Rather than put all of your computers on a toggle type device, why not instead network them? That way, you could detach all of their monitors and keyboards and stuff save one, which will be your main console. All it needs to be is a nice setup running X11, that way you can run programs and administer all of the systems from once central location while having the versitility of each system's terminal on the screen at the same time!
Of course the problem with this is that it only works if the system is Unix or VMS. But bringing all of them together and still having seperate terminals for your Windows machines is still a nice space saver.
Instead of releasing a whole bunch of new Aibos at the old price, why not spend time refining the technology so that Mere Mortal can possibly afford it? To make matters worse, you gotta spend a few extra hundred on that PCMIA / data stick interface thingy if you want to program your doggie!
Oh well, I guess I'll just have to wait 10 more years...
Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known.
Whatever it was, that name doesn't seem to resolve anymore. I guess they must be covering their tracks for now, because fear.microsoft.com and doubt.microsoft.com also don't resolve.:-)
With the recent attitude of "innovate, retaliate, counterretaliate" in the chip market, both companies are really giving the consumers a lot to look forward to. The only thing I wonder is, how long will it be before Intel and AMD are forced to slow their shrinking price to performance ratio in order to protect their bottom line?
On an unrelated gripe, "Tom's Hardware Guide" isn't helping its credibility much by having a major error in the very first sentance. "pushed from its thrown"? Ugh.
Can the new OS be installed in the Visor's RAM area instead, since there is no flash memory? I believe a Handspring site said this might be possible, but nothing about it in this announcement. Since Palm IIIe users can't upgrade, I'm not too hopeful...
Does anyone know how they could make this beast of a website faster? It took like 20 minutes to finally get to the info I wanted because it looks like every page they serve is being run through cgi or something. (Not that I'm an expert on this). Hopefully they will tweak it out soon (or the slashdotters will back off) and I will be able to order one of those bad ass green ones! (My favorite color! Woo hoo!)
I'm not a big fan of the show (totally lost track of the story about a season ago) but I heard about this on the radio. Apparently Gillian Anderson has made the statement that she is spent physically and emotionally and no longer wants to do the show, BUT the studio says she still has two years of contract left and WILL be returning. So if she really does want to leave, it looks like there will be a nice legal fight to add to the drama.
It is a sad situation when a piece of paper forces someone to do something they really don't want to do, but at the same time you must consider how much the studio has invested in the show's success. Someone is going to have to be the loser here.
I really don't care too much about missle interception systems or the like, if someone wants to kill me I'm as good as dead no matter what hardware is floating around above our heads.
But this particular article really caught my eye. Why? Because anything with the name Exoatmospheric Kill Vechicle must kick ass!
I really don't find this suprising, especially since just about every major magazine (even Time and such) talk about the iBook as if it were the second coming or something. IBM's idea is hardly original, yet I welcome it because the iBook just isn't practical in most situations. I'm not bashing it, it's a nice little gadget, but c'mon... no disk drive? If you want to transfer your files you have to spend upwards of $400 on an AirPort system AND already have another USB Macintosh. Hopefully IBM won't make the same mistake.
When you sign up for this, you feed them your address and then you go to a URL to fill out a questionaire and supposedly get some nifty toys. (It told me I would get a t-shirt and a license plate (???)) ANYWAY, that has been a month or so ago and I still haven't recieved my slick toys! Anyone else been shafted by Compaq thus far?
Can AMD processors compete with Intel processors in the notebook market? The answer is probably no. Why? Even if the AMD processer was faster, cheaper, and more advanced, the well brainwashed consumers know to look for that "Intel Inside" logo and the word "Pentium". The notebook manufacturers know this, and they are not going to risk using the AMD chip too widely because in many peoples eyes that will be an instant nix on their product. The well educated computer user may know the advantages of the AMD line and look for it when purchasing/building a computer, but the proprietary nature of notebook hardware makes it necissary for the manufacturers to cater only to the masses. Maybe some manufacturer will put out a notebook so dazzling that it can succeed with the AMD chip, but that doesn't seem very likely.
Despite my pessimism, I'd love to see AMD suceed. Let's wish 'em the best!
That may kick ass, but imagine a Beowulf cluster made out of... oh wait, it already IS a cluster.:) I guess they need to get to work on that internet tunnelling massive computing surface initiative if they want to make this computer part of a Beowulf cluster...
I have noticed that a number of people have mentioned Zeus and thttpd as alternatives to Apache. I know a few people who say they have also had success with the Roxen Challenger server. Does anyone know how Roxen performes in comparison to the other three? From what I've heard it is excellent for static pages, which sounds like what is on the art site described here.
The UNIX version, as far as I know, was a text only console engine. The Hugo platform also allows for optional graphics, sounds, and mouse interation, and these are now available in the new Linux version which runs in X11.
I love Sony and Linux as much as anyone else, but I must say that these 'digital VCRs' are a joke. They will never have enough functionality over good ol' versitile VHS to justify the extra cost. And as far as surfing the Internet being the magic feature, remember how pathetic WebTV was? (even before Microsoft took it over) On a happy note, Sony is known for quality products across the board so maybe they will find some potential in it after all.
That's even smaller than the chip itself! (if you count the casing) What exactly can one do with one of these things? I think the PII draws wayyy too much power to be used in any portable or whatever type applications, right? Oh well, it is still nifty!
I've noticed that everyone keeps complaining that Slackware doesn't include a good package management system and therefore is a weak distro. Well guess what folks, the RPM program is distributed under the GNU license! You can download it, compile it, and start using RPMs no matter what distro you have. Of course, most binary RPMs are glibc based and won't work on current Slackware setups, but that's no biggie because SRPMs (source RPMs) are just as easy to use as RPMs! In a few simple commands you can have a package installed and compiled, in a couple more simple commands you can have it gone again. You might as well go ahead and learn how to install.tgz's by hand once you are comfortable with the file system, but having RPM installed is still nice for the (oft mentioned) reason of "this program SUCKS! rpm -e gnome!"
Oh yeah, one word of advice, you will need to pretty much always use "--nodeps" when installing RPM on a non-RedHat system because it will think there is absolutely nothing installed on your system and will fail when it checks for package dependancies.
I once was not an internet addict. I once only checked my e-mail, maybe did some ICQing, and was done for the day. But then, one spendous day, I discovered THE WONDER THAT IS POKEY THE PENGUIN. HOORAY FOR POKEY. HOORAY.
Speaking of hype for episode one, how will this affect the reaction to episodes two and three? Episode one is really special because it is the first new Star Wars in 15 years, so can episode two possibly generate as much hype when it comes out? And by the time episode three rolls around, it will be "here we go again" sort of attitude among most of the media. Just think of all the attention the first "special edition" release got, and how the other two paled in comparison as far as public responce goes.
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The only parts that AOL would have to release source code for are those that are GPL licensed such as the kernel. The actual AOL client is not GPL, and they would not have to release the source just because it is ported to Linux. After all, many Linux distributions include commercial software in binary format only. (Most obvious example, Netscape Navigator)
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Rather than put all of your computers on a toggle type device, why not instead network them? That way, you could detach all of their monitors and keyboards and stuff save one, which will be your main console. All it needs to be is a nice setup running X11, that way you can run programs and administer all of the systems from once central location while having the versitility of each system's terminal on the screen at the same time!
Of course the problem with this is that it only works if the system is Unix or VMS. But bringing all of them together and still having seperate terminals for your Windows machines is still a nice space saver.
Oh well, I guess I'll just have to wait 10 more years...
Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known.
Whatever it was, that name doesn't seem to resolve anymore. I guess they must be covering their tracks for now, because fear.microsoft.com and doubt.microsoft.com also don't resolve. :-)
With the recent attitude of "innovate, retaliate, counterretaliate" in the chip market, both companies are really giving the consumers a lot to look forward to. The only thing I wonder is, how long will it be before Intel and AMD are forced to slow their shrinking price to performance ratio in order to protect their bottom line?
On an unrelated gripe, "Tom's Hardware Guide" isn't helping its credibility much by having a major error in the very first sentance. "pushed from its thrown"? Ugh.
Can the new OS be installed in the Visor's RAM area instead, since there is no flash memory? I believe a Handspring site said this might be possible, but nothing about it in this announcement. Since Palm IIIe users can't upgrade, I'm not too hopeful...
The first time I glanced at this headline and saw Li18nux, I thought "hmm... a golf game for linux WOULD me nice!"
:)
Does anyone know how they could make this beast of a website faster? It took like 20 minutes to finally get to the info I wanted because it looks like every page they serve is being run through cgi or something. (Not that I'm an expert on this). Hopefully they will tweak it out soon (or the slashdotters will back off) and I will be able to order one of those bad ass green ones! (My favorite color! Woo hoo!)
> Like every linux distro.
That is funny, why can't I seem to find a slackware shirt? Red Hat is pretty much alone in the crass commercialization respect.
And actually, they don't sell any good shirts either, you have to go to copyleft for that.
I would very much enjoy a tux smoking a pipe slackware shirt....
It is a sad situation when a piece of paper forces someone to do something they really don't want to do, but at the same time you must consider how much the studio has invested in the show's success. Someone is going to have to be the loser here.
But this particular article really caught my eye. Why? Because anything with the name Exoatmospheric Kill Vechicle must kick ass!
I really don't find this suprising, especially since just about every major magazine (even Time and such) talk about the iBook as if it were the second coming or something. IBM's idea is hardly original, yet I welcome it because the iBook just isn't practical in most situations. I'm not bashing it, it's a nice little gadget, but c'mon... no disk drive? If you want to transfer your files you have to spend upwards of $400 on an AirPort system AND already have another USB Macintosh. Hopefully IBM won't make the same mistake.
When you sign up for this, you feed them your address and then you go to a URL to fill out a questionaire and supposedly get some nifty toys. (It told me I would get a t-shirt and a license plate (???)) ANYWAY, that has been a month or so ago and I still haven't recieved my slick toys! Anyone else been shafted by Compaq thus far?
Despite my pessimism, I'd love to see AMD suceed. Let's wish 'em the best!
That may kick ass, but imagine a Beowulf cluster made out of... oh wait, it already IS a cluster. :) I guess they need to get to work on that internet tunnelling massive computing surface initiative if they want to make this computer part of a Beowulf cluster...
I have noticed that a number of people have mentioned Zeus and thttpd as alternatives to Apache. I know a few people who say they have also had success with the Roxen Challenger server. Does anyone know how Roxen performes in comparison to the other three? From what I've heard it is excellent for static pages, which sounds like what is on the art site described here.
The UNIX version, as far as I know, was a text only console engine. The Hugo platform also allows for optional graphics, sounds, and mouse interation, and these are now available in the new Linux version which runs in X11.
I love Sony and Linux as much as anyone else, but I must say that these 'digital VCRs' are a joke. They will never have enough functionality over good ol' versitile VHS to justify the extra cost. And as far as surfing the Internet being the magic feature, remember how pathetic WebTV was? (even before Microsoft took it over) On a happy note, Sony is known for quality products across the board so maybe they will find some potential in it after all.
I believe these cards can already be used with the Mach64 server. Give it a try...
That's even smaller than the chip itself! (if you count the casing) What exactly can one do with one of these things? I think the PII draws wayyy too much power to be used in any portable or whatever type applications, right? Oh well, it is still nifty!
Oh yeah, one word of advice, you will need to pretty much always use "--nodeps" when installing RPM on a non-RedHat system because it will think there is absolutely nothing installed on your system and will fail when it checks for package dependancies.
I once was not an internet addict. I once only checked my e-mail, maybe did some ICQing, and was done for the day. But then, one spendous day, I discovered THE WONDER THAT IS POKEY THE PENGUIN. HOORAY FOR POKEY. HOORAY.
Houston, we have a problem.
Blank stories, cached stories... something is not right in slashworld.
Speaking of hype for episode one, how will this affect the reaction to episodes two and three? Episode one is really special because it is the first new Star Wars in 15 years, so can episode two possibly generate as much hype when it comes out? And by the time episode three rolls around, it will be "here we go again" sort of attitude among most of the media. Just think of all the attention the first "special edition" release got, and how the other two paled in comparison as far as public responce goes.
This person's comments are not being moderated down. Check out the user's info, this person has posted 299 (!) comments in the last few weeks, and so many of them have been marked down to -1 (usually for good reasons) that their comments now default at score 0 just like an AC.
The only parts that AOL would have to release source code for are those that are GPL licensed such as the kernel. The actual AOL client is not GPL, and they would not have to release the source just because it is ported to Linux. After all, many Linux distributions include commercial software in binary format only. (Most obvious example, Netscape Navigator)