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Messages - Macallan

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Browsers & Technology / Re: Less obvious Android uses
Quote from: Frenzie on
Btw, what about one of these? It comes with all the connectors missing from Android.
This thing looks suspiciously like something called Pandora years ago, and which was intended as some sort of gaming device. Specs were something like OMAP 3530 SoC ( 700MHz Cortex-A8 + DSP ), 256MB or 512MB RAM etc. Interesting, but ( for me at least ) too expensive.

I'm actually using my cubietruck as kinda-sorta desktop. Serves me better than a Raspberry Pi 2 even though the latter has twice the number of CPUs. Problem with the Pi is:
- only 1GB of RAM. In order to compile anything C++-heavy you'll need about 1GB RAM per compiler instance, so for this use the Pi would either swap itself to death or effectively use only one core, while the cubie ( with 2GB of RAM ) can keep its two cores busy with useful stuff
- onboard ethernet is USB, as are all other storage options except that one SD slot. Cubie got real gigabit ethernet and SATA.
- no real time clock, although that can be fixed for $5

What I'd like to see is an affordable ARM or MIPS board with a bunch of 64bit cores, sufficient RAM ( as in, at least 1GB per core ), and real ethernet and SATA. PCIe would be nice too but that would probably make things too expensive. Unfortunately most SoCs are made for tablets, phones and TV boxes.
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DnD Central / Re: Replacing Supreme Court Judge Antonin Scalia
Quote from: Jimbro3738 on

Quote from: SmileyFaze on
To that end, IMHO, I feel that the Senate must strive to adhere to Judge Scalia's values when he is replaced, & not merely rubber stamp a presidential nomination because he is the President's choice.

:lol: Let me guess that you're a Republican. :devil:

They'd have a collective freakout if he proposed to replace the broken coffee maker in the break room.
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Browsers & Technology / Re: General Unix/Linux Thread
Quote from: Frenzie on

What do you use it for? :p

Programming of course. Lightweight / low power debugging aid ( for example, if you mess with graphics drivers it kinda helps to have an extra set of monitor & keyboard ). Also, got to finish & commit the support code for the VGA port. Just needs a little more cleanup and I want to add hotplug support as well.
Our A20 code was written for a Cubieboard 2 so there isn't much support for the Cubietruck's extra bells & whistles. I'm slowly changing that.
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Browsers & Technology / Re: General Unix/Linux Thread
Just for the hell of it - posting from this:

Code: [Select]
NetBSD 7.99.25 (CUBIETRUCK) #28: Thu Dec 24 09:53:18 EST 2015
        root@claymore:/home/build/obj_earm/sys/arch/evbarm/compile/CUBIETRUCK
total memory = 2048 MB
avail memory = 2022 MB
sysctl_createv: sysctl_create(machine_arch) returned 17
timecounter: Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0 core 0: 960 MHz Cortex-A7 r0p4 (Cortex V7A core)
cpu0: DC enabled IC enabled WB disabled EABT branch prediction enabled
cpu0: 32KB/32B 2-way L1 VIPT Instruction cache
cpu0: 32KB/64B 4-way write-back-locking-C L1 PIPT Data cache
cpu0: 256KB/64B 8-way write-through L2 PIPT Unified cache
vfp0 at cpu0: NEON MPE (VFP 3.0+), rounding, NaN propagation, denormals
cpu1 at mainbus0 core 1
armperiph0 at mainbus0
armgic0 at armperiph0: Generic Interrupt Controller, 160 sources (151 valid)
armgic0: 32 Priorities, 128 SPIs, 7 PPIs, 16 SGIs
...
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Browsers & Technology / Re: The adventures of an Windows Knight at the Wild-Lands of Linux
Quote from: Belfrager on

The other, Otter, fails to keep cookies, what forces me to login every time I enter DnD and other sites. No patience.


That one might be webkit and not the browser itself - I have the same problem with Midori.
Also, Midori has the annoying habit of stopping to run scripts on pages that have been in the background for a while ( no, I don't want them to run in background tabs but they sure should run when the tab comes back to the foreground ). And lastly, it doesn't reliably save the open tabs on exit. When it starts back up it sure opens all tabs but at various points in their history, not necessarily where they were when exiting the browser.
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Browsers & Technology / Re: The Hardware Thread
Quote from: ersi on

In the spring this year I visited the United States. Among other things, my plan was to find out about the latest developments in the trackball area. I heard in the shops that they were a dated product, on the way being replaced with trackpads and such. That's what I heard in computer shops in New York and some shops didn't even have any such thing. Staples still had a fair selection of mice and some trackballs, even though I didn't buy anything there.

Yeah, sadly that matches my experience. The few you can still buy tend to be expensive too.
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Browsers & Technology / Re: The Hardware Thread
Quote from: ersi on

I have three desks at which I work on computer a lot. At first I thought of getting a trackball for all of them, but it only took two days for me to get used to use the mouse with left hand, and it immediately helped, so I'm happy with a trackball on just one desk.

I'd love to have a left-handed thumb-type trackball. Then again, these days even the right-handed ones are kinda difficult to find - the only one I see here occasionally is a wireless logitech, and I don't want a wireless one.
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DnD Central / Re: Europe's Migrant Crisis
Quote from: Belfrager on

Quote from: rjhowie on
May I say firstly that Belfrager is retreating into the same mind

The only "retreating" Belfrager does is into the basic principles and moral duty of Christian solidarity and misericordy for those that suffers. Nothing else matters and end of discussion.
Every word you add, rjhowie, only puts you more away from such principles. Acta non verba.

I've got nothing to add to that, but it needed repeating.
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Browsers & Technology / Re: General Unix/Linux Thread
Speaking of compilers - LLVM/clang has been used to build NetBSD on ARM and x86 for a while now, and it mostly works on powerpc and sparc64 as well ( 'mostly' as in kernels and executables in general work, but shared objects seem to randomly lose symbols. Likely just a config or linker problem ).
It won't be able to replace gcc any time soon for lack of CPU architecture support but it's nice to have alternatives.
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DnD Central / Re: Anthropogenic Global Warming
Quote from: mjmsprt40 on

Fascinating. I post a link and a couple of observations, you post crap--- sorry, gotta call the smelly stuff as I see it-- about how ignorant Americans are.

Well, look at your post. Implying that all climate change is crap because you don't understand what that study is for is, well, crap.

That said, I've been living here for a while now and it never ceases to amaze me how little actual science they teach in schools here. Maybe it's just TN, in fact I hope it is.
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Browsers & Technology / Re: What is your OS? (operating system)
Quote from: ersi on

Quote from: Macallan on

It comes with a mostly BSD-ish userland and at least up to 10.4 also included an Xserver, nfs client and so on.
Some things like administration and stuff that normally goes to /etc are different but that's mostly NEXTSTEP heritage.

That's interesting to know. Unfortunately I don't have much clue about BSD and NEXTSTEP either.

IIRC the GNU userland is based on early BSD. If ps -aux gives you a list of all processes you're using something BSD-ish. The standard shell is bash, but it comes with tcsh, sh, ksh and so on.

Quote from: ersi on

Insofar as Mac has deliberate differences from BSD, it seems not worth the effort to learn it.

The differences are almost all administration and library handling ( they're not using ELF binaries ). In my experience it's not much weirder ( compared to Debian or *BSD ) than Solaris or AIX.

In fact I used to cross-build NetBSD on a G5 running OSX 10.5 with sources mounted via nfs. The only thing to watch out for was the fact that by default the filesystem will be case preserving but insensitive. Up to 10.4 OSX supported a modified BSD filesystem ( Apple UFS ) which behaves like, well, UFS, and after that HFS+ can be case sensitive.
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Browsers & Technology / Re: What is your OS? (operating system)
Quote from: ersi on

As someone who never had much attention on Macs, a basic question occurred to me.

It's said that Mac OS X is UNIX-based. Does this mean that when you open up the command prompt or terminal emulator, you can operate it like a UNIX?

Yes. It comes with a mostly BSD-ish userland and at least up to 10.4 also included an Xserver, nfs client and so on.
Some things like administration and stuff that normally goes to /etc are different but that's mostly NEXTSTEP heritage.

Quote from: ersi on

And does any of you Mac users actually do it?

I used to when I still ran OSX.