You are already killing your desk space now with a 17" CRT. Any flat panel you get will give you so much more space than the CRT.
You have learned the dirty little secret of flat panel monitors; 19" monitors are the same as 17" monitors, but with bigger pixels. It is sad that this extends into the wide screen monitors as well, because a 19" wide is only 1440 x 900.
So, buy a 20" wide monitor. The Dell one does 1680 x 1050. I know it will take way less depth than the CRT, and I'm guessing that it will actually be smaller in all dimensions than the current monitor you have.
It is actually the largest telescope every launched into space. It has a larger mirror than Hubble. It is also true that it is the largest infrared telescope launched into space, but then a square is also a rectangle.
It is released under the GPL version 2, which last time I checked is pretty much the definition of "free software". It is a free as in speech, free as in beer, and free as in free software free.
Clicking on the "About" or "Download" pages on http://www.armagetronad.net/ will clearly show you that it is free.
OpenChange is an open source MAPI client that supports all versions of Exchange up to and including 2007, it is native MAPI and thus does everything you would expect an Exchange client to do, and it does it a reasonable speed.
The subject sums it up, but I'm getting a little pissed at technology that is developed at NASA (World Wind) is just getting co-opted by Google (Google Earth) with no respect paid to the initial innovators.
J-Track 3D has been around for years doing this exact same function of plotting satellite trajectories including ground trace and additional information if you click on the satellite.
Just because you do it using Google doesn't mean that it's new, cool, innovative or news worthy.
There is also J-Track which on Windows, with its "active desktop" feature, can be set as your background/wallpaper to always be tracking weather and satellites.
This is just the release of part 1 of a 4 part series showing a mock-up of what a future browser might look like. There is no code, there is no browser, this is vapor-ware at its finest. Additional Adaptive Path, the people who made the video, are throwing a party to celebrate their release of the video.
When did software development turn into movie producing?
The actually source of all these stories might be interesting to people, instead of articles about the source. Since when did people stop being able to read primary sources and start being able to only read "news" articles.
When a submitter writes a sentence like "Valve releases game stats" then one would think that would point to the site where Valve actually released the game stats. A more accurate sentence would be "Arstechnica 'analyzes' Valve's released game stats".
* Powerful Performance and Processing:
o Dual CPU 1.2GHz UltraSPARC-IIIi, 1 MB level 2 Cache with 1GB-8GB memory per CPU (Up to 16GB total)
o Solaris 9 Operating Environment
o Full-length PCI slot supporting Windows co-processor, network adaptors, high end graphics and many other options
* State of the Art Mobility:
o Mobile server consolidation - the 22 lbs Bullfrog Dual Processor replaces a typical 450 lbs server box (with power backup modules) with no loss in performance or connectivity
o Permits a "work from anywhere" environment
o Consolidation of Solaris and Windows onto one box
* Redundancy:
o Dual Disk Drives with capacity of up to 200GB (100GB + 100 GB)
o Built in UPS
o Dual Processors
* Efficiency:
o Total costs reduced by as much as 50% over equivalent conventional server system
o Total weight savings of as much as 90%
* Reduced Complexity when deployed with Comet 12/15 Thin Clients:
o Wireless Solutions are simple to deploy
o Reduced System Admin overheads
o Manage services not desktops
o Reduce desktop productivity licensing by a factor of 10
* Accessories & Upgrades: A wide range of accessories that enhance Tadpole Bullfrog usability
It is common practice to have developers sign over their copyrights on their code contributiosn to the main developers or "owners" of the original code.
If you want to contribute to GCC you have to give up your copyright on the code to the FSF. The only difference between the FSF and Digium is that the FSF publicly state they won't release code not under the GPL (though they still legally could), and Digium publicly states that they will release the code not under the GPL.
This doesn't have any impact on the "freeness" of the code; as code released under the GPL is code released under the GPL, regardless of who own the copyright or if that code is also released under other licenses.
This is really common practice, and it annoys me everytime it comes up on Slashdot, especially since the FSF (creators of the GPL) require this practice to contribute as well.
The beautiful thing about the Internet was now all of sudden you could get access to all sorts of primary sources of information you weren't able to access before. The second beautiful thing was that it enabled people to be publish primary source articles for which they were the primary source.
Now when Slashdot posts a story, that links to a blog, that links to a blog, it becomes "Unverifiable Sources for Nerds. Stuff that may be important but you can't tell."
When TFA has the same content as the blurb, please editors, don't post it or link to the primary source.
Take all the access.mdb files and dump them into an MS SQL 2003 database. Take that and scan it with Visio 2003 and create all the ERDs. Use Visio, or your favorite ERD editor to make a real database design (one that conforms to at least 3rd normal form).
Once you have a real database design (implemented in an modern RDBMS) and all the data in MS SQL than you can transform the data to fit the new ERD.
Also doesn't mention that it costs an extra $150 to get it in black.
To get a white one with an 80 GB HDD and 2.0GHz proc costs: $1349 while to get the exact same machine in black costs: $1499
So now Apple is charging your more for being mainstream, and less for being unique. But wait, Apple has turned unique into mainstream, so we are paying more to be unique again?
All your code needs to do is run on Solaris 10 on x86 hardware. It can either be 32 bit or 64 bit.
This isn't a "platform" like a beowulf cluster, it's just a bunch of loosely coupled machines that have a job scheduler in front of them to dispatch jobs. Any of the jobs you submit will only run on a single machine at a time, and it may take 1 or all of the processors available in that machine.
Sun isn't doing anything magical here, by the end of the summer I plan to have a grid with Solaris SPARCv9, RHEL 4 x64, Windows 2004 x64, and MacOS PPC64 clients, and it will have a web based front end gui scheduler (just like Sun's), and it will be easy to use (just like Sun's), and it will be able to do accounting back to users at the 1 hour interval (just like Sun's) because I will be using _Sun's_ grid engine software to do it.
I would also point out that you can use the Sun N1 Grid Engine software for free, and that you only need to pay Sun money when you want support.
I have always hated caller ID every since it has existed, because people always assume that the name of the person on the caller-id is the person that is calling them, and this is not true. All caller-id tells you is what phone is being used to call you, it tells you no information about the person that is using that phone (except maybe where they are physically located).
Now, hopefully people will stop answering there phone "Hello Bob" when they see that the phone number that is Bob is paying for is being used to call them.
Caller-ID should be more accurately titled, "source phone number id", it's the difference from using an IP address to identify a user and using pidentd to identify a user.
I have to stop typing now, I'm getting so angry just thinking about how evil caller-id is, not because of the technology used, but because of the assumptions that users of the technology make.
This is requirement for all code contributions to GCC.
You have to assign the copyright to the FSF which most people will probably agree is more benevolent than Novell, but there is nothing new here and it is definitely not a violation of the GPL.
Let us not forget that Darwin actually aruged that acquired traits are not inherited.
Now if you continue to believe in Lamarck's theories of evolution than this is significant, but since his theories have been thoroughly discredited by the scientific community for the past 200 years, this is just a messed up ape that now walks on two legs and has absolutely no significance in the future evolution of apes.
There seems to be some confusion about what the code is in X11R6.7. Everyone seems to think it is just a fork of XFree86 brought about because of licence changes, or "squabbles" over development direction. This is simply not the case.
The X Consortium has been producing the "offical" X11 codebase now for quite some time, distributing it under the orginial MIT licence. There are continual updates, which get a minor number, e.g. X11R6.3, X11R6.6, X11R6.7.
However, traditionally the codebase for X.org while being "open source" has been "closed development" and only members of the X Consortium contributed code updates. This wasn't that big of a deal since the members, Sun, IBM, SGI, Compaq/HP/DEC, Hummingbird, were the only people actually using the X11 codebase in their products.
Recently, since Januaray, the X11 Consortium has switched to an "open development" model similar to Linux, Apache, etc. where anyone can contribute patches to the code base.
Also at this time they "standardized" with the rest of the X world (XFree86, freedesktop.org) on libraries, though they still continue seperate code bases for the actual X server and X clients.
X11R6.7 is NOT just a fork of XFree86, is the next iteration of a long and stable (and in my opinion a pretty damn good) X11R6 implementation. It does incorporate freatures/code from the XFree86 code base, but it is not a fork.
These are the facts they way I see them. It is quite possible I'm wrong.
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You are already killing your desk space now with a 17" CRT. Any flat panel you get will give you so much more space than the CRT.
You have learned the dirty little secret of flat panel monitors; 19" monitors are the same as 17" monitors, but with bigger pixels. It is sad that this extends into the wide screen monitors as well, because a 19" wide is only 1440 x 900.
So, buy a 20" wide monitor. The Dell one does 1680 x 1050. I know it will take way less depth than the CRT, and I'm guessing that it will actually be smaller in all dimensions than the current monitor you have.
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Displays/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=biz&cs=555&sku=320-6523
It is actually the largest telescope every launched into space. It has a larger mirror than Hubble. It is also true that it is the largest infrared telescope launched into space, but then a square is also a rectangle.
It is released under the GPL version 2, which last time I checked is pretty much the definition of "free software". It is a free as in speech, free as in beer, and free as in free software free.
Clicking on the "About" or "Download" pages on http://www.armagetronad.net/ will clearly show you that it is free.
Free! Free I say!
OpenChange is an open source MAPI client that supports all versions of Exchange up to and including 2007, it is native MAPI and thus does everything you would expect an Exchange client to do, and it does it a reasonable speed.
http://www.openchange.org/
There is already an Evolution plug-in that will be mainlined into GNOME 2.24. However, you can currently get it for Fedora 10 and other platforms.
The current Evolution plug-in uses OWA web page scrapping and is really lame, and it most likely broke from web interface changes in 2007.
The subject sums it up, but I'm getting a little pissed at technology that is developed at NASA (World Wind) is just getting co-opted by Google (Google Earth) with no respect paid to the initial innovators.
J-Track 3D has been around for years doing this exact same function of plotting satellite trajectories including ground trace and additional information if you click on the satellite.
Just because you do it using Google doesn't mean that it's new, cool, innovative or news worthy.
http://science.nasa.gov/Realtime/jtrack/3d/JTrack3d.html
There is also J-Track which on Windows, with its "active desktop" feature, can be set as your background/wallpaper to always be tracking weather and satellites.
This is just the release of part 1 of a 4 part series showing a mock-up of what a future browser might look like. There is no code, there is no browser, this is vapor-ware at its finest. Additional Adaptive Path, the people who made the video, are throwing a party to celebrate their release of the video.
When did software development turn into movie producing?
The actually source of all these stories might be interesting to people, instead of articles about the source. Since when did people stop being able to read primary sources and start being able to only read "news" articles.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/How_laptop_delivery_breaks
When a submitter writes a sentence like "Valve releases game stats" then one would think that would point to the site where Valve actually released the game stats. A more accurate sentence would be "Arstechnica 'analyzes' Valve's released game stats".
Or you could just link to the actual stats:
http://steamgames.com/status/ep2/ep2_stats.php
http://www.tadpole.com/products/notebooks/bullfrog dp.asp
FEATURES AND ADVANTAGES:
* Powerful Performance and Processing:
o Dual CPU 1.2GHz UltraSPARC-IIIi, 1 MB level 2 Cache with 1GB-8GB memory per CPU (Up to 16GB total)
o Solaris 9 Operating Environment
o Full-length PCI slot supporting Windows co-processor, network adaptors, high end graphics and many other options
* State of the Art Mobility:
o Mobile server consolidation - the 22 lbs Bullfrog Dual Processor replaces a typical 450 lbs server box (with power backup modules) with no loss in performance or connectivity
o Permits a "work from anywhere" environment
o Consolidation of Solaris and Windows onto one box
* Redundancy:
o Dual Disk Drives with capacity of up to 200GB (100GB + 100 GB)
o Built in UPS
o Dual Processors
* Efficiency:
o Total costs reduced by as much as 50% over equivalent conventional server system
o Total weight savings of as much as 90%
* Reduced Complexity when deployed with Comet 12/15 Thin Clients:
o Wireless Solutions are simple to deploy
o Reduced System Admin overheads
o Manage services not desktops
o Reduce desktop productivity licensing by a factor of 10
* Accessories & Upgrades: A wide range of accessories that enhance Tadpole Bullfrog usability
It is common practice to have developers sign over their copyrights on their code contributiosn to the main developers or "owners" of the original code.
If you want to contribute to GCC you have to give up your copyright on the code to the FSF. The only difference between the FSF and Digium is that the FSF publicly state they won't release code not under the GPL (though they still legally could), and Digium publicly states that they will release the code not under the GPL.
This doesn't have any impact on the "freeness" of the code; as code released under the GPL is code released under the GPL, regardless of who own the copyright or if that code is also released under other licenses.
This is really common practice, and it annoys me everytime it comes up on Slashdot, especially since the FSF (creators of the GPL) require this practice to contribute as well.
The beautiful thing about the Internet was now all of sudden you could get access to all sorts of primary sources of information you weren't able to access before. The second beautiful thing was that it enabled people to be publish primary source articles for which they were the primary source.
Now when Slashdot posts a story, that links to a blog, that links to a blog, it becomes "Unverifiable Sources for Nerds. Stuff that may be important but you can't tell."
When TFA has the same content as the blurb, please editors, don't post it or link to the primary source.
I don't want analysis, I want news!
Take all the access .mdb files and dump them into an MS SQL 2003 database. Take that and scan it with Visio 2003 and create all the ERDs. Use Visio, or your favorite ERD editor to make a real database design (one that conforms to at least 3rd normal form).
Once you have a real database design (implemented in an modern RDBMS) and all the data in MS SQL than you can transform the data to fit the new ERD.
Neal
People that link to stateful pages really annoy me.
http://www.apple.com/mightymouse/
Also doesn't mention that it costs an extra $150 to get it in black.
To get a white one with an 80 GB HDD and 2.0GHz proc costs: $1349
while to get the exact same machine in black costs: $1499
So now Apple is charging your more for being mainstream, and less for being unique. But wait, Apple has turned unique into mainstream, so we are paying more to be unique again?
It is a bunch of v20z and x2100 style hardware running the Sun Grid Engine which is an open source grid engine that Sun wrote.i ons.jsp
http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/v20z/specs.jsp
http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/x2100/specificat
http://www.sun.com/software/gridware/
http://gridengine.sunsource.net/
All your code needs to do is run on Solaris 10 on x86 hardware. It can either be 32 bit or 64 bit.
This isn't a "platform" like a beowulf cluster, it's just a bunch of loosely coupled machines that have a job scheduler in front of them to dispatch jobs. Any of the jobs you submit will only run on a single machine at a time, and it may take 1 or all of the processors available in that machine.
Sun isn't doing anything magical here, by the end of the summer I plan to have a grid with Solaris SPARCv9, RHEL 4 x64, Windows 2004 x64, and MacOS PPC64 clients, and it will have a web based front end gui scheduler (just like Sun's), and it will be easy to use (just like Sun's), and it will be able to do accounting back to users at the 1 hour interval (just like Sun's) because I will be using _Sun's_ grid engine software to do it.
I would also point out that you can use the Sun N1 Grid Engine software for free, and that you only need to pay Sun money when you want support.
POVRay has already runs on Solaris 10 on x86-64 hardware.
http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/povray
I'm sure a bunch of other people have binaries too.
Let's not forget burning churches and blowing up federal buildings.
By lines are not usually in the body of the article. But as a slashdot reader I can only assume you are new to RTFA.
In the case of print media (the AP is still essentially a print media company), the by line follows the title or the body of the article.
In this particular case, it immediately follows the title:
By PETER SVENSSON, AP Technology Writer
By lines are not usually in the body of the article. But as a slashdot reader I can only assume you are new to RTFA.
In the case of print media (the AP is still essentially a print media company), the by line follows the title or is the last line of the article.
In this particular case, it immediately follows the article:
By PETER SVENSSON, AP Technology Writer
I learned about this earlier this morning from the ad on the /. front page.
Fire the editors and just have a page of techhie ads, we'll get more timely info!
I have always hated caller ID every since it has existed, because people always assume that the name of the person on the caller-id is the person that is calling them, and this is not true. All caller-id tells you is what phone is being used to call you, it tells you no information about the person that is using that phone (except maybe where they are physically located).
Now, hopefully people will stop answering there phone "Hello Bob" when they see that the phone number that is Bob is paying for is being used to call them.
Caller-ID should be more accurately titled, "source phone number id", it's the difference from using an IP address to identify a user and using pidentd to identify a user.
I have to stop typing now, I'm getting so angry just thinking about how evil caller-id is, not because of the technology used, but because of the assumptions that users of the technology make.
This is requirement for all code contributions to GCC.
You have to assign the copyright to the FSF which most people will probably agree is more benevolent than Novell, but there is nothing new here and it is definitely not a violation of the GPL.
Let us not forget that Darwin actually aruged that acquired traits are not inherited.
Now if you continue to believe in Lamarck's theories of evolution than this is significant, but since his theories have been thoroughly discredited by the scientific community for the past 200 years, this is just a messed up ape that now walks on two legs and has absolutely no significance in the future evolution of apes.
There seems to be some confusion about what the code is in X11R6.7. Everyone seems to think it is just a fork of XFree86 brought about because of licence changes, or "squabbles" over development direction. This is simply not the case.
The X Consortium has been producing the "offical" X11 codebase now for quite some time, distributing it under the orginial MIT licence. There are continual updates, which get a minor number, e.g. X11R6.3, X11R6.6, X11R6.7.
However, traditionally the codebase for X.org while being "open source" has been "closed development" and only members of the X Consortium contributed code updates. This wasn't that big of a deal since the members, Sun, IBM, SGI, Compaq/HP/DEC, Hummingbird, were the only people actually using the X11 codebase in their products.
Recently, since Januaray, the X11 Consortium has switched to an "open development" model similar to Linux, Apache, etc. where anyone can contribute patches to the code base.
Also at this time they "standardized" with the rest of the X world (XFree86, freedesktop.org) on libraries, though they still continue seperate code bases for the actual X server and X clients.
X11R6.7 is NOT just a fork of XFree86, is the next iteration of a long and stable (and in my opinion a pretty damn good) X11R6 implementation. It does incorporate freatures/code from the XFree86 code base, but it is not a fork.
These are the facts they way I see them. It is quite possible I'm wrong.
considering that none of that $699 pays for an OS
Sharp does have to pay an undisclosed amount of money to TrollTech to use the Qtopia interface.
From Qtopia Pricing page
For prices, conditions and licensing terms on building a Qtopia device, please contact Trolltech Sales to discuss available packages.