The only good thing about the cromes released is that I can make mozilla look like the old netscape.
But on another note: Why the hell does the windows binary of mozilla consume over 30Mb of mem while iexplorer takes 7,8Mb? The thing is fucking bloated if you ask me....The old netscape used only 10Mb. And there is no obvious difference in functionality...
Ok...no need to call me a troll because of what I just said. Just frustrated that's all. (Cause I hate to see borg win)
At work we used Open Inventor for a 3D maps application. However these days we're switching to Vtree which is more powerful and has wider support. Not to mention that it's also a newer product which is constantly being developed.
Come on! They are a big company with mighty share holders. Big business is about making money for the share holders. What is wrong with that people? Think about it. In this game every trick is played in order to get publicity and to create hype and interest about their products. Who can blame them. Their tricks might be dirty sometimes but can we honestly say that the other big companies out there are playing more nice?
Don't mean to start a flame war here but let's face the fact that in the real world of commercial software Open Source is not always an option. I honestly don't think most people agree with RMS when he says all software should be freely available. Who would like to release the source to let's say defence systems under GPL. How about the software systems used by the major banks.
Give Sun a break. Even thought it probably is a completely selfish move in the end the Open Source community benefits from it. One could say it's like a symbioses. They give something to us and they get publicity back. Then the Open Source community get's more publicity because it's accepted by the major companies. It's like a spiral and if they stick to a reckognised lisence like MPL it can't possibly hurt.
If you're prepared to pay 750$ it shouldn't be a problem to get your hands on a brand new PSX2(drool). Just stop by the norwegian online store Smartshopper and it should be yours within a few days. The online newspaper Nettavisen had an article two days ago regarding this. Unfortunately the article is in norgwegian too.
The article basicly says that the import is handled by the norgwegian company Multimedia Import of PSX2 is perfectly legal. The consoles are importet to Norway from China by the mentioned company but another unknown Asian company handles the transportation between Japan and China. However it's unknown whether that first stage is legal. The PSX2 is of japanese model and a separate power adapter is provided. Testing has been performed during the last few days in order to ensure that they work correctly. All service and guarantee will be provided by the import company and the online store since Sony refuse due to the circumstances. It is expected that the PSX2 will be on sale within a few days at the online store mentioned above.
So if you're dying for a PSX2 - get a norwegian friend to buy you one or send an email to the online store Smartshopper and tell them to send you an offer in English.
Thought it might be interesting to check out the article in the norwegian newspaper Nettavisen. It seems Playstation 2 will be on sale in Norway within a few days at Smartshopper for 750$. They found a totally legal way of avoiding Japanese export regulations.
Feel free to moderate me down for being off topic and spoiling your tomorows news.
I expect this to be out soon but I might as well tell you. Check out the link to the article in the norwegian newspaper Nettavisen. It seems Playstation 2 will be on sale in Norway within a few days at Smartshopper for 750$. They found a totally legal way of avoiding Japanese export regulations.
I know this is off topix but it is obvious that both Unix and Linux is good for teaching Operating Systems.
Writing a simple device driver is one of the assignments which could be given to the students. Maybe one could have groupwork and look into creating a simple kernel module for Linux.
The problem is to get the staff to avoid underemestimate the students. When I was taking the class "Operating Systems 2" at Strathclyde Uni(Glasgow - Scotland) , what we used was Sun workstations and we only had to use pipes, multiple processes, threads etc...patethic:(. It was all very simple and nobody taught us anything about the kernel.
Since they serve a similar purpose comparing them seems more than fair. But as we all know everybody is sponsoring statistics which is destined to have a certain predetermined result - in this case the benchmarking was done on request from Novell. Even so it kind of hard to lie about certain obvious facts(remember Mindcraft were we all had to back down). From the document it seems quite obvious that eDirectory is a superior product within the benchmarked application area.
Another thing to keep in mind is that Novell has been around for a quite a while - shipping networking and directory services for many years. Their expertice should result in a superior product - otherwise they should be out of business. For all I know ActiveDirectory might just be as full of bugs as the rest of Windows 2000(roumored to have 65000 bugs:).
It seems that more and more universities are buying new computers running Linux. A university distro can then be used on these machines and problems and enhancements can all be done with the help of the students.
Offering the same distro to the students will provide confidence in Linux knowing that they are running the same OS as in their computer lab.
This will lead to students becoming experienced resulting in improved acceptance for Linux as an alternative to MS Windows.
This might be reduntant but I can't see the reason for why Sun would do such a thing. The Blackdown team is know for their outstanding work which is highly valuable for Sun. The long expertise aquired from porting Java 1.2 to Linux should be recognised by the managers at Sun. Don't they see that continuing cooporating with Blackdown is in their best interest.
Maybe it was just a big slip. Someone mentioned that this was the final blow in a long line of problems. When people leave the team it's clearly an indication that something is terribly wrong. The problem is that Sun is a big company and those work slow, have long chains of command and the employees are given directives from PHB. Such a company are possibly less able to work smoothly with a small team like Blackdown. Maybe they should just hire the whole team.
Then again I'm not an expert on these matters and a case like this have two sides. Negatively portraying big companies like Sun is always easy. Who knows - maybe it was a good short term business desicion .
> C++ sucks because Stroustrup didn't know when to quit Why do people all of a sudden become such expert on judging a language. A professional, experienced and good programmer can surely use C++ in a perfectly nice way. Besides you're not bound by all those stupid restrictions imposed in java. Why is Open Inventor, or Qt or any other nice OO library based on C++ if it's such a bad language. Java is a nice language "platform independent" language. But fast? NONONO!
Just couldn't help myself. Don't mean to use my flamethrower, but I just can't stand people giving statements without foundation.
Now for the real topic. Personally I think Sun is better of without going through the ECMA Standards body with Java. They did a good job designing the language and I trust they'll do a good job keeping control and developing the language in the interest of thousands of programmers currently commited to use java. Why? Because it's not impossible for another company like M$ to create a new language and too much effort and time is invested that they can't afford anything else.
Any yes, I've got a bad carma. That's because I can't be bothered writing long, intelligent comments. I'll just leave that to the others.... (I'm to busy programming)
This is cool technology alright. However I do not see what the big fuss is all about. It offers nothing new within ground breaking technology and the idea with wearable PC is old news. In order to create a market it should offer a comfortable user interface suitable for wearing. A keyboard might be nice - but is that best suited when walking? What happens when people jump around and look at the small monitor? Is it disturbing? Advanced speech recognition, tracking head/eye movements and using laser to display images directly on to the eye are technologies that should be considered further for this kind of equipment...
Another thought - those companies who produce the mini laptops shouldn't have a problem coming something equally good - possibly better - if the competition requires.
> If you're the same Lothar who soundcard/system thingee, thanks. You rock hard
Sorry to disappoint you, but I'm not related to that project. Can't take credit for something that's not my work - but I agree - the Lothar project have something good going. To avoid devious speculation: Have had the same nick for 5 years....
For someone who's been doing Linux programming for some years this book may not have the same interest.
However if one consider the wide area it covers there might be that this book covers areas I've ignored so far - like e.g Posix threads, kernel modules etc. I don't suppose you get books covering kernel hacking....
I would never expected ID software to do such a think. What where they thinking? They could have been so stupid that they didn't consider the bad publisity this will generate. Without doubt this will be do more damage than good for them. Even if they get all the information they wanted. Bet it won't take long before they remove the trojan horse from the software.
Just have to say that I was NOT very impressed by their visual workstation product line. Spent a few days at work testing out the SGI Visual Workstation 320. The NT workstation with same processor and a TNT2 3D graphics card had higher frame rate and fillrate in every possible application.
The only good thing was that it use less processing power. Got to give it to them though - the flat screen monitor was sooo sweet.
Why spend lot's of money even trying to gain market share - good thing they've teamed up with NVidia. Some of SGI's technology is really good but the power and the turnover of the new 3D graphics companies makes for some really hard competition when it comes to developing new technology. Scary.
Conclusion: I'm troubled - let's all take a moment.
Whenever I used to see that old logo and the name Silcon Graphics besides it - it stood for quality graphics computers with outstanding performance.
I'm not an expert on this - but I seems to me that changing the logo and the name (to a really ugly one) means that you have to rebuild part of the company image. Selling is all about being recognized.
And why did they have to change the logo anyway. The old one was so much better...sigh..
Anyone who has experienced problems with the sound card on kernel 2.2.0 & 2.2.1?
I have the most odd problem. The sound card (SBAWE32) works fine as long as I either use my tv-card or play cd music. However when I really start using to soundcard (e.g playing mp3) then the whole computer crashes and the only thing to do is to press the reset button. This is quite annoying because it means no mp3...buhuuu! (There are no memory/irq conflicts)
Someone told me that there was a bug somewhere in the kernel soundblaster code which (one some computers) caused the soundcard to generate thousands of interrupt which caused the processor to crash. Anyone know if this is true - or if there are some other explanation for this?
Just as a final comment. There were no problems whatsoever on kernel 2.0.34. From 2.0.36 they started to appear.
There are some rockets (Manufactured in Norway) which is called Penguin rockets. Imagine fire those at the enemy:) - Who can beat the operating system of the penguin when it fires real Penguin rockets?
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The only good thing about the cromes released is that I can make mozilla look like the old netscape.
But on another note: Why the hell does the windows binary of mozilla consume over 30Mb of mem while iexplorer takes 7,8Mb? The thing is fucking bloated if you ask me....The old netscape used only 10Mb. And there is no obvious difference in functionality...
Ok...no need to call me a troll because of what I just said. Just frustrated that's all. (Cause I hate to see borg win)
Lothar
At work we used Open Inventor for a 3D maps application. However these days we're switching to Vtree which is more powerful and has wider support. Not to mention that it's also a newer product which is constantly being developed.
Come on! They are a big company with mighty share holders. Big business is about making money for the share holders. What is wrong with that people? Think about it. In this game every trick is played in order to get publicity and to create hype and interest about their products. Who can blame them. Their tricks might be dirty sometimes but can we honestly say that the other big companies out there are playing more nice?
Don't mean to start a flame war here but let's face the fact that in the real world of commercial software Open Source is not always an option. I honestly don't think most people agree with RMS when he says all software should be freely available. Who would like to release the source to let's say defence systems under GPL. How about the software systems used by the major banks.
Give Sun a break. Even thought it probably is a completely selfish move in the end the Open Source community benefits from it. One could say it's like a symbioses. They give something to us and they get publicity back. Then the Open Source community get's more publicity because it's accepted by the major companies. It's like a spiral and if they stick to a reckognised lisence like MPL it can't possibly hurt.
If you're prepared to pay 750$ it shouldn't be a problem to get your hands on a brand new PSX2(drool). Just stop by the norwegian online store Smartshopper and it should be yours within a few days. The online newspaper Nettavisen had an article two days ago regarding this. Unfortunately the article is in norgwegian too.
The article basicly says that the import is handled by the norgwegian company Multimedia Import of PSX2 is perfectly legal. The consoles are importet to Norway from China by the mentioned company but another unknown Asian company handles the transportation between Japan and China. However it's unknown whether that first stage is legal. The PSX2 is of japanese model and a separate power adapter is provided. Testing has been performed during the last few days in order to ensure that they work correctly. All service and guarantee will be provided by the import company and the online store since Sony refuse due to the circumstances. It is expected that the PSX2 will be on sale within a few days at the online store mentioned above.
So if you're dying for a PSX2 - get a norwegian friend to buy you one or send an email to the online store Smartshopper and tell them to send you an offer in English.
Thought it might be interesting to check out the article in the norwegian newspaper Nettavisen.
It seems Playstation 2 will be on sale in Norway within a few days at Smartshopper for 750$. They found a totally legal way of avoiding Japanese export regulations.
Feel free to moderate me down for being off topic and spoiling your tomorows news.
I expect this to be out soon but I might as well tell you. Check out the link to the article in the norwegian newspaper Nettavisen.
It seems Playstation 2 will be on sale in Norway within a few days at Smartshopper for 750$. They found a totally legal way of avoiding Japanese export regulations.
I know this is off topix but it is obvious that both Unix and Linux is good for teaching Operating Systems.
:(. It was all very simple and nobody taught us anything about the kernel.
Writing a simple device driver is one of the assignments which could be given to the students. Maybe one could have groupwork and look into creating a simple kernel module for Linux.
The problem is to get the staff to avoid underemestimate the students. When I was taking the class "Operating Systems 2" at Strathclyde Uni(Glasgow - Scotland) , what we used was Sun workstations and we only had to use pipes, multiple processes, threads etc...patethic
Since they serve a similar purpose comparing them seems more than fair. But as we all know everybody is sponsoring statistics which is destined to have a certain predetermined result - in this case the benchmarking was done on request from Novell. Even so it kind of hard to lie about certain obvious facts(remember Mindcraft were we all had to back down). From the document it seems quite obvious that eDirectory is a superior product within the benchmarked application area.
:).
Another thing to keep in mind is that Novell has been around for a quite a while - shipping networking and directory services for many years. Their expertice should result in a superior product - otherwise they should be out of business. For all I know ActiveDirectory might just be as full of bugs as the rest of Windows 2000(roumored to have 65000 bugs
It seems that more and more universities are buying new computers running Linux. A university distro can then be used on these machines and problems and enhancements can all be done with the help of the students.
Offering the same distro to the students will provide confidence in Linux knowing that they are running the same OS as in their computer lab.
This will lead to students becoming experienced resulting in improved acceptance for Linux as an alternative to MS Windows.
This might be reduntant but I can't see the reason for why Sun would do such a thing. The Blackdown team is know for their outstanding work which is highly valuable for Sun. The long expertise aquired from porting Java 1.2 to Linux should be recognised by the managers at Sun. Don't they see that continuing cooporating with Blackdown is in their best interest.
Maybe it was just a big slip. Someone mentioned that this was the final blow in a long line of problems. When people leave the team it's clearly an indication that something is terribly wrong. The problem is that Sun is a big company and those work slow, have long chains of command and the employees are given directives from PHB. Such a company are possibly less able to work smoothly with a small team like Blackdown. Maybe they should just hire the whole team.
Then again I'm not an expert on these matters and a case like this have two sides. Negatively portraying big companies like Sun is always easy. Who knows - maybe it was a good short term business desicion .
> C++ sucks because Stroustrup didn't know when to quit
Why do people all of a sudden become such expert on judging a language. A professional, experienced and good programmer can surely use C++ in a perfectly nice way. Besides you're not bound by all those stupid restrictions imposed in java.
Why is Open Inventor, or Qt or any other nice OO library based on C++ if it's such a bad language.
Java is a nice language "platform independent" language. But fast? NONONO!
Just couldn't help myself. Don't mean to use my flamethrower, but I just can't stand people giving statements without foundation.
Now for the real topic. Personally I think Sun is better of without going through the ECMA Standards body with Java. They did a good job designing the language and I trust they'll do a good job keeping control and developing the language in the interest of thousands of programmers currently commited to use java. Why? Because it's not impossible for another company like M$ to create a new language and too much effort and time is invested that they can't afford anything else.
Any yes, I've got a bad carma. That's because I can't be bothered writing long, intelligent comments. I'll just leave that to the others.... (I'm to busy programming)
This is cool technology alright. However I do not see what the big fuss is all about. It offers nothing new within ground breaking technology and the idea with wearable PC is old news. In order to create a market it should offer a comfortable user interface suitable for wearing. A keyboard might be nice - but is that best suited when walking? What happens when people jump around and look at the small monitor? Is it disturbing? Advanced speech recognition, tracking head/eye movements and using laser to display images directly on to the eye are technologies that should be considered further for this kind of equipment...
Another thought - those companies who produce the mini laptops shouldn't have a problem coming something equally good - possibly better - if the competition requires.
By combining this technology with a wearable computer I can finally do programming while walking to Uni or being bored in lectures.
:)
What a minute - what about debugging. Guess gbd won't do the trick any more
Apologies for this - don't seem have much sensible things to say today I'm afraid.
> If you're the same Lothar who soundcard/system thingee, thanks. You rock hard
Sorry to disappoint you, but I'm not related to that project. Can't take credit for something that's not my work - but I agree - the Lothar project have something good going. To avoid devious speculation: Have had the same nick for 5 years....
For someone who's been doing Linux programming for some years this book may not have the same interest.
However if one consider the wide area it covers there might be that this book covers areas I've ignored so far - like e.g Posix threads, kernel modules etc. I don't suppose you get books covering kernel hacking....
I would never expected ID software to do such a think. What where they thinking? They could have been so stupid that they didn't consider the bad publisity this will generate.
Without doubt this will be do more damage than good for them. Even if they get all the information they wanted. Bet it won't take long before they remove the trojan horse from the software.
Just have to say that I was NOT very impressed by their visual workstation product line. Spent a few days at work testing out the SGI Visual Workstation 320. The NT workstation with same processor and a TNT2 3D graphics card had higher frame rate and fillrate in every possible application.
The only good thing was that it use less processing power. Got to give it to them though - the flat screen monitor was sooo sweet.
Why spend lot's of money even trying to gain market share - good thing they've teamed up with NVidia. Some of SGI's technology is really good but the power and the turnover of the new 3D graphics companies makes for some really hard competition when it comes to developing new technology. Scary.
Conclusion:
I'm troubled - let's all take a moment.
Guess it's time for me to change my nick.
Anyway, the Lothar project seems to be quite interresting and a good effort to help the new generation of linux users.
Whenever I used to see that old logo and the name Silcon Graphics besides it - it stood for quality graphics computers with outstanding performance.
I'm not an expert on this - but I seems to me that changing the logo and the name (to a really ugly one) means that you have to rebuild part of the company image. Selling is all about being recognized.
And why did they have to change the logo anyway. The old one was so much better...sigh..
Starcraft works fine
Anyone who has experienced problems with the sound card on kernel 2.2.0 & 2.2.1?
I have the most odd problem. The sound card (SBAWE32) works fine as long as I either use my tv-card or play cd music. However when I really start using to soundcard (e.g playing mp3) then the whole computer crashes and the only thing to do is to press the reset button. This is quite annoying because it means no mp3...buhuuu!
(There are no memory/irq conflicts)
Someone told me that there was a bug somewhere in the kernel soundblaster code which (one some computers) caused the soundcard to generate thousands of interrupt which caused the processor to crash. Anyone know if this is true - or if there are some other explanation for this?
Just as a final comment. There were no problems whatsoever on kernel 2.0.34. From 2.0.36 they started to appear.
I know this is a bit off topic..:)
There are some rockets (Manufactured in Norway) which is called Penguin rockets. Imagine fire those at the enemy :)
- Who can beat the operating system of the penguin when it fires real Penguin rockets?