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Sagem is already making something like this in France, with an ISP called FREE.

You get 20 mbps, digital cable, Internet, phone, router functionality, Wi-Fi coverage, along with Ethernet and USB ports... VoD is almost here. The box is called a Freebox.
They added a few months ago something cool: you can stream media from your computer to the set-top box, which is plugged into a TV.

And you get all this digital goodness for something like $35 a month (30).

Sagem is already making something like this in France, with an ISP called FREE.

You get 20 mbps, digital cable, Internet, phone, router functionality, Wi-Fi coverage, along with Ethernet and USB ports... VoD is almost here. The box is called a Freebox.
They added a few months ago something cool: you can stream media from your computer to the set-top box, which is plugged into a TV.

And you get all this digital goodness for something like $35 a month (30).

OMGWTFBBQ, dude! Apple cancelled the Newton 6 years ago, but you're still steaming about how Palm is better. Your favorite platform won, okay? Let it go! ;) ;) ;) ;)

That being said, I totally agree with your assessment that Apple did market the Newton to be able to do seemingly everything (I still don't know the name of that mapping application that was shown on the front of the 2000 box or if it even existed). The 2000 came with a word processor, a keyboard, and two PCMCIA slots. Farallon even made an ethernet adapter for it. Incidentally, there were a few interesting things you could do with this setup.

I think that later Palm and WinCE PDAs fell into this trap as well. As soon as they started putting spreadsheets and cameras into PDAs things started to get out of the realm of "do one thing well". The exception to this seems to be the Blackberry, which has an amazingly well integrated email and phone (of course, that seems to be their focus, so you'd expect that).

Even with all the neat applications out there for Palm, I still primarily use my Palm for three things: an address book, a scheduler, and an alarm clock.

you'll be up and running before you even get mandrake^H^H^H^Hriva iso's downloaded

Actualy, it will be faster to be up and running with Mandriva.

You can either download only one ISO image, or you can download the 12MB ISO for a network install, with fully GUI installer and all. I believe that debian netinstall ISO was around 85 MB.

This way, you can start installation after just downloading and burning an 12MB ISO.

And as for the software available for Mandriva, you have 12306 packages, plus the PLF packages.

So, right now, both Debian and Mandriva have more or less the same (very high) number of packages readily available with urpmi (CLI) / rpmdrake (GUI)

Peace

Naturally, it took some time to get back in the top 20 for Mandriva Linux since the name change (and why would I be whoring for 'Mandrake' anyway - the name has gone the way of the dodo), but that too has happened without being on Slashdot.

What is this obsession with figuring out conspiracies anyway? The real conspiracy is that I want to show how cool Linux is, in this case with the example of Mandriva 2006.

Enjoy Linux,
Rob
www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr

The point of this article is not that things are somehow better on Mandriva than on other Linux distributions (some are, some aren't, YMMV), just to show what can be done, and can be done easily, with Linux nowadays.

Hope this helps, enjoy Linux,
Rob
www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr

Free.fr is a French ISP offering free web hosting (up to 1 GB, one of the first free PHP/MYSQL host company here), free mails, free dial-up (which was their main business few years ago).. Well pretty much everything free except their excellent ADSL2+ (24 Mbps) offer which costs 30 euros (and comes with tons of other goodies like free phone/VoIP and ADSL TV, a static IP and a custom reverse DNS and.. and .. and much more). These guys rock: they only use OSS (mainly Linux powered) and provide us with their "best effort": if a new technology comes they'll offer it to every subscriber without any more condition; my bandwidth changed from 20 to 24Mbps recently and I didn't have to sign another contract or to do anything. I know a few techies from the company (we used to lurk on IRC) and they all are free software fanatics. Free provides official support for OS X and Linux, and their ADSL2+ + TV + phone modem (the "Freebox") runs Linux.

On the other side, the website http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/ is only an hosted website, it has nothing to do afaik with Free itself, while the Mandriva (and Debian, and pretty much every major distro) mirrors are managed on the official ftp.free.fr FTP server by Free's team.

So yeah Free rocks, but this website is only an hosted website (please note: to get an account you must be a French citizen, they send you a request by traditional mail, but they don't put any ad on your website and their bandwidth is huge, so they couldn't freely allow everyone).

Btw, they're already starting WiMax experimentations and installations, it should be available next year or so :). We used to struggle to get a decent connection, and now France seems a good place for Internet connectivity. Talking 'bout Japan and Tokyo? Wait: in Paris (15th arr.) too, they have optic fiber (100Mbps symmetrical) for 50 euros a month (and with TV and VoIP once again) :)

Look at his URL (http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/) one of the things google piorties in ranking of keywords is if the keywords are located in the URL.

As a SEO expert my guess is give it a few days but that site is going to come with in the first few results for the term "Mandrake" and "free" as slashdot has many high ranking sites that mirror it content... such as http://mirrordot.org/

I am sorry I can't explain this in more detail or give proof of my claim but firstly its impossible to prove exactly how PageRank works as Google keeps this info classified. Secondly there is a thunder storm coming soon... so I am going to unplug right after this post.

I'm not making a stab at the quality of the article here, but this seems to be like a little bit of self promotion. I mean, http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr? http://www.when.was.this.in.style.com? And the poster comes from the website.

Please don't mod this up or down, I'm just saying that I find there's something wrong with how this story got on /.

There are some more here as well, as well as some interesting inventions, which include a coffee mug powered stirling invention, plus reviews of many more anti-gravity patents.

the page also has instructions to make your own lifter. so its nothing new.

I firmly believe that I got what I paid for so I wouldn't normally complain here. But this is nothing like my experience. [snip experience with linux release from dawn of time]
Well, here's your change...
Yours is one experience. Mine is another. And I happen to keep track of what goes on, for instance on mandrivausers.org and I see that your story is not quite what current linux experiences are like.

aRTee
http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/

aRTee
www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr

And qemu works without any kernel changes. I just installed 0.7.2 last night, and I was amazed at how it could convert and run my VMWare Workstation *5* raw disk images.

http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/

I'm suggesting that tapping the image and scrawling probably a 3-stroke character (like the "big" character), without dropping the stylus for the mouse or keyboard, is a good UI. If the gesture strokes are going to be a character, why not use characters that are already understood by literally billions of people?

Looks like the page I posted is a little out of date. The real ReClock homepage is at a different URL than the one they list. If you download the software he's got a document inside the Zip file that explains the problem at length -- I'm serious, at length. What's frustrating is that it seems to be a DirectShow problem and nothing else -- I don't think VLC will stutter on the same setup, for example. But VLC doesn't integrate with Media Center 2005.

The EU has vigorously promoted competition in the telecom business, with significant success so far. As for ISPs blocking VoIP calls in France, for instance, fat chance. Most ISPs already offer free local calls with multifunction ADSL modems. I understand the article refers implicitly to call phone carriers; but you have to keep in mind that those currently are under investigation for price fixing. That would be a very stupid way for them to quickly get the anti-monopoly agency and the telecom regulation agency pounding frantically on their asses.

As you say, there are v few ISPs who do ipv6 on DSL, the only one I can think of is A&A in the UK.

In France, only Nerim is currently offering native IPv6 access (with each subscription you get one IPv4 and 2^80 IPv6 addresses).

There's also a petition asking Free.fr to provide IPv6 access (19,000 signatures collected up to now). The petition's website mentions that Wanadoo, arguably France's first ISP, has also been conducting experiments with IPv6 since June 2005.

As you say, there are v few ISPs who do ipv6 on DSL, the only one I can think of is A&A in the UK.

In France, only Nerim is currently offering native IPv6 access (with each subscription you get one IPv4 and 2^80 IPv6 addresses).

There's also a petition asking Free.fr to provide IPv6 access (19,000 signatures collected up to now). The petition's website mentions that Wanadoo, arguably France's first ISP, has also been conducting experiments with IPv6 since June 2005.

Good media players: ZoomPlayer (for DVD playback is not free) or MPC (is, but less pretty). use Dscaler5 and ffdshow and you're set. oh, add something like DVD43 for de-CSS and other bullshit removal. I use this on my HTPC and with some careful setup its the bees knees. Certainly nothing complains about piracy here :D. Glad to be of service.

(Aside: how many vi users out there have spuriously put "www, jjj, bbb, G " in their comments when they used the browser text widgets.)

Never let that happen again, use yzis and konqueror: http://yzis.org.free.fr/shots/khtml-textarea.jpg

it's called Gweled, and available at : http://sebdelestaing.free.fr/gweled/

Have you tried Avidemux?

Linux kernel compiled on boot using TCC, twat

When you said Afroman, This is what i thought you meant:
Afroman

http://eyeos.masquedominios.com/ user:demo pass:demo click on the icon with the waves on it, you got it. Here is the screenshot of it: http://2e2c.free.fr/ajaxbrowser.png I hope that puts an end to the "and how about a web based browser?" slashdot joke.

It *is* an obscure cam. But. See here: http://mxhaard.free.fr/index.html Spca5xx Kernel 2.6.x drivers.

Graphics memory bound.

And yes, I agree about the quality sentiment. Compare that to:
Half-Life 2
Far Cry
Doom 3
Battlefield 2
etc.
Most of those are at least a year old now, too.

They already do that... for as long as I use eMule. eMule downloads a server list and connects to servers hosted by indivuduals, mostly. God, do people moderate at random to get rid of those extra mod points?

In most metropolitan areas of France, two companies have been competing for the "ultrafast" ADSL subscriptions for much of this year already. Free (the company) rolled out ADSL2+ over a year ago after France Telecom deregulated their lines. Their plan includes 29,99 EUR / 20 Mbit/s DOWN by 1Mbit/s UP. Free's runs Linux on the backend, and support Linux with their DSL hardware (built in-house).

I currently suscribe to a second company, Wanadoo (aka France Telecom) due to contractual reasons. The plans offered here are identical with differing hardware and slightly different pricing. Wanadoo is slightly more expensive, but have some included perks such as static-ip and free domain names.

The serious problem with this system is what to do with so much overhead on the download pipe. I absolutely have never used 20Mbit/s down. The closest I can get is roughly half that. There is no service (that I know of) that allows me to stream high throughput video (HDTV 19Mbit/s?) which is the most logical use for such a copious amount of data throughput.

Free has launched their service with complimentary TV over ADSL to combat this, and Wanadoo has built the capability into their hardware, but to my knowledge has not implemented the service. The oppurtunity for On Demand IP.TV, or feature length film distribution through digital means (Ireland's cinema system in the home?) is knocking on our door. Wake up the venture capitalists.

Just my deux centines.

-Robert Emperley
Strasbourg, France

In most metropolitan areas of France, two companies have been competing for the "ultrafast" ADSL subscriptions for much of this year already. Free (the company) rolled out ADSL2+ over a year ago after France Telecom deregulated their lines. Their plan includes 29,99 EUR / 20 Mbit/s DOWN by 1Mbit/s UP. Free's runs Linux on the backend, and support Linux with their DSL hardware (built in-house).

I currently suscribe to a second company, Wanadoo (aka France Telecom) due to contractual reasons. The plans offered here are identical with differing hardware and slightly different pricing. Wanadoo is slightly more expensive, but have some included perks such as static-ip and free domain names.

The serious problem with this system is what to do with so much overhead on the download pipe. I absolutely have never used 20Mbit/s down. The closest I can get is roughly half that. There is no service (that I know of) that allows me to stream high throughput video (HDTV 19Mbit/s?) which is the most logical use for such a copious amount of data throughput.

Free has launched their service with complimentary TV over ADSL to combat this, and Wanadoo has built the capability into their hardware, but to my knowledge has not implemented the service. The oppurtunity for On Demand IP.TV, or feature length film distribution through digital means (Ireland's cinema system in the home?) is knocking on our door. Wake up the venture capitalists.

Just my deux centines.

-Robert Emperley
Strasbourg, France

This is one thing I found last year, apperantly the guy has some military contract to make these things now, which is odd since all the US military is used for is securing petrolium fuel reserves.

http://jnaudin.free.fr/meg/meg.htm

The physics is simple, magnetic force magnitude (Teslas or gauss) is inversly proportional to the distance at which those forces are situated. So instead of pushing a coil of wire thru a magnetic field, you can simply divert the magnetic field thru whatever coil you want using a smaller magnetic field.

Im putting one together right now, I have it all geared up I just need to finish making my damn amplifier to boost the square wave input. Wish me luck, I want to take this to my old physics prof.

people say that this wouldn't be realistic with ADSL services

And yet it works. Free offers more than 60 channels as part of the flat monthly fee (mostly public channels and crappy channels), and offers something like 140 others using various pricing schemes: one or two bucks per month and per channel (the channel sets the price, you can cancel any time, though every month you start is fully due), various packs, and a premium Canalsat offer. I've watched it at a friend's, and the quality is very nice, except you can get occasional temporary freezes or garbage, especially when you do intensive downloads in parallel. Most of the times, it works just as well as regular TV.

They also offer radio channels, and distribute a modified videolan client to help you stream your media (music, videos) from your computer to your TV.

By the way, as a typical Free move, they now show realtime statistics of what people are watching. Ain't that cool? Freebox TV Stats

I don't have a TV, so I don't use that service, but I do use the phone service quite a lot. Your typical IP phone, with some echo at the beginning of a call, slight distorstions sometimes, but free and unlimited calls to all landlines in France, and cheap rates for the rest of the world.

Not everything's perfect though. Their customer service has improved a lot, it used to totally suck, it is now mediocre at best. You pay a fee when you leave (the more you stay, the less you pay). You pay 400 euros if you damage the Freebox (ouch!). That, and several less important annoyances.

But overall, for someone who's on the geek side of things, their offer is a great value that beats everything else currently offered.

(Oops, I forgot to rant about their top-notch and free web hosting, their tech friendlyness, and... oh well.)

point 2. Does not compute. Even after 3 days of reading slashdot the most I've ever gotten firefox* up to is about 90MB with 2 windows and 24 tabs open. Also, on a 'fresh' load of the identical 'saved in tabs' bookmarks firefox uses 12MB less RAM than opera. albeit opera is better at prolonged usage in terms of ram, since it rarely if ever goes past 50MB, while firefox can easily go to 60-90 MB

Bare firefox doesn't cut it, it's stripped to the bone compared to Opera's feature. My fox, the one I want to use and that makes me keep in instead of switching to opera, has something like 40 extensions. These hog a lot of memory, yet are what makes Firefox superior in my opinion. Bare firefox blows, it's still slower than opera and doesn't have a tenth of Opera's features.

point 3 Dubious claims... considering the entire interface of firefox is rendered by the gecko engine using java etc... perhaps on a slow computer, with low ram you could mamage to get 15x faster perfomance out of opera than out of gecko/firefox... but on the typical PC being sold in stores today the margin is going to be quite slim, between the two engines.

XUL is based on Javascript, not firefox, and I don't give a damn about what you think, the reality is that Opera is faster in 95% of the DOM operations, and has much better optimized loops than firefox (proof of that one being that reverse-counting in a for loop yields 50% improvement in looping speed for firefox, and just about nothing for Opera). Try these getElementsByClass emulations if you don't believe me.

i run firefox pretty well from a 'stock' configuration, no plugins, no extentions, just a browser. claiming that firefox 'easily consumes 200MB' is quite misleading, as only a firefox bloated down with dozens of 'feature extending' extenions will consume that much ram. hardly fair to blame the browser for the extentions bloated RAM use.

Yes I can, of course I can, extensions and extensibility are what allow firefox to be above Opera for most users, without extensions Firefox is little more than a standard-compliant IE, the only thing is has being the JS console (which Opera has) and the DOM inspector (which opera, to my knowledge, doesn't have)...

Unlocker is similiar to WhoLockMe, but is better.. check the website for details.

Hrm. Free offers 20 Mbps down/1Mbps up for 30 Euros

If the U.S. had stayed out of WWII, there would never have been a doctrine of containment, nor would there have been a Korean war, a Vietnam war, Bay of Pigs, a Cuban missile crisis, Augusto Pinochet, Osama bin Laden, Grenada, or countless other things. Of course, 75% of Europe would be speaking German and would be mysteriously free of people named Wiesel, and the entire Pacific would be flying the rising sun. Violence stopped that, alright, but it also precipitated much more violence. (Before you or anyone else tries to make the dumbest strawman argument ever, please note that I'm not claiming that we should have stayed out of WWII to prevent all of the crap I listed off.)

And don't even get me started on WWI. WWII came to a pretty clean close, what with reconstruction efforts and all.

The US Navy had three dirigible aircraft carriers, the Macon, the Akron and the Los Angeles, back in the 1930s. The Akron crashed and the Macon sustained heavy damage, so the whole program was scrapped. Link

Yes... not only can you boot from other removable media, but RAM disk too.

There's two flavours at the moment. ISO based readonly RAM Disk and the SDI based ReadWrite version. I find the latter the better, as it you don't need a secondary RAM Disk to get things like WMI working etc. The above images ISO/SDI images can be loaded over TFTP (F12 - PXE Network boot), CD, HD, USB, or any other bootable media, for real speedy XP. Oh, once the RAM disk is loaded you can remove the boot media too. :)

If you're interested, a good place to start is
http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=9 685&st=0 and http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=1 1048&hl=

On a side note there also a SYSLINUX patch http://remile.free.fr/syslinux/, (Needs a bit more work) that will load SDI images. Currently only works with XPe, so not no WinPE Minint functionality, but it's almost there.

Rob

when we got Tom Bearden and his 10:1 producing Motionless Electromagnetic Generator!

With this patent pending peer-proven cheap gadget everyone gets cheap unlimited energy from active vacuum! ;)

Listed somewhat in chrnological order:

Zork - http://www.infocom-if.org/downloads/downloads.html

Empire - http://www.killerbeesoftware.com/

Sundog - http://dmweb.free.fr/FTLGames.htm

Dungeon Master - http://dmweb.free.fr/FTLGames.htm

Deus Ex - http://www.deusex.com/

While I am currently playing with games like Neverwinter Nights and Far Cry, quality games like these, last and last.

Listed somewhat in chrnological order:

Zork - http://www.infocom-if.org/downloads/downloads.html

Empire - http://www.killerbeesoftware.com/

Sundog - http://dmweb.free.fr/FTLGames.htm

Dungeon Master - http://dmweb.free.fr/FTLGames.htm

Deus Ex - http://www.deusex.com/

While I am currently playing with games like Neverwinter Nights and Far Cry, quality games like these, last and last.

Who knows which persecuted people you claim to be. Funny that you think I should know based on some arbitrary number, 900 years. Are you Sudanese? Serbian? What other groups am I leaving out? Lets play 20 questions. Are you still being persecuted?

and it was you rednecks that said 'God created Einstein, not the other way round.' It was the antisemetism inherent in christians that led you to hate him and other thinkerslike him in the western world for revolutionizing our entire outlook on the universe, just like you denied Darwinian Theory (and still do).

I don't know what you're talking about here, who are the rednecks? I'll tell you who hates who today though, the Atheists hate Einstein for being the biggest skeptic of quantum mechanics, because it was their free ride to the primordial goo hypothesis being accepted as fact. I say to hell with the lot of you, you're just two bickering factions in a stupid argument. I can see you've got your bag of facts ot pull from all made up, skeptics are only of value if they're on your side.

Yes, sugar IS bad for you. That is because it has short-chain carbohydrates that are burned off as raw heat in the Krebs Tricarboxylic Acid cycle quickly and ineffieciently and less is converted to chemical energy required for muscles/bodily functions etc.

Oh is that why? See I was told that it was because it raises your insulin levels, and eventually the insulin levels stay higher and you store more fat, while complex carbohydrates are needed to keep insulin at balanced levels. I don't see how you leap from sugar being less efficient to it being unhealthy, even though we've been eating sucrose for thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of years. Oh, you want me to be impressed and just take your word for it, right? That's what others tend to do. See if you were SMART you would already know sugar is bad for you! Throw away all your sugary products! (that's what the headlines would say)

It's not hyperbole, it's a fact.

You know someone told me global warming was a fact the other day. It's fact! If you were smart you would KNOW THAT! Oh, and Jesus walked the earth, you should KNOW THAT TOO!

You're full of shit, if you divide the estimated number (even the outrageously high estimates) of people killed in Iraq since the Iraq war started, it comes nowhere close to the number of days we've been in Iraq * 1000. Oh you're taking a figure from the very first day of the war when we killed thousands of Iraqi army, right? Or the first day of an assault on Fallujah. You use so-called facts like a kid uses a big stick to beat other kids over the head.

So go ahead and be pessimistic about everything. The internet? Just a bunch of stupid fiber optic cables, worthless piles of junk. Space exploration? Just a bunch of stupid old men, they really want to blow up the world behind your back. World peace? An illusion inspired by stupid religious people like Ghandi, crap talk meant to strengthen the evil Muslims who plot to kill everybody. Freedom? Same thing. Hahaha, it's been fun.

• http://users.rcn.com/zap.dnai/
• http://jnaudin.free.fr/meg/meg.htm Looks scientific, doesn't it?
• http://www.earthrainbownetwork.com/Archives2002/Ne wEnergy.htm

the Lugdunum is free, but i think not open source( it is availablle for many architecture, but i cannot find the source) . MLdonkey is not a server but a client (well it calls itself a server, but that is a server for a http interfae)

Sorry, i think wikipedia is wrong for you on that one.

and kad is the distibuted equalivant of the ed2k protocol that is supported by the same client.

Here are some great Enlightenment videos. http://lycos42.free.fr/e17/cvs/videos/

I HOPE SOME GIRL WILL LOVE ME, BECAUSE I'M A HUGE PANSY

The Sega CD attempted realistic graphics, but failed because the result was unattractive and grainy.

Other games that made the Playstation a must-have console for mature gamers were Resident Evil and Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain. Both games were highly violent, but played with a depth that was previously unimagined in the age of side-scrollers.

Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain

Hmm, what does that remind me of? Oh yes, Sword of Vermillion or any of a dozen other RPGs from the age of sidescrollers:

Sword of Vermillion

Perhaps he's referring to the cheesy cut scenes?

But the Playstation made heavy use of polygons and its 3D capabilities, resulting in fighting, racing, and sports games that moved realistically and appealed to its new audience. A decrease in bubbly, colorful sprite graphics also meant the decline of what was once the lifeblood of a system: the videogame mascot.

Battle Arena Toshinden

Yes that was so much better and more mature than say, Eternal Champions or Street Fighter II.

I'm going to ignore his comments that cute, furry mascot characters are better when given a gritty edge and guns. (I exempt Conker, but because Conker was supposed to be a joke against the hypercute furry animal games. If they are all like that, then it isn't a joke anymore... or maybe it is, but a joke on the industry.)

Oh, but I remember why I didn't get the 3D version of Earthworm Jim the sadly departed Conker of the 16 Bit era. It was because they tried to change it into a "3D" game and the result sucked!

Here's a few "Good" open source games. There are quite a few others out there. Sure, there may not be UberLeetHardcoreGamerOrgyOfTheMonth, but there are high quality ones out there if you look, plus Opensource ports of many classic games (not listed)

Planet Penguin Racing- http://projects.planetpenguin.de/
FlightGear- http://www.flightgear.org/
Armagetron - http://armagetron.sourceforge.net/
Vega Strike (see also the WC Privateer remake)- http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/
Frozen Bubble-
      http://www.frozen-bubble.org/
      Live java version- http://glenn.sanson.free.fr/fb/play.html

Quake 3 - http://liberatedgames.org/game.php?game_id=90
Scorched3D - http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/
ChromiumBSU - http://www.reptilelabour.com/software/chromium/

This is just what I could think of in a few minutes- There is a really great 3d Nascar style game on the Suse 9.2 DVD, but I can't remember it's name while I'm at work.

postfix is clearly written and well commented ANSI C, one of the better examples around.

milter-greylist is also reasonably clearly written ANSI C.

gnu wget is written in ANSI C and seems reasonably well commented and clearly written.