Didn't 3DO have some really interesting hardware patents? - I know that after Commodore went bust, a lot of Amiga hardware designers went to work for 3DO, and as a result 3DO had some cool Amiga style custom-chip trickery.
Does anyone know what's happenned to any hardware patents 3DO might have had?
Agree completely (although you can run Nautilus without the desktop with "nautilus --no-desktop"). My preferred bloat-free file manager would be XFTree.
The thing is, 10 years ago there were stable, secure and low-cruft operating systems. Unfortunately a certain monopoly made it impossible for these companies to exist, and now we have far fewer OSs to choose from.
On the whole, Americans are a regimented and ordered society that believe if someone gives an order then it must be the correct course of action.... Europeans tend to lack this 'follow the leaders' mentality not out of moral superiority, but out of the experiencing a thousand years of corrupt leaders. We Americans have only had 200 years, and we have only really been culturally aware of it since Nixon.
This is spot on. To give a recent example of this phenomenon, look at the treatment of Bush and Blair by their respective domestic media over their justification for the Iraqi war. In the States no-one questions Bush for fear of looking unpatriotic, while in the UK the press lays into Blair for allegedly lying to the country to justify a pre-emptive strike.
Similarly, actors like Martin Sheen receive hate mail over their opposition to the American governments position, while in Europe celebrities are not attacked for their political views.
There's a much more articulate account of this behaviour here
From: Alan Cox [email blocked] Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change all occurrences of 'flavour' to 'flavor' Date: 07 Aug 2003 23:37:23 +0100
On Iau, 2003-08-07 at 19:00, Jasper Spaans wrote: > It changes all occurrences of 'flavour' to 'flavor' in the complete tree; > I've just comiled all affected files (that is, the config resulting from > make allyesconfig minus already broken stuff) succesfully on i386.
The Linux kernel tended to favour european spelling, and favOUr is indeed correct English.
Shouldn't that be US English or International/Standard English. In essence, this entire argument is America versus the rest of the world all over again. Let's just all use the standard English language, rather than the proprietary US extension:D
Right. So what do you thinks going to happen to Windows users who want to move to Intels Itanium and use their old Win32/Win16 apps? Yep, that's right - emulation and all the penalties that come with that.
At least we can avoid that problem.
Perhaps the problem is that you're using an RPM based distro. You'd have much less of a problem with dependencies if you were using Debian or Gentoo.
But binary compatability is not that important when the vast majority of applications for a platform are open source. We in the Linux community are going to have a much easier time of it then our Windows colleagues with the new Intel and AMD 64 bit offerings since we can recompile and they can't. Remember how long it took for Windows users to migrate from 16bit to 32bit?
The Party's happening in Denmark now (August 7th - August 10th). It's another big and long established scene event with some big-name corporate sponsors.
If you're interested in trying to get Linux running off a USB flash device, have a look at Puppy Linux.
I'm still not convinced that their move from WindowLab to FVWM95 as the default window manager was that clever though. Have they not seen the size of that thing?
...those guys at Amiga knew this years ago. The old "Guru Meditation" error messages came from their habit of meditating on their surfboard/joystick prototype whenever they had some serious thinking to do (as a result of a crash).
The problem really is that the wests currencies are way over-valued. Think - why are these Indian programmers getting paid a tenth as much as we are in the west, when they are every bit as good? And with that income they can afford nice middle-to-upper class homes just as we can. Surely the US Dollar and Euro are overvalued against the Indian currency.
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Actually, you can do away with XLib. The XCB and XCL projects are an attempt to replace XLib (XCB) and provide backwards compatibility (XCL), and are being taken pretty seriously by many in the X programming community. Rasterman (of Enlightenment fame) talks of his desire to move Enlightenment to XCB (an X C Binding) here
"Vikings spoke... something. Norse variant of German is as far as I got on short notice"
Ahem. The vikings spoke a language now called Old Norse. The Icelandic still speak something very close to it, but the Danish, Norwegian and Swedish languages have changed due to their proximity to the rest of Europe, just as the language that is now English has changed over the last 1000 years.
Comparing Old Norse with German is not very accurate. Like English, the Scandinavians speak a germanic language, but this simply means that they were all part of the same tribe that wandered up from India many millenia ago. A German speaker could not necessarily understand a Danish, Norwegian or Swedish speaker (or an English one for that matter).
What's funny is that William the Conquerer was a Norman. The Normans (north men) were Danes who had invaded and settled in the north-west of france. Marrying the local women, their offspring spoke a bastardised French that was quite different to the regular French language. When Will conquered England he conquered it from regular Danes who had already influenced the local language. If you listen to English people from the north or south of the country, you will hear French influenced intonation in the south, and Scandinavian influenced intonation in the north.
You're lucky to have something like TechTV on telly. As a European (English in my case) we don't have anything (to my knowledge anyway) that covers technology news. Do any EU/. readers know of a local equivalent?
"Also remember that the installation created guest like accounts by default, named "snake" and "gonzo" (does anyone know why, and if it still does?)."
I don't know if it still does, but I think these were put in as "sample users" so a person who had less knowledge of U*ix could have a good example of a user setup and some example.files to reference.
The default/etc/passwd file looked like this: gonzo:*:418:100::/home/gonzo:/bin/bash sat an:*:419:100::/home/hell:/bin/bash snake:*:420:10 0::/home/pit:/bin/bash
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Didn't 3DO have some really interesting hardware patents? - I know that after Commodore went bust, a lot of Amiga hardware designers went to work for 3DO, and as a result 3DO had some cool Amiga style custom-chip trickery.
Does anyone know what's happenned to any hardware patents 3DO might have had?
Agree completely (although you can run Nautilus without the desktop with "nautilus --no-desktop"). My preferred bloat-free file manager would be XFTree.
You don't think it had anything to do with Microsoft threatening any OEM who sold PCs that dual-booted BeOS with more expendive Windows licenses then?
The thing is, 10 years ago there were stable, secure and low-cruft operating systems. Unfortunately a certain monopoly made it impossible for these companies to exist, and now we have far fewer OSs to choose from.
Right now, how can anyone *not* bash US politics?
On the whole, Americans are a regimented and ordered society that believe if someone gives an order then it must be the correct course of action. ... Europeans tend to lack this 'follow the leaders' mentality not out of moral superiority, but out of the experiencing a thousand years of corrupt leaders. We Americans have only had 200 years, and we have only really been culturally aware of it since Nixon.
This is spot on. To give a recent example of this phenomenon, look at the treatment of Bush and Blair by their respective domestic media over their justification for the Iraqi war. In the States no-one questions Bush for fear of looking unpatriotic, while in the UK the press lays into Blair for allegedly lying to the country to justify a pre-emptive strike.
Similarly, actors like Martin Sheen receive hate mail over their opposition to the American governments position, while in Europe celebrities are not attacked for their political views.
There's a much more articulate account of this behaviour here
No, you're wrong.
From the article:
From: Alan Cox [email blocked]
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change all occurrences of 'flavour' to 'flavor'
Date: 07 Aug 2003 23:37:23 +0100
On Iau, 2003-08-07 at 19:00, Jasper Spaans wrote:
> It changes all occurrences of 'flavour' to 'flavor' in the complete tree;
> I've just comiled all affected files (that is, the config resulting from
> make allyesconfig minus already broken stuff) succesfully on i386.
The Linux kernel tended to favour european spelling, and favOUr is
indeed correct English.
US english or UK/Euro english
:D
Shouldn't that be US English or International/Standard English. In essence, this entire argument is America versus the rest of the world all over again. Let's just all use the standard English language, rather than the proprietary US extension
Right. So what do you thinks going to happen to Windows users who want to move to Intels Itanium and use their old Win32/Win16 apps? Yep, that's right - emulation and all the penalties that come with that.
At least we can avoid that problem.
Perhaps the problem is that you're using an RPM based distro. You'd have much less of a problem with dependencies if you were using Debian or Gentoo.
But binary compatability is not that important when the vast majority of applications for a platform are open source. We in the Linux community are going to have a much easier time of it then our Windows colleagues with the new Intel and AMD 64 bit offerings since we can recompile and they can't. Remember how long it took for Windows users to migrate from 16bit to 32bit?
The Party's happening in Denmark now (August 7th - August 10th). It's another big and long established scene event with some big-name corporate sponsors.
It was reported in the British press that it had been rebranded "Bob the Construction worker" for the American audience. Here's Googles results.
Nice to see that someone moderated my original post as flamebait without checking.
Apparently, Bob the Builder will be called Bob the Construction worker in the US because Americans don't know what a builder is.
Doesn't have the same ring to it does it?
Ahh - just like Scorched3d, the guys behind Worms are bringing out a 3d version called (surprise!) Worms 3D. A Linux port looks doubtful however :(
I'd much rather know if anyone plans to write a port of the classic Amiga game "Worms" which was based on scorched tanks but taken much further.
Oh, and NiL (NiL Isn't Liero) doesn't count.
If you're interested in trying to get Linux running off a USB flash device, have a look at Puppy Linux.
I'm still not convinced that their move from WindowLab to FVWM95 as the default window manager was that clever though. Have they not seen the size of that thing?
Actually, one could argue that until weapons of mass destruction are found, this is a more credible line then the standard Bush/Blair one.
...those guys at Amiga knew this years ago. The old "Guru Meditation" error messages came from their habit of meditating on their surfboard/joystick prototype whenever they had some serious thinking to do (as a result of a crash).
The problem really is that the wests currencies are way over-valued. Think - why are these Indian programmers getting paid a tenth as much as we are in the west, when they are every bit as good? And with that income they can afford nice middle-to-upper class homes just as we can. Surely the US Dollar and Euro are overvalued against the Indian currency.
Actually, you can do away with XLib. The XCB and XCL projects are an attempt to replace XLib (XCB) and provide backwards compatibility (XCL), and are being taken pretty seriously by many in the X programming community. Rasterman (of Enlightenment fame) talks of his desire to move Enlightenment to XCB (an X C Binding) here
Dammit - what about may fastmail.fm account? They're the best free email service but also Australian.
"Vikings spoke... something. Norse variant of German is as far as I got on short notice"
Ahem. The vikings spoke a language now called Old Norse. The Icelandic still speak something very close to it, but the Danish, Norwegian and Swedish languages have changed due to their proximity to the rest of Europe, just as the language that is now English has changed over the last 1000 years.
Comparing Old Norse with German is not very accurate. Like English, the Scandinavians speak a germanic language, but this simply means that they were all part of the same tribe that wandered up from India many millenia ago. A German speaker could not necessarily understand a Danish, Norwegian or Swedish speaker (or an English one for that matter).
What's funny is that William the Conquerer was a Norman. The Normans (north men) were Danes who had invaded and settled in the north-west of france. Marrying the local women, their offspring spoke a bastardised French that was quite different to the regular French language. When Will conquered England he conquered it from regular Danes who had already influenced the local language. If you listen to English people from the north or south of the country, you will hear French influenced intonation in the south, and Scandinavian influenced intonation in the north.
You're lucky to have something like TechTV on telly. As a European (English in my case) we don't have anything (to my knowledge anyway) that covers technology news. Do any EU /. readers know of a local equivalent?
"Also remember that the installation created guest like accounts by default, named "snake" and "gonzo" (does anyone know why, and if it still does?)."
.files to reference.
/etc/passwd file looked like this:t an:*:419:100::/home/hell:/bin/bash0 0::/home/pit:/bin/bash
I don't know if it still does, but I think these were put in as "sample users" so a person who had less knowledge of U*ix could have a good example of a user setup and some example
The default
gonzo:*:418:100::/home/gonzo:/bin/bash
sa
snake:*:420:1