Re:end of pay phones?!?
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Also, for those of us not blessed with wireless internet access, having a payphone with a phone jack has allows me to get my email through my palm pilot - very useful in airports...
And where is a semi-usable UltraSPARC distribution?
I actually have been running RH 6.2 for some
time on this machine - runs like a champ. Often
have to recompile software, but no real problems
to speak of...
[chris@gomez chris]$ cat/proc/cpuinfo
cpu : TI UltraSparc IIi
fpu : UltraSparc IIi integrated FPU
promlib : Version 3 Revision 15
prom : 3.15.2
type : sun4u
ncpus probed : 1
ncpus active : 1
BogoMips : 665.19
MMU Type : Spitfire
Does anyone know if roaming profiles is going
to be implemented for Mozilla? For me that is
the best thing about Netscape - I don't have
to worry about copying bookmarks or setting up
my mail each time I install Netscape (and I
can store all of that info on my own server).
It also comes in handy since I dual boot
on both my laptop and desktop and I can work off
of the same set of bookmarks.
If Mozilla had that feature, I would no doubt
be using it as my full time browser (aside from
the mail client, which while nice, is rather
sluggish).
I agree up to a point; the process of voting should give the powers that be an overview of the will of the voting population. In an ideal situation, every person should go out and vote on his/her conscience. If enough people go out and vote for the candidate that they think represents their interest, then that should get translated into a rough view of where the pulse of the public stands.
However, not voting because you don't like Gore or Bush is no kind of political statement whatsoever. Go out and read the platforms of other candidates. I did that and found a candidate behind whom I am happy to give my support. I am so f*&%!# tired of people telling me that I am wasting my vote if I don't vote for Gore or Bush. If enough people show their dissatisfaction with the paltry offerrings of the 2 major parties that exist (if they indeed feel that way) then a large enough number of votes for a candidate that truly represents their political ideals will make an impact. After all, these people care primarily about getting re-elected, so it is in their best interest to find out what people are thinking. Not voting sends absolutely no message whatsoever.
In Japan, where conformity is the rule rather than the exception, there is a concept of a democracy based on "Giri", or obligation voting, meaning that even though a person agrees with a third party candidate moreso than one of the main parties, they feel obligated to vote for one of the main party candidates. To me, that is somewhat akin to bending over for the major party system and sacrificing your own beliefs for the status quo. Choosing the "lesser of two evils" is to me a much bigger waste of a vote than voting on your conscience. If you don't like what the major parties are giving you, go out and find the candidate you feel best represents your point of view and vote for him/her - that will say more than abstention or compromise ever will.
P.S.
Before people tell me that my argument relies on the action of many people doing something, keep in mind that your vote with respect to who wins/loses doesn't mean a thing (no presidential election has been decided by one vote) the only context in which to talk about these issues is in a macro sense - "if enough people did things this way" as opposed to discussing the impact of one vote in particular.
The screenshots look nice, I must say; one thing I would consider to be very important would be sensible navigation ability using the keyboard (tab key, ctrl-tab, arrow keys, ctrl-[cxv] etc...) between tree listings, directory listings, mp3 player (?) etc.. In linux I use almost exclusively the CLI to do file management, which for the most part works fine and is very powerful. However there are times where having the directory structure laid out in front of you is helpful. One thing I really like about Windows expolrer is that it is very easy to navigate and move files around using the keyboard. If I had to point and click constantly to use Nautilius, then it will just be a wrapper around gecko.
For those with a Nokia phone (and suitable cell service) you can get one of these cables and connect to the internet wirelessly for much cheaper (again, depending on your cell service) than the seemingly ridiculous high prices charged for the VII. Combining this connection and the wealth of great Palm online apps you are all set...
On the subject of WINE ports, I tried out the toppage beta from IBM (which uses its own version of WINE), and I was surprised at how well it actually worked. Pretty responsive, no problems/crashes, not to mention a pretty good program (as far as WYSIWG HTML editors go). All my previous experiences with WINE had been pretty disappointing. As far as I'm concerned, native or not native is not all that important as long as the app WORKS and is not painfully slow to use.
In all seriousness, I think that the more that silly patents like this are discussed, the more the eggheads in DC will get a clue as to what they are actually approving. This, and the McDonnel Douglas y2k patent, etc.. should not become the intellectual property of the filing parties; it just doesn't make sense. By leveraging the collective eyeballs and knowledge of people like/. readers is a good way to debunk these "ideas". If there were a section on/. that addressed this issue and became known to people in the patent office, then maybe that would prevent things like this from happening.
One free alternative would be to write some custom scripts in Perl using the excellent CGI and DBI modules along with modperl for apache. I just cobbled together something for my site in ~2 nights that allows me to display contents of tables, delete entries and edit and update entries. Not too much work and kinda fun. Another alternative would be to buy vmware and run NT on top of Linux so that you could use NT Oracle tools. I have been using VMWare for a few months now, and if your computer is hefty enough (>=P2 233, >=96MB RAM) it runs NT (and all Win32 apps) quite well.
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Also, for those of us not blessed with wireless internet access, having a payphone with a phone jack has allows me to get my email through my palm pilot - very useful in airports...
And where is a semi-usable UltraSPARC distribution?
I actually have been running RH 6.2 for some time on this machine - runs like a champ. Often have to recompile software, but no real problems to speak of...
[chris@gomez chris]$ cat
cpu : TI UltraSparc IIi
fpu : UltraSparc IIi integrated FPU
promlib : Version 3 Revision 15
prom : 3.15.2
type : sun4u
ncpus probed : 1
ncpus active : 1
BogoMips : 665.19
MMU Type : Spitfire
Does anyone know if roaming profiles is going to be implemented for Mozilla? For me that is the best thing about Netscape - I don't have to worry about copying bookmarks or setting up my mail each time I install Netscape (and I can store all of that info on my own server). It also comes in handy since I dual boot on both my laptop and desktop and I can work off of the same set of bookmarks.
If Mozilla had that feature, I would no doubt be using it as my full time browser (aside from the mail client, which while nice, is rather sluggish).
I agree up to a point; the process of voting should give the powers that be an overview of the will of the voting population. In an ideal situation, every person should go out and vote on his/her conscience. If enough people go out and vote for the candidate that they think represents their interest, then that should get translated into a rough view of where the pulse of the public stands.
However, not voting because you don't like Gore or Bush is no kind of political statement whatsoever. Go out and read the platforms of other candidates. I did that and found a candidate behind whom I am happy to give my support. I am so f*&%!# tired of people telling me that I am wasting my vote if I don't vote for Gore or Bush. If enough people show their dissatisfaction with the paltry offerrings of the 2 major parties that exist (if they indeed feel that way) then a large enough number of votes for a candidate that truly represents their political ideals will make an impact. After all, these people care primarily about getting re-elected, so it is in their best interest to find out what people are thinking. Not voting sends absolutely no message whatsoever.
In Japan, where conformity is the rule rather than the exception, there is a concept of a democracy based on "Giri", or obligation voting, meaning that even though a person agrees with a third party candidate moreso than one of the main parties, they feel obligated to vote for one of the main party candidates. To me, that is somewhat akin to bending over for the major party system and sacrificing your own beliefs for the status quo. Choosing the "lesser of two evils" is to me a much bigger waste of a vote than voting on your conscience. If you don't like what the major parties are giving you, go out and find the candidate you feel best represents your point of view and vote for him/her - that will say more than abstention or compromise ever will.
P.S.
Before people tell me that my argument relies on the action of many people doing something, keep in mind that your vote with respect to who wins/loses doesn't mean a thing (no presidential election has been decided by one vote) the only context in which to talk about these issues is in a macro sense - "if enough people did things this way" as opposed to discussing the impact of one vote in particular.
Boy, talk about FUD!
The screenshots look nice, I must say; one thing I would consider to be very important would be sensible navigation ability using the keyboard (tab key, ctrl-tab, arrow keys, ctrl-[cxv] etc...) between tree listings, directory listings, mp3 player (?) etc.. In linux I use almost exclusively the CLI to do file management, which for the most part works fine and is very powerful. However there are times where having the directory structure laid out in front of you is helpful. One thing I really like about Windows expolrer is that it is very easy to navigate and move files around using the keyboard. If I had to point and click constantly to use Nautilius, then it will just be a wrapper around gecko.
For those with a Nokia phone (and suitable cell service) you can get one of these cables and connect to the internet wirelessly for much cheaper (again, depending on your cell service) than the seemingly ridiculous high prices charged for the VII. Combining this connection and the wealth of great Palm online apps you are all set...
On the subject of WINE ports, I tried out the toppage beta from IBM (which uses its own version of WINE), and I was surprised at how well it actually worked. Pretty responsive, no problems/crashes, not to mention a pretty good program (as far as WYSIWG HTML editors go). All my previous experiences with WINE had been pretty disappointing. As far as I'm concerned, native or not native is not all that important as long as the app WORKS and is not painfully slow to use.
In all seriousness, I think that the more that silly patents like this are discussed, the more the eggheads in DC will get a clue as to what they are actually approving. This, and the McDonnel Douglas y2k patent, etc.. should not become the intellectual property of the filing parties; it just doesn't make sense. By leveraging the collective eyeballs and knowledge of people like /. readers is a good way to debunk these "ideas". If there were a section on /. that addressed this issue and became known to people in the patent office, then maybe that would prevent things like this from happening.
One free alternative would be to write some custom scripts in Perl using the excellent CGI and DBI modules along with modperl for apache. I just cobbled together something for my site in ~2 nights that allows me to display contents of tables, delete entries and edit and update entries. Not too much work and kinda fun. Another alternative would be to buy vmware and run NT on top of Linux so that you could use NT Oracle tools. I have been using VMWare for a few months now, and if your computer is hefty enough (>=P2 233, >=96MB RAM) it runs NT (and all Win32 apps) quite well.