Well, here it is... my first try on M15, and so far it is _beautiful_. I love the way Mozilla handles fonts in Linux WAY WAY WAY better than Netscape does.
On a side note, I'm amazed that the FTP server hasn't slown to a crawl already... I got the whole works in just a couple of seconds!
You can get the not-yet-linked-from-toshiba's-site page about this laptop HERE. I only hope that that damn link works, because it has some session ID garbage in it.
Here's what I want to know: Why do they still only include 64mb of ram in their laptops? Anybody who really plans on using this thing is going to bump that to 128mb the moment they get it. Personally, I would much rather have a PII/400 laptop with 128mb than a PIII/500 laptop with only 64mb. The speed differrence would be immense, and the 400mhz one would be the clear winner.
Life in my high school as a "security threat"
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I feel your pain. I don't know of any computer-clued person that got through my high school without being persecuted by the disciplinary people. I remember one incident where I was punished fairly severely for emailing myself a copy of my homework because they had apparrently banned email. Another time I was banned from the lab for two weeks because I "hacked into the network" and printed to a printer in the library that was not out of ink, instead of the default one. I eventually refused to ever use a computer at school, because every time I touched one they found something new to accuse me of doing. Lots of fun.
It never helped me any that there was a continuous rumour that I had a collection of porn on my laptop, either. (I did NOT) The principal eventually demanded to see my laptop, so I let him play with it. Of course, it was running Linux, which he had no fsking idea how to use, he had a heart attack when gmc wouldn't let him see the contents of/root, and I wouldn't give him my root password. My punishment? Bizarrely enough, they told me I was not allowed to park in the school's parking lot anymore.
Yes, high school can be lots of fun when there are computers involved, and the teachers fear them, and they fear the students who know how to use them even more. Lots of fun indeed.
What I find truly amusing, though, are the things that they never had any clue I knew. I knew the network administrator's passwords. I knew how to change my grades. I knew how to view my final exams before I took them. BUT, I never did any of this once I figured it out, because it would have resulted in me getting in lots of trouble probably.
What's even MORE amusing is that now that I have graduated, I regularly get emails from the computer teachers asking me technical questions. "ooh what kind of computer should I buy to go along with the nifty new projector that we got?" "hmm, I forgot my password on the web server, how do I fix it?" And the clincher: "We would like to hire you to teach some of our students how to do all that nifty stuff you did at the end-of-year assembly party last year!" Amazing. They gave me all sorts of trouble when I brought in my own computer because nothing they had could handle an hour of video. They barely let me plug it into the network because "Unix is a security hazard!". And now they want to PAY me to teach them how to do the same crap.
Welcome to the world of technology in public schools.BLEAH.
>Does this mean that we'll be subjected to the rants of the bandwidth police
Well, yeah, probably. But this time they'll be taking a different stance. I mean, distributing the stuff on their website is one thing, but encouraging people to pass the movies around via email is quite another. I envision myself going away for a weekend, deciding to check my email while I'm on a 56k modem, and being forced to download a 26mb DamnVideo(tm) G2 movie at that time. (as opposed to while I'm sitting on the T1, where it wouldn't bother me as much).
The point is, for god's sake, EMAIL was meant for text, dammit! Maybe an attachment here and there, but not mass-mailing full movies a-la chain letter.
This is Really Cool(tm) imho, but I really really hope they let us have them in some format other than QT4/Sorenson/can't-play-it-in-linux or ASF/Microsoft/still-can't-play-it-in-linux. The article doesn't mention anything about what formats they will use, so I can only hope.
Because, my dear friend, that would make it a Pentium III Xeon, and Intel wants to keep selling those too, with their exorbidantly high price tags. Admittedly, the fastest Xeon out thus far is 550mhz, and there are Xeons with 2mb of L2 cache, but I'm sure this is the reason. It would create a conflict in their product line.
Doesn't seem to be a linux version :(
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Well... looking through the link, there doesn't appear to be a linux version of this, but since it's open source someone is bound to try to port it. Forgot to look closely though, is it "open source" or just "source available"? Is there a difference?
So _that_'s what is going on... I installed BeOS PE using a bootdisk, and I marveled at the fact that it had given me an SMP kernel, even though the documentation said that it did not support SMP.
Why couldn't they just support SMP in the HD installation? br
I also have an ArtPad II, and I am unbelievably pleased with the thing. Wacom tablets are pretty much the only ones with any support outside of Windows, and they happen to be the best ones I've ever used. Their Intuos tablets are supposed to be nice, but unless you have some use for the 4d mouse or something (which may or may not be supported in linux, I'm not sure) I'd say you could find a used/new 4x5 or 6x8 ArtPad II for fairly cheap. If you can afford it, I'd recommend going for the 6x8 one, as it gives you a more comfortable drawing area than the 4x5 one.
Of course, the 12x18 tablet is nice too, with a sufficiently large monitor:-)
Because of this wonderful story I just reached into my fridge, pulled out a slice of cold pizza, and devoured it. And it was good. In fact, I'm still eating it. And it's still good.
What this means is that it is now possible to add another layer of slowness beneath your ext2fs partition - namely, fat32. While it will be convenient to use this to try out Linux for the first time, if one is scared of the "always-scary fips/fdisk repartitioning", the problem becomes "damn, Linux is slow! Especially when you do stuff with the disk! My good ol' Windowz 98 is way faster, I'm sticking with it."
In other words, this is the same thing as how you can mount an ISO image as a filesystem.
Now it's time for me to go to yet another CS lecture and have the concept of recursion thrown at me for the umpteenth time...
For that matter, what prevents _anybody_ from doing this? It seems to me that a good 'get-rich-quick' scheme right now would be to get a license to do this, make the DVD library legally, and then sell it - for all sorts of platforms of course - cheap! Of course, it would be much better if a company like Redhat did this and distributed it for free in order to increase acceptance of Linux in general, but I have no idea if that will ever happen.
Hell, why not try putting an x86 motherboard (not PC, not IBM clone, not Compaq clone, not wintel, but x86) in the thing? It might take a little doing, but I bet you could take apart a laptop sans LCD and put it inside there.
Agreed. I highly recommend a tiny Netgear hub for this - the power supply is nice and small, the hub is nice and rugged, and they look cool too.
I use a little Linksys 5 port hub (EW5HUB) for the same kind of thing, and it works well also, although it is not encased in steel like the Netgear ones are.
I'm VERY glad that I'm not the only person disappointed as all hell at this movie. I went to see it with some friends the evening I came home for my break, and while they all seemed to love the movie, I came out with a sour taste in my mouth. What a disappointment it was! For some reason I had gone into the movie with a high degree of enthusiasm, which was quickly squished by an extremely thin plot:
Beginning of the movie: hmm, we're going to mars...BLAM! We're on mars. Oops! We pissed off a sandstorm with our radar! Ok, scratch one mission.
Next mission: the moment they lose radio contact, they send another ship. Nevermind the fact that 6 months after the first ship was launched the launch window to Mars would have long since passed, and a launch would not be feasible for about another 18 months. (Oh yes, here's where we begin to use this "suspension of disbelief" thingie.)
Anyway. Now we're almost to mars. Oops! The ship is pelted by fragments of rock. Also, the ship is conveniently NOT plated with any sort of protective layer thick enough to prevent cosmic pebbles from penetrating the ship, the magic SGI display, and neatly through someone's hand. No matter, we'll patch it up with our Magic Goo(tm). Problem solved. Next!
Now for the spacewalk to the thing that looks like a flimsy communication satellite that somehow is big enough to hold three astronauts AND strong enough to survive entry into the martian atmosphere. Riiiight.
(insert rant about guy living on mars for a year in canvas greenhouse here) (insert rant about not having food or supplies to get home, but yet doing it anyway here)
Oh yes, and that alien... what in the hell were they thinking when they animated that thing? Was it supposed to be a Real Live alien? Or was it supposed to look like a cheap computer animation (which it did an excellent job of)?
Who knows. Hopefully the next two or three movies that I hear are coming out involving Mars will be substantially better!
It does this for me too. I haven't seen anything lock HARD like that in quite a while... only takes 45 seconds or so for it to hang, too! I was slightly disappointed in the performance (relative to my system, not the demo) - I figured it would run nicely on a dual PII/400, but the audio kept breaking up etc, and then it hung. I do realize this is probably more my system than anything... but still... oh well.
According to the website, the ceremony was scheduled for 11:30 AM (central US time) - is it over already? Or is that 11:30 AM _tomorrow_? I can't think clearly enough to figure out what the time shift should be on my own.
It looks like the Sony Vaio PCG-X9 that was the subject of an article earlier in the day fits NASA's bill quite nicely! I understand that Linux works quite nicely on newer Vaio laptops.
It looks like the Sony Vaio PCG-X9 that was the subject of an article earlier in the day fits NASA's bill quite nicely! I understand that Linux works quite nicely on newer Vaio laptops.
There are several "turntables" for less than $200 to be found, but I wouldn't go so far as to call them "decent"... I tried a couple of inexpensive turntables after my old Dual table died on me, and listening to them made me sick!
Repeat after me: Do not buy a belt-drive turntable. Do not buy a belt-drive turntable. Do not buy a belt-drive turntable.
Your ears will thank you, and the player will last MUCH longer.
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I _distinctly_ remember an Ask Slashdot about this exact same little computer about a month ago. And the consensus was, "yep, it's cool."
Well, here it is... my first try on M15, and so far it is _beautiful_. I love the way Mozilla handles fonts in Linux WAY WAY WAY better than Netscape does.
On a side note, I'm amazed that the FTP server hasn't slown to a crawl already... I got the whole works in just a couple of seconds!
You can get the not-yet-linked-from-toshiba's-site page about this laptop HERE. I only hope that that damn link works, because it has some session ID garbage in it.
Here's what I want to know: Why do they still only include 64mb of ram in their laptops? Anybody who really plans on using this thing is going to bump that to 128mb the moment they get it. Personally, I would much rather have a PII/400 laptop with 128mb than a PIII/500 laptop with only 64mb. The speed differrence would be immense, and the 400mhz one would be the clear winner.
I feel your pain. I don't know of any computer-clued person that got through my high school without being persecuted by the disciplinary people. I remember one incident where I was punished fairly severely for emailing myself a copy of my homework because they had apparrently banned email. Another time I was banned from the lab for two weeks because I "hacked into the network" and printed to a printer in the library that was not out of ink, instead of the default one. I eventually refused to ever use a computer at school, because every time I touched one they found something new to accuse me of doing. Lots of fun.
/root, and I wouldn't give him my root password. My punishment? Bizarrely enough, they told me I was not allowed to park in the school's parking lot anymore.
It never helped me any that there was a continuous rumour that I had a collection of porn on my laptop, either. (I did NOT) The principal eventually demanded to see my laptop, so I let him play with it. Of course, it was running Linux, which he had no fsking idea how to use, he had a heart attack when gmc wouldn't let him see the contents of
Yes, high school can be lots of fun when there are computers involved, and the teachers fear them, and they fear the students who know how to use them even more. Lots of fun indeed.
What I find truly amusing, though, are the things that they never had any clue I knew. I knew the network administrator's passwords. I knew how to change my grades. I knew how to view my final exams before I took them. BUT, I never did any of this once I figured it out, because it would have resulted in me getting in lots of trouble probably.
What's even MORE amusing is that now that I have graduated, I regularly get emails from the computer teachers asking me technical questions. "ooh what kind of computer should I buy to go along with the nifty new projector that we got?" "hmm, I forgot my password on the web server, how do I fix it?" And the clincher: "We would like to hire you to teach some of our students how to do all that nifty stuff you did at the end-of-year assembly party last year!" Amazing. They gave me all sorts of trouble when I brought in my own computer because nothing they had could handle an hour of video. They barely let me plug it into the network because "Unix is a security hazard!". And now they want to PAY me to teach them how to do the same crap.
Welcome to the world of technology in public schools.BLEAH.
>Does this mean that we'll be subjected to the rants of the bandwidth police
Well, yeah, probably. But this time they'll be taking a different stance. I mean, distributing the stuff on their website is one thing, but encouraging people to pass the movies around via email is quite another. I envision myself going away for a weekend, deciding to check my email while I'm on a 56k modem, and being forced to download a 26mb DamnVideo(tm) G2 movie at that time. (as opposed to while I'm sitting on the T1, where it wouldn't bother me as much).
The point is, for god's sake, EMAIL was meant for text, dammit! Maybe an attachment here and there, but not mass-mailing full movies a-la chain letter.
This is Really Cool(tm) imho, but I really really hope they let us have them in some format other than QT4/Sorenson/can't-play-it-in-linux or ASF/Microsoft/still-can't-play-it-in-linux. The article doesn't mention anything about what formats they will use, so I can only hope.
Because, my dear friend, that would make it a Pentium III Xeon, and Intel wants to keep selling those too, with their exorbidantly high price tags. Admittedly, the fastest Xeon out thus far is 550mhz, and there are Xeons with 2mb of L2 cache, but I'm sure this is the reason. It would create a conflict in their product line.
Well... looking through the link, there doesn't appear to be a linux version of this, but since it's open source someone is bound to try to port it. Forgot to look closely though, is it "open source" or just "source available"? Is there a difference?
So _that_'s what is going on... I installed BeOS PE using a bootdisk, and I marveled at the fact that it had given me an SMP kernel, even though the documentation said that it did not support SMP.
Why couldn't they just support SMP in the HD installation?
br
I also have an ArtPad II, and I am unbelievably pleased with the thing. Wacom tablets are pretty much the only ones with any support outside of Windows, and they happen to be the best ones I've ever used. Their Intuos tablets are supposed to be nice, but unless you have some use for the 4d mouse or something (which may or may not be supported in linux, I'm not sure) I'd say you could find a used/new 4x5 or 6x8 ArtPad II for fairly cheap. If you can afford it, I'd recommend going for the 6x8 one, as it gives you a more comfortable drawing area than the 4x5 one.
:-)
Of course, the 12x18 tablet is nice too, with a sufficiently large monitor
Because of this wonderful story I just reached into my fridge, pulled out a slice of cold pizza, and devoured it. And it was good. In fact, I'm still eating it. And it's still good.
Thank you. My life is now complete.
What this means is that it is now possible to add another layer of slowness beneath your ext2fs partition - namely, fat32. While it will be convenient to use this to try out Linux for the first time, if one is scared of the "always-scary fips/fdisk repartitioning", the problem becomes "damn, Linux is slow! Especially when you do stuff with the disk! My good ol' Windowz 98 is way faster, I'm sticking with it."
In other words, this is the same thing as how you can mount an ISO image as a filesystem.
Now it's time for me to go to yet another CS lecture and have the concept of recursion thrown at me for the umpteenth time...
As mentioned in a previous thread, there are big problems with it on Sparc, as well as the lack of a good configuration tool (I believe).
For that matter, what prevents _anybody_ from doing this? It seems to me that a good 'get-rich-quick' scheme right now would be to get a license to do this, make the DVD library legally, and then sell it - for all sorts of platforms of course - cheap! Of course, it would be much better if a company like Redhat did this and distributed it for free in order to increase acceptance of Linux in general, but I have no idea if that will ever happen.
Hell, why not try putting an x86 motherboard (not PC, not IBM clone, not Compaq clone, not wintel, but x86) in the thing? It might take a little doing, but I bet you could take apart a laptop sans LCD and put it inside there.
Agreed. I highly recommend a tiny Netgear hub for this - the power supply is nice and small, the hub is nice and rugged, and they look cool too.
I use a little Linksys 5 port hub (EW5HUB) for the same kind of thing, and it works well also, although it is not encased in steel like the Netgear ones are.
I'm VERY glad that I'm not the only person disappointed as all hell at this movie. I went to see it with some friends the evening I came home for my break, and while they all seemed to love the movie, I came out with a sour taste in my mouth. What a disappointment it was! For some reason I had gone into the movie with a high degree of enthusiasm, which was quickly squished by an extremely thin plot:
Beginning of the movie: hmm, we're going to mars...BLAM! We're on mars. Oops! We pissed off a sandstorm with our radar! Ok, scratch one mission.
Next mission: the moment they lose radio contact, they send another ship. Nevermind the fact that 6 months after the first ship was launched the launch window to Mars would have long since passed, and a launch would not be feasible for about another 18 months. (Oh yes, here's where we begin to use this "suspension of disbelief" thingie.)
Anyway. Now we're almost to mars. Oops! The ship is pelted by fragments of rock. Also, the ship is conveniently NOT plated with any sort of protective layer thick enough to prevent cosmic pebbles from penetrating the ship, the magic SGI display, and neatly through someone's hand. No matter, we'll patch it up with our Magic Goo(tm). Problem solved. Next!
Now for the spacewalk to the thing that looks like a flimsy communication satellite that somehow is big enough to hold three astronauts AND strong enough to survive entry into the martian atmosphere. Riiiight.
(insert rant about guy living on mars for a year in canvas greenhouse here)
(insert rant about not having food or supplies to get home, but yet doing it anyway here)
Oh yes, and that alien... what in the hell were they thinking when they animated that thing? Was it supposed to be a Real Live alien? Or was it supposed to look like a cheap computer animation (which it did an excellent job of)?
Who knows. Hopefully the next two or three movies that I hear are coming out involving Mars will be substantially better!
It does this for me too. I haven't seen anything lock HARD like that in quite a while... only takes 45 seconds or so for it to hang, too! I was slightly disappointed in the performance (relative to my system, not the demo) - I figured it would run nicely on a dual PII/400, but the audio kept breaking up etc, and then it hung. I do realize this is probably more my system than anything... but still... oh well.
According to the website, the ceremony was scheduled for 11:30 AM (central US time) - is it over already? Or is that 11:30 AM _tomorrow_? I can't think clearly enough to figure out what the time shift should be on my own.
According to this page it probably will allow you to run MacOS on CHRP platforms (but NOT smp systems if I read it correctly)
Shit!!! I managed to post to the wrong story somehow!!! Forgive me all, please!
It looks like the Sony Vaio PCG-X9 that was the subject of an article earlier in the day fits NASA's bill quite nicely! I understand that Linux works quite nicely on newer Vaio laptops.
Go NASA! Go Linux!
It looks like the Sony Vaio PCG-X9 that was the subject of an article earlier in the day fits NASA's bill quite nicely! I understand that Linux works quite nicely on newer Vaio laptops.
Go NASA! Go Linux!
There are several "turntables" for less than $200 to be found, but I wouldn't go so far as to call them "decent"... I tried a couple of inexpensive turntables after my old Dual table died on me, and listening to them made me sick!
Repeat after me: Do not buy a belt-drive turntable. Do not buy a belt-drive turntable. Do not buy a belt-drive turntable.
Your ears will thank you, and the player will last MUCH longer.
A little bird told me that Sony owns Aiwa, but I am not sure.