Sorry I couldn't be more helpful, but the StarTAC can't do GSM, has no IR, etc... it's not really built to be organized all that well.
However, there *is* the Clip-On Organizer that connects to the data port. And to make things even more interesting, it's a REX in a modified case. So, if you can interface to that, you're set, since the REX can autodial for the StarTAC.
The only problem, then? The REX is one of the weaker organizers I've ever seen. The only thing it really has going for it is the size. It's the tiniest PDA I've ever seen.
More along the lines of my taking a few shots at the game. From having seen moderation in action, I was more or less sure that I'd get marked as flamebait for going against the norm and criticizing this wonderful new game that got mentioned on/.
OK, OK, so I know I'm setting myself to lose some karma, get marked as a troll, etc...
But seriously, It's not Quake. It's not even DOOM. It's Wolf3d. Orthogonal 8-foot-thick walls, no height differences... It's the engine used on a 286 back in the day. Granted, it could be countless fun, but even that's a problem.
I'm on my second warranty-covered Palm V, and I just had a repeat of my old problem. The app buttons come loose far too easily. Play too much of this, or Reptoids, or any other shooter for the Palm, and your Palm V is almost guaranteed to get a button (or two) loosened up.
And forgive me for sounding a tad jaded, but wasn't this also shown off on the TI-85 calculator as the Daedalus engine? Nearly acceptable framerates there, too, and that's a Z80 at around 6MHz or so, and only 32K of RAM.
Lots of fun to be had, but it's a little overhyped, and well... it's been done. Now, when that OpenGL setup for the Palm can handle a true Quake clone, I'll be all over that. This is just proving that a Palm can do something that it's had the horsepower for since greyscale was first hacked.
Sprint's not totally limited to the 5 boroughs, although there are certain quirks in the service. Certain parts of Queens (especially as you approach Long Island) go out of service on one block, and back in the next. I'll admit that it's a problem, but it's nothing that a dual band phone can't adjust to. I think Sprint realizes this, which is why they've been tossing in 3 free hours of analog service in their contracts recently.
However, even more strange is that on a bus ride from NYC to Boston, I never went out of service at all. I don't know how important that might be to anyone else, but it's nice to know that I'll tend to have flawless service on the road. (Not when I'm driving though, that's a tad braindead.)
Also, as far as I can tell, Sprint's no worse than the other providers available. Omnipoint and AT&T have similar quality problems to Sprint, and Cellular One's service in NYC is less than ideal as well. Don't even ask about Bell Atlantic, 'tis to laugh.:-)
Taking into consideration Rob's mispost just the other day regarding VPC shipping with Red Hat, who's to say that MacOSRumors, a site of questionable accuracy at best. Not to say that it's wrong, but it's a rumor site, with next to no basis in reality on many occasions. For all we know, the only reason this was posted was because someone read the unedited/. post, started thinking about what it meant, and *poof* we now think we have Open Source VGS for Linux.
If this is the case, and it keeps up, you realize what we get next? Mac OS X is running Linux for the backend, not BSD, but the Linux core is actually running under VPC, on OS 9... yeah... that's it... and of course it'll get worse, but I'll be really frightened when that happens. Christopher Kalos
You mean a sit-in? Seemed to work as a fine method of protest with Dr. Martin Luther King, no? Granted, to compare this to equal rights is probably a mark of disrespect to the hard work of African American protesters of the time, but let's look at it another way, then. Yahoo/Geocities is frowned upon by a lot of people, especially because of forced ads on the member sites, namely in Java, which becomes especially annoying on some systems, namely my own. Add this on to the (now past) intellectual property fiasco that Yahoo once had, and you can see that some people may be less than happy with Yahoo. In that light, maybe an "online sit-in" would be in order, to demonstrate to them what netizens will and will not stand for. Granted, I can't see a rational reason to pull that on Yahoo at the moment, but they've had a less than stellar history. Just remember, a DoS attack, when executed for the right reasons (the toywar comes to mind), is the online extension of an older form of protest. Whether this is also along those lines is not for me to judge, mainly because I haven't kept up with yahoo in a while, other than using their email as a spamcatcher. Christopher Kalos
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Technics ROCKED for stuff like that. If you could make an 10 unit (or longer) axle go straight (slightly harder than I originally thought when I did it), it's easy to use the old 4.5V motor to just drive it out at a decent speed. Of course, fast isn't fast enough for me. Set up a small gearbox to go with that, and you'll still have enough torque to get by with nothing more than wheels after that.
The best part? You can make it LOOK like a crossbow, but it'll fire like a submachine gun at the very slowest. At the fastest? I never measured, but drop in loading and nearly instant firing are enough to make *me* happy. Christopher Kalos
Actually, some of those ideas aren't too far off in wearables. It's part of Steve Mann's work. Image recognition, as well as relevancy returns, is already possible, although I think facial recognition isn't at 100% for obvious reasons.
Deja vu/"I told you so" mode is probably only limited by the CPU power and video codec available, as well as disk space. With a large enough drive, you could even resort to just realtime audio compression/encoding, and work on the video while you sleep, giving you full time access.
Diplomacy... I'm sure you could get a few dialogues in there, but that's a tad tricky. I won't go into the dangers of Drive me home mode if it even were possible;-)
Of course, we're missing another aspect of this, and that's the squatters themselves. Lord knows that even/. has this problem, with slashdot.com being used by a company that never mentions the actual term "slashdot" or slashdot.net, which uses an entire domain for little more than one HTML page and an MX record. As a DNS administrator, I've got my own personal problems with cybersquatters ("We need 45 zone files added *today!*"), as all it does is gum up the works, waste time, and flush more money (not mine) down the toilet. I know for a fact that the bulk of them are unused, as well. For that matter, I'm waiting for one group to drop a domain that they've been squatting on for years now, as they're certainly doing nothing with it. These people are like the used car salesmen of the internet (no offense to those good-hearted used car salesmen out there.) in that they're taking something and selling it for far more than it's worth. Not to mention that it's already tainted goods by the time the squatter sells it off.
I doubt I can pull up a decent example of a true squatter, as most of the cases I've seen that aren't on my own personal crusade are small companies that are fighting off a lawsuit to preserve their own business, which of course, has the misfortune of sharing their name with some huge corporation with money to burn. (Yes that was a run on sentence. I'll fix it when I'm paid to write comments here.)
Suffice it to say, when you go to www.widgetco.com, and it doesn't exist, but the domain is registered, you probably won't head back there again looking for WidgetCo. When WidgetCo finally buys back that domain (for a lot more than $70, I might add), it's already too late, as no one really plans on heading to that URL, and most of us will have bookmarked www.thewidgetcompany.com or something like that.
That level of cybersquatting sickens me, and if the overall DNS system were better established for a less-than-ideal society, this would be much less of a problem. Unfortunately, NSI's attitude of taking the money, and asking questions later, if at all, has probably aided in the deconstruction of the useful WWW. Personally, I'm all for the tm subdomain for country codes as a result. Too bad it probably won't take here in the US, where every company needs "Global Market Penetration" as well as a few hundred other buzzwords that are little more than pathetic excuses to shave off two characters from a domain.
Dude, calm down! If you read the rest of the message and interpreted it as I did, you'd see it like this:
"I hope, for your sake, that your insurance policy is 'Replacement Value' and not 'Actual Cash Value'"
He not only mentioned something potentially useful to Jeff, but also news to me. No need to rip him a new one if you're misinterpreting what was meant.
Or maybe I'm going overboard here, as well. Who knows...
I'll admit, I like ideas 2 and 3. They make sense, especially 3. We've seen our share of stupid lawyers and clients (The Poke-lawsuit comes to mind...) here on slashdot.
Number 1 on the other hand... Quepasa is being sued, not the other way around. Which of course makes me wonder why the small company is taking on something that it can't afford to stay in for very long. If you're going to make a company suffer in litigation, isn't the trick to have more money to burn than your opponent?
And of course, last but not least, Quepasa.com seems to have a much broader scope and different focus than WhatsHappenin.com. What premise actually exists in this suit is far beyond me.
Ah well, it could be worse. They could be going after whatsup.com, whatsnew.com, or even worse, suing the creators of "What's Happenin'?" for stealing the name back when the WWW didn't even exist.
They'll learn, and if not, they'll at least lose money from it all.
If that's your attitude about IBM, then you don't know IBM that well, or never bothered to pay attention. Their problem is that they can't think properly for the PC mindset. PS/2's were (are) great machines. They still run, to this day. Microchannel Architecture might be annoyingly expensive to deal with, but without it, where would we be? Still setting jumpers? No thanks. What about the fact that you can strip a PS/2 down to nothing in about two minutes? Well, I can. I collected those suckers for that reason. Simple to deal with. IBM's always been on the cutting edge for anything PC related, but I'll be damned if they know what to do with that once it's out. Same thing happened to OS/2. People loved it, it was vastly superior, and IBM couldn't figure out how to make that work. Instead of realizing that the PC market is in for something cheap and lowering the prices (don't even TRY buying a microchannel sound card), they kept high prices on excellent products, killing it off. Since it wasn't selling, they started losing interest. Yet again, IBM loses because of an interest in profit margins higher than the national debt.
It's a shame when engineers design great stuff to be sold by senseless execs. Christopher Kalos
I don't know about that, but Netscape under NT has a similar problem relating to certain java applets.
The fix: Task Manager, second tab. You _can_ kill processes in NT much like you can in linux, but it's all GUI-fied.
My gripe: NT doesn't give me problems on a workstation that's shut down when I'm not using it. 95 was a tad flaky in comparison, but never unbearable on a decent system. I just got a laptop with a clean 98 install, and it dies horribly every so often when it's supposed to suspend.
Problem? Yes. Why? Because some games need DirectX better than 3, and NT can't do it yet. 98 can, but it dies horrid flaming deaths far too often to be usable.
Anyway, closer to on topic:
AOL's TOC protocol based clients have been getting a pretty nasty beating from this MS problem, but they still connect. Are we meant to believe that a Tcl/TK app *and* a lisp applet, as well as an outside coded TOC-based client also abuse buffer overflows.
When it comes to flamebait, apparently Microsoft excels. More FUD, fewer facts than anyone else.
Sorry, dude, but this is not a good idea. Heat problems. I had a laptop that had great uptime... upwards of months. All I did was suspend to RAM when not in use. Once I set it up to run constantly, without ever suspending, I got about 2 weeks before is barfed on me. Sound started messing up, and then it just froze. Totally. And this is a very reliable system.
I'd recommend something like a DEC Multia, if you can smack it around, or some other small desktop more capable than a 486/25.
It doesn't matter if it sucked or not. Why? Because, when I was there, I saw the laughable Linux Pavilion, and was impressed that we at least have a presence. To add upon that, Compaq's oft-hated glitzy booths were hiding a few secrets. One, they had a beowulf cluster there, of 1 GHz (or maybe I messed that part up) of Alphas. That's right. Beowulf. As in Linux. Toshiba was also showing off their new servers running Redhat 6.0, and Corel had their Netwinder demos ready to show off. By the way, cool thing: doubled up rackmountable Netwinders. Imagine a cluster of those babies hooked up. Sony's also starting to make sure the VAIO laptops work under Linux. To top that off, even the less significant companies (i.e. those that don't manufacture PC's) are starting to warm up to Linux support for their hardware. PC Expo is meant to show off new technologies to the semi-gearheads. But nowadays, they don't give us the blank stares when we mention Linux. I'd say that's a massive step in the right direction. The Pavilion was more or less Redhat's attempt at recognition, but Linux still had its three days.
Even when my questions get answered, they don't get answered. A while back, I asked "Ask Slashdot" about a similar application, but all I wanted it to do was to read DMTF codes and complete a set of commands based on those codes.
Example: I call up my linux box (which I can't keep dialed in 24-7) It picks up and plays some random audio file, piped into the phone line. "Press 1 to start ppp interface" I press 1. It hangs up. I do the same. I wait a minute, and then ssh into my machine, thanks to the wonders of a dynamic DNS service and a remotely mailed ifconfig dump.
If this is possible, I'd love to know how.
CK
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Microsoft Collective... right... because we Linux users aren't zealots... of course not... Why the Borg would use Linux: 1 - The Collective doesn't crash 2 - It's the ultimate Beowulf cluster 3 - Females use it too, we just tend not to notice them. 4 - You ever see a Borg ship reboot to reconfigure something? 5 - Why would any Linux user go back to Windows?
As for the whole individuality deal, I can come up with a series of pro-Linux arguments in that direction as well. Stop using everything you read as a chance to bash Billy boy and M$. If the product sucks, it eventually dies, and no amount of marketing will help. Instead of whining about Windows, contribute something useful to the Linux community.
I'm almost happy about this, being a redhat user. a redhat 5.1 user... argh... I tried to run an ftp install/upgrade, and it wouldn't work, as always. Why is that? I don't know. So, I'll be waiting for 6.0 and upgrade from there, since there's no way I'm going to buy the 5.2 CD.
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Sorry I couldn't be more helpful, but the StarTAC can't do GSM, has no IR, etc... it's not really built to be organized all that well.
However, there *is* the Clip-On Organizer that connects to the data port. And to make things even more interesting, it's a REX in a modified case. So, if you can interface to that, you're set, since the REX can autodial for the StarTAC.
The only problem, then? The REX is one of the weaker organizers I've ever seen. The only thing it really has going for it is the size. It's the tiniest PDA I've ever seen.
Raptor
Nothing, you idiots! Dr. Dre's dead, he's locked in my basement!
:-)
Ok, now *I'm* violating copyright for quoting Eminem, right? Oops.
Raptor
More along the lines of my taking a few shots at the game. From having seen moderation in action, I was more or less sure that I'd get marked as flamebait for going against the norm and criticizing this wonderful new game that got mentioned on /.
Excuse me for being paranoid.
Raptor
Orthogonal *and* 8 feet thick.
:-(
I'm pulling that almost directly from the old DOOM FAQ. At worst, I forgot a comma. Sorry
Raptor
OK, OK, so I know I'm setting myself to lose some karma, get marked as a troll, etc...
But seriously, It's not Quake. It's not even DOOM. It's Wolf3d. Orthogonal 8-foot-thick walls, no height differences... It's the engine used on a 286 back in the day. Granted, it could be countless fun, but even that's a problem.
I'm on my second warranty-covered Palm V, and I just had a repeat of my old problem. The app buttons come loose far too easily. Play too much of this, or Reptoids, or any other shooter for the Palm, and your Palm V is almost guaranteed to get a button (or two) loosened up.
And forgive me for sounding a tad jaded, but wasn't this also shown off on the TI-85 calculator as the Daedalus engine? Nearly acceptable framerates there, too, and that's a Z80 at around 6MHz or so, and only 32K of RAM.
Lots of fun to be had, but it's a little overhyped, and well... it's been done. Now, when that OpenGL setup for the Palm can handle a true Quake clone, I'll be all over that. This is just proving that a Palm can do something that it's had the horsepower for since greyscale was first hacked.
Just my $0.02. Moderate at will.
Raptor
Sprint's not totally limited to the 5 boroughs, although there are certain quirks in the service. Certain parts of Queens (especially as you approach Long Island) go out of service on one block, and back in the next. I'll admit that it's a problem, but it's nothing that a dual band phone can't adjust to. I think Sprint realizes this, which is why they've been tossing in 3 free hours of analog service in their contracts recently.
:-)
However, even more strange is that on a bus ride from NYC to Boston, I never went out of service at all. I don't know how important that might be to anyone else, but it's nice to know that I'll tend to have flawless service on the road. (Not when I'm driving though, that's a tad braindead.)
Also, as far as I can tell, Sprint's no worse than the other providers available. Omnipoint and AT&T have similar quality problems to Sprint, and Cellular One's service in NYC is less than ideal as well. Don't even ask about Bell Atlantic, 'tis to laugh.
Raptor
Taking into consideration Rob's mispost just the other day regarding VPC shipping with Red Hat, who's to say that MacOSRumors, a site of questionable accuracy at best. Not to say that it's wrong, but it's a rumor site, with next to no basis in reality on many occasions. For all we know, the only reason this was posted was because someone read the unedited /. post, started thinking about what it meant, and *poof* we now think we have Open Source VGS for Linux.
If this is the case, and it keeps up, you realize what we get next? Mac OS X is running Linux for the backend, not BSD, but the Linux core is actually running under VPC, on OS 9... yeah... that's it... and of course it'll get worse, but I'll be really frightened when that happens.
Christopher Kalos
You mean a sit-in? Seemed to work as a fine method of protest with Dr. Martin Luther King, no? Granted, to compare this to equal rights is probably a mark of disrespect to the hard work of African American protesters of the time, but let's look at it another way, then.
Yahoo/Geocities is frowned upon by a lot of people, especially because of forced ads on the member sites, namely in Java, which becomes especially annoying on some systems, namely my own. Add this on to the (now past) intellectual property fiasco that Yahoo once had, and you can see that some people may be less than happy with Yahoo.
In that light, maybe an "online sit-in" would be in order, to demonstrate to them what netizens will and will not stand for. Granted, I can't see a rational reason to pull that on Yahoo at the moment, but they've had a less than stellar history.
Just remember, a DoS attack, when executed for the right reasons (the toywar comes to mind), is the online extension of an older form of protest. Whether this is also along those lines is not for me to judge, mainly because I haven't kept up with yahoo in a while, other than using their email as a spamcatcher.
Christopher Kalos
Technics ROCKED for stuff like that. If you could make an 10 unit (or longer) axle go straight (slightly harder than I originally thought when I did it), it's easy to use the old 4.5V motor to just drive it out at a decent speed.
Of course, fast isn't fast enough for me. Set up a small gearbox to go with that, and you'll still have enough torque to get by with nothing more than wheels after that.
The best part? You can make it LOOK like a crossbow, but it'll fire like a submachine gun at the very slowest. At the fastest? I never measured, but drop in loading and nearly instant firing are enough to make *me* happy.
Christopher Kalos
Actually, some of those ideas aren't too far off in wearables. It's part of Steve Mann's work. Image recognition, as well as relevancy returns, is already possible, although I think facial recognition isn't at 100% for obvious reasons.
;-)
Deja vu/"I told you so" mode is probably only limited by the CPU power and video codec available, as well as disk space. With a large enough drive, you could even resort to just realtime audio compression/encoding, and work on the video while you sleep, giving you full time access.
Diplomacy... I'm sure you could get a few dialogues in there, but that's a tad tricky. I won't go into the dangers of Drive me home mode if it even were possible
Christopher Kalos
Nah... This one's a Beowoof cluster.
I suppose I should prepare to see my Karma sucked away now. (Score: -1, Bad Pun)
Ah well, it was fun while it lasted!
Christopher Kalos
Of course, we're missing another aspect of this, and that's the squatters themselves. Lord knows that even /. has this problem, with slashdot.com being used by a company that never mentions the actual term "slashdot" or slashdot.net, which uses an entire domain for little more than one HTML page and an MX record.
As a DNS administrator, I've got my own personal problems with cybersquatters ("We need 45 zone files added *today!*"), as all it does is gum up the works, waste time, and flush more money (not mine) down the toilet. I know for a fact that the bulk of them are unused, as well.
For that matter, I'm waiting for one group to drop a domain that they've been squatting on for years now, as they're certainly doing nothing with it. These people are like the used car salesmen of the internet (no offense to those good-hearted used car salesmen out there.) in that they're taking something and selling it for far more than it's worth. Not to mention that it's already tainted goods by the time the squatter sells it off.
I doubt I can pull up a decent example of a true squatter, as most of the cases I've seen that aren't on my own personal crusade are small companies that are fighting off a lawsuit to preserve their own business, which of course, has the misfortune of sharing their name with some huge corporation with money to burn. (Yes that was a run on sentence. I'll fix it when I'm paid to write comments here.)
Suffice it to say, when you go to www.widgetco.com, and it doesn't exist, but the domain is registered, you probably won't head back there again looking for WidgetCo. When WidgetCo finally buys back that domain (for a lot more than $70, I might add), it's already too late, as no one really plans on heading to that URL, and most of us will have bookmarked www.thewidgetcompany.com or something like that.
That level of cybersquatting sickens me, and if the overall DNS system were better established for a less-than-ideal society, this would be much less of a problem. Unfortunately, NSI's attitude of taking the money, and asking questions later, if at all, has probably aided in the deconstruction of the useful WWW. Personally, I'm all for the tm subdomain for country codes as a result. Too bad it probably won't take here in the US, where every company needs "Global Market Penetration" as well as a few hundred other buzzwords that are little more than pathetic excuses to shave off two characters from a domain.
Christopher Kalos
Dude, calm down! If you read the rest of the message and interpreted it as I did, you'd see it like this:
"I hope, for your sake, that your insurance policy is 'Replacement Value' and not 'Actual Cash Value'"
He not only mentioned something potentially useful to Jeff, but also news to me. No need to rip him a new one if you're misinterpreting what was meant.
Or maybe I'm going overboard here, as well. Who knows...
Christopher Kalos
It's .co.uk, not .com.uk, guys. The story link is fine, it's just the homepage link that's munged.
Christopher Kalos
Whoa... wait a sec there.
I'll admit, I like ideas 2 and 3. They make sense, especially 3. We've seen our share of stupid lawyers and clients (The Poke-lawsuit comes to mind...) here on slashdot.
Number 1 on the other hand... Quepasa is being sued, not the other way around. Which of course makes me wonder why the small company is taking on something that it can't afford to stay in for very long. If you're going to make a company suffer in litigation, isn't the trick to have more money to burn than your opponent?
And of course, last but not least, Quepasa.com seems to have a much broader scope and different focus than WhatsHappenin.com. What premise actually exists in this suit is far beyond me.
Ah well, it could be worse. They could be going after whatsup.com, whatsnew.com, or even worse, suing the creators of "What's Happenin'?" for stealing the name back when the WWW didn't even exist.
They'll learn, and if not, they'll at least lose money from it all.
Christopher Kalos
I just followed the link and got to an equally interesting, but irrelevant story regarding IBM's bad business moves regarding TCP/IP.
Oh well...
Christopher Kalos
If that's your attitude about IBM, then you don't know IBM that well, or never bothered to pay attention.
Their problem is that they can't think properly for the PC mindset. PS/2's were (are) great machines. They still run, to this day. Microchannel Architecture might be annoyingly expensive to deal with, but without it, where would we be? Still setting jumpers? No thanks.
What about the fact that you can strip a PS/2 down to nothing in about two minutes? Well, I can. I collected those suckers for that reason. Simple to deal with. IBM's always been on the cutting edge for anything PC related, but I'll be damned if they know what to do with that once it's out. Same thing happened to OS/2. People loved it, it was vastly superior, and IBM couldn't figure out how to make that work. Instead of realizing that the PC market is in for something cheap and lowering the prices (don't even TRY buying a microchannel sound card), they kept high prices on excellent products, killing it off. Since it wasn't selling, they started losing interest. Yet again, IBM loses because of an interest in profit margins higher than the national debt.
It's a shame when engineers design great stuff to be sold by senseless execs.
Christopher Kalos
I don't know about that, but Netscape under NT has a similar problem relating to certain java applets.
The fix: Task Manager, second tab. You _can_ kill processes in NT much like you can in linux, but it's all GUI-fied.
My gripe: NT doesn't give me problems on a workstation that's shut down when I'm not using it. 95 was a tad flaky in comparison, but never unbearable on a decent system. I just got a laptop with a clean 98 install, and it dies horribly every so often when it's supposed to suspend.
Problem? Yes. Why? Because some games need DirectX better than 3, and NT can't do it yet. 98 can, but it dies horrid flaming deaths far too often to be usable.
Anyway, closer to on topic:
AOL's TOC protocol based clients have been getting a pretty nasty beating from this MS problem, but they still connect. Are we meant to believe that a Tcl/TK app *and* a lisp applet, as well as an outside coded TOC-based client also abuse buffer overflows.
When it comes to flamebait, apparently Microsoft excels. More FUD, fewer facts than anyone else.
Christopher Kalos
Go to www.winfiles.com, search for MultiDesk. You'll find two versions. See the subject to help :).
In all seriousness, it's decent. 4 desktops by default, -Arrow) combos to swap, and a quick method of moving a window to a new desktop.
It also runs rather easily under NT. Always a plus.
Christopher Kalos
Sorry, dude, but this is not a good idea.
Heat problems. I had a laptop that had great uptime... upwards of months. All I did was suspend to RAM when not in use.
Once I set it up to run constantly, without ever suspending, I got about 2 weeks before is barfed on me. Sound started messing up, and then it just froze. Totally. And this is a very reliable system.
I'd recommend something like a DEC Multia, if you can smack it around, or some other small desktop more capable than a 486/25.
Good luck, however you try it.
Christopher Kalos
It doesn't matter if it sucked or not. Why? Because, when I was there, I saw the laughable Linux Pavilion, and was impressed that we at least have a presence. To add upon that, Compaq's oft-hated glitzy booths were hiding a few secrets.
One, they had a beowulf cluster there, of 1 GHz (or maybe I messed that part up) of Alphas. That's right. Beowulf. As in Linux. Toshiba was also showing off their new servers running Redhat 6.0, and Corel had their Netwinder demos ready to show off. By the way, cool thing: doubled up rackmountable Netwinders. Imagine a cluster of those babies hooked up. Sony's also starting to make sure the VAIO laptops work under Linux. To top that off, even the less significant companies (i.e. those that don't manufacture PC's) are starting to warm up to Linux support for their hardware.
PC Expo is meant to show off new technologies to the semi-gearheads. But nowadays, they don't give us the blank stares when we mention Linux. I'd say that's a massive step in the right direction. The Pavilion was more or less Redhat's attempt at recognition, but Linux still had its three days.
Christopher Kalos
If all this is true, where's my mind-controlled 150-foot tall Mecha complete with small futuristic arsenal capable of leveling Redmond?
That is all.
Christopher Kalos
Even when my questions get answered, they don't get answered. A while back, I asked "Ask Slashdot" about a similar application, but all I wanted it to do was to read DMTF codes and complete a set of commands based on those codes.
Example:
I call up my linux box (which I can't keep dialed in 24-7)
It picks up and plays some random audio file, piped into the phone line.
"Press 1 to start ppp interface"
I press 1.
It hangs up. I do the same.
I wait a minute, and then ssh into my machine, thanks to the wonders of a dynamic DNS service and a remotely mailed ifconfig dump.
If this is possible, I'd love to know how.
CK
Microsoft Collective... right... because we Linux users aren't zealots... of course not...
Why the Borg would use Linux:
1 - The Collective doesn't crash
2 - It's the ultimate Beowulf cluster
3 - Females use it too, we just tend not to notice them.
4 - You ever see a Borg ship reboot to reconfigure something?
5 - Why would any Linux user go back to Windows?
As for the whole individuality deal, I can come up with a series of pro-Linux arguments in that direction as well. Stop using everything you read as a chance to bash Billy boy and M$. If the product sucks, it eventually dies, and no amount of marketing will help.
Instead of whining about Windows, contribute something useful to the Linux community.
I'm almost happy about this, being a redhat user. a redhat 5.1 user... argh... I tried to run an ftp install/upgrade, and it wouldn't work, as always. Why is that? I don't know.
So, I'll be waiting for 6.0 and upgrade from there, since there's no way I'm going to buy the 5.2 CD.