My first palm was a 72, which I traded for a LifeDrive, which, after driving me to the brinks of madness, was stolen. Then I have my current palm, a new zire 72. LifeDrive without the suck, without the WiFi and without the big screen, but better anyway:)
I second you, brother, as a compatriot. Under the equator line it's quite hard to get a decent portable computer at a decent price. The best PDAs we have are those (*argh*) microsoft-based ones. Palm's LifeDrive, besides being expensive, totally suck stability-wise. If the guys at hackndev.org make WiFi work with Linux on it, however, I'll buy another LifeDrive in a snap. Zaurus are even harder to find here in Brazil than in U.S., and I believe Sharp is missing an important market by keeping us out of the market. The Nokia 770 looks beautiful, has a nice form factor and runs Linux to boot, but it's pretty underpowered, with too little memory. I wish they put a 4 gig microdrive on it a la LifeDrive, with a reasonable price (if they kept it under R$ 2500 I'd buy it; I believe something about US$ 400.00 in the US, not counting taxes and freight tariffs).
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I usually walk them through gvim, and slowly introduce the keyboard commands. If the person isn't a doorknob, she will learn at least keyboard navigation and basic search and replace in no time. Besides, with syntax highlighting, auto-indenting, multiple (split) views on the same window (which OpenOffice to this day can't do) and other goodies make me want nothing but vim, even when I'm on a Microsoft platform.
Hell, they do it even here in Brazil (pretty much the definition of "third-world country", notwhitstanding government propaganda to the contrary), in one private bank, at least.
Nah, that would be if you said MCSE. XYZZY makes computers show pr0n.
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The only counterexamples that come to my mind are: Enemy Territory. Are there any others?
Enemy Territory is free (beer), but there are other examples. The best of those are Doom 3 (and its expansion, Resurection of Evil) and Quake 4. Bioware did a great job porting Neverwinter Nights for Linux as well but, unfortunately, Neverwinter Nights 2, which is made by another company and AFAIK due to be launched today won't run on Linux. Unreal-based games are also very portable (see UT and America's Army 2.5 and earlier).
You must mean "ports", as we're talking BSD, not Gentoo here. The BSD games moved to the ports collection quite recently (IIRC, from 5.2 to 5.4). Before that, they were part of the base system.
I won't comment on being arrested for questioning the Holocaust, but in the other cases you pointed out (Denmark and Netherlands) the oppression is not caused by the government of those countries, but rather by people from a faith that doesn't believe in individual freedom.
It took them some time to get it right, but eventually IE took over. Now, you'd have a hard time finding a Microsoft product more complex than Minesweeper or calc.exe that doesn't connect to the Net somehow.
Does that mean that I can do a File->Open and type in an URL from MS Office and have a remote document right on my screen?*
*Half trolling, half really wanting to know if I can do this, since I can with KDE for some time now.
Google says 130 m/s is 468 km/h, or 290 mph. Wikipedia says that an average.22 bullet weighing 1.9g have a velocity of about 110 m/s. How much does the turbine weigh?
Before my ZV5200 was stolen, I ran a 64 bit Linux on it, Broadcom radio included, with ndisrwrapper. The whole WiFi shebang was running quite flawlessly. If you're running 64 bit mode, you should get the 64 bit.dll.
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My first palm was a 72, which I traded for a LifeDrive, which, after driving me to the brinks of madness, was stolen. Then I have my current palm, a new zire 72. LifeDrive without the suck, without the WiFi and without the big screen, but better anyway :)
I second you, brother, as a compatriot. Under the equator line it's quite hard to get a decent portable computer at a decent price. The best PDAs we have are those (*argh*) microsoft-based ones. Palm's LifeDrive, besides being expensive, totally suck stability-wise. If the guys at hackndev.org make WiFi work with Linux on it, however, I'll buy another LifeDrive in a snap. Zaurus are even harder to find here in Brazil than in U.S., and I believe Sharp is missing an important market by keeping us out of the market. The Nokia 770 looks beautiful, has a nice form factor and runs Linux to boot, but it's pretty underpowered, with too little memory. I wish they put a 4 gig microdrive on it a la LifeDrive, with a reasonable price (if they kept it under R$ 2500 I'd buy it; I believe something about US$ 400.00 in the US, not counting taxes and freight tariffs).
I usually walk them through gvim, and slowly introduce the keyboard commands. If the person isn't a doorknob, she will learn at least keyboard navigation and basic search and replace in no time. Besides, with syntax highlighting, auto-indenting, multiple (split) views on the same window (which OpenOffice to this day can't do) and other goodies make me want nothing but vim, even when I'm on a Microsoft platform.
Hey, teacher, leave us kids alone!
(yeah, cheap, I know...)
Offtopic, but I'm drunk and I've not posted a comment in a while, so...
Aint WWW::Mechanize a Perl's pearl?
P.S.: drink cachaça!
Hell, they do it even here in Brazil (pretty much the definition of "third-world country", notwhitstanding government propaganda to the contrary), in one private bank, at least.
That would be me, but I ripped it from some AC comment.
Wooosh.
Nah, that would be if you said MCSE. XYZZY makes computers show pr0n.
Enemy Territory is free (beer), but there are other examples. The best of those are Doom 3 (and its expansion, Resurection of Evil) and Quake 4. Bioware did a great job porting Neverwinter Nights for Linux as well but, unfortunately, Neverwinter Nights 2, which is made by another company and AFAIK due to be launched today won't run on Linux. Unreal-based games are also very portable (see UT and America's Army 2.5 and earlier).
You must mean "ports", as we're talking BSD, not Gentoo here. The BSD games moved to the ports collection quite recently (IIRC, from 5.2 to 5.4). Before that, they were part of the base system.
I won't comment on being arrested for questioning the Holocaust, but in the other cases you pointed out (Denmark and Netherlands) the oppression is not caused by the government of those countries, but rather by people from a faith that doesn't believe in individual freedom.
Thus a sig is born!
Well, I've got only two words for this:
Terrorists Win!
Does that mean that I can do a File->Open and type in an URL from MS Office and have a remote document right on my screen?*
*Half trolling, half really wanting to know if I can do this, since I can with KDE for some time now.
I've played Doom 3 and Quake 4 on such a laptop, under Linux (of course, all sliders waay down, but doable). Gotta love nVidia!
I only wish HP offered a little beefier nVidia graphics chip with their laptops; I can't find a decent nVidia solution from them.
Google says 130 m/s is 468 km/h, or 290 mph. Wikipedia says that an average .22 bullet weighing 1.9g have a velocity of about 110 m/s. How much does the turbine weigh?
Whatever! Pray our new Insect Overlords understand the languages of ours, lowly earthlings!
Just in case:
Eu, da minha parte, dou boas-vindas aos nosos novos Senhores Insetos!
On my knees!
"Suck my tiny yellow balls!"
You forgot to put "award-winning" somewhere in your post.
Before my ZV5200 was stolen, I ran a 64 bit Linux on it, Broadcom radio included, with ndisrwrapper. The whole WiFi shebang was running quite flawlessly. If you're running 64 bit mode, you should get the 64 bit .dll.
No, of course not. The rest of them sue old little ladies and small children for ilegally copying/sharing music.
Maia, not Mia. Plural, Maiar.
-- a Tolkien nerd
Heh... I've made the mistake of paying for such a game twice... Need for Speed Underground 2 and Most Wanted. EA really wants to be hated, huh?
Forth mixing with are not you?