There are a few folks intensely devoted to bringing GNUstep forward. Gürkan Sengün's GNUStep Live CD is quite an accomplishment. Debian-based (consequently, GNUstep is an 'apt-get install gnustep*' away) It ties together the most mature GNUStep apps with the complete GNUstep backend to give a taste of what's possible.
There's also a mini-iso for debian-hurd & ppc packages!!
When one 2.5" drive is half the physical size of a 3.5", you can fit roughly 2X the number of (what are now considered) full-size units.
Less size & less heat, means less consideration inre: airflow. Take a close look at the layout of an XServe or your favorite 1U and picture what is now drive 'width' to be drive 'length', and divide height by 2.
Since the day NEXTSTEP was ported to the 486, and possibly before, Project Builder had the ability to compile binaries not only for the Motorola 68040, but also for HP PA-RISC, SPARC, and i486. Quad-fat binaries.. If you look at any of the remaining NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP archives, or search for an old OmniWeb beta, you'll find files with names like this:
Foo_App.1.34b.NIHS.b.tar.gz
That NIHS.b stands for Next,Intel,HP,Sparc-BINARY. One binary runs on 4 different architechtures. If they could do it then, with most systems (all architectures) running between 25 and 100MHz, they should be able to do it equally well now, with a narrower range of hardware to support (nVidia or ATI, x86/64 or PPC as opposed to 4 totally different approaches in respect to CPU, display hardware, bridge ASICs, etc)
There's the issue of AltiVec/SSE2, etc, but there were challenges 10 years ago, too..
I couldn't give a crap about the Xbox/Media center application, but DAYUMN!! It sure would be nice to take that little screen & mount it on the back of a ps2/usb keyboard for my mobile KVM needs..
What kind of crap is that site, anyway? Red herring bullshit?
Look, buddy.. If you're for Bush, *BE* for Bush. There's no sense trying to obfuscate things by bringing the dead Soviet Communist thing out of the closet.
George Bush & his "Polit Bureau" are doing exactly what those "Evil Commies" did in the 80's - don't you remember? Or are you too young?
"Communists aren't allowed to speak out against their Government" = PATRIOT act, etc.
"Communists must visit *Government Approved* doctors, or pay a full month's salary (or more!) to visit a private doctor" = Amerikan health care system.
"Communists only have a few channels to watch, and they all show programs approved by the Government" Watch any FOX lately? I bet you have...
"Communists aren't allowed to own anything" = You don't really own anything - If you didn't buy it with CA$H, the Credit Card Companies or Bank own it.
"Communists are told lies by their Government daily - such as 'Everything here is good - We're doing it the right way' and 'The Economic system is working according to plan' = "The Economy is Strong and getting Stronger" & the rich getting richer at the expense of the poor.
The situation is far too dire for your confused propaganda, my child.
Nobody in this country drives a H2, Escalade, or Luxury automobile that isn't profitting from the harder work of an underpaid employee - yourself included. Period. Never have, never will, despite what MTV says.
Florida has had nearly the same machines spitting out the same paper lottery ticket, keeping the same journal, uploading each set of digits scanned from the same "blacken in the circle" forms for nearly * 15 FUCKING YEARS *
Change the firmware, repurpose some hardware, and give us a goddamned voting system with some EQUALLY STRINGENT ACCOUNTING
This process has been carried out billions of times by now, and you'd think that they'd try to utilize some of the expertise accumulated through so many, many, many, many, many drawings (like mini-elections themselves.)
This is important:
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Q. Who audits the Lottery?
A. Florida law requires a variety of strict audits and controls, and the Florida Lottery enjoys the distinction of being the most audited agency in Florida state government. The Lottery, unlike any other state agency, must submit detailed monthly financial statements to the Governor, Treasurer and the Legislature disclosing all Lottery revenues and expenses. In addition to the Lottery Inspector General's internal auditing procedures:
* The Legislative Auditing Committee contracts with an independent accounting firm to conduct an annual financial audit. * The State Auditor General may at any time audit any phase of Lottery operations. * A comprehensive security audit must be conducted at least every two years. * An independent certified public accounting firm witnesses each Lottery drawing to certify the official winning numbers for the drawing.
It's like saying "You liked being at Disney World." "Now that we're back in Idaho, what can we do to make it suitable for you?"
"There are Carousel rides in front of K-Mart.. Disney had some carousel rides, sweetie.."
"What else? Mickey Mouse, Goofy? Those are features of Disney... We can get Uncle Don to dress up in his Dog suit"
A Newton is a Newton is a Newton, and nothing would do to replace it except for a new Newton. Or an iPod with a keyboard and a bigger screen that could run Newton apps.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/mwsf04/
Doesn't seem to work, though. I've been trying all day, and I never get anything more than 'bad request' - familiar, or nothing at all.
Was it there, or no?!
Check your local library's collection of 70's Back-to-the-land books. I know there are some principles laid out in one or more of the Foxfire books. A good book if you can find it is called "Making Do". There are great diagrams in there for elegant and simple, lo-tech solutions to issues like hydro-power, cooking, etc.
Mother's run dozens of articles on the subject through the years. Do they have a CDROM/DVD archive yet, anybody? That would friggin rock..
In some places, as long as you don't completely block the flow, just about anything goes. It may be inconsiderate, but if it is, then you've got more than a few neighbors downstream to contend with when they find out it's you!
Common sense, fairness, and respect go a long way in the country. That's why it rules so fucking much!
Deep-discount computers S U C K. They *must* know this. A free office suite on top of a free OS isn't going to do anything to sell these things if people can't double click and install software, preferably the software they sell at WAL-MART.
"I bought this here Sun computer, but it won't run these deer huntin' and bass fishin' games I bought with it. I'd like my munny back, please"
DishNetwork's (I didn't know they were still around, BTW) decision to turn their back on this huge player (Their "Media Brands" - CBS, MTV, Nickelodeon, VH1, BET, Paramount Pictures, Viacom Outdoor, Infinity, UPN, Spike TV, TV Land, CMT, Comedy Central, Showtime, Blockbuster, and Simon & Schuster, not to mention any other subsidiaries/divisions of those "Brands") is REALLY FUCKING SIGNIFICANT.
So many channels, so few umbrella. (No plural on purpose)
It's sort of like when you clicked on that checkbox next to Jon Katz' articles.. Except, you don't get the option. In my opinion, and it seems many others, this option is missing from TV that you have to pay for.
Kind of like having to eat from a TV dinner (no pun intended), with 300 little compartments, most of which have some sort of boiled vegetable. A sea of green beans, peas, corn, mashed potatoes, broccoli, brussels sprouts, hot-ass-too-hot-to-eat-apple cobbler, squash, succotash, sprinkled with something that makes you say "Yay!" (South Park, Iron Chef) are like something actually friggin' palatable - meatloaf (not my choice, but hey), fried chicken, tamales, poultry nugget, but each have a significant drawback. Commercials/crap programming as compared to bones/no meat/mushy/tasteless, but otherwise appealing to look at in comparison to the sea of overcooked vegetables.
How'd you like to build your own 15-compartment TV dinner, closer to a reasonable price, as opposed to the more-than-you-want and not-really-all-that-great-to-begin-with and OVERPRICED at that TV dinner?
Torsion would be a problem on that thing, seems to me. You'd need some kind of backing on it to keep it stable and on your desk. It weighs what, 4-6 oz?
You might do better going back several models. Thinkpads all have pretty similar keyboards, and one or two may have a specced pinout and controller chip.
You'd think that after 11 years, you'd have figured out Apple's product upgrade schedule.;)
Thinking back (but not too hard), it's been pretty much the same methodology since Stevie came back.
Speed-bumped/updated current models appear 4-7 months before entirely new machines. This is stretched out over Consumer, Pro, and Pro-sumer lines.
It's kind of like how automakers, well Ford anyway, introduces their cars. They put out the schmancy new Lincolns about the same time they upgrade the Taurus, which is about the same time they let loose a new compact. The high and low end products are the most daring, while bread and butter stays a little conservative.
Why, when we have portable DVD players selling under $200, Palm-powered devices under $100 and hard drive storage for under $1 per GB, are there no devices that combine the price/performance of all three?
Imagine, if you will, one of those DVD players with the brain of a Zire-class device; color screen (5" LCD - TV resolution, but that didn't stop us in the olden days), internal data storage (5GB?), a usb port or two, CF or CardBus, and maybe a bottom-of-the-barrel Realtek or ADMTek 802.11X chip.
Email, address book, DVD, MP3, and computer functionality in your (large) pocket, or backpack. Plug in whatever USB mouse/keyboard you want, or use the integrated joystick-thingy on the bus/subway/plane/go.
Hell, you could even play Commodore 64, Atari, and GameBoy games on the thing..
LinuxPPC Live and Knoppix have LiveCD's plus CRUX now has a PPC port. It's not live, but it's another option, plus it's slackware-based, not another Debian>Knoppix>Morphix dealy.
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There are a few folks intensely devoted to bringing GNUstep forward. Gürkan Sengün's GNUStep Live CD is quite an accomplishment. Debian-based (consequently, GNUstep is an 'apt-get install gnustep*' away) It ties together the most mature GNUStep apps with the complete GNUstep backend to give a taste of what's possible.
There's also a mini-iso for debian-hurd & ppc packages!!
When one 2.5" drive is half the physical size of a 3.5", you can fit roughly 2X the number of (what are now considered) full-size units.
Less size & less heat, means less consideration inre: airflow. Take a close look at the layout of an XServe or your favorite 1U and picture what is now drive 'width' to be drive 'length', and divide height by 2.
More air! More speed! More tiny little RAIDs!!
If you look at any of the remaining NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP archives, or search for an old OmniWeb beta, you'll find files with names like this: That NIHS.b stands for Next,Intel,HP,Sparc-BINARY.
One binary runs on 4 different architechtures. If they could do it then, with most systems (all architectures) running between 25 and 100MHz, they should be able to do it equally well now, with a narrower range of hardware to support (nVidia or ATI, x86/64 or PPC as opposed to 4 totally different approaches in respect to CPU, display hardware, bridge ASICs, etc)
There's the issue of AltiVec/SSE2, etc, but there were challenges 10 years ago, too..
I couldn't give a crap about the Xbox/Media center application, but DAYUMN!! It sure would be nice to take that little screen & mount it on the back of a ps2/usb keyboard for my mobile KVM needs..
Hmm..
Where are the UVXGA++ panels?
WTF gives? A TV that does the same resolution (and image quality) as a laptop from 1996 that costs as much as a entire laptop in 2004?
Please - someone explain.
First, you would need one soaking to loosen up the bond the fatty pork molecules have on the plastic.
Then, you need to wash away the emulsion.
*Then* you need to rinse the residue off.
I vote ozone - or low-temp baking.
"A hysterical send up of Kerry and his band of book burners"
Really? Hysterical?
Maybe I'm just too stupid to get it, but I can't see anything coming from that site but classic "FUD".
Dig a little deeper, chum.
What kind of crap is that site, anyway? Red herring bullshit?
Look, buddy.. If you're for Bush, *BE* for Bush. There's no sense trying to obfuscate things by bringing the dead Soviet Communist thing out of the closet.
George Bush & his "Polit Bureau" are doing exactly what those "Evil Commies" did in the 80's - don't you remember? Or are you too young?
"Communists aren't allowed to speak out against their Government" = PATRIOT act, etc.
"Communists must visit *Government Approved* doctors, or pay a full month's salary (or more!) to visit a private doctor" = Amerikan health care system.
"Communists only have a few channels to watch, and they all show programs approved by the Government" Watch any FOX lately? I bet you have...
"Communists aren't allowed to own anything" = You don't really own anything - If you didn't buy it with CA$H, the Credit Card Companies or Bank own it.
"Communists are told lies by their Government daily - such as 'Everything here is good - We're doing it the right way' and 'The Economic system is working according to plan' = "The Economy is Strong and getting Stronger" & the rich getting richer at the expense of the poor.
The situation is far too dire for your confused propaganda, my child.
Nobody in this country drives a H2, Escalade, or Luxury automobile that isn't profitting from the harder work of an underpaid employee - yourself included. Period. Never have, never will, despite what MTV says.
I quote,
"Put up or shut up"
Florida has had nearly the same machines spitting out the same paper lottery ticket, keeping the same journal, uploading each set of digits scanned from the same "blacken in the circle" forms for nearly * 15 FUCKING YEARS *
Change the firmware, repurpose some hardware, and give us a goddamned voting system with some EQUALLY STRINGENT ACCOUNTING
This process has been carried out billions of times by now, and you'd think that they'd try to utilize some of the expertise accumulated through so many, many, many, many, many drawings (like mini-elections themselves.)This is important: -------------------
The sony u70/u50 would do the trick ;)
It's like saying "You liked being at Disney World." "Now that we're back in Idaho, what can we do to make it suitable for you?"
"There are Carousel rides in front of K-Mart.. Disney had some carousel rides, sweetie.."
"What else? Mickey Mouse, Goofy? Those are features of Disney... We can get Uncle Don to dress up in his Dog suit"
A Newton is a Newton is a Newton, and nothing would do to replace it except for a new Newton. Or an iPod with a keyboard and a bigger screen that could run Newton apps.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/mwsf04/ Doesn't seem to work, though. I've been trying all day, and I never get anything more than 'bad request' - familiar, or nothing at all. Was it there, or no?!
Oh yes.. Mother Earth News CDROM archive. Glee. No word on what the 2400 articles contain, though..
Check your local library's collection of 70's Back-to-the-land books. I know there are some principles laid out in one or more of the Foxfire books. A good book if you can find it is called "Making Do". There are great diagrams in there for elegant and simple, lo-tech solutions to issues like hydro-power, cooking, etc.
Mother's run dozens of articles on the subject through the years. Do they have a CDROM/DVD archive yet, anybody? That would friggin rock..
In some places, as long as you don't completely block the flow, just about anything goes. It may be inconsiderate, but if it is, then you've got more than a few neighbors downstream to contend with when they find out it's you!
Common sense, fairness, and respect go a long way in the country. That's why it rules so fucking much!
It wants its computer business strategy back.
Deep-discount computers S U C K. They *must* know this. A free office suite on top of a free OS isn't going to do anything to sell these things if people can't double click and install software, preferably the software they sell at WAL-MART.
"I bought this here Sun computer, but it won't run these deer huntin' and bass fishin' games I bought with it. I'd like my munny back, please"
A twonee would probably react like this 10 Franc coin: Tiny cached thumbnail en Espanpol
Viacom is a HUGE player in "Television".
DishNetwork's (I didn't know they were still around, BTW) decision to turn their back on this huge player (Their "Media Brands" - CBS, MTV, Nickelodeon, VH1, BET, Paramount Pictures, Viacom Outdoor, Infinity, UPN, Spike TV, TV Land, CMT, Comedy Central, Showtime, Blockbuster, and Simon & Schuster, not to mention any other subsidiaries/divisions of those "Brands") is REALLY FUCKING SIGNIFICANT.
So many channels, so few umbrella. (No plural on purpose)
It's sort of like when you clicked on that checkbox next to Jon Katz' articles.. Except, you don't get the option. In my opinion, and it seems many others, this option is missing from TV that you have to pay for.
Kind of like having to eat from a TV dinner (no pun intended), with 300 little compartments, most of which have some sort of boiled vegetable. A sea of green beans, peas, corn, mashed potatoes, broccoli, brussels sprouts, hot-ass-too-hot-to-eat-apple cobbler, squash, succotash, sprinkled with something that makes you say "Yay!" (South Park, Iron Chef) are like something actually friggin' palatable - meatloaf (not my choice, but hey), fried chicken, tamales, poultry nugget, but each have a significant drawback. Commercials/crap programming as compared to bones/no meat/mushy/tasteless, but otherwise appealing to look at in comparison to the sea of overcooked vegetables.
How'd you like to build your own 15-compartment TV dinner, closer to a reasonable price, as opposed to the more-than-you-want and not-really-all-that-great-to-begin-with and OVERPRICED at that TV dinner?
I would, and I *DESPISE* TV.
Torsion would be a problem on that thing, seems to me. You'd need some kind of backing on it to keep it stable and on your desk. It weighs what, 4-6 oz?
You might do better going back several models. Thinkpads all have pretty similar keyboards, and one or two may have a specced pinout and controller chip.
Rhapsody lived as Mac OS X Server 1.X, and as of course pre-dated by OPENSTEP/NeXTStep.
The icons are all (funky NeXT) TIFFS. They're all available with a little knuckle grease.
As far as the scrollbars/window decor go, I couldn't agree more. Just look at XP.
http://applemuseum.bott.org/sections/os.htmle first Macintosh used MFS, followed by HFS and then HFS+."
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True.
MFS (Macintosh File System) gave way to HFS (with nested folders!) with System 3.0 and the HD20.
You'd think that after 11 years, you'd have figured out Apple's product upgrade schedule. ;)
Thinking back (but not too hard), it's been pretty much the same methodology since Stevie came back.
Speed-bumped/updated current models appear 4-7 months before entirely new machines. This is stretched out over Consumer, Pro, and Pro-sumer lines.
It's kind of like how automakers, well Ford anyway, introduces their cars. They put out the schmancy new Lincolns about the same time they upgrade the Taurus, which is about the same time they let loose a new compact. The high and low end products are the most daring, while bread and butter stays a little conservative.
Imagine, if you will, one of those DVD players with the brain of a Zire-class device; color screen (5" LCD - TV resolution, but that didn't stop us in the olden days), internal data storage (5GB?), a usb port or two, CF or CardBus, and maybe a bottom-of-the-barrel Realtek or ADMTek 802.11X chip.
Email, address book, DVD, MP3, and computer functionality in your (large) pocket, or backpack. Plug in whatever USB mouse/keyboard you want, or use the integrated joystick-thingy on the bus/subway/plane/go.
Hell, you could even play Commodore 64, Atari, and GameBoy games on the thing..
Hellllo Amiga..LinuxPPC Live and Knoppix have LiveCD's
plus
CRUX now has a PPC port. It's not live, but it's another option, plus it's slackware-based, not another Debian>Knoppix>Morphix dealy.