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Richard Miller posted his release email over on the 9fans list: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/comp.os....

It includes an important setup tip. Have fun!

This article is pretty sad when you realize that what he's teaching pales in comparison to what search engines in the nineties were offering. Google has actually /stripped away/ advanced search functionality and dumbed down the search engine.

Still the bible on web searching: http://www.searchlores.org/indexo.htm

I've found using SICP in TexInfo format over at http://www.neilvandyke.org/sicp-texi/ to be quite useful when you throw it into Emacs with a Racket acting as a REPL and a scratch buffer, like so: http://i.imgur.com/J3lI1.png

You don't seem to understand that Android already is first. This is a $100 Android box with an 'app store of its very own!' and not much beyond that. We've already got Android and it's not difficult to make a similar enclosure. We've already got better hardware! The cost of porting from Ouya to other Android consoles in general is almost assuredly trivial to possibly zero depending how lazy they are about their software stack (i.e. no real reason to deviate from typical Android practices). All they have to differentiate themselves with is what they've added to Android and so far it looks like 'not much'. There's no reason for exclusivity on Ouya.

How about never? The Ouya is a pig-in-a-poke at best. There's nothing compelling about it that you couldn't do with an ARM evaluation board (in fact, it's more limited), the average console gamer opinion regarding it is 'meh' and it will be obsolete the moment it arrives as what you can buy for $100~ in the ARM SoC space is getting crazier every minute.

The Mali-400 on http://www.hardkernel.com/renewal_2011/products/prdt_info.ph... is already posting better benchmarks than the Tegra3 on the Ouya and the CPUs are the same core, this one slightly lower clocked. Sure the price is a bit higher than the Ouya for a dev board, but that's something you can buy right now. And they're only going to be better and cheaper by the time the Ouya hits, which if I might remind is still five months away if everything goes to plan. Might as well be eternity at the rate cellphone hardware evolves.

Really, all they've done is sold a case and gave us some simple interface mockups. Even https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ouya_software is completely underwhelming and resembles the total lack of commitment other DOA consoles like the NGage had going for them.

You can expect Asia to be cranking out a new Ouya-like every few months. It's the software stack on these devices that is significant, as the hardware is now practically free. Hell, it's even open source: https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/ *

(* Mali-400 GPU still not fully reverse engineered. As usual, GPUs are the FOSS barrier -- still, there's hope: http://limadriver.org/)

There's new players all the time and a lot of mom-n-pop type shops out there that actually can reliably deliver 100Mbps and 1Gbps pipes, though some are certainly shady.

I've named the ones I feel comfortable mentioning, but if you really want to know more about what's out there, there's a number of forums like Web Hosting Talk where the actual companies maintain presences to run promotional deals -- and there's a lot of public opinions aired about how said companies are doing. There's going to be some rather uninformed opinions aired, but most people can tell you when there's a real problem.

Compare their budget servers against other budget servers and they're going to lose out on CPU, RAM and bandwidth tier for the price you pay. Not everyone who is cheaper is offering inferior service, either. While I am sure I could negotiate a nice deal with Softlayer, I'd rather deal with people who are offering a better value up front. But perhaps I'm biased, as I tend to provision quite a few cheap machines for ESXi farms and I don't need nor want anyone's support beyond prompt hardware replacement and their network performing as expected.

The hardware Softlayer is offering looks ancient, Xeons from 2006, only a paltry 5GB/mo bandwidth tier as initial offering -- this page looks stuck in time, like what you could get maybe three~four years ago in dedicated hosting.

Even Cari.net, which I think prices a bit higher than others is offering more for the money. I've had several dozen machines with them since 2006 without issue, top notch support. I also use the really cheap and no-frills folks like Ubservers for when I want a bunch of disposable cheap dedicated machines. Their support is absolutely shit, but by god are they cheap and the bandwidth real. I've been through probably dozen and some change of these guys and that's really all that matters is cheap solid bandwidth and a vague sense of support.

This is the real Silicon Valley story here: Bath salts, rectal suppositories, associating with gangsters in Central America... the most compelling read since Hans Reiser dropped his wife like an arbitrary block pointer.

I'm actually startled that this might become the new debate: what strains of marijuana are 'good' and 'bad' and which in the cannabidiol group are 'good' and 'bad'. People actually have serious conditions that are treated specifically by THC, which is capable of adjusting serotonin levels. This is significant for a number of conditions such as migraines and depression.

Please do not generalize like this because it's actually harmful to active patients.

"Re-elect Governor Marley: When there's only one candidate, there's only one choice!"

Yes, I can clearly and with good conscious say that it is 100% a-ok to break the lock or take a cracked copy of software you already paid $10,000 for to operate with a $180,000 system if the vendor is going to gouge you over a trivial issue.

I'm really sorry that you live in a fantasy world sponsored by the MPAA and RIAA. I've already paid my pound of flesh to get my work done, intentionally not backporting a dongle driver to force upgrades at $10k a whack is the stuff slime is made of. They do this because they know very well there are not many/any alternative vendors for this equipment, which happens to be an exotic motion capture rig absolutely critical to my work. Fuck that and fuck anyone who tells me I have to grin and bear it or otherwise just wave my hands and go without all because otherwise I might offend their sensibilities over how I might see their software. Personally, I don't care about your software. It hasn't done anything slimy to me yet. You're safe.

How about when you pay USD$10,000 for a niche software package with a crappy USB hardware dongle with drivers that only work on Windows XP, despite the application itself working just fine under Windows 7 64-bit?

When I asked the vendor, I was told I could pay another $10,000 so I could buy a new version of the software that just so happened to have a newer DRM dongle.

At that point you really have four options:

1.) Hope someone else pirated it. 2.) Kill a few evenings cracking the application with IDA Pro. 3.) Forever remain on Windows XP on a graphics workstation, unable to use the entirety of RAM installed, or some horrible dual-boot situation isolating you from the rest of your tools. 4.) Pay ANOTHER $10,000.

Seriously, you have no position to tell anyone that there's 'no justification'. It's obvious you're missing real world experience here. I picked #2, myself, but I'd have rather saved time and picked #1 if it had already been done.

Is Office even necessary anymore? Where I work, most people are using LibreOffice or Google Docs and not a single complaint about document exchange or document formats. There's a few Office holdouts, but even they haven't had an issue exchanging documents with the rest of us. Even I behave like a normal human being and use LibreOffice instead of Emacs when I wanna play nice at work.

What exactly is the killer feature of Office to people not obsessed with Outlook? Mac doesn't even have that, having to settle for EntouRAGE. (EDIT: My mistake, not used Mac Office in a long while -- Outlook now exists!)

But every Android phone out there is another personal information hoover for Google that produces them money, so yes, they are profiting off of every unit sold that ships with the Google-branded applications provided the users use them and their locational services, which most users do because otherwise Android ships rather spartan to the point of urging you to use them.

People who believe Android is 'free' do not understand what's in it for Google. If this was not the case, then lawsuits like Skyhook wouldn't exist: http://www.theverge.com/2011/05/12/google-android-skyhook-la...

Postgres 9.3-devel: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/install-getsourc...

And what exactly is wrong with working on something as forward-thinking as HAMMER2? (http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2012-02/msg00...)

DragonflyBSD's team is very small. Roughly fifteen people really active people if I recall? Only fifty people listed as contributors. It's smaller than any other major BSD, it's smaller than any of the major Linux distros by a substantial margin while also biting off more work as they're developing the entire operating system as a whole.

That means you need to make tradeoffs like using NetBSD's pkg_src so you can free up time to work on more interesting things. Packages might break, but the intended audience at the moment for DragonflyBSD is very likely already familiar with building from source and comfortable supporting themselves, certainly with setting up a desktop on their own.

I'd suggest looking later when HAMMER2 is out of the gate and they have more time to focus elsewhere, the ports situation certainly wouldn't be forever. (especially with help)

Congrats to Dillon and the rest of the awesome members of the Dragonfly team, looking forward to testing the Postgres improvements. This is the most exciting BSD distribution at the moment for me!

Thanks for the AIC pointer, it's hard to find much useful info when you're essentially ordering equipment from the finest brands DealExtreme has to offer.

You'd hear of Norco if you're on a budget, they're one of the many cut-rate brands. Supermicro charges roughly three times the price for enclosures, which do get the job done if you aren't bitten by firmware issues, but are by far not a budget brand compared to the competition out there.

I've actually considered some Norco enclosures in the past for a hobbyist project, but I had concerns over their hot swap backplanes -- mainly, a lot of reliability issues reported. Catching on fire pretty much settles it!

For those who want a very clear, concise set of userland code to try translating for practice, consider using 9base: http://tools.suckless.org/9base

It's not quite Unix, but it's still quite lovely and it's rather succinct:

"It also contains the Plan 9 libc, libbio, libregexp, libfmt and libutf. The overall SLOC is about 66kSLOC, so this userland + all libs is much smaller than, e.g. bash (duh!)."

Speaking from the other side here, I started programming at eight and abandoned that in my late teens for partying, sex and adventure through my twenties. Despite landing a scholarship at a respectable school, I walked out the door two months later to go chase a girl.

It's only been now in my thirties that I've taken programming and such seriously, because it's suddenly far more fun to me than social games. There's this vague sense of regret much like you're describing, except inverted -- I could have probably accomplished a LOT had I stayed on point. Despite that, I'm still successful by standards I set out for myself in my early twenties and I've got some rather ambitious plans for my forties, yet.

At the end of the day: I've been here since Usenet was a thing, dotcoms are still as hilarious as they were in the 90s and I honestly think it's just the media fixation on the notion of precocious children that perpetuates this culture obsessed with how we're all supposedly dead at thirty -- when really, that's when many creative individuals begin to hit their stride as many artists discover their talents later in life.

Really, people should stop worrying about any of this shit, as most of it is just talk from people trying to sandbag you.

+1 for being brave enough to talk so candidly.

> Also, since everybody peaks in their twenties

Oh how you're going to laugh at that one later on.

He already has gone into great detail about acme: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/acme/

I find it really sad that most of the comments here are disparaging. I, for one, do want something that isn't Apple's walled garden or Google's personal information hoover.

These are hardly the two best things we could come up with.

You do not need to be a CS major to appreciate Lisp.

I've had a number of fun conversations discussing and demonstrating Scheme with novice and 'rank-and-file Java/C#' types. The ones who find programming languages fun in themselves are the sort of people who light right up when they're introduced to something like Scheme. That's really all it takes is just a bit of passion and curiosity to make the leap.

In my experience, professional folks I've spoken to have either never heard of Lisp or have associated it with antiquity. You'd be very surprised who'd appreciate being shown new ways of doing things.

No, it is not 'professional' just because you feel entitled to that information and have labeled it so.

The lives of your potential employees are their own, their time spent outside of work belongs to them. That time does not belong to you, it's not on the table, it's not up for discussion. It is, in fact, fucking creepy that you feel like that because you're offering a pittance of a salary you should be able to rummage through the contents of someone's life looking for things 'you don't like'.

You have no respect for the lives of your employees, else you wouldn't expect their social network profiles all lined up and waiting for you to hold judgement over, looking for 'barbaric rituals' and other unfunny comments. It's that simple.

Another fantastic bit of information about the history of the diamond trade, courtesy of Frontline, circa 1994: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6186684678299366197

And while we're at it, can we please stop referring to Santa Claus as a myth? It's cramping our market potential.

That's exactly what I had in mind, but this person seems to feel he's outright entitled to this information because the first notion he showed up to defend is that he only has 'non-racist' intentions with the contents of someone's private life. That's great dude, why not try not being a creeper with no sense of professional boundaries while you're at it?