWIG, the PIC ran NeWS, and I have no real understanding of how that worked.
On the NeXT, the entire purpose of the right mouse button was to provide the menus that normally would exist at the top of the screen on a Mac.
Menubar at the top of the screen all the time means you don't need to click a button on the mouse to get it to appear - either at the default top left corner of the screen, or you could drag the menu to any location on the screen (preferably grabbing the top-leftmost pixel on the context menu and moving the menu as far off the bottom right side as possible. The menus are always there, but they only appear when you right click.
Getting GNUstep up and running - the environment, and the Applications, can be a real pain in the ass unless you're using a Debian derivative.
This gets the entire kit and kaboodle into the hands of people. The Development stuff is there, user apps are there, games are there, utilities are there..
This Live CD is the first (well, now the third) place where you can see it all happening without having to download and compile everything just to see how NeXT-like/Apple-like it is, or how good it is on as it's own critter.
It's a sort of showcase, and the most complete GNUStep implementation out there.
He mentions that he's on "the NeXT Computer" which was what the Cube was called until it became the NeXT Cube.
This leads me to believe he's on a Cube with a Dimension board. He would have the vram space to toss those windows around on the NeXT hardware with ease, plus have direct video I/O - perfect for capturing a demo in high quality.
Image Compression/Decompression *Dedicated JPEG Image Compression Processor *Real-time compression and decompression to hard disk *User-selectable compression rate
Memory *Main Memory *8 MB to 32 MB of main memory *Expandable using 72-pin DRAM SIMM modules *Display Memory *4 MB VRAM *32 bits/pixel color, including 8 bits/pixel alpha channel *Supports double-buffered 16/bits pixel windows
Display Resolution *1120 x 832 pixels
Display Output *13W3 triple-coxial
Video Video Compatibility *NTSC video input and output channels (PAL option) *Video output genlocked to input video source *Closed-caption, TeleText, and VITC support
Video Inputs *One S-Video using standard DIN-style 4-pin jack *Two composite video using RCA-style jack *Software-selectable
Video Outputs *One S-Video using standard DIN-style 4-pin jack *One composite video using RCA-style jack *One RGB video using 9-pin D-shell with EGA pinout
You could have as much (or more) video memory than system memory. Compare that to 16MB DOS systems with 512K - 2MB svga displays at the time.
I've used it on a Color NeXT Station and on a modern P3 with 32MB Matrox video, and there's a major difference. The demo looks somewhere in the middle.
The MBA program is there to squish you into the acceptible "MBA" mold.
What master of business administration is going to go around (in the USA) using English that makes him look like a hillbilly to CEO's that are closed-minded as the prof, and expect to get anywh'ar?
D'you's reckon ye' orta warsh?
They can't tell that from perfectly acceptible "proper" English phrases.
Point is, it's not an acceptible dialect for Business discourse.
Plenty of mirrors, and, huh.. there *used* to be a torrent..
"For a while, I was running a.torrent of all textfiles you could download on the textfiles.com website. It was very popular, so popular, in fact, that it was killing my bandwidth. Also, as time went on, it started to get out of sync with the files on the website itself. I guess I didn't think the whole thing through as much as I would have liked."
Unless it's extra rainy or you have a wasp/hornet/bee problem, whatever'old box' you have will do the job fine.
If you don't have something with a serial port (for interfacing with instruments,etc) check the paper or find the used computer seller in your area and pick up an Enron liquidation Compaq/Dell/IBM P3 series computer for under $100. Use it for a year or two, then upgrade.
I've decomissioned working computers from the most unbelievable environments - imagine the inside of an industrial control computer - from a TIRE FACTORY. Don't fear sawdust when powdered vulcanized rubber and grit does so little.
*Get extensions for the monitor.kbd,mouse and stick the machine in a cabinet. *Echo 'blow dust out of shop computer with fancy new air compressor' >> spring_cleaning_checklist... You should be fine.
Not only because of its optics, but because the improvement in image quality I have with the pictures having nearly four times the resolution of my old camera.
More pixels with bad optics might mean more pixels to render noise, but I didn't upgrade my camera because of extreme artifacting or light noise.
I wanted more bits per flick. The benefit of buying a (just widely dropped to $199) Canon PowerShot A75 is not only the ass-kicking feature set, but because they use higher quality components - plastic, glass, paper, cardboard, etc., than some other manufacturers that have a 3.2 or 4MP camera for equal or less money.
Birds like shiny things, Joe and Joann Consumer like quick, flashy numbers.
"Just like a 'megahurt', but 'pixel' is so much more fun to say?! Don't you think Honey?"
It's how they shop - and if they're smart, they also look beyond the number and consider what's inside their purchase. The old adage applies well to digital cameras - 'buy the one that costs 1/3 again more than you want to spend' to get a higher quality product, that you're likely to be more satisfied with.
Take advantage of Script-Fu and some of the automatable things in GIMP, the Windows version, too if you need.
ImageMagick's conversion utilities come in handy - don't underestimate the power of mogrify.
There are plenty of apps to convert a bitmap into vector art that gives you another level of flexibility.
Inkscape will give you lightning quick results when making primitive objects. A couple shapes, come gradients for definition, add a quick shadow, et voila.. Sometimes vector art is the right tool for the job, for sure.
Find a few key techniques that work for you, and develop a working style.
Lastly, share what you can, so peole aren't dependant on ClipArt any more than they have to be.
Also, I will enjoy the day when a Layer Styles palette as in Photoshop is worked into GIMP.. That will make it a fully usable tool for me..
OS X may not match up to AIX or HP-UX on some of those features; scaling, high-end virtualization..
However, it does have some new technologies that might have more direct impact for more people and deliver on some age-old promises of computers making life easier; workgroup management , server task automation & client management, and volume management of its own. Not to mention everything they're doing in regard to clustering with Xgrid, and authoring software (Xcode).
Granted, the Apple stuff is new, it's not necessarily the *best*, and not even fully *out* yet, but you have to admit that there are great advances being made there, providing evidence that much attention is being paid to what AIX, HP-UX, Irix, and Solaris do best (right now). Plus, Steve's got something to prove since NeXT did so poorly against them all when they were at their peak.
Imagine for one second the similarities in the two:
People who smoke in public voluntarily consume poisonous chemicals that pollute the air in their vicinity. The unwelcome side-effect of consuming/filtering/avoiding the smoke against your will is felt mainly in the nose and lungs.
People who watch television in public voluntarily consume poisonous audio/visual content that also pollutes the air in their vicinity. The unwelcome side-effect of consuming/filtering/avoiding the sight/sound against your will is felt mainly in the ears and eyes.
Just as smokers have the right to consume tobacco in public, non-smokers have the right to consume the public air *without* the contamination of cig-smoke. You may not dislike the effects of television any more than you do second-hand smoke, but there are people who discern the difference and prefer to exist without it.
If there's a ciggy smoldering in an ashtray, smoking away, I put it out. If there's a TV smoldering away at the laundrymat, I'd like to put it out, too.
I agree, and it amplifies the absurdity of the situation.
The 3Ware guy made a thing that just removes it from view, and quite likely ticks off people who don't take kindly to people making changes that they don't see the logic in.
It's not up to me to attempt to remove TV from the public mind, but to draw more attention to the nastiness of it all would be divine.
Press a button and: scan for FOX news, The Christ-a-thon channel, or HSN & crank volume to Max.
Thanks to some dedicated people, GNUstep and a bunch of apps are an apt-get away on debian.
'apt-get install gnustep*' will install all the libraries, the development tools, stepbill.app, and some others. You'll want gworkspace, too. WindowMaker is nice to have, as well as this windowmaker theme and Camaelon.
Apple tried at least twice to induce development of ObjC apps on Win32. OPENSTEP Enterprise was an NT port of the OPENSTEP API, and as the NeXT/Apple transition was taking place, they had a version of Rhapsody to take its place.
AT&T's corporate apps for in-house things like customer service apps for Cellular service, etc. were NeXTSTEP apps first, then they ported to OPENSTEP/NT, and now they are talking about going Cocoa;)
Of course, it's all been watered down over the last few years, what with the rise of Siebel Systems, but it was cool as hell as a NeXT geek to go to AT&T and see and use OPENSTEP apps. People who got started on NeXT systems there even dragged their Windows start-bar-thingy to the right side of the screen, like the Dock:0
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If I were sitting down to hack away at something that cannot be done (sanely, correctly, speedily, etc) without regex, I would rather have a "Cookbook" with more than enough information than adding to my work and stress load by having to scrape up what I needed (or worse, maybe *not*) on the Interweb.
AmigaBASIC was the same way. I knew enough basic BASIC to pull off some things, but without a (thick) handy manual, it's just not as much fun.
Copypaste.. The mystery function.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=SUNW&t=my
I'm no stock analyst, but the trend that leads up to Sun's peak (96-2000) is mirrored in the performance over the last 2 years..
And their stock is $4. Four. Not $40, like Apple (whose stock follows a similar trend, only theirs went up an octave..)
You must be from the Mid-West..
You mean the prophet Emperor Haile Selassie I.
I don't think you can format 720K HFS disks, though.. DOS, sure..
You should be able to dd 'em though.
Are you talking about the Pixar box or a NexT?
FWIG, the PIC ran NeWS, and I have no real understanding of how that worked.
On the NeXT, the entire purpose of the right mouse button was to provide the menus that normally would exist at the top of the screen on a Mac.
Menubar at the top of the screen all the time means you don't need to click a button on the mouse to get it to appear - either at the default top left corner of the screen, or you could drag the menu to any location on the screen (preferably grabbing the top-leftmost pixel on the context menu and moving the menu as far off the bottom right side as possible. The menus are always there, but they only appear when you right click.
Troll, indeed.
Getting GNUstep up and running - the environment, and the Applications, can be a real pain in the ass unless you're using a Debian derivative.
This gets the entire kit and kaboodle into the hands of people. The Development stuff is there, user apps are there, games are there, utilities are there..
This Live CD is the first (well, now the third) place where you can see it all happening without having to download and compile everything just to see how NeXT-like/Apple-like it is, or how good it is on as it's own critter.
It's a sort of showcase, and the most complete GNUStep implementation out there.
Camaelon.
AFAIK, you have to patch the GNUStep source, which makes it an impractical pain in the ass for a lot of people, but it's there anyway.
There's no support for traditional pixmap swapping like in so many other environments, but there might be one fine day.
The fonts are user-configurable, BTW.
Though it's not entirely true anymore, the goal of GNUStep is to emulate the look/feel of NeXTSTEP 3.X.
There's Camaelon, which lends some themability to GNUStep, but the interoperability isn't there.
Grab your can o' Simoniz!
You don't have to use the full KDE environment to use SuperKaramba.
WindowMaker works great with SuperKaramba. You can even turn off the dock and/or clip altogether and use Kicker and Konqueror instead.
[shameless_plug] There are a few attractive themes for WindowMaker that either don't date back to 1999, or look like it. Like mine![/shameless_plug]
This leads me to believe he's on a Cube with a Dimension board. He would have the vram space to toss those windows around on the NeXT hardware with ease, plus have direct video I/O - perfect for capturing a demo in high quality.
Check out the specs on that bad boy:
You could have as much (or more) video memory than system memory. Compare that to 16MB DOS systems with 512K - 2MB svga displays at the time.
I've used it on a Color NeXT Station and on a modern P3 with 32MB Matrox video, and there's a major difference. The demo looks somewhere in the middle.
The MBA program is there to squish you into the acceptible "MBA" mold.
What master of business administration is going to go around (in the USA) using English that makes him look like a hillbilly to CEO's that are closed-minded as the prof, and expect to get anywh'ar?
D'you's reckon ye' orta warsh?
They can't tell that from perfectly acceptible "proper" English phrases.
Point is, it's not an acceptible dialect for Business discourse.
But I agree with you!! Dang that gal!
PHRAK back issues
Plenty of mirrors, and, huh.. there *used* to be a torrent..
http://torrent.textfiles.com/
Sorry, Jason Scott!
I can hear it now..
"Macintalk Pro English, Bruce."
It's not K.I.T.T., but it's close enough.
Unless it's extra rainy or you have a wasp/hornet/bee problem, whatever'old box' you have will do the job fine.
If you don't have something with a serial port (for interfacing with instruments,etc) check the paper or find the used computer seller in your area and pick up an Enron liquidation Compaq/Dell/IBM P3 series computer for under $100. Use it for a year or two, then upgrade.
I've decomissioned working computers from the most unbelievable environments - imagine the inside of an industrial control computer - from a TIRE FACTORY. Don't fear sawdust when powdered vulcanized rubber and grit does so little.
*Get extensions for the monitor.kbd,mouse and stick the machine in a cabinet.
*Echo 'blow dust out of shop computer with fancy new air compressor' >> spring_cleaning_checklist...
You should be fine.
No kidding - I wonder what "Silicon Graphics" or "sgi" would fetch - for the name alone (no IP).
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Half that?
What times we live in.
Not only because of its optics, but because the improvement in image quality I have with the pictures having nearly four times the resolution of my old camera.
More pixels with bad optics might mean more pixels to render noise, but I didn't upgrade my camera because of extreme artifacting or light noise.
I wanted more bits per flick. The benefit of buying a (just widely dropped to $199) Canon PowerShot A75 is not only the ass-kicking feature set, but because they use higher quality components - plastic, glass, paper, cardboard, etc., than some other manufacturers that have a 3.2 or 4MP camera for equal or less money.
Birds like shiny things, Joe and Joann Consumer like quick, flashy numbers.
"Just like a 'megahurt', but 'pixel' is so much more fun to say?! Don't you think Honey?"
It's how they shop - and if they're smart, they also look beyond the number and consider what's inside their purchase. The old adage applies well to digital cameras - 'buy the one that costs 1/3 again more than you want to spend' to get a higher quality product, that you're likely to be more satisfied with.
Take advantage of Script-Fu and some of the automatable things in GIMP, the Windows version, too if you need.
ImageMagick's conversion utilities come in handy - don't underestimate the power of mogrify. There are plenty of apps to convert a bitmap into vector art that gives you another level of flexibility.Inkscape will give you lightning quick results when making primitive objects. A couple shapes, come gradients for definition, add a quick shadow, et voila.. Sometimes vector art is the right tool for the job, for sure.
Find a few key techniques that work for you, and develop a working style. Lastly, share what you can, so peole aren't dependant on ClipArt any more than they have to be. Also, I will enjoy the day when a Layer Styles palette as in Photoshop is worked into GIMP.. That will make it a fully usable tool for me..
I'm not sure if it will work, but I'm reasonably sure it will.
The only reason I can think of is that the disk partition type is slightly different..
You can't read your Rhapsody partitions on a NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP box..
OS X may not match up to AIX or HP-UX on some of those features; scaling, high-end virtualization..
However, it does have some new technologies that might have more direct impact for more people and deliver on some age-old promises of computers making life easier; workgroup management , server task automation & client management, and volume management of its own. Not to mention everything they're doing in regard to clustering with Xgrid, and authoring software (Xcode).
Granted, the Apple stuff is new, it's not necessarily the *best*, and not even fully *out* yet, but you have to admit that there are great advances being made there, providing evidence that much attention is being paid to what AIX, HP-UX, Irix, and Solaris do best (right now). Plus, Steve's got something to prove since NeXT did so poorly against them all when they were at their peak.
Imagine for one second the similarities in the two:
People who smoke in public voluntarily consume poisonous chemicals that pollute the air in their vicinity. The unwelcome side-effect of consuming/filtering/avoiding the smoke against your will is felt mainly in the nose and lungs.
People who watch television in public voluntarily consume poisonous audio/visual content that also pollutes the air in their vicinity. The unwelcome side-effect of consuming/filtering/avoiding the sight/sound against your will is felt mainly in the ears and eyes.
Just as smokers have the right to consume tobacco in public, non-smokers have the right to consume the public air *without* the contamination of cig-smoke. You may not dislike the effects of television any more than you do second-hand smoke, but there are people who discern the difference and prefer to exist without it.
If there's a ciggy smoldering in an ashtray, smoking away, I put it out. If there's a TV smoldering away at the laundrymat, I'd like to put it out, too.
I agree, and it amplifies the absurdity of the situation.
The 3Ware guy made a thing that just removes it from view, and quite likely ticks off people who don't take kindly to people making changes that they don't see the logic in.
It's not up to me to attempt to remove TV from the public mind, but to draw more attention to the nastiness of it all would be divine.
Press a button and: scan for FOX news, The Christ-a-thon channel, or HSN & crank volume to Max.
Thanks to some dedicated people, GNUstep and a bunch of apps are an apt-get away on debian.
'apt-get install gnustep*' will install all the libraries, the development tools, stepbill.app, and some others. You'll want gworkspace, too. WindowMaker is nice to have, as well as this windowmaker theme and Camaelon.
Apple tried at least twice to induce development of ObjC apps on Win32. OPENSTEP Enterprise was an NT port of the OPENSTEP API, and as the NeXT/Apple transition was taking place, they had a version of Rhapsody to take its place.
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GNUStep has a Windows port: ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/binaries/window
They're about the only ObjC effort underway, afik..
AT&T's corporate apps for in-house things like customer service apps for Cellular service, etc. were NeXTSTEP apps first, then they ported to OPENSTEP/NT, and now they are talking about going Cocoa ;)
:0
Of course, it's all been watered down over the last few years, what with the rise of Siebel Systems, but it was cool as hell as a NeXT geek to go to AT&T and see and use OPENSTEP apps. People who got started on NeXT systems there even dragged their Windows start-bar-thingy to the right side of the screen, like the Dock