Well, not exactly the cheapest, but for what it offers, it's amazing...
My car came with a pretty good casette player, so I didn't want to replace it. Instead, I got a casette adapter from Future Shop, that plugs into the line out of any cd player/sound card. I also bought a lighter power adapter for my old Thinkpad laptop.
The total cost for the adapters and laptop was around $600CAD, which is pretty steep. But I get to play mp3s in my car off my mp3 cds, and have a laptop that is usefull for something other than just that.
So IMHO, this is the best solution to having a car mp3 player. Feel free to disagree though...:P
I don't know much about DCOM and ASP, so I'm not going to argue with you on that.
But I _do_ have first-hand experience installing DirectX on my box in NT. First of all, I have to run NT on my box because I have a Dual Celeron, so windoze 95/98 is out of the question. I use it for nothing but playing games. I use Linux for everything else, at least untill my TNT2 is decently supported, and Quake3 works on it (any tips that can help me do that would be greatly appreciated:)
Did you know that DirectX 7 does not work on NT? It was a pain to dig up an old DirectX 6.1 (which I could not find on M$'s webpage), and then waste some more time looking for DirectPlay 6.1a. But nowhere is that specified on the M$ webpage. They were saying that I should use ServicePack6 which comes with DirectX3!!! But Age of Empires2, the only reason why I needed it in the firs place only works with 6.1a or higher.
So much for MS "de-facto standards" and "ease of use"...
Well, I happen to be a gnome user (I am running Window Maker + gnome), and I tend to disagree with you. It is different from Windoze, but the features you are talking about take just a bit of time to get used to.
But even supposing you're right, there _is_ a desktop environment that does a really god job at copying Windoze. It's KDE.
I set it as the default desktop for the other users on my box, and when one of my friends (one that would fit into that category which would be bothered by differences in the UI) used it, he asked me what cool app was I using instead of the windoze taskbar.
He was talking about the KDE panel.
So Linux has come up with "something equivalent". Actually, all the window managers and all the desktop environments in Linux are "something equivalent". But imho, kde is as close to "something identical" as possible.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but none of the games I've tried in vmware-1.1.2 running windoze NT worked (which btw worked just fine under NT w/o vmware).
These games include StarCraft, Age of Empires1 and 2, Grand Turismo 2 (or 3, I forget).
It all has to do with the video driver that vmware uses in NT, which is an SVGA, that only supports 640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768. All those games required different resolutions, and they didn't work.
Well, I don't think they will. I've seen a lot of laptop track balls, and they all had one HUGE problem: keeping them clean.
Just like with a mouse, you can clean it only so much, eventually they will die, no matter how expensive the mouse/track ball is. And usually they'll die first, and there's no way you can replace them.
If you really want one though, Logitech makes one that's specifically for the laptops and I believe it plugs into the ps2 port and attaches to the side of the laptop.
Well, about a year ago, before I graduated from a highschool in Toronto, I wanted to install Linux on _one_ of the many computers in my old school, so that students would be able to see what Linux in particular and Open Source can do.
The reason was they couldn't spare any decent computers, because they were needed for "teaching purposes". The best they could do was give me an old 486SX at 25Mhz w/ a whopping 4Mb RAM.
And this is a rich school. A year before I graduated they bought about 100 P2 systems. They also have 2 new labs, each with 20 brand-new iMacs this year.
Its good to see that at least in one school people make sense.
First, how much faster can processors get? I'm not only talking about the x86 world, but all the other ones that are silicon-alluminum/copper based? Four years ago (or thereabouts), when I got my P100 speeds of 1Ghz were almost unthikable of.
Second, except for PR purposes, what is the need for such fast cpus? I mean right now there isn't one thing that I need to get done that my P2 300 cannot do it. Not to mention that I still use the P100 every day almost. I agree, there are certain computing tasks that require a _lot_ of processing power, but is that demand so great that the Crays (soon to be Tera soon to be Cray again), or the other supercomputers cannot handle it?
Their numbering scheme is not off, at least as far as they're concerned. I think it's based on the outer case shape (among a lot of other things most likely).
All the III's have the same basic shape, and they are only incremental upgrades to the previous III. The new ones have a different case colour, but that about it as far as I could tell from its general appearance.
Now the V, and the Vx (which is basically a V w/8Mb ram) have a completely different shape. The case is aluminum, etc. Not only that, but it tries to appeal to a completely different market than the III series, even though on the inside they are pretty much identical (I could never get CPU speeds, but I'm assuming they're not too different)
And the VII, it looks different, again and it also has wireless communication built-in. It _is_ the most advanced of the Palms, or at least was untill the IIIc and IIIxe came out.
My point is that basically the new III's are a lot closer to the III-series than any other of the palms, bfor the only thing different about them is the colour screen and black case. So that's why they've named then accordingly.
Suppose you're sshed (or Ugh! telneted) onto another system, which has a much faster bandwidth than your system (dial-up modem connected to a T3 or something like that). You want to browse the web to do a quick search for some stuff you want to download on the fast-bandwidth system, where from you could later get them. (Warez sites come to mind. One day they're there, the next they're not)
Also, I find that reading articles in console to be much easier on my eyes that reading them in X.
Not to mention probably the most important reason, there are still many quite useable computers (like my old 486) which would almost choke on X+Communicator.
So are these good enough reasons for text browsers?
Well, it so happens that I use Mozilla as my main browser while I'm in X. I still have Netscape 4.7 installed, but I haven't touched it since Mozilla reached M13 (Alpha).
They seem to have fixed the menus, which in M12 took a long time to appear when you clicked on them and a few other really noticeable bugs. It is fast and has _all_ the features I need. I'm not exactly sure which features it's lacking, so it would have been nice for you to specify which were those.:P
As to Mozilla being ugly, I happen to like it very much, so you don't really have a point there.
I'm writing all this not because I love Mozilla, but because I don't agree with people bashing some programs for no particular reason. I'm pretty sure Konqueror, in its present devel stage is just as bad (if not worse) than Mozilla is.
Btw, my favourite browser is links, which apparently, is very much like w3m.
When StarCraft first came out (in 98 I believe), it probably was the best strategy game at that point. And, like some of the people that posted here, I kept my windoze for no other reason than to play it.
Eventually I got tired of rebooting into windoze for it, and now I haven't played it in almost 6 months...
So for me, this port (when and if it's going to come) is too late. But it's still good to see that games companies are starting to develop for Linux...
That used to be the case with gtk+ and glib 1.0.6 and the devel branch 1.1.x, where indeed you had to install multiple occurances in order to use the latest gtk apps.
Since 1.2.x I have never needed to install multiple versions. All the gtk apps that I use (and which are by far more numerous than the kde ones) work just fine with my current 1.2.6.
As with regards to gtk being bloatware, I'm not sure. It won't run on my 486SLC2 66 w/16Mb ram, but it runs quite well on a P 200Mhz w/64Mb RAM. And on a P2 300Mhz w/192Mb ram is simply flyes. And that is valib for any of the themes that I've tried so far (pretty much all of the ones on gtk.t.o)
I'm just wondering how many companies do exactly what DoubleClick does, that is collecting information about their users. I would like to believe that there aren't many, but most likely all of them do it, in one way or another.
The real question to be answered imho is wether this data-collecting is a bad thing or we should't even care.
In my case, Rogers@home has the information about my box, but it's the stuff that I told them. They're thinking I'm running NT.:P It never hurt me, so I don't care.
But how can someone decide which are cases in which it really matters? Any ideeas? For me it's a really important issue, because I can't spend all my time making sure if my privacy is respected or not.
That wouldn't work at all, simply because most of the stupid, off-topic and otherwise annoying posts are made by ppl using the AC account.
If you would block all posts from this account you would lose a lot of otherwise interesting messages coming from the same account.
The way I deal with it is I set the level to 1 when the discussion is new, and later to 2 or 3 when there's just too many posts rated at 1 for me to read.
I just wonder how successful this chip is going to be. I mean nobody is denying the fact that Athlon is far superior to the P3, but in all the adds from Toronto computer magazines, you barely see any systems running them.
Will this chip have the same hard time to enter the market?
It sound just like when I reinstalled NT on my hdd (I had Linux installed before that) and I ended up with 3 partitions: 800MB NT (which btw was correct), one partition of -2Mb and one of -10Mb (that is negative) out of my whole 8.4Gb hdd...
I know this one time I _had_ to make a phone call from a public phone, and there was somebody inside. So I started cursing the guy in Romanian (the whole thing is happening in Toronto) because he would not come out. Well, when he finally finished talking, he comes out and replies "It's all yours!" in Romanian. I can't imagine the look on my face when I heard him...
Now if we all had those language translators, none of it would have happened. I don't want to be deprived of he opportunity of making an ass of myself, do I?
I had the same problem and after I've tried many different WMs, I settled for Window Maker. You can define key bindings for any function that it can peform (from switching desktops and windows to menus).
I've been using it for almost a year now, and I had no reason to switch to a different WM based on functionality.
The problem I couldn't solve however was the fact that each GUI app has its own command bindings (if any at all). Gnome and KDE are trying to create a certain standard, but they're not there yet.
Most likely the easiest way is to run Linux console-only or Linux+X with a lot of *terms open...
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Well, not exactly the cheapest, but for what it offers, it's amazing...
:P
My car came with a pretty good casette player, so I didn't want to replace it. Instead, I got a casette adapter from Future Shop, that plugs into the line out of any cd player/sound card. I also bought a lighter power adapter for my old Thinkpad laptop.
The total cost for the adapters and laptop was around $600CAD, which is pretty steep. But I get to play mp3s in my car off my mp3 cds, and have a laptop that is usefull for something other than just that.
So IMHO, this is the best solution to having a car mp3 player. Feel free to disagree though...
I don't know much about DCOM and ASP, so I'm not going to argue with you on that.
:)
But I _do_ have first-hand experience installing DirectX on my box in NT. First of all, I have to run NT on my box because I have a Dual Celeron, so windoze 95/98 is out of the question. I use it for nothing but playing games. I use Linux for everything else, at least untill my TNT2 is decently supported, and Quake3 works on it (any tips that can help me do that would be greatly appreciated
Did you know that DirectX 7 does not work on NT? It was a pain to dig up an old DirectX 6.1 (which I could not find on M$'s webpage), and then waste some more time looking for DirectPlay 6.1a. But nowhere is that specified on the M$ webpage. They were saying that I should use ServicePack6 which comes with DirectX3!!! But Age of Empires2, the only reason why I needed it in the firs place only works with 6.1a or higher.
So much for MS "de-facto standards" and "ease of use"...
Well, I happen to be a gnome user (I am running Window Maker + gnome), and I tend to disagree with you. It is different from Windoze, but the features you are talking about take just a bit of time to get used to.
But even supposing you're right, there _is_ a desktop environment that does a really god job at copying Windoze. It's KDE.
I set it as the default desktop for the other users on my box, and when one of my friends (one that would fit into that category which would be bothered by differences in the UI) used it, he asked me what cool app was I using instead of the windoze taskbar.
He was talking about the KDE panel.
So Linux has come up with "something equivalent". Actually, all the window managers and all the desktop environments in Linux are "something equivalent". But imho, kde is as close to "something identical" as possible.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but none of the games I've tried in vmware-1.1.2 running windoze NT worked (which btw worked just fine under NT w/o vmware).
These games include StarCraft, Age of Empires1 and 2, Grand Turismo 2 (or 3, I forget).
It all has to do with the video driver that vmware uses in NT, which is an SVGA, that only supports 640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768. All those games required different resolutions, and they didn't work.
Well, I don't think they will. I've seen a lot of laptop track balls, and they all had one HUGE problem: keeping them clean.
Just like with a mouse, you can clean it only so much, eventually they will die, no matter how expensive the mouse/track ball is. And usually they'll die first, and there's no way you can replace them.
If you really want one though, Logitech makes one that's specifically for the laptops and I believe it plugs into the ps2 port and attaches to the side of the laptop.
Well, about a year ago, before I graduated from a highschool in Toronto, I wanted to install Linux on _one_ of the many computers in my old school, so that students would be able to see what Linux in particular and Open Source can do.
The reason was they couldn't spare any decent computers, because they were needed for "teaching purposes". The best they could do was give me an old 486SX at 25Mhz w/ a whopping 4Mb RAM.
And this is a rich school. A year before I graduated they bought about 100 P2 systems. They also have 2 new labs, each with 20 brand-new iMacs this year.
Its good to see that at least in one school people make sense.
First, how much faster can processors get? I'm not only talking about the x86 world, but all the other ones that are silicon-alluminum/copper based? Four years ago (or thereabouts), when I got my P100 speeds of 1Ghz were almost unthikable of.
Second, except for PR purposes, what is the need for such fast cpus? I mean right now there isn't one thing that I need to get done that my P2 300 cannot do it. Not to mention that I still use the P100 every day almost. I agree, there are certain computing tasks that require a _lot_ of processing power, but is that demand so great that the Crays (soon to be Tera soon to be Cray again), or the other supercomputers cannot handle it?
Their numbering scheme is not off, at least as far as they're concerned. I think it's based on the outer case shape (among a lot of other things most likely).
All the III's have the same basic shape, and they are only incremental upgrades to the previous III. The new ones have a different case colour, but that about it as far as I could tell from its general appearance.
Now the V, and the Vx (which is basically a V w/8Mb ram) have a completely different shape. The case is aluminum, etc. Not only that, but it tries to appeal to a completely different market than the III series, even though on the inside they are pretty much identical (I could never get CPU speeds, but I'm assuming they're not too different)
And the VII, it looks different, again and it also has wireless communication built-in. It _is_ the most advanced of the Palms, or at least was untill the IIIc and IIIxe came out.
My point is that basically the new III's are a lot closer to the III-series than any other of the palms, bfor the only thing different about them is the colour screen and black case. So that's why they've named then accordingly.
Dude! You beat me to it by 3 minutes!!!
lol!
Suppose you're sshed (or Ugh! telneted) onto another system, which has a much faster bandwidth than your system (dial-up modem connected to a T3 or something like that). You want to browse the web to do a quick search for some stuff you want to download on the fast-bandwidth system, where from you could later get them. (Warez sites come to mind. One day they're there, the next they're not)
Also, I find that reading articles in console to be much easier on my eyes that reading them in X.
Not to mention probably the most important reason, there are still many quite useable computers (like my old 486) which would almost choke on X+Communicator.
So are these good enough reasons for text browsers?
Well, it so happens that I use Mozilla as my main browser while I'm in X. I still have Netscape 4.7 installed, but I haven't touched it since Mozilla reached M13 (Alpha).
:P
They seem to have fixed the menus, which in M12 took a long time to appear when you clicked on them and a few other really noticeable bugs. It is fast and has _all_ the features I need. I'm not exactly sure which features it's lacking, so it would have been nice for you to specify which were those.
As to Mozilla being ugly, I happen to like it very much, so you don't really have a point there.
I'm writing all this not because I love Mozilla, but because I don't agree with people bashing some programs for no particular reason. I'm pretty sure Konqueror, in its present devel stage is just as bad (if not worse) than Mozilla is.
Btw, my favourite browser is links, which apparently, is very much like w3m.
When StarCraft first came out (in 98 I believe), it probably was the best strategy game at that point. And, like some of the people that posted here, I kept my windoze for no other reason than to play it.
Eventually I got tired of rebooting into windoze for it, and now I haven't played it in almost 6 months...
So for me, this port (when and if it's going to come) is too late. But it's still good to see that games companies are starting to develop for Linux...
That used to be the case with gtk+ and glib 1.0.6 and the devel branch 1.1.x, where indeed you had to install multiple occurances in order to use the latest gtk apps.
Since 1.2.x I have never needed to install multiple versions. All the gtk apps that I use (and which are by far more numerous than the kde ones) work just fine with my current 1.2.6.
As with regards to gtk being bloatware, I'm not sure. It won't run on my 486SLC2 66 w/16Mb ram, but it runs quite well on a P 200Mhz w/64Mb RAM. And on a P2 300Mhz w/192Mb ram is simply flyes. And that is valib for any of the themes that I've tried so far (pretty much all of the ones on gtk.t.o)
I'm just wondering how many companies do exactly what DoubleClick does, that is collecting information about their users. I would like to believe that there aren't many, but most likely all of them do it, in one way or another.
:P It never hurt me, so I don't care.
The real question to be answered imho is wether this data-collecting is a bad thing or we should't even care.
In my case, Rogers@home has the information about my box, but it's the stuff that I told them. They're thinking I'm running NT.
But how can someone decide which are cases in which it really matters? Any ideeas? For me it's a really important issue, because I can't spend all my time making sure if my privacy is respected or not.
That wouldn't work at all, simply because most of the stupid, off-topic and otherwise annoying posts are made by ppl using the AC account.
If you would block all posts from this account you would lose a lot of otherwise interesting messages coming from the same account.
The way I deal with it is I set the level to 1 when the discussion is new, and later to 2 or 3 when there's just too many posts rated at 1 for me to read.
I just wonder how successful this chip is going to be. I mean nobody is denying the fact that Athlon is far superior to the P3, but in all the adds from Toronto computer magazines, you barely see any systems running them.
Will this chip have the same hard time to enter the market?
Great! Now everybody and their grandmother are going to try trademarking the name Linux.
rotfl!
:P
It sound just like when I reinstalled NT on my hdd (I had Linux installed before that) and I ended up with 3 partitions: 800MB NT (which btw was correct), one partition of -2Mb and one of -10Mb (that is negative) out of my whole 8.4Gb hdd...
So winblows sucks! What else is new?
Now where would be the fun of that?!?
I know this one time I _had_ to make a phone call from a public phone, and there was somebody inside. So I started cursing the guy in Romanian (the whole thing is happening in Toronto) because he would not come out. Well, when he finally finished talking, he comes out and replies "It's all yours!" in Romanian. I can't imagine the look on my face when I heard him...
Now if we all had those language translators, none of it would have happened. I don't want to be deprived of he opportunity of making an ass of myself, do I?
Just when I thought I had finally decided what I want for Christmas, they had to come out with something else, didn't they!
But I think I'll pass on it. It makes you look too much like Lord Dread (pardon the spelling)...
I think I'll wait untill they come out with something smaller.
I had the same problem and after I've tried many different WMs, I settled for Window Maker. You can define key bindings for any function that it can peform (from switching desktops and windows to menus).
I've been using it for almost a year now, and I had no reason to switch to a different WM based on functionality.
The problem I couldn't solve however was the fact that each GUI app has its own command bindings (if any at all). Gnome and KDE are trying to create a certain standard, but they're not there yet.
Most likely the easiest way is to run Linux console-only or Linux+X with a lot of *terms open...