Oh yeah...one more thing...I got the Loki Linux port of Heroes III working perfectly under Debian - apart from a lack of sound due to Debian not discovering the virtual SB card.
Also, it's kinda fun to run (a real) XDarwin as a server for a virtual FreeBSD box. Works fine.
I've been playing DOS games (under PC-DOS). Settlers II and Ultima Underworld I/II play perfectly. Populous is unplayably fast. Tomb Raider was reasonably fast though it did keep stopping for a while every 10 seconds.
Playing games under Windows 98 is tricky. Age of Empires II and Red Alert play. They're a little slow but not so slow you can't play.
I installed Debian with no problem. In some tests the emulated X server is faster than the Native XDarwin. (I'm serious! XDarwin sucks and I guess the there's no reason for the emulated S3 card to be that slow.) Couldn't get networking to work. Did some numeric speed tests (eg. echo "2^100000"|time bc) and found the emulated machine to be half the speed of running natively. Really! That dynamic compilation stuff works well sometimes. XGalaga worked fine!
Also tried FreeBSD (did an FTP install, flawless), Plan 9 (3 or 4 hours to install but it seemed to work) and MenuetOS (pretty nippy).
with success.
Goes to show you can emulate the hardware completely and still get good results. Bochs has a long way to go.
You must be new to computers. Since the early days of computers they've been multitasking and reliable. For a couple of decades they went downhill with MS and Apple OSes. Right now Unix is probably a little way off being as reliable as a good old VM/CMS or VMS setup (which could quite happily handle hundreds of simultaneous users) and MacOS X is probably below par as Unices go. You shouldn't be getting too excited about being able to do two things at the same time - people have been doing it for decades.
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Very cool! Is there a third party tool to do this under Windows?
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...without know how much the discount it. If it turns out that the cost of buying 100 licenses for only 50 PCs is less than the full price of 10 licenses then this is a bit of a non-issue isn't it?
...consist of someone finding a correlation between some variables. They'll publish the results if they get something 95% or 99% significant. This means that if you do 20 experiments, even if there's no underlying phenomenon you still expect to get one publishable paper by chance. And of course we only see the published papers so we get a very skewed view. By publishing failed experiments we get to see the other 95%. (Of course no experiment truly fails...they all give some information.)
Take a complex PDF document. View it in Acrobat. Do the same on a recent PC. Try dragging the page around and seeing how that looks. Viewing PDFs (native to MacOS X!) on a 550MHz PowerBooks is slower than viewing PDFs on a 300MHz PC.
There are short cuts into many of these subjects and it's a pity that they aren't exploited. For example you really don't need much to get started in quantum mechanics. If you limit yourself to finite dimensional systems like electron spins or two level atoms you can go a long way with basic linear algebra. Enough, at least, to start pondering things like Shrodinger's cat, EPR, the Aspect experiment, the quantum no-clnoe theorem and some quantum computing. You don't need to understand the Schrodinger equation - just know that time evolution is a certain linear operator. QM courses generally seem to start with the hard examples first: the one dimensional Schrodinger equation which (1) requires differential equations and (2) is set in an infinite dimensional Hilbert space. Unfortunately none of the textbooks I know of do this (except maybe some newer quantum computing books).
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...smallest organisms known are bright red. Amazing!
OK. When I buy a dead-tree book I want to get an electronic version too. It'd make me more likely to buy the book at little cost to the publisher. We'd both benefit.
I read through it. It told me nothing. EULAs are hard to read. Is that news? If some guy makes up some readability index and uses it to measure the 'readability' of a EULA do I learn anything new? I can tell how hard it is by reading it. An index is just pseudo-science.
I can see how Hochhauser makes his money as a consultant. Someone presents him with a document and he charges $300/hr for calculating this index and that index. He'll put together a nice folder and a printed statement laying out the different scores - all looking very impressive. His report will end with a recommendation that the authors use shorter words and shorter sentences. And he probably has a PR department ensuring that he gets mentioned in articles on CNET, TV and radio.
And that statement about there being no "free software" is a blatant lie too!
Just imagine, for example, a similar effort devoted to computer technology, circa 1955
This is exactly what happened in the UK after WWII. After building the world's first digital electronic computerw, the Colossi, they were destroyed and kept secret by the orders of Churchill. The result: the US took the lead in computing.
Well FreeBSD runs most Linux binaries as well as Linux and this includes renderers like Renderman. The performance under FreeBSD turned out run Linux binaries better than Linux when the servers were under heavy load - which was generally the case.
That was just the rendering back end. Anything with a user interface was done under IRIX.
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As many viruses spread by getting users to click somewhere (eg. on an attachment) it's one small step to writing a virus that displays a EULA that most people won't actually read. In the small print at the end it says "by running this app you agree to allow this software to mail itself to all of your friends and then trash your hard drive". Presumably it would spread like wildfire and the author would be immune from legal action.
First you work up a lot of hype about a subject and then, when there's no more news, you publish a story about what a lot of hype the media created.
I guess then CNN can produce an article about how it wasn't really hype after all and then, after everyone has forgotten about viruses, they can start hyping virus stories again. Then they can have a story about how much they are hyped. And then they can have a story about how there used to be stories about viruses and how they died down and now they've come back.
Endless stories without having to research anything. It must be fun working in media.
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Also, it's kinda fun to run (a real) XDarwin as a server for a virtual FreeBSD box. Works fine.
- I've been playing DOS games (under PC-DOS). Settlers II and Ultima Underworld I/II play perfectly. Populous is unplayably fast. Tomb Raider was reasonably fast though it did keep stopping for a while every 10 seconds.
- Playing games under Windows 98 is tricky. Age of Empires II and Red Alert play. They're a little slow but not so slow you can't play.
- I installed Debian with no problem. In some tests the emulated X server is faster than the Native XDarwin. (I'm serious! XDarwin sucks and I guess the there's no reason for the emulated S3 card to be that slow.) Couldn't get networking to work. Did some numeric speed tests (eg. echo "2^100000"|time bc) and found the emulated machine to be half the speed of running natively. Really! That dynamic compilation stuff works well sometimes. XGalaga worked fine!
- Also tried FreeBSD (did an FTP install, flawless), Plan 9 (3 or 4 hours to install but it seemed to work) and MenuetOS (pretty nippy).
with success.Goes to show you can emulate the hardware completely and still get good results. Bochs has a long way to go.
Too right! It's like MS have a monopoly or something...
You must be new to computers. Since the early days of computers they've been multitasking and reliable. For a couple of decades they went downhill with MS and Apple OSes. Right now Unix is probably a little way off being as reliable as a good old VM/CMS or VMS setup (which could quite happily handle hundreds of simultaneous users) and MacOS X is probably below par as Unices go. You shouldn't be getting too excited about being able to do two things at the same time - people have been doing it for decades.
Very cool! Is there a third party tool to do this under Windows?
...folder is.
...without know how much the discount it. If it turns out that the cost of buying 100 licenses for only 50 PCs is less than the full price of 10 licenses then this is a bit of a non-issue isn't it?
Eh? If it's faster on a 300MHz PC it's going to be a lot faster on a modern one.
...consist of someone finding a correlation between some variables. They'll publish the results if they get something 95% or 99% significant. This means that if you do 20 experiments, even if there's no underlying phenomenon you still expect to get one publishable paper by chance. And of course we only see the published papers so we get a very skewed view. By publishing failed experiments we get to see the other 95%. (Of course no experiment truly fails...they all give some information.)
Take a complex PDF document. View it in Acrobat. Do the same on a recent PC. Try dragging the page around and seeing how that looks. Viewing PDFs (native to MacOS X!) on a 550MHz PowerBooks is slower than viewing PDFs on a 300MHz PC.
There are short cuts into many of these subjects and it's a pity that they aren't exploited. For example you really don't need much to get started in quantum mechanics. If you limit yourself to finite dimensional systems like electron spins or two level atoms you can go a long way with basic linear algebra. Enough, at least, to start pondering things like Shrodinger's cat, EPR, the Aspect experiment, the quantum no-clnoe theorem and some quantum computing. You don't need to understand the Schrodinger equation - just know that time evolution is a certain linear operator. QM courses generally seem to start with the hard examples first: the one dimensional Schrodinger equation which (1) requires differential equations and (2) is set in an infinite dimensional Hilbert space. Unfortunately none of the textbooks I know of do this (except maybe some newer quantum computing books).
...digital enhancement done to an electron micrograph - but it sounds like you know better than me!
...smallest organisms known are bright red. Amazing!
Or would luke-warm, or even cold steam do the trick?
OK. When I buy a dead-tree book I want to get an electronic version too. It'd make me more likely to buy the book at little cost to the publisher. We'd both benefit.
...I feel I ought to get an electronic version with it for free. After all I'm effectively buying a license when I buy a book aren't I?
Maybe they used 'crackz' not 'warez'
...doesn't like the license he doesn't download Plan 9. There! Problem solved!
I can see how Hochhauser makes his money as a consultant. Someone presents him with a document and he charges $300/hr for calculating this index and that index. He'll put together a nice folder and a printed statement laying out the different scores - all looking very impressive. His report will end with a recommendation that the authors use shorter words and shorter sentences. And he probably has a PR department ensuring that he gets mentioned in articles on CNET, TV and radio.
And that statement about there being no "free software" is a blatant lie too!
This is exactly what happened in the UK after WWII. After building the world's first digital electronic computerw, the Colossi, they were destroyed and kept secret by the orders of Churchill. The result: the US took the lead in computing.
Well FreeBSD runs most Linux binaries as well as Linux and this includes renderers like Renderman. The performance under FreeBSD turned out run Linux binaries better than Linux when the servers were under heavy load - which was generally the case.
That was just the rendering back end. Anything with a user interface was done under IRIX.
As many viruses spread by getting users to click somewhere (eg. on an attachment) it's one small step to writing a virus that displays a EULA that most people won't actually read. In the small print at the end it says "by running this app you agree to allow this software to mail itself to all of your friends and then trash your hard drive". Presumably it would spread like wildfire and the author would be immune from legal action.
I guess then CNN can produce an article about how it wasn't really hype after all and then, after everyone has forgotten about viruses, they can start hyping virus stories again. Then they can have a story about how much they are hyped. And then they can have a story about how there used to be stories about viruses and how they died down and now they've come back.
Endless stories without having to research anything. It must be fun working in media.
The filename is metadata. What you're proposing is merely a clunky way to exploit the minimal metadata the Unix already supports.