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You get the Useless Use of Cat Award

http://www.smallo.ruhr.de/awar...

cat is for conCATenating multiple files.

grep bob phonelist | dial

(grep, cat, and vi, I'm talking to you.)

grep = global regular expression print/parser, altho the name comes from ed's g/re/p

The name vi comes from the shortest unambiguous abbreviation for the command visual in ex. The command in question switches the line editor ex to visual mode.

and as for cat, it stands for concatenate. which is what cat does. read up on http://www.ruhr.de/home/smallo/award.html if you think cat is for printing :)

I'm using a K750i, and I am quite satisfies with it. I like the fact that I can transfer .jar files without trouble from my Linux box, and I like the fact the themes as well as remote control definition files are mainly tar archives with XML, PNG, JPG or SVG files in it. SE phones really go well with linux, with a Nokia phone, I would not be able to installe J2ME applications on it, since it requires a special software. I am also quite content with the user interface, and the fact that I can control it from the computer with AT commands, which is very handy if you want to use the phone as a media player remote control. OK, so you actually want to phone anyone with it and not just play around? Hm, well, that works for me as well :-)

I'm using a K750i, and I am quite satisfies with it. I like the fact that I can transfer .jar files without trouble from my Linux box, and I like the fact the themes as well as remote control definition files are mainly tar archives with XML, PNG, JPG or SVG files in it. SE phones really go well with linux, with a Nokia phone, I would not be able to installe J2ME applications on it, since it requires a special software. I am also quite content with the user interface, and the fact that I can control it from the computer with AT commands, which is very handy if you want to use the phone as a media player remote control. OK, so you actually want to phone anyone with it and not just play around? Hm, well, that works for me as well :-)

This procedure was described some months ago here, but without obnoxious "i spread my article over infinite pages in order to get more clicks" practice. I have been undervolting my Dothan a long time, using this little patch and some modifications to vidc. This keeps the fan off most of the time, saves some battery life and has no other impact whatsoever.

This could be a nice platform to experiment with, considering the many ways to get connectivity. I got myself a K750i a few weeks ago, and I was quite impressed by the grade of documentation SE offers; They also seem to like open data formats, since both the theme files as well as remote control definitions (you can use the phone as a bluetooth HID, very handy with media player software) use tar archives with packaged PNG/JPG/GIF and XML files, which is a very nice aspect if you use linux and can't use the windows software. You can also do some nifty stuff with the serial AT command interface, which seems to be designed for extension hardware - I'd like to try some things with a microcontroller if I find the time for it. I documented some aspects here.

Yes, I've seen this competition at our local Walmart (scroll down)

You'd do well to check out Comp.graphics.rendering.raytracing Look in the FAQ for more info on cheep or free tools.

The compettion between KDE and GNOME seemed to have it's good points. One of the jabs that GNOME supporters had against KDE was the license that the Qt widget set was under. As a side effect, the entire implimentation of the widget set was questions and a project to make a *thread-safe* widget set under FSF licensing was created call Harmony. Since then, Troll Tech has addressed the Qt widget licensing issue. Unfortantly, Harmony seems to have died with the birth of FreeQt. Does anyone know if either of these desktops will be structured around a thread-safe API? Also, does anyone know if someone else has picked up development of the Harmony project? Harmony's own offical "updated daily" status web page has layed dormate since Novemember of last year. The Harmony mailing list appears to have also trickled down to the point of complette death around April.