__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Monday 31 July 2006 14:34 \__
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> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> __/ [ Hadron Quark ] on Monday 31 July 2006 12:34 \__
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>
>>>> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Monday 31 July 2006 12:00 \__
>>>>
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>>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>>> Joining the PlayStation 3...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>>| Obviously, you can hear that all this is very expensive to make and
>>>>>>| put in the console. How could Nintendo cut the cost? It's very
>>>>>>| simple. Simply Wii will have software based on a industry standard
>>>>>>| platform that's open source. Linux. You read that right. Wii will
>>>>>>| have Linux as operating system with proprietary GUI and applications
>>>>>>| based on commonly opens ource for Linux programs.
>>>>>> `----
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
http://saruwatari-wii.blogspot.com/2006/07/software-in-wii.html
>>>>>> ( this source/blog is a Nintendo employee )
>>>>>
>>>>> Unfortunately, they don't seem to have understood how this works,
>>>>> observe:
>>>>>
>>>>> This probably make you all think of homebew and hacking and
>>>>> things like that, but the final system in closed and will allow
>>>>> only signed code etc and will be very secure, even though it's
>>>>> technically compatible with a world of already existing software.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hopefully they'll realise that having an open platform will open up all
>>>>> kinds of possibilities, in which case, we might even get one here.
>>>>> Keeping it closed is not too smart, I think.
>>>>
>>>> I believe that a(t least) reviewer has claimed that the
>>>> Nokia 770 -- that which you happen to own -- is also too
>>>> closed. maybe you can challenge that statement. PlayStation
>>>> 3, on the other hand, was said to encourage third-party
>>>> development (and hacking), which can contribute to the
>>>> environment as much as you saw with Palm (behold the wealth
>>>> of freeware and GPL'd Palm software). To name another
>>>> example, the Zaurus is fairly open for all I know... but I
>>>> don't know if they necessary benefit from this openness.
>>>> This can become confusing is you do not have some separation
>>>> between the crowd (prospective customer base) that is
>>>> IT-savvy and/or adventurous and that which fears
>>>> extensibility and space for exploration (e.g. KDE,
>>>> PHP-Nuke).
>>>
>>>
>>> Roy, what setting have you used to make your posts align as they do?
>>
>>
>> It's a Perl script which is run from the shell. I have it
>> assigned to a keyboard shortcut so it extracts and outputs
>> text through Klipper. I used to hyphenate, but some people
>> were not happy...
>>
>
> You could try to pipe it through fmt? This does left-alignment and
> max number of chars/line (you can set on the cmd line, but the default
> is sensible).
Splendid! I'll remember that, thanks.
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| roy@BAINE:~> fmt ~/in
| It's a Perl script which is run from the shell. I have it assigned to
| a keyboard shortcut so it extracts and outputs text through Klipper. I
| used to hyphenate, but some people were not happy...
`----
Best wishes,
Roy
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