Transputer advertisements were common in the back of the old Byte magazine. They were more popular in the UK than the US. With the newer low power consumption Transmeta & PowerPC CPUs + low RAM prices, this is more viable from a cost/power ratio now than then.
It is not like Transmeta has a shortage of Linux talent to help bring this off. If Transmeta makes such a product and puts an advertisement in something like Linux Journal with Linus's smiling face beside it, it will sale like the proverbial hot cakes. I would buy one with or without his picture.
Finally, someone hits the nail on the head. Congress failed again in its job by failing to pass a Declaration of War. Now, we are headed into another 'Constitutional Crisis' in that all the Taliban has to do is to hold out more than 90 days and American forces will have to disengage, or Prez Bush tells Congress where to put the War Powers Act, or Congress will finally drag up off their lame buttocks to do their job.
My company talked to them due to HIPAA regulations and it was going to cost roughly $10,000 to put PGP on 11 NT servers. Once the 'C' level exec's(as in CEO,COO,CIO) saw the price tag, Open Source GPG looked really good, really quick.
They priced themselves out of the market like Apple did.
Case in point, at my previous job, I made up some manuals to pass out to the staff so that they could look at them at home. They refused to take them, stating that if the company wanted them to learn this program(PowerPoint) then the company was going to have to send them to school during the day, that they weren't going to waste their time learning a new program on their own time.
They are clueless because they choose to be that way. Ignorance is correctable but not stupidity.
I've found some used Mac 5200's for $75 and I am going to get one to run Debian. It will be interesting to run these benchmarks on it to see the $/bogohurts ratio on that. Then do a comparison with the Compaq 5120+OpenLinux2.3 for the fun of it.
Hmmmm. The battle of the dumpster computers! I'll think of benchmarks with Perl & MySQL to give a realistic evaluation of how I use computers.
The Cookbook is in dire need of a new edition. The latest print edition is circa 1998 and there are about 25 pages of errata. My recommendation is for everyone to hold off buying O'Reilly's Perl Cookbook until they release a new edition.
When I was in high school, the jocks would rotate their senior rings 180 degrees then use them to "knot" the geeks. The standard indoctrination in the locker room was for the jocks to make whips from the towels and hit the geeks. The strongest admonishment from the coaches/teachers was "Now, don't do that." And is there any wonderment that when I started to drive to school, that I carried both my 12gauge goose gun and a double bit axe handle? Funny how that the harassement suddenly stopped when this redneck geek got to drive to school. Thank GOD that I didn't goto school during these politically correct days or else they would have me sentenced to a reeducation camp.
Well, what happened to the assholes that tormented me && the rest of the geeks?? Two of them were the last two to goto the electric chair in Louisiana(Jimmy Wingo & Hugh Glass), another went to the state penitentary for assault with a deadly weapon(Everett Davis) and this was the pinnacle of all of their successes.The rest are run of the mill blue collar workers now; struggling to stay off of minimum wage/unemployment.
KNOT (verb) to strike someone on the head with a large metal device to cause a prominent bump to rise up on their head. To inflict a mild concussion.
WHIP(verb) to tightly twist a towel into a 3' roll, then swing and strike a geek to leave bruises and lacerations./P.
I am at the same point as you are. My tack is to write protect the IDE hard drive. At the local resell shop, 120-240meg HDs are USD$1.00. I am trying to confirm that cutting the line for pin #23 would write protect the HD the same as write protecting a floppy drive. Still searching for an answer.
A 120 - 240 meg HD has lots of advantages
speed compared to either a floppy or ZIP
capacity esp. with a 240HD vs a floppy
ease of install vs the ZIP
durability esp. vs the ZIP
Maybe some wizard will read && enlighten us on the subject.
Javascript has nothing whatsoever to do with Java. No relation
The little used MAYSCRIPT in an applet tag will allow Java && JavaScript communication. So there is some relationship as far as working, but not in the Arkansas family way
I wonder how they will tax a subscription to Office X from Microsoft? It is NOT software but a subscription. But with the M$ EULAs, you really don't own it but are using a copy. So the tax bill should go to the owner(Microsoft) and not the user.
The motherboard for the bookPC is a compact all-in-one design from Intel, the 810. Intel has a page on installing Linux on this particular motherboard
http://www.intel.com.tw/support/graphics/intel810/ linuxinstal.htm
Robert Thompson has done some work with this motherboard also
http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-q=Intel+810&sp- a=0001072d-sp00000000
There is a greater correlation with sunspot activity than "greenhouse gases". When Mount Pinatubo erupted, it released more CO2 than ALL of human activity in 40 years. Yet, no spike in temperatures from that.
Yes, children friends; we are living at the end of an Ice Age. It is going to warm up again. Check your history books as to wheat planting in Greenland by Viking settlers, red grape production in England when Caeser invaded, and the droughts in the Andes that destroyed the Inca forerunners. Cross reference the Book of Acts as to the faminine around 60AD.
Global warming happened in the past and is happening again.
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Transputer advertisements were common in the back of the old Byte magazine. They were more popular in the UK than the US. With the newer low power consumption Transmeta & PowerPC CPUs + low RAM prices, this is more viable from a cost/power ratio now than then.
It is not like Transmeta has a shortage of Linux talent to help bring this off. If Transmeta makes such a product and puts an advertisement in something like Linux Journal with Linus's smiling face beside it, it will sale like the proverbial hot cakes. I would buy one with or without his picture.
Just a thought
Finally, someone hits the nail on the head. Congress failed again in its job by failing to pass a Declaration of War. Now, we are headed into another 'Constitutional Crisis' in that all the Taliban has to do is to hold out more than 90 days and American forces will have to disengage, or Prez Bush tells Congress where to put the War Powers Act, or Congress will finally drag up off their lame buttocks to do their job.
It is more likely that options 1 & 2 will happen.
My company talked to them due to HIPAA regulations and it was going to cost roughly $10,000 to put PGP on 11 NT servers. Once the 'C' level exec's(as in CEO,COO,CIO) saw the price tag, Open Source GPG looked really good, really quick.
They priced themselves out of the market like Apple did.
Goodbye & Good Riddance to that bunch!!
"People will put up with any deprivation of liberty as long as it is done in the name of being good for the children"
Goering
Nationalist Socialist Worker's Party
Funny how it is always the socialists that are the worst enemies of freedom.
Case in point, at my previous job, I made up some manuals to pass out to the staff so that they could look at them at home. They refused to take them, stating that if the company wanted them to learn this program(PowerPoint) then the company was going to have to send them to school during the day, that they weren't going to waste their time learning a new program on their own time.
They are clueless because they choose to be that way. Ignorance is correctable but not stupidity.
I've found some used Mac 5200's for $75 and I am going to get one to run Debian. It will be interesting to run these benchmarks on it to see the $/bogohurts ratio on that. Then do a comparison with the Compaq 5120+OpenLinux2.3 for the fun of it.
Hmmmm. The battle of the dumpster computers! I'll think of benchmarks with Perl & MySQL to give a realistic evaluation of how I use computers.
The Cookbook is in dire need of a new edition. The latest print edition is circa 1998 and there are about 25 pages of errata. My recommendation is for everyone to hold off buying O'Reilly's Perl Cookbook until they release a new edition.
When I was in high school, the jocks would rotate their senior rings 180 degrees then use them to "knot" the geeks. The standard indoctrination in the locker room was for the jocks to make whips from the towels and hit the geeks. The strongest admonishment from the coaches/teachers was "Now, don't do that." And is there any wonderment that when I started to drive to school, that I carried both my 12gauge goose gun and a double bit axe handle? Funny how that the harassement suddenly stopped when this redneck geek got to drive to school. Thank GOD that I didn't goto school during these politically correct days or else they would have me sentenced to a reeducation camp.
Well, what happened to the assholes that tormented me && the rest of the geeks?? Two of them were the last two to goto the electric chair in Louisiana(Jimmy Wingo & Hugh Glass), another went to the state penitentary for assault with a deadly weapon(Everett Davis) and this was the pinnacle of all of their successes.The rest are run of the mill blue collar workers now; struggling to stay off of minimum wage/unemployment.
KNOT (verb) to strike someone on the head with a large metal device to cause a prominent bump to rise up on their head. To inflict a mild concussion.
WHIP(verb) to tightly twist a towel into a 3' roll, then swing and strike a geek to leave bruises and lacerations. /P.
So we still have hope that Los Angeles will eventually fall into the Pacific?? 8-)
I am at the same point as you are. My tack is to write protect the IDE hard drive. At the local resell shop, 120-240meg HDs are USD$1.00. I am trying to confirm that cutting the line for pin #23 would write protect the HD the same as write protecting a floppy drive. Still searching for an answer.
A 120 - 240 meg HD has lots of advantages
Maybe some wizard will read && enlighten us on the subject.
The little used MAYSCRIPT in an applet tag will allow Java && JavaScript communication. So there is some relationship as far as working, but not in the Arkansas family way
I wonder how they will tax a subscription to Office X from Microsoft? It is NOT software but a subscription. But with the M$ EULAs, you really don't own it but are using a copy. So the tax bill should go to the owner(Microsoft) and not the user.
The motherboard for the bookPC is a compact all-in-one design from Intel, the 810. Intel has a page on installing Linux on this particular motherboard http://www.intel.com.tw/support/graphics/intel810/ linuxinstal.htm
Robert Thompson has done some work with this motherboard also
http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-q=Intel+810&sp- a=0001072d-sp00000000
There is a greater correlation with sunspot activity than "greenhouse gases". When Mount Pinatubo erupted, it released more CO2 than ALL of human activity in 40 years. Yet, no spike in temperatures from that.
Yes, children friends; we are living at the end of an Ice Age. It is going to warm up again. Check your history books as to wheat planting in Greenland by Viking settlers, red grape production in England when Caeser invaded, and the droughts in the Andes that destroyed the Inca forerunners. Cross reference the Book of Acts as to the faminine around 60AD.
Global warming happened in the past and is happening again.