having two computers on your desk and doing work on both helps
Awsome!... now I can get that second computer I have wanted at work and instead of claiming some work related performance increase if I get another one, it will be in aid to prevent me from getting e-thrombosis!
side note: I thought we got of this freaking 'e' prefix naming convention (except apple who seemed to choose 'i')... i gather researches like this (one case of something that is known as regular fucking DVT just not at 40,000 feet) are slow to catch on though ~sigh~
side OT note (2): Add to that a apple reducing the price of their 23" HD displays, and I might just swing a second (or at least working) display... oh I heard the 'retrench' word muttered... my PIII and horribly defective DELL (about to go all fuzzy again) monitor will have to do I suppose:)
Not at all. In terms of battery life my Powerbook is awsome. I watched Traffic on it without the powercord plugged in and that is a 2:30 hour film. When I finished watching the credits (hey this was 4am in the morning and I was half dazed @ the time) I quit the player and noticed I still had 39 mins of battery life left. God knows my SONY VAIO was lucky to last 39 minutes if it was booted from battery like I did from the powerbook:)
In short I used about 30 of those minutes to do some coding in the early hours and then put it to sleep to get that nice pulsating white light illuminating the room, very cool:)
Just on another note, I bought the top end one without the Superdrive. I didn't see a need for me doing any burning of DVD's and saved $400 AUD on the purchase. Keep this in mind if you are thinking of getting one.
the free software world is severely lacking in UML diagramming tools
Look harder... please:)
Poseidon for UML from Gentleware is quite a good UML diagramming package that has a 'Community Edition' available. It is written in JAVA and does require quite a good machine although the only ones I have worked with it on are...
Windows NT 4.0; 850 Mhz PIII w/ 256Mb RAM
Windows XP; 1.2 Ghz Athlon w/ 512Mb RAM
OSX 10.2; 1 Ghz G4 w/ 512 Mb RAM
The load up time is a little excessive, however it is fast enough when working. This is probably the best "free" UML tool available IMHO. I really wish that it was available a few years ago when all I had was Rational ROSE(R) and only a demo available then. In the end I went of and used VISIO with UML palettes that just had to do (and did its job quite ok) as the company wasn't going to fork out $$$ on Rational.
What about the Commodore 64? And when whas this? 1992? Sheez.
Hey what about the Commodore 128?... now that would be twice as fast right;)
Looks like AMD and Intel have a long way to go if it has taken them this long to get to where the Commodore was so many years ago;)
Unfortunately, I find myself occasionally having to revert back to IE to view a site because some DHTML-this or ActiveX-that doesn't work properly (sure, we can blame the web-site developer, but the average guy will happily blame his browser first).
This argument about blamming a web-developer for using Microsoft products is bland at best. The web developer has made what they would believe to be a smart decision given the possibility of...
They are targeting a large user base (people using IE).
They are comfortable and find that development using Microsoft tools is easier and more economical for what they are doing.
If you want Mozilla to take off and support all those web-pages that you love to view but can only do so in IE, then go hack away and get it to read the flaky HTML etc. that IE can read... all the bitching, hot air and passing the blame to everyone else isn't going to change a single thing. In reality there is no one to blame... it is just a bunch of stuff that happened:)
What's a worse situation? A bug that goes completely unnoticed by the general population, but is quietly exploited for months by hackers that have done their homework....or...maybe a few more script kiddies find out about it but now Joe Public is WELL aware of it, due in no small part to the discussions that happen on boards like this.
Riiighhhhtttttt... so "Joe Public" is reading/. and Wired now is he(/she)?:)
The most annoying one I have found is when you are typing away madly at the keyboard, and this window pops up saying "xxx yyy operation failed", or "zzz download complete".
This has been one thing that IE on Windows has shafted me many times with. The following is very common in order to happen (a download manager like the MACOS and OSX versions would help me things):
Start to download an X MB file in IE.
Switch to a source file or document I am working on and start typing away.
The download finishes and IE brings the save dialog up with an overlaying one copying the file from the cache to where I wanted it saved.
My typing causes the by default copy dialog to hit a 'Cancel' button which is active by default.
I bitch and curse and start-up GetRight and start again:)
Profit!(just in-case this discussion doesn't get one of those somewhere along the line)
I don't even want to remember the amount of files on a dial-up connection I have lost with this (because I don't want loads of 3rd Party Applications like GetRight running in my system tray for any length of time) but my sanity has not been helped by the occurances:)
Here the author obviously hasn't used a PocketPC. With the PPC its very very easy not to close applications. What happens? The system slows down to a crawl as it tried to run 5 or 6 different applications.
When I got my iPaq 3850 this was the most annoying thing I found with it. If I hit something that looks similar to an 'X' button in Windows I expect the application to close. Off course it doesn't, it stays in the back-ground and not long after having a few applications open the system would crawl forcing me to go to the iTask Manager and close applications (usually all to save time) so that I could have my responsive system again.
Thankfully there was a ROM update for the iPaq which has reduced this greatly. I really can't remember if it closes applications down while they are in the background if there is too many running, or it just starves applications that are in the background of resources... I believe that it is the latter (considering how many applications I see running when I do go to the "task manager").
Some applications do have an 'Exit' feature although that is rare. I really wish that MS would have chosen another icon that wasn't an 'X'. I really think two thirds of the traffic light anology would have been good with the PocketPC. a 'Red' circle would 'close; exit; quit; whatever!' the application, while an 'Orange' circle would hide it in the back-ground.
Interesting concept considering the amount of work that has gone into breaking licenses and generating hacked executables for say WarCraft III to play (a full release) before it was even released, let alone 3D Studio Max and so forth.
The above is simply ripping an 'e' book (oh the wonderful 'e' terminology strikes again) from what is displayed on a screen... your right, hardly a challenge, however considering the rest that have been cracked I am amazed that people believe this is the reason that mass adoption of e-books have not taken off.
Personally I believe it is more to do with not having a book in front of you and more importantly having to read a 'book' of a screen which is generally painful with most monitors that are available (well that most people use) compared to print media (that is a lot better, however I can read ebooks from my PocketPC a lot better than my 4 year old 19" LiteON monitor).
The problem with the e-book reader is one of the greatest hurdles to overcome in order to transition to a truely electronic society. How can you protect the rights of the author when anybody with a bit of patience or some programming skills can just print screen his / her blood, sweat and tears and give it away to free for anybody on a p2p network?
And what happens in higher education institutions around the globe with print media and a photo-copier?;)
The single most expensive solution? Crap they could have settled for apple hardware;)
And yes striped down five year-old "64Mb" systems running Mozilla?!?!?... well at least you could also reduce costs with employees going postal and therefore not needing pay cheques:)
Those on this rather synical world of ours might believe that I did, however I didn't even know that this page exsisted. After having to fork over $90 AUD to customs to collect the jacket I would have second thoughts of collecting one if I did win one:)
That is rather annoying, I could find anywhere in Australia that re-sells the jacket, so I order it... and then I get slugged a nice customs fee. Quite interesting that the multitude of books I have bought on Amazon (go on start looking for PR agent competition there if you like:)) including an order that was more than the vest didn't go through customs. Maybe it was just the postal method ~sigh~
I have had one for about 2 months now and I love it (v 2.0). Typically I have my phone, access card, keys, wallet, PocketPC and my mini-disc man all happily in the jacket and without the devices showing to much on the outside.
As for the iPod... I am going to stick with my Mini-disc man for now. My iPaq should see me right for a while... now I just have to kill a few people so I can buy myself a Powerbook:)
Was the buggy implementation that MS released. If you went above the 32K mark it would wrap around to -32K mark and start heading back towards zero (which I could never seem to get ~sigh~)
I even submitted a bug report to MS, however it must have just got swept under the carpet ~sigh~
Now back to installing XEmacs for Tetris.. off course I do have the VIM one lying around somewhere... since when did editor's become game *consoles*?:)
No it isn't. It was quite easy to use actually. Part of a final year project I was part of was designing a module to communicate with the palm (and we tested comms with the PC RS232 serial port).
The circuit construction (the board we made used the UART in the PIC16xxx uC) was relatively simple to design with average voltage regulators.
I remember seeing a woman in WA researching the genetic makup of yabbies [spelling?:)] as when they leave their shells they discard of their limbs and then grow new ones.
What she is obviously hoping to do is see whether a little bit of genetic engineering on humans would enable people to grow back their own limbs in effect. Completely freaky stuff when you think about it... hard to imagine what we can accomplish with a little noggins sometimes:)
I wouldn't send us your condolences just yet... how the f*#@ are they even going to implement to make it a problem for the end user?;)... although i have to question now why i moved from melbourne to here [SA] when they don't even have 'cable' here... and ADSL isn't exactly available to the masses here either ~sigh~
They also have a developers section... hrmmm would anyone want to develop for thier chips given that they are going after companies who are interfacing with *their* stuff?
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Damn I guess goto statements really are bad ... I mean according to that algorithm you will never reach a profit :)
Awsome! ... now I can get that second computer I have wanted at work and instead of claiming some work related performance increase if I get another one, it will be in aid to prevent me from getting e-thrombosis!
... i gather researches like this (one case of something that is known as regular fucking DVT just not at 40,000 feet) are slow to catch on though ~sigh~
... oh I heard the 'retrench' word muttered ... my PIII and horribly defective DELL (about to go all fuzzy again) monitor will have to do I suppose :)
side note: I thought we got of this freaking 'e' prefix naming convention (except apple who seemed to choose 'i')
side OT note (2): Add to that a apple reducing the price of their 23" HD displays, and I might just swing a second (or at least working) display
Not at all. In terms of battery life my Powerbook is awsome. I watched Traffic on it without the powercord plugged in and that is a 2:30 hour film. When I finished watching the credits (hey this was 4am in the morning and I was half dazed @ the time) I quit the player and noticed I still had 39 mins of battery life left. God knows my SONY VAIO was lucky to last 39 minutes if it was booted from battery like I did from the powerbook :)
In short I used about 30 of those minutes to do some coding in the early hours and then put it to sleep to get that nice pulsating white light illuminating the room, very cool :)
Just on another note, I bought the top end one without the Superdrive. I didn't see a need for me doing any burning of DVD's and saved $400 AUD on the purchase. Keep this in mind if you are thinking of getting one.
So what if they burn in to our brains then thats ok because it stops all kinds of possible capture (considering most people can't use their brains).
Look harder ... please :)
Poseidon for UML from Gentleware is quite a good UML diagramming package that has a 'Community Edition' available. It is written in JAVA and does require quite a good machine although the only ones I have worked with it on are ...
- Windows NT 4.0; 850 Mhz PIII w/ 256Mb RAM
- Windows XP; 1.2 Ghz Athlon w/ 512Mb RAM
- OSX 10.2; 1 Ghz G4 w/ 512 Mb RAM
The load up time is a little excessive, however it is fast enough when working. This is probably the best "free" UML tool available IMHO. I really wish that it was available a few years ago when all I had was Rational ROSE(R) and only a demo available then. In the end I went of and used VISIO with UML palettes that just had to do (and did its job quite ok) as the company wasn't going to fork out $$$ on Rational.Hey what about the Commodore 128? ... now that would be twice as fast right ;)
;)
Looks like AMD and Intel have a long way to go if it has taken them this long to get to where the Commodore was so many years ago
This argument about blamming a web-developer for using Microsoft products is bland at best. The web developer has made what they would believe to be a smart decision given the possibility of ...
If you want Mozilla to take off and support all those web-pages that you love to view but can only do so in IE, then go hack away and get it to read the flaky HTML etc. that IE can read ... all the bitching, hot air and passing the blame to everyone else isn't going to change a single thing. In reality there is no one to blame ... it is just a bunch of stuff that happened :)
Personally I can't wait till I finally get my Powerbook early next week with its Radeon 9000 :)
Riiighhhhtttttt ... so "Joe Public" is reading /. and Wired now is he(/she)? :)
This has been one thing that IE on Windows has shafted me many times with. The following is very common in order to happen (a download manager like the MACOS and OSX versions would help me things):
I don't even want to remember the amount of files on a dial-up connection I have lost with this (because I don't want loads of 3rd Party Applications like GetRight running in my system tray for any length of time) but my sanity has not been helped by the occurances :)
When I got my iPaq 3850 this was the most annoying thing I found with it. If I hit something that looks similar to an 'X' button in Windows I expect the application to close. Off course it doesn't, it stays in the back-ground and not long after having a few applications open the system would crawl forcing me to go to the iTask Manager and close applications (usually all to save time) so that I could have my responsive system again.
Thankfully there was a ROM update for the iPaq which has reduced this greatly. I really can't remember if it closes applications down while they are in the background if there is too many running, or it just starves applications that are in the background of resources ... I believe that it is the latter (considering how many applications I see running when I do go to the "task manager").
Some applications do have an 'Exit' feature although that is rare. I really wish that MS would have chosen another icon that wasn't an 'X'. I really think two thirds of the traffic light anology would have been good with the PocketPC. a 'Red' circle would 'close; exit; quit; whatever!' the application, while an 'Orange' circle would hide it in the back-ground.
R
"Encounted an unknown error in an unknown file"
Well shit now I know what I did and how to stop it from happening again :)
The above is simply ripping an 'e' book (oh the wonderful 'e' terminology strikes again) from what is displayed on a screen ... your right, hardly a challenge, however considering the rest that have been cracked I am amazed that people believe this is the reason that mass adoption of e-books have not taken off.
Personally I believe it is more to do with not having a book in front of you and more importantly having to read a 'book' of a screen which is generally painful with most monitors that are available (well that most people use) compared to print media (that is a lot better, however I can read ebooks from my PocketPC a lot better than my 4 year old 19" LiteON monitor).
And what happens in higher education institutions around the globe with print media and a photo-copier? ;)
The single most expensive solution? Crap they could have settled for apple hardware ;)
... well at least you could also reduce costs with employees going postal and therefore not needing pay cheques :)
And yes striped down five year-old "64Mb" systems running Mozilla?!?!?
That is rather annoying, I could find anywhere in Australia that re-sells the jacket, so I order it
I have had one for about 2 months now and I love it (v 2.0). Typically I have my phone, access card, keys, wallet, PocketPC and my mini-disc man all happily in the jacket and without the devices showing to much on the outside.
As for the iPod ... I am going to stick with my Mini-disc man for now. My iPaq should see me right for a while ... now I just have to kill a few people so I can buy myself a Powerbook :)
Was the buggy implementation that MS released. If you went above the 32K mark it would wrap around to -32K mark and start heading back towards zero (which I could never seem to get ~sigh~)
.. off course I do have the VIM one lying around somewhere ... since when did editor's become game *consoles*? :)
I even submitted a bug report to MS, however it must have just got swept under the carpet ~sigh~
Now back to installing XEmacs for Tetris
No it isn't. It was quite easy to use actually. Part of a final year project I was part of was designing a module to communicate with the palm (and we tested comms with the PC RS232 serial port).
The circuit construction (the board we made used the UART in the PIC16xxx uC) was relatively simple to design with average voltage regulators.
A serial (RS232) has lines using (+-) 12V :)
I remember seeing a woman in WA researching the genetic makup of yabbies [spelling? :)] as when they leave their shells they discard of their limbs and then grow new ones.
What she is obviously hoping to do is see whether a little bit of genetic engineering on humans would enable people to grow back their own limbs in effect. Completely freaky stuff when you think about it ... hard to imagine what we can accomplish with a little noggins sometimes :)
I wouldn't send us your condolences just yet ... how the f*#@ are they even going to implement to make it a problem for the end user? ;) ... although i have to question now why i moved from melbourne to here [SA] when they don't even have 'cable' here ... and ADSL isn't exactly available to the masses here either ~sigh~
from recolection, apple contributed to the FreeBSD kernal used, hence they have most probably more than paid for its use in a sense ...
would you sell your $$$ of UI IP just to use a bit of open source code [and yes what they have used is the foundation of their new OS] ...
It is obvious that RAMBUS's only advance for the industry is higlighting patent laws ... it has wonderful carrer paths for individuals ...
_ 00_47.htm
... hrmmm would anyone want to develop for thier chips given that they are going after companies who are interfacing with *their* stuff?
http://www.rambus.com/general/careers/career_00
They also have a developers section