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721.
by mrpippy 10y ago
Maybe NuttX? http://www.nuttx.org
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by mrpippy 10y ago
Apple's selling them for $9
723.
by mrpippy 10y ago
It is not, the last point release update (6.5.30) came out 10 years ago. They may still have active support contracts for some IRIX systems, but it's very much history at this point.
724.
by mrpippy 10y ago
I hope the documentation deprecates usage of the old endpoints / strongly encourages use of the dual-stack ones.
725.
by mrpippy 10y ago
Not to mention, the acquisition was announced a month ago. It's not even close to being approved yet by LNKD shareholders or closing. No case could be made that it was smart, since...it hasn't happened yet.
726.
by mrpippy 10y ago
> I expect AArch32 to be gone from most high performance implementations in a few years Apple has been requiring iOS apps to include 64-bit binaries for more than a year, and in iOS 10 they're publicly shaming 32-bit apps [1] on lau
727.
by mrpippy 10y ago
The Langewiesche article is a great read as well, with more details: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2014/10/air-france-f...
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by mrpippy 10y ago
OS X didn't start using CUPS until 10.2. I don't remember if the 10.0/10.1 printing architecture was a carryover of the NeXT stuff or something new, but I don't remember it being well liked.
729.
by mrpippy 10y ago
> Keyboards are nice for typing More than nice, they're generally a purchasing requirement for taking standardized tests
730.
by mrpippy 10y ago
Bah, SGI made a Tensor Processing Unit XIO card 15 years ago. evidence suggests they were mostly for defense customers: http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic.php?t=16728751 http://manx.classiccmp.org/mirror&#
731.
by mrpippy 10y ago
If parts were going obsolete while it was still being produced, how is maintenance going to work for the next half century? I assume these were electronics?
732.
by mrpippy 11y ago
It's shrinking (slightly) year-over-year because the iPhone 6 was a blockbuster--people were waiting for larger-screen iPhones and jumped to upgrade when the 6 came out. The 6 was also supply-constrained which pushed some of those sale
733.
by mrpippy 11y ago
Don't forget the giant (possibly illegal) payouts to keep big customers (Dell in particular) Intel-only. $4.3 billion to Dell between 2003 and 2006. http://money.cnn.com/2010/07/23/technology/del
734.
by mrpippy 11y ago
http://www.guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/shutdowncomplete NT 3 and 4 did, and you always saw them since it didn't support soft power-off (although I vaguely remember there was a registry key to enable it but di
735.
by mrpippy 11y ago
I believe VW has been running good incentive programs since the diesel scandal broke (for obvious reasons), but losing the diesel models really hurt the SportWagen lineup. The diesel was the upper trim, and carried some of the nicer feature
736.
by mrpippy 11y ago
On OS X, every process on the system is a Unix process and has a PID, and is visible from the Unix APIs that Activity Monitor uses. Even when OS X had more diversity in binary formats (the Classic environment, Carbon CFM apps, emulated PPC
737.
by mrpippy 11y ago
> Qi is that standard Unless you're at Starbucks, who have deployed Powermat/PMA. Even though Qi has vastly more support from phones and chargers (Toyota is even putting Qi in some cars), there's probably many more people
738.
by mrpippy 11y ago
And Verizon has exclusive "smartphone" streaming rights tied up for years to come, so Twitter can't even stream to mobile (the form-factor that they've ridden to success)
739.
by mrpippy 11y ago
Yep Safari for Windows was released at WWDC 2007 (~2 weeks before the iPhone went on sale), and I'm sure part of the rationale was for Windows developers to be able to test their web sites with it. Also note that Google Chrome wasn&#x2
740.
by mrpippy 11y ago
Yay an SGI in production! Octane?
741.
by mrpippy 11y ago
I picked up a VT220 a year ago at an estate sale, the previous owner was using it with amateur radio gear. Prices (especially including shipping) seem prohibitively expensive otherwise!
742.
by mrpippy 11y ago
SGI's X server (Xsgi) continued to support the DPS X extension up through 6.5.22. It was removed after that, either for licensing or support reasons depending on which rumors you believe. Some of the Adobe apps (Photoshop, Illustrator)
743.
by mrpippy 11y ago
They had a gaping security hole in the product for who knows how long (revealing the configured WiFi SSID+PSK to anyone with physical access to the back of the unit): https://www.pentestpartners.com/blog/steal-your-wi-f
744.
by mrpippy 11y ago
This assumption is not correct. The (4-digit) passcode is entangled with the device's unique ID, which is burned into the A6 application processor (on the other side of the logic board). It's theoretically possible to extract the
745.
by mrpippy 11y ago
Ah interesting, thanks!
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by mrpippy 11y ago
They didn't request short-term confidentiality for anything: the exhibit summary list at https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/reports/ViewExhibitReport.cfm... has a column for short-term confidential which is
747.
by mrpippy 11y ago
Also, good on the Pi Foundation for keeping this listing in the open rather than requesting 6 month confidentiality for the pictures/test report (which almost all companies do).
748.
by mrpippy 11y ago
Given Broadcom's connections to the project, it's almost a surprise they didn't have some kind of Broadcom option for WiFi/BT earlier. Must have stung at Broadcom to be powering the most popular hobbyist ARM Linux board,
749.
by mrpippy 11y ago
It also has BT Classic: section 7.5 of the test report states "The EUT is a small, single board, computer with WiFi, Bluetooth and Bluetooth LE connectivity."
750.
by mrpippy 11y ago
My reaction: what took them so long? This has seemed obvious for years now.

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