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Heh.....I was wondering what "skip" was in reference to. I'm guessing I would probably recognize it as "dumpster". :)

Nice....congrats on the conquest.

Heh. I was going to say "Hello from QuadSix50" in TextEdit, but I was getting strange characters for some reason. Don't know if it was on my end using Remote Desktop Viewer in Ubuntu or if something was changed on the Mac. :p

I did notice that this evening. Shame, as it would have been really cool had they actually based it off the Apple II. Ah well, still cool enough. :)

Wow. Never expected this to go in such a different direction. I just thought it was an interesting project, especially for retro-collectors like us. :p Still, you all make very valid points.

A/UX doesn't support PPC, hence paws' response.

Now THIS really piqued my interest (found this thanks to Slashdot): http://news.bostonherald.com/business/technology/general/view/2008_08_04_Designers_on_quest_to_build__12_computer/ To quote the highlight of the article.... EDIT: I changed the title of the thread as it's already been...

Maybe, but personally I find the Cube a much sexier conquest. ;)

Even though I secretly despise you for this conquest, nice conquest! :p (Just kidding. It usually just so happens that whenever someone makes an awesome conquest, there's always that one person that teems with envy and posts with the proverbial "I HATE YOU!!!11!1!!". :p )

The reason it was called "podcast" was because at the time, the popular player around was the iPod and those who pioneered RSS-type audio feeds like these decided to call them "podcasts" (at least that's what I've heard online). The name kind of stuck, but that doesn't mean you're limited to...

Could this be none other than James from the RetroMacCast? ;) Love the show!

Nice stuff! I also really like the song conversions you've done form various games (especially 1943....now I'm ready to pull up some MAME goodness :p ).

Lots of open source applications use the Qt library, even in Windows. Even Maemo (which is used by the Nokia N-series) is moving over to Qt. From comparisons that I've read on GTK vs Qt, Qt is a lot easier to program for compared to GTK. Most of the open source music applications, jabber...

I'm sorry, but RPM has HARDLY the solution to this issue. Yum is still slow as hell, and it goes back to one of many packaging systems available. Personally, I prefer APT for packaging as it is much faster and does a better job of dependency resolution. The only benefit that RPMs have over...

Yes, each distro might have a different way of installing packages. But, each of them make installing packages for their system very easy. It's almost foolproof in Ubuntu, even when you download a .deb for Ubuntu outside of the repositories. Once you've made a decision on a distribution, all...

I don't know that I would call it fragmentation. You can still compile stuff if you need to across distributions. Commercial Unix back in the day was REALLY fragmented. The fact that you couldn't compile one source package across other types of Unix operating systems was REALLY bad. This is...

BTW, it's much easier now to configure any of the proprietary video modules provided by ATI and NVIDIA using Envy. I used it a few months ago at an installfest where Ubuntu Hardy Heron was installed on a Mac Pro. http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html I can't take the credit for this...

A few years ago, I tried out the fglrx module on my Slackware box. It seemed to compile just fine, but it did give me problems. At that point, it was frustrating, yes. But fglrx was still in its infancy and at the time ATI wasn't even bothering to help out the community. Lately with AMD in...

Don't worry, Temetka, I won't do THAT again. ;) With regards to binary blobs, there are distros out there that already include them as well as the proprietary media formats (I believe Linux Mint does this). For some, this is the answer for what they want. For others, it's probably something...

Nice! I recently acquired a Quicktake 200, but it only worked for a little bit. After doing some research, it seems there is a faulty fuse that needs to be replaced with a soldering job. I my do this sometime soon (would probably have been a nice project for the RetroChallenge ::) ).