RTFS Assmonkey, the club is as little as $66, any only $132 for silver which gets you the "powerpack" versions of the ISOs.
The boxes start at $50 for the "Discovery" version, $85 for the powerpack, and $230 for the powerpack plus
The more expensive ones ($380 for PowerPackPlus subscription) entitle you two CD sets for the next two releases as well (10,10.1 and 10.2 for example, assuming version inflation doesn't happen)
I just did a raw install of MDK 10 official last week (I'm a silver member) on my work laptop since I get so frustrated using windows I want to hit things.
Anyways, I was at a conference and borrowed an Orinoco wireless card, slammed it in the side and powered up the laptop. It detected a new wireless card, asked me for SSID type stuff and came right up.
Mandrake also supports hotplugging of network interfaces, so if there's no carrier on your built-in-ethernet it doesn't try to bring it up.
As for the dlink card, you might want to check here and see if they list it.
NexTel is the innovator of the "Push to talk" cel phone (something Verizon (vodaphone) has copied in some parts of the US)
They use yet another tech (aside from AMPS/TDMA/GSM/CDMA) called iDen (integrated digital enhanced network I think) that motorola came up with.
Their first phones were, quite apropriatly, referred to as "Bricks" (the old Ericson 888 world is stylish in comparison) but nowadays they're much better style-wise. They were really popular in replacing licensed and unlicensed handheld radios in construction/warehouse biz, and then got picked up on by the ISP folks (which is how I got my experience with them) and others who need a quick communication method.
The push to talk is charged at a much lower rate than normal minutes, and works mostly nationwide (if you believe the adverts). Of course being PTT, there's not "ring" or "accept" phase, so the phone just starts yapping when someone pushes a button. You can do point to point or point to multipoint messages.
I haven't had a nextel in about 5 years so some of my observations might be outdated, but while the PTT worked well, they had a bad habit of dropping calls on cel hops.
First off, this is obviously made for Japanese readers expect the "screen" to be on the right hand side for a US release if it happens.
That said, the main fault I see with this (aside from aforementioned political ramifications of the maleability of electronic content) is that I'm used to reading books in a "butterfly" style, that is across two pages of an open book.
If someone were to make one of these with two reading surfaces and a simple "next page" button on the lower right corner (and a previous page on the lower left) and bind it like a book, I would be all over it.
Check out Multisync it's an all-in-one sync for Linux (ah la InfoSync for MS) it currently supports Evolution, QTopia, Palm, SyncCE, SyncML and others (like IR sync to cel phones).
I've had a little trouble with my SE Z600 and it but for evo and pda stuff it works really well.
The ones that blow me away are the one where somebody has to save the.ZIP or.RAR attachement, unzip/unrar it with a password specified in the email, and then run something. Seriously, how freakin stupid to you have to be to blindly do that.
drug companies turn a profit almost instantly thanks to insanely inflated retail pricing, combined with the fact they they control health care policy in the US Gov'ment
Unlocked phones are of course more expensive (my Z600 was not cheapie) than locked.
Another thing, at least in California, is you can have the subsidy lock removed after something like 6 months (carrier gives you the PUK stuff to do it).
I got my lady a T316 (she didn't want more even tho I offered, so don't call me cheap;-) ) when they first came out from Cingular and it came unlocked already, so I'm assuming that's a fluke.
I always like my phones unlocked, makes using my Swisscom prepaid SIMs all that much easier.
The thing is, outside the US (europe), mobile phone shops will do the upgrades for you. Inside the US it's harder to find a shop to do that in the US (I found a place in San Francisco that does it, but that's the exception).
That's probably one of the reasons why companies like Nokia and SonyEricsson release their phones in Asia and Europe before the US.
I am so glad that I use the *BSD's. Pretty much avoid mess's like this altogether.
Except the new X licensed would seem to me to make linking X librarys into GPL'd code a violation of the GPL, as well as adding the onus of the advertising clause to EVERY SINGLE PROGRAM that uses the X libraries.
If you're fine with loosing all of the GPL'd apps that you run on your *BSD box, then enjoy your Xwindows with no modern window manager, no GNOME or KDE, no QT or GTK apps, etc,etc....
I agree. They're not doing (as has been accused here) this: Old New Alpha Beta Beta Community Stable Official
what they are doing is adding a cycle after the release "goes gold", which to me is an excelent idea.
They basiually did the same thing for Mandrake Club members where they took 9.2 and all the errata and did a 9.2.1 ISO release.
This truely provides the best of both worlds. If you want the latest kung fu, and can deal with a few bumps and bruises, go for it, but if you're waiting for enlightenement (not the window manager), wait for the Official, which might be a bit behind, but will have the last of the bugs hammered out of it.
The 2.6 official was not available at the last release cycle of the major distros (For example Mandrake 9.2 includes support for a 2.6pre kernel for those who wanted to live on the edge, but defaulted to 2.4)
Mandrake 10, which is in beta phase 1 right now is 2.6, I imagine Suse will follow as well.
Keep in mind what you're seeing is most likely hijacked PCs or open proxies.
Computer hijackers have learned that 24/8, 12/8, and other cable-modem IP ranges are primed for abuse, so they forward spam through them like there's no tomorrow.
Whem a spam is send through an open proxy, the proxy, not the originator's IP is shown. This is different than using an open relay to send spam, which does leave a trail.
This is why providers to the unwashed masses of consumers who just want their pr0n and cheese should enforce some kind of interception of outgoing traffic destined for 25/tcp, at least to track stats, since there are very easy thresholds to set to raise flags (messages per minute for example) and have staffers check them out.
I think that what happened is MS ignored Linux as it was taking market share from propietary Unices in the server market, and woke up one day and realized it was taking out Windows server installations too, so they're responding.
I think in their arrogance they are discounting the effectivness of Linux on a desktop (debate what you will, but depending on your tasks, its either there or darn close) and they'll realize it about the time their Longhorn sales are down 10-20%, and then they'll respond, which like in the server space, will be too little, too late.
They are too busy ignoring and hecking the amusing Penguin to notice it stealing their wallets.
The issue isn't a recipt for the voter, it'a a paper copy of the vote in case the count from the machine is challenged. You as a voter would check it to make sure it had printing out the correct information for your votes and then turn it in.
So for example in my precinct, which from the makeup of my area is easily 75% demos/greens/etc, all of the sudden a GOP candidate got 80% of the vote, I could call shenanagins and ask them to count the paper ballots.
So by your argument, every addition/function that IBM, SGI, etc have developed for their unix versions is a dervative and cannot be donated to the linux kernel?
Where JFS/XFS/RCU/NUMA/EIEIO developed using the UNIX.h files? I'm sure they were.
It's my understanding that since the information traditionally included in.h files (excepting perhaps inline'd code) is not considered copyrightable, since all it does is define data types and methods, it does not implemeent them.
I'm no C expert, but I imagine there is a to get a list of available functions from the kernel, some query or another. One that is available, at least as root, from userland. Something like how the System.map file is generated from a kernel compile.
If this facility exists, would a dump of the function calls in the kernel, with apropriate calling information (data types, number of parameters, etc) converted info a new set of.h files (which don't contain any inline'd code, just function defs), would the resulting.h files be considered GPL? After all if I use a GPL word processor, my documents are not GPL'd, right?
In ethical belief, I side with the GPL-only crowd, in the rome-wasn't-built-in-a-day argument, binary drivers wins for me.
If I were NVidia, which seems to be both the most loved and most hate bin only driver, I would see if it was possible to move all protected/proprietary code to the X11/GLX driver. X11 has full (or near full) access to the system a t a low level, and it's BSD licensed so no toes are stepped on.
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RTFS Assmonkey, the club is as little as $66, any only $132 for silver which gets you the "powerpack" versions of the ISOs.
The boxes start at $50 for the "Discovery" version, $85 for the powerpack, and $230 for the powerpack plus
The more expensive ones ($380 for PowerPackPlus subscription) entitle you two CD sets for the next two releases as well (10,10.1 and 10.2 for example, assuming version inflation doesn't happen)
I just did a raw install of MDK 10 official last week (I'm a silver member) on my work laptop since I get so frustrated using windows I want to hit things.
Anyways, I was at a conference and borrowed an Orinoco wireless card, slammed it in the side and powered up the laptop. It detected a new wireless card, asked me for SSID type stuff and came right up.
Mandrake also supports hotplugging of network interfaces, so if there's no carrier on your built-in-ethernet it doesn't try to bring it up.
As for the dlink card, you might want to check here and see if they list it.
good luck
NexTel is the innovator of the "Push to talk" cel phone (something Verizon (vodaphone) has copied in some parts of the US)
They use yet another tech (aside from AMPS/TDMA/GSM/CDMA) called iDen (integrated digital enhanced network I think) that motorola came up with.
Their first phones were, quite apropriatly, referred to as "Bricks" (the old Ericson 888 world is stylish in comparison) but nowadays they're much better style-wise. They were really popular in replacing licensed and unlicensed handheld radios in construction/warehouse biz, and then got picked up on by the ISP folks (which is how I got my experience with them) and others who need a quick communication method.
The push to talk is charged at a much lower rate than normal minutes, and works mostly nationwide (if you believe the adverts). Of course being PTT, there's not "ring" or "accept" phase, so the phone just starts yapping when someone pushes a button. You can do point to point or point to multipoint messages.
I haven't had a nextel in about 5 years so some of my observations might be outdated, but while the PTT worked well, they had a bad habit of dropping calls on cel hops.
Hope that helps. Motorola's iDen site is here
I for one welcome our new Indian porn actresses.
First off, this is obviously made for Japanese readers expect the "screen" to be on the right hand side for a US release if it happens.
That said, the main fault I see with this (aside from aforementioned political ramifications of the maleability of electronic content) is that I'm used to reading books in a "butterfly" style, that is across two pages of an open book.
If someone were to make one of these with two reading surfaces and a simple "next page" button on the lower right corner (and a previous page on the lower left) and bind it like a book, I would be all over it.
Check out Multisync it's an all-in-one sync for Linux (ah la InfoSync for MS) it currently supports Evolution, QTopia, Palm, SyncCE, SyncML and others (like IR sync to cel phones).
I've had a little trouble with my SE Z600 and it but for evo and pda stuff it works really well.
The ones that blow me away are the one where somebody has to save the .ZIP or .RAR attachement, unzip/unrar it with a password specified in the email, and then run something. Seriously, how freakin stupid to you have to be to blindly do that.
According to a review in the local paper, it's mentioned in passing that the VP of the US is Gay, so who knows....
drug companies turn a profit almost instantly thanks to insanely inflated retail pricing, combined with the fact they they control health care policy in the US Gov'ment
Welcome our new, jazzier, robot overlords....
(sorry someone had to)
Unlocked phones are of course more expensive (my Z600 was not cheapie) than locked.
;-) ) when they first came out from Cingular and it came unlocked already, so I'm assuming that's a fluke.
Another thing, at least in California, is you can have the subsidy lock removed after something like 6 months (carrier gives you the PUK stuff to do it).
I got my lady a T316 (she didn't want more even tho I offered, so don't call me cheap
I always like my phones unlocked, makes using my Swisscom prepaid SIMs all that much easier.
Oh wait I shouldn't've said that......
Poor Mandrake, seems like every time they go gold on a release one of the major components gets a major upgrade :)
The thing is, outside the US (europe), mobile phone shops will do the upgrades for you. Inside the US it's harder to find a shop to do that in the US (I found a place in San Francisco that does it, but that's the exception).
That's probably one of the reasons why companies like Nokia and SonyEricsson release their phones in Asia and Europe before the US.
I had a 80386/16 box to use in 1992-1993 (senior year of HS) it ran Win 3.1 with the W32 extensions, so it was out there well before win95 was.
I am so glad that I use the *BSD's. Pretty much avoid mess's like this altogether.
,etc....
Except the new X licensed would seem to me to make linking X librarys into GPL'd code a violation of the GPL, as well as adding the onus of the advertising clause to EVERY SINGLE PROGRAM that uses the X libraries.
If you're fine with loosing all of the GPL'd apps that you run on your *BSD box, then enjoy your Xwindows with no modern window manager, no GNOME or KDE, no QT or GTK apps, etc
Only if it goes to Ibiza on Holiday
I agree. They're not doing (as has been accused here) this:
Old New
Alpha Beta
Beta Community
Stable Official
what they are doing is adding a cycle after the release "goes gold", which to me is an excelent idea.
They basiually did the same thing for Mandrake Club members where they took 9.2 and all the errata and did a 9.2.1 ISO release.
This truely provides the best of both worlds. If you want the latest kung fu, and can deal with a few bumps and bruises, go for it, but if you're waiting for enlightenement (not the window manager), wait for the Official, which might be a bit behind, but will have the last of the bugs hammered out of it.
Don't forget Konami's Lifeline which is coming in march in the US. It's a game where you "control" another person by having conversations with them.
Looks really interesting.
The 2.6 official was not available at the last release cycle of the major distros (For example Mandrake 9.2 includes support for a 2.6pre kernel for those who wanted to live on the edge, but defaulted to 2.4)
Mandrake 10, which is in beta phase 1 right now is 2.6, I imagine Suse will follow as well.
Keep in mind what you're seeing is most likely hijacked PCs or open proxies.
Computer hijackers have learned that 24/8, 12/8, and other cable-modem IP ranges are primed for abuse, so they forward spam through them like there's no tomorrow.
Whem a spam is send through an open proxy, the proxy, not the originator's IP is shown. This is different than using an open relay to send spam, which does leave a trail.
This is why providers to the unwashed masses of consumers who just want their pr0n and cheese should enforce some kind of interception of outgoing traffic destined for 25/tcp, at least to track stats, since there are very easy thresholds to set to raise flags (messages per minute for example) and have staffers check them out.
The thing is that ISPs have been selling these kind of things to customers for over 10 years now, so prior art is going to be hard to determine.
The first ISP I worked for offered customers:
www.customer.ccnet.com
and customer@ccnet.com
from about 1995 or so.
It's a silly patent.
I think that what happened is MS ignored Linux as it was taking market share from propietary Unices in the server market, and woke up one day and realized it was taking out Windows server installations too, so they're responding.
I think in their arrogance they are discounting the effectivness of Linux on a desktop (debate what you will, but depending on your tasks, its either there or darn close) and they'll realize it about the time their Longhorn sales are down 10-20%, and then they'll respond, which like in the server space, will be too little, too late.
They are too busy ignoring and hecking the amusing Penguin to notice it stealing their wallets.
The issue isn't a recipt for the voter, it'a a paper copy of the vote in case the count from the machine is challenged. You as a voter would check it to make sure it had printing out the correct information for your votes and then turn it in.
So for example in my precinct, which from the makeup of my area is easily 75% demos/greens/etc, all of the sudden a GOP candidate got 80% of the vote, I could call shenanagins and ask them to count the paper ballots.
So by your argument, every addition/function that IBM, SGI, etc have developed for their unix versions is a dervative and cannot be donated to the linux kernel?
.h files? I'm sure they were.
.h files (excepting perhaps inline'd code) is not considered copyrightable, since all it does is define data types and methods, it does not implemeent them.
Where JFS/XFS/RCU/NUMA/EIEIO developed using the UNIX
It's my understanding that since the information traditionally included in
I'm no C expert, but I imagine there is a to get a list of available functions from the kernel, some query or another. One that is available, at least as root, from userland. Something like how the System.map file is generated from a kernel compile.
.h files (which don't contain any inline'd code, just function defs), would the resulting .h files be considered GPL? After all if I use a GPL word processor, my documents are not GPL'd, right?
If this facility exists, would a dump of the function calls in the kernel, with apropriate calling information (data types, number of parameters, etc) converted info a new set of
In ethical belief, I side with the GPL-only crowd, in the rome-wasn't-built-in-a-day argument, binary drivers wins for me.
If I were NVidia, which seems to be both the most loved and most hate bin only driver, I would see if it was possible to move all protected/proprietary code to the X11/GLX driver. X11 has full (or near full) access to the system a t a low level, and it's BSD licensed so no toes are stepped on.