I would think you could do the same thing with a tini board. They are not that expensive, the top of the line tini is $69, and come with a tcp/ip stack and are much smaller than the dreamcast, the board itself is no larger than a simm memory card.
It wouldn't be the fastest thing in the world but with such a small size you could put it inside of something that should be there, like a network hub, print server, etc.
Software for it is written in Java and converted to run on the Tini, but I believe there is also a way to use machine code too.
I regret not trying that myself but the only audio card I have is an old SoundBlaster Live and I know they can have trouble with that same VIA southbridge.
I considered buying a USB card and connecting my USB Audio device to that to avoid the buggy southbridge but then I would have a card plugged in and I wanted to have something with a low profile. Plus it just seemed wrong to plug in a card to compensate for something that was caused by a bad chipset.
I bought the FV24 motherboard a few months ago. It is truly an amazing little board with tons of features packed into it.
I planned on using the motherboard to create a mp3 player I could put in my stereo rack. I put a 60gig ATA100 drive in the machine, a 466 Celeron and 256mb of memory. I didn't add any cards to the machine because everything I needed was on the motherboard.
I also had a USB audio device from Onkyo, the SE-U55, which I was going to use so that I could connect the output to the optical input on my receiver.
I installed Win2k on the machine, I know because of that I won't get much sympathy here on slashdot.
The first problem I had was that the sound coming out of the onboard audio device was garbage. Mp3s played fine but sounded distorted. I tried many other sources of audio and everything was coming out distorted.
I figured it was just bad on board audio so I switched to the USB audio device and it also sounded distorted.
I then tested everything using my Compaq E500 laptop and it sounded great so I knew it was the hardware.
I did some research and found that the southbridge on the motherboard was in the family of VIA chipsets that seemed to be causing problems for other people. I tried new drivers and every hint I could find online but nothing seemed to work.
I bought a different motherboard with a non-via chipset and everything has been great since. I miss the small size of the FV24 but I don't miss the unusable audio.
Yes I agree, but for some people learning grammar rules is not the easiest thing to do. I suffer from dyslexia, which has made learning spelling and grammar very difficult for me.
I have had to put in a considerable amount of effort above and beyond what people normally have to do just to be able to construct readable sentences. Spell checking and grammar checking have been a godsend for me in helping me continue to work on those skills.
To me this is just another sign of what is missing from this community. Some people need features, accessibility features for example, and instead of thinking about how that could be accomplished people say you shouldn't need those things their product doesn't supply.
The primary reason I run Windows on my machine is so that I can run Word. If there was a viable alternative to word for Linux I would probably switch my main OS to Linux.
The biggest problem I have with Linux word processors is the ability to do spelling and grammar checking.
Spelling and grammar may not be important to some people but with my dyslexia it's almost required in order to write things that other people will be able to find acceptable.
I don't really care about filters or being able to share files. All I want to do is be able to write something and have my grammar be checked by the word processor.
The only program I know that does this with Linux is Wordperfect and the last time I tried that it was very unstable on my Linux install.
So I stay with Win2k until there is another alternative. I am also considering Mac OSX because I really don't want to consider eventually having to move to Windows XP. At this point in time I really can't give up Word and it's very nice grammar checking ability.
If you like doing servlet programming, but sometimes find it difficult to do with all the HTML coding mixed with the Java code you should look into JSP's.
If you have servlets working you can get JSP's working and they make things much nicer.
They still end up being compiled into servlets in the end. You can actually look at the.java files they generate. After they generate.java files those files are compiled. The server will continue to use the complied files until the.jsp file changes and then it will automatically recompile the.jsp files for you. This makes code updates very easy.
I also found that my.jsp's tend to come up faster, once they are compiled, than the perl scripts we have running under mod_perl.
Basically the lawsuite is about the fact that Gateway/Amiga sold Amiga computers and claimed that they were 'New'. Meaning that they have been sitting on the shelf for years and were never actually sold. In fact the units they sold were built out of used/returned parts.
The vendors ended up fixing these units because they thought they were new. They have now grouped together to sue Gateway/Amiga to try and recover the costs for their customers who spent the money to have machines, that should have been new-ish, fixed.
I would not hesitate to use Oracle. We tried postgres before Oracle was available on Linux and after about 3 months the database just tanked, corrupting itself, for no aparent reason.
When 8.05 came out for Linux I installed it on my Linux server and I am very pleased with the product. Addmiditly I am bias because I use Oracle on HP/UX and NT on a daily basis.
I have used Oracle for about 6 years now and I am more and more impressed by this product every day. It is a complex system, but you can get classes from Oracle, and from many other companies. If you don't like the cost/time involved in classes then just go to any book store and you will find tons of books on all the various aspects of using and administrating Oracle.
Oracle has many thing's going for it. Point in time recovery, massive scalability and it supports most hardware/software platforms.
It has years of real life usage behind it. I think the product has been around for 10-20 years now.
Another option is DB2. I don't have any personal experience with this product but I have heard nothing but good things about it.
The one point that they make, and I agree with strongly, is that the analysts point out that Sony is inexperienced in the semiconductor market, but Sony is not going alone on this. They have partnered with Toshiba who is very experienced in the semiconductor market.
"so you want to help software? spend a few years studying communication theory, then generalize your program's output so that it can instantly switch to any channel (braille, moon, aural, vibration, god knows what) and any human language. this means decoupling specific input and output from the program and gaining a basic knowledge of the reality of humanity, not something engineering people care about."
I believe there is some facility to do just this that Sun has been working on as part of Java. I don't know much about it, but a friend and I have been thinking about looking into it.
What I thought was pretty funny/ironic was that the actor, Jürgen Prochnow, that played Commander Gerald, the guy that started out as the second in command of the ship, is also the actor that played the captain of the U-boat in Das Boat. You can check for yourself by looking at The internet movie database and search on either movie.
Every time he was giving orders all I could think of was Das Boat, which is a great movie. This made the movie somewhat bareable.
News.com also ran this story, http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,32789,00.html?st .ne.fd.mdh , they have a better summary of what it will effect. Here is a bit of that story.
---- At stake are millions of dollars per year paid to small telephone companies under contracts dubbed "reciprocal compensation."
The contracts govern who pays who when a customer makes a call. If a Bell Atlantic customer calls an e.spire communications customer under this system, Bell Atlantic would pay e.spire for completing that call.
When these contracts were signed, largely in the wake of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, local phone companies thought they would come out ahead since they controlled the vast majority of local phone lines.
But many small phone companies began signing up ISPs for service. The ISPs receive many calls, but place very few--resulting in the imbalance that favors the small telcos.
The Baby Bells and GTE have pressed the FCC to rule that calls to ISPs are long distance, since this would exempt the calls from the reciprocal compensation contracts.
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They also note though that this could eventually mean bad news for consumers. Again from the article
---- But the decision was made under protest by one commissioner, who has argued that it could inadvertently open up the possibility for courts to impose per-minute access charges on ISPs.
Commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth had asked to delay the decision by at least another three weeks to study this issue. But Kennard denied that request, saying commissioners had already waited too long.
"I believe that part of operating efficiently is being decisive," Kennard said. "We owe the marketplace a decision." ----
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I would think you could do the same thing with a tini board. They are not that expensive, the top of the line tini is $69, and come with a tcp/ip stack and are much smaller than the dreamcast, the board itself is no larger than a simm memory card.
Tini home page
It wouldn't be the fastest thing in the world but with such a small size you could put it inside of something that should be there, like a network hub, print server, etc.
Software for it is written in Java and converted to run on the Tini, but I believe there is also a way to use machine code too.
Chris (krafter@zilla.net)
I regret not trying that myself but the only audio card I have is an old SoundBlaster Live and I know they can have trouble with that same VIA southbridge.
I considered buying a USB card and connecting my USB Audio device to that to avoid the buggy southbridge but then I would have a card plugged in and I wanted to have something with a low profile. Plus it just seemed wrong to plug in a card to compensate for something that was caused by a bad chipset.
Chris (krafter@zilla.net)
I bought the FV24 motherboard a few months ago. It is truly an amazing little board with tons of features packed into it.
I planned on using the motherboard to create a mp3 player I could put in my stereo rack. I put a 60gig ATA100 drive in the machine, a 466 Celeron and 256mb of memory. I didn't add any cards to the machine because everything I needed was on the motherboard.
I also had a USB audio device from Onkyo, the SE-U55, which I was going to use so that I could connect the output to the optical input on my receiver.
I installed Win2k on the machine, I know because of that I won't get much sympathy here on slashdot.
The first problem I had was that the sound coming out of the onboard audio device was garbage. Mp3s played fine but sounded distorted. I tried many other sources of audio and everything was coming out distorted.
I figured it was just bad on board audio so I switched to the USB audio device and it also sounded distorted.
I then tested everything using my Compaq E500 laptop and it sounded great so I knew it was the hardware.
I did some research and found that the southbridge on the motherboard was in the family of VIA chipsets that seemed to be causing problems for other people. I tried new drivers and every hint I could find online but nothing seemed to work.
I bought a different motherboard with a non-via chipset and everything has been great since. I miss the small size of the FV24 but I don't miss the unusable audio.
Chris (krafter@zilla.net)
Yes I agree, but for some people learning grammar rules is not the easiest thing to do. I suffer from dyslexia, which has made learning spelling and grammar very difficult for me.
I have had to put in a considerable amount of effort above and beyond what people normally have to do just to be able to construct readable sentences. Spell checking and grammar checking have been a godsend for me in helping me continue to work on those skills.
To me this is just another sign of what is missing from this community. Some people need features, accessibility features for example, and instead of thinking about how that could be accomplished people say you shouldn't need those things their product doesn't supply.
Chris (krafter@zilla.net)
No.
Until it has grammar checking capabilities like word has, and WordPerfect, it will not replace Word on my computer.
Chris (krafter@zilla.net)
The primary reason I run Windows on my machine is so that I can run Word. If there was a viable alternative to word for Linux I would probably switch my main OS to Linux.
The biggest problem I have with Linux word processors is the ability to do spelling and grammar checking.
Spelling and grammar may not be important to some people but with my dyslexia it's almost required in order to write things that other people will be able to find acceptable.
I don't really care about filters or being able to share files. All I want to do is be able to write something and have my grammar be checked by the word processor.
The only program I know that does this with Linux is Wordperfect and the last time I tried that it was very unstable on my Linux install.
So I stay with Win2k until there is another alternative. I am also considering Mac OSX because I really don't want to consider eventually having to move to Windows XP. At this point in time I really can't give up Word and it's very nice grammar checking ability.
Chris (krafter@zilla.net)
If you like doing servlet programming, but sometimes find it difficult to do with all the HTML coding mixed with the Java code you should look into JSP's.
.java files they generate. After they generate .java files those files are compiled. The server will continue to use the complied files until the .jsp file changes and then it will automatically recompile the .jsp files for you. This makes code updates very easy.
.jsp's tend to come up faster, once they are compiled, than the perl scripts we have running under mod_perl.
If you have servlets working you can get JSP's working and they make things much nicer.
They still end up being compiled into servlets in the end. You can actually look at the
I also found that my
Chris Kraft (krafter@zilla.net)
There is a good summary up on The Register
Basically the lawsuite is about the fact that Gateway/Amiga sold Amiga computers and claimed that they were 'New'. Meaning that they have been sitting on the shelf for years and were never actually sold. In fact the units they sold were built out of used/returned parts.
The vendors ended up fixing these units because they thought they were new. They have now grouped together to sue Gateway/Amiga to try and recover the costs for their customers who spent the money to have machines, that should have been new-ish, fixed.
Krafter
I would not hesitate to use Oracle. We tried postgres before Oracle was available on Linux and after about 3 months the database just tanked, corrupting itself, for no aparent reason.
When 8.05 came out for Linux I installed it on my Linux server and I am very pleased with the product. Addmiditly I am bias because I use Oracle on HP/UX and NT on a daily basis.
I have used Oracle for about 6 years now and I am more and more impressed by this product every day.
It is a complex system, but you can get classes from Oracle, and from many other companies. If you don't like the cost/time involved in classes then just go to any book store and you will find tons of books on all the various aspects of using and administrating Oracle.
Oracle has many thing's going for it. Point in time recovery, massive scalability and it supports most hardware/software platforms.
It has years of real life usage behind it. I think the product has been around for 10-20 years now.
Another option is DB2. I don't have any personal experience with this product but I have heard nothing but good things about it.
Chris Kraft (krafter@zilla.net)
The Register has a good take on the article.
The one point that they make, and I agree with strongly, is that the analysts point out that Sony is inexperienced in the semiconductor market, but Sony is not going alone on this. They have partnered with Toshiba who is very experienced in the semiconductor market.
Chris Kraft (Krafter@zilla.net)
"so you want to help software? spend a few years studying communication theory, then generalize your program's output so that it can instantly
switch to any channel (braille, moon, aural, vibration, god knows what) and any human language. this means decoupling specific input and output from the program and gaining a basic knowledge of the reality of humanity, not something engineering people care about."
I believe there is some facility to do just this that Sun has been working on as part of Java. I don't know much about it, but a friend and I have been thinking about looking into it.
What I thought was pretty funny/ironic was that the actor, Jürgen Prochnow, that played Commander Gerald, the guy that started out as the second in command of the ship, is also the actor that played the captain of the U-boat in Das Boat. You can check for yourself by looking at The internet movie database and search on either movie.
Every time he was giving orders all I could think of was Das Boat, which is a great movie. This made the movie somewhat bareable.
News.com also ran this story, http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,32789,00.html?st .ne.fd.mdh , they have a better summary of what it will effect. Here is a bit of that story.
----
At stake are millions of dollars per year paid to small telephone companies under contracts dubbed "reciprocal compensation."
The contracts govern who pays who when a customer makes a call. If a Bell Atlantic customer calls an e.spire communications customer under this system, Bell Atlantic would pay e.spire for completing that call.
When these contracts were signed, largely in the wake of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, local phone companies thought they would come out ahead since they controlled the vast majority of local phone lines.
But many small phone companies began signing up ISPs for service. The ISPs receive many calls, but place very few--resulting in the imbalance that favors the small telcos.
The Baby Bells and GTE have pressed the FCC to rule that calls to ISPs are long distance, since this would exempt the calls from the reciprocal compensation contracts.
----
They also note though that this could eventually mean bad news for consumers. Again from the article
----
But the decision was made under protest by one commissioner, who has argued that it could inadvertently open up the possibility for courts to impose per-minute access charges on ISPs.
Commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth had asked to delay the decision by at least another three weeks to study this issue. But Kennard denied that request, saying commissioners had already waited too long.
"I believe that part of operating efficiently is being decisive," Kennard said. "We owe the marketplace a decision."
----