I don't know about other cell phones, but Nokia phones have an adaptive dictionary. For example, to type 'hello world', I don't have to hit 44 33 555 555 666 0 9 666 777 555 3 -- I just hit 4 3 5 5 6 0 9 6 7 5 3. That makes it a bit easier to type text messages, though it's still requires way more work than typing on a qwerty keyboard.
I have a bluetooth-enabled device (my cell phone), but neither of my PCs support it. Is there a USB Bluetooth device I can buy? Does anyone know of one that works with FreeBSD (or failing that, Linux)?
Heh, yeah. I really need that now. I upgraded from a TNT2 to a GeForce 4 Ti4200, which isn't supported by XFree86.
The JDK thing is an issue, too. To build 1.3 on FreeBSD, I need the JDK sources, which Sun is reluctant to give out. If you try to download it, you'll find that you need to be in one of 60-odd countries to download source code (which I'm not). I end up relying on friends to build me a JDK package.
i believe there is a company out there that sells 550MHz G3 (or was it G4?) processors and motherboards. I don't know about the cost -- it was supposed to be ~ $500 or so.
hmm. searching google brings up this site which lists a lot of companies and boards with some specs.
Someone please help. I feel like I'm all alone here and I just don't know what to do. Maybe I would be better off just saving myself all the suffering that is coming...
i think you've been waiting for the wrong thing. right from the beginning, freebsd's sparc port effort has aimed for the sparc4u, not the older architectures.
That was my experience with Mnet as well, when I tried it in February. However, people figured out why that was happening, and now I almost always get whatever I try to download.
I've sent in an odd patch or two; I think it's worth my time. By the way the file publishing/sharing stuff is only one practical use for it; I've thought about writing some sort of mail store using Mnet/EGTP, for example.
FreeBSD is not stable. This is a legend. My company has a bunch of FreeBSD web servers, and they are crashing like hell.
Remove the keyboard, plug it in again, and it doesn't work any more, wow.
hardware issue. btw, i've seen this done a lot of times at one workplace on freebsd boxes -- no problems.
And no, FreeBSD isn't fast. The filesystem is damn slow, and unreliable, even with softupdates. And don't expect to have a
lot of files in the same directory, you would hurt it.
i hope that speed problem isn't the same old 'linux mounts filesystems async' issue. that's been beaten to death. and freebsd 4.6 has no problems with large numbers of files in a directory.
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Certain networks work over GSM at 1900 MHz.
Most of the world uses either 900 or 1800 MHz (new one: 850). Get a triband cell phone and you're set.
I'm interested in this. Is it up on a website somewhere?
I don't know about other cell phones, but Nokia phones have an adaptive dictionary. For example, to type 'hello world', I don't have to hit 44 33 555 555 666 0 9 666 777 555 3 -- I just hit 4 3 5 5 6 0 9 6 7 5 3.
That makes it a bit easier to type text messages, though it's still requires way more work than typing on a qwerty keyboard.
I'm curious -- what type of maturity problems are holding you back? Is it the lack of ported third-party modules?
I'm using it at work for either serving static + cgi content, or for svn.
Mouse gestures in the form of pie menus have been around for a while now. See, for example:
You can even find pie menus in real life -- look at home entertainment appliance remotes.
A sorta technical name for this is "second system syndrome." Search for it on Google.
FreeBSD-current (will be cut as 5.0-release in a few days) has snapshots support.
FreeBSD isn't Linux, but it's a heck of a lot cheaper than a NetApp.
Ah, but what if you save the stylesheet in a separate file and use the same markup in multiple docs?
CSS wins.
These days, all people seem to care about is whether their code works with MSIE 5+ or not.
That's it.
I have a bluetooth-enabled device (my cell phone), but neither of my PCs support it. Is there a USB Bluetooth device I can buy? Does anyone know of one that works with FreeBSD (or failing that, Linux)?
Heh, yeah. I really need that now. I upgraded from a TNT2 to a GeForce 4 Ti4200, which isn't supported by XFree86.
The JDK thing is an issue, too. To build 1.3 on FreeBSD, I need the JDK sources, which Sun is reluctant to give out. If you try to download it, you'll find that you need to be in one of 60-odd countries to download source code (which I'm not). I end up relying on friends to build me a JDK package.
What happened to the official JDK port?
i believe there is a company out there that sells 550MHz G3 (or was it G4?) processors and motherboards. I don't know about the cost -- it was supposed to be ~ $500 or so. hmm. searching google brings up this site which lists a lot of companies and boards with some specs.
i'd be happy to use a ppc box as my desktop while not paying apple prices.
it should look good in mozilla and ns7 (same rendering engine). after all, aol/time warner owns both netscape and cnn.
fwiw, it rendered fine for me under mozilla 1.0.
ah, that would make sense.
exactly how do you run interpreted perl code faster than compiled C code?
i don't know, i just keep hoping for a funnier troll.
perhaps some day you lunixes will learn to innovate instead of copying.
whatever you do -- linux isn't the answer.
similar enough not to matter. i mean, you get bash, grep, etc in both.
What it's good for - in particular, is it good for desktop use(since it runs KDE)?
it's a general purpose unixy os, like linux. good for the same stuff, including desktop foo.
Advantages and disadvantages
depend entirely on your requirements.
i don't have any links. try them both out and decide for yourself.
man, that troll's old. can't you even come up with new material?
i think you've been waiting for the wrong thing. right from the beginning, freebsd's sparc port effort has aimed for the sparc4u, not the older architectures.
lots have switched away.
see http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/blurb.html for some of them. lycos, btw, switched to it a couple of weeks ago.
do a google search for 'xenu' and check the bottom of the page.
That was my experience with Mnet as well, when I tried it in February. However, people figured out why that was happening, and now I almost always get whatever I try to download.
I've sent in an odd patch or two; I think it's worth my time. By the way the file publishing/sharing stuff is only one practical use for it; I've thought about writing some sort of mail store using Mnet/EGTP, for example.
FreeBSD is not stable. This is a legend. My company has a bunch of FreeBSD web servers, and they are crashing like hell.
Remove the keyboard, plug it in again, and it doesn't work any more, wow.
hardware issue. btw, i've seen this done a lot of times at one workplace on freebsd boxes -- no problems.
And no, FreeBSD isn't fast. The filesystem is damn slow, and unreliable, even with softupdates. And don't expect to have a
lot of files in the same directory, you would hurt it.
i hope that speed problem isn't the same old 'linux mounts filesystems async' issue. that's been beaten to death. and freebsd 4.6 has no problems with large numbers of files in a directory.