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  1. I've only got one more point on my list unsolved by Qbertino · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Qualcomm Demos Eee PC Running Android OS

    As far as modern day handheld computers go, I have to say that the Asus EEE induced second coming of the Netbook and its liklings has had extremley positive side effects on the market in the last two years.

    Portability? Check.
    Openess and flexibility of plattform? Check.
    Price? Check.
    Versatility? Check.

    However, there is just one more thing I want before I can say they are on par with the mid-nineties PC handhelds that where available back then and could easyly keep up with their big desktop brothers in terms of getting the job done: Battery Uptime and/or easy replacement of battery.

    Let me explain: The HP 200LX, Sharp PC 3000, 3100 and its non-name rebrands ran on AA cells. And while the off-grid uptime was a meager 3,5 hours at max, you could easyly replace them with rechargeables or - in an emergency - with fresh AA cells from the next gas station or convenience store.
    I want that kind of battery time or convenience from todays handhelds aswell. If convenience is not an option, I want the same uptime I could get from my old Palm m105 with folding keyboard attached or from the original Psion Netbook: 40 hours. ... On the Palm that uptime came from 3 or 4 AAA cells btw - but that's another story.

    Substancially increased battery uptime without outlandish pricing - then handhelds are back in the game for me. It would be about time.

    My 2 cents.

  2. OK, someone needs to say it... by JimDaGeek · · Score: -1, Troll · on KDE 4.0 Beta 1 Released

    I have used Linux for many years. I have tried out KDE from the very early versions of KDE/QT. However, the only thing that has always sent me back to Gnome in a day or two has been how farking ugly/blocky the QT widgets and toolkit, etc can be!
    Seriously, I never understood how people could like KDE/QT. It has always just been too farking blocky for me. Gnome is so much smoother as far as the GUI drawing goes. Look at some of the screenshots I posted. The corners that are supposed to be "rounded" don't even come close. Oh, and why do the fonts in KDE look like blocky crap, however look so much smoother in Gnome on the same system with the same fonts? Seriously, I log into KDE on a system and look at the fonts and they look like blocky crap. Log out, log in to Gnome and I have very nice AA fonts. Yes, I set up KDE to do AA fonts, etc. I have been using Linux since the early days when Linux GUI was _really_ butt ugly, so I know what I am doing.

    Any way, I really am not trolling here, I am just wondering why QT has never hired one graphics designer that could smooth things out so everything is not such a blocking mess. I would love to use QT since it works on Linux, Max and MS Windows. However, on Mac and Linux it looks like total crap. Anyway, I went to OS X since I didn't want to look at an ugly GUI desktop at home. At work I don't have a choice, but at home I do, so I replaced two laptops and two desktops with Intel-Based Macs and have been a happy camper. I _really_ wanted to just find a Linux that looked halfway-decent (Gnome for me) ___and___ supported the hardware I needed.

    Oh, by the way, I think Gnome since 2.x as looked pretty nice. Nice rounded corners, softness, etc. I Just never understood why KDE/QT always felt like this big blocky GUI to me. Oh well, "To Each His Own".

  3. Re:VPN = !VNC by tonsofpcs · · Score: 1 · on Laptops, Headless Servers and KVMs?

    You could use x2x or x2vnc or Win2vnc or Synergy or similar -- basically just vnc without the display (you already have a display on the laptop, right? why not just use that display and the other display and use the seperate key/mouse.

    Synergy
    'My Win2VNC' -- a customized version of Win2VNC

  4. Re:Movies while working are newsworthy & produ by JamesTRexx · · Score: 1 · on A Dual Monitor Experiment

    Same here.
    Ever since I've tried Goscreen I've been looking for a similar alternative and found it in Virtual Dimension. When I sit behind someone else's pc or laptop, I get kinda frustrated at not being able to switch desktops. But because I also want to be able to work on one screen and have another open for reference/status/whatever, I started the trend at work to use a second workstation. Soon after that I started using tightvnc with win2vnc (the improved version).
    Thanks to the link to synergy provided by gl4ss I'm going to hook up my third workstation running FreeBSD as well (had a bit too much trouble with using vnc for X).
    I'm going to get sooo spoiled. *grin*

  5. There _are_ SVG implementations for phones. by Trejkaz · · Score: 1 · on Macromedia: More FUD About SVG

    Again, wrong. SVG documents are considerably larger than equivalent SWF files - the SWF file format is designed to be extremely small and is now compressed (and yes I know SVGZ exists, but it STILL doesn't beat SWF).

    There is a lot of hot air coming from the Flash camps about this, but I never see anyone bring up a real third-party assessment of the two file formats.

    I had a dig around Google to pretty much no avail, the only thing I found way this little article which had SVGZ showing smaller files than SWF. But trusting one article obviously isn't enough because different types of picture might have different sizes, so it would be good to see some real, major, and most importantly independent studies on this, comparing the file size for the same image, for several different types of image.

    Just how many standard SVG viewers are there on all major operating systems

    Do you need more than one per operating system? Why?

    In any case, there are at least two SVG renderers I know of on Linux, and that's just counting those generated from the GNOME and KDE child projects.

    As for mobile phones, there was at least one phone released last year with support for SVG out of the box, and these guys have an SVG viewer that runs on J2ME so you can run it on any J2ME-enabled phone.

    So I would reflect your question straight back at you, with the two reversed. Just how many Flash viewers are there on all mobile devices? I would say the answer might be "one", which seems pretty pathetic now, doesn't it? :-)

  6. My Windows List by dargaud · · Score: 1 · on First Ten Programs on New Install?
    User interface, Windows system, Internals...
    • Aida32, hardware display and diagnotics
    • CoolTaskBar to sort out the mess (particularly in Windows 2000)
    • FreshUI, tweaking utility
    • TweakUI, same as FreshUi, but different options, these two combined give you a lot of different options.
    • PowerToys, tweaking utilities. In particular the [Send file name to clipboard] and other options which I cannot work on Windows without.
    • Get everything from SysInternals, a ton of wonderful stuff here, too much to mention, but will let you track every file access, every registry write, every debugging message. Tons of great command line tools too. For instance, ever wanted to delete a file only to get a "There has been a sharing violation. The source or destination file may be in use" message ? Where Windows doesn't even know for sure if the file is in use or not. Get Process Explorer from SysInternals.com and type the file name in its [Find][Find Handle] menu. Close or kill the appropriate process if necessary.
    • Desktop Manager or FlashDesktops, gives you 4 desktops just like on Linux.
    • Alt-Tab Replacement, Gives a screenshot of window Alt-Tabbing, useful when you have multiple unsaved docs open, etc...
    • OpenCommandWindowHere, right-click on folder option to open command prompt window at that folder, useful for deep or complicated folder names
    • Memstat XP, lets you monitor memory usage in tray, small and simple but not that useful.
    • NetMeter, lets you monitor network usage in the tray, small and simple but does not seem to work on all types of network interfaces. Online Eye Pro works better and has lots more options, it's based on WinPCap just like Ethereal (see below).
    • TrayMeter, lets you monitor cpu usage in the tray, small and simple.
    • WinRAR, unzip anything you want, supports tar.gz, zip, rar, arc, and much more.

    Network Utilities

    • Xmanager, excellent X-windows manager.
    • FreshDownload, Download Manager
    • ssh, scp, wget, rsync... comes on CYGWIN
    • Putty (and friends), ssh client and other utils (but ssh is part of cygwin and works just as well)
    • WinSCP, a wonderful SCP/SFTP client for windows (scp is part of Cygwin but this is easier to use)
    • NetScanTools a GUI interface for most command line tools also found in cygwin
    • WebDrive, mount various types of network protocols (ftp, http, ssh) as local drives, buggy but useful (RiverFront)
    • POPfile the best spam remover I've found so far (works with outlook express and any app)
  7. Re:Recommendations.... (better format) by metacosm · · Score: 4, Insightful · on Moving from Linux to Windows Desktop?
    You will see cygwin (which others will recommend) totally left out of the recommendations. That is because I find it slow and oversized and I am not a huge fan of it.