Go pickup a logitech harmony remote. They are a little pricey, but it solved all my remote woes. It turns on all devices for a specified activity (watch a dvd, and it turns on the tuner, sets it to DVD, turns on the TV, sets it to input 1, turns on the DVD player). Likewise there is a "OFF" button that just turns off everything. VERY nice remote.
I fully agree with the fair-use rights advocates, but in this case, I think they may be going to far. Although yes, it is my browser on my computer, and I should be able to do whatever I want with it, I don't OWN that book, so I should not be able to download it for free. Although the more creative and devious people on the net may find a way to get past the Google DRM, I don't see why helping them get through it faster is a good idea. If the google DRM is cracked, and anyone can download books freely, that feature will simply be removed, and Amazon will likely do the same - resulting in the loss of a great resource to those online.
That would be the reason why it allows you to store multiple profiles, and actively encourages users to store more than one finger, and on more than one hand (just look at the screenshots).
With M$ realizing that they have competition, they will strive to improve their products (with how much success?). If they actually do improve their wares, the Linux community will ralley to improve the software in Linux. Everybody wins.
I was lucky enough to meet Linus at the last Bay Area Linux User Group (LUG) picnic, and he was still at tranmeta. He hinted at a new product that would use low power as the big selling point. I wouldn't be too worried about good linux support in the chip with Linux around Transmeta.
I dont think those senators or the RIAA really care at all about what the general public thinks is fair/not-fair use of the products purchased. All these senators care about is the bottom dollar, and how many ben franklins are in their pocket. It would be nice if they really did care what their constituants (sp) thought, but the truth is they dont, wont, and never really did.
It's nice to see productive discussion (rather than the oh-so-common flame wars) taking place to the benefit of linux/open-source. Hopefully this will provide a much-needed improved configuration tool for linux, and will also demonstrate to the "closed-source" community just how beneficial open-source really is.
gentoo also isnt production stable yet. I've been using it on my home PC for about 6 months now, and although I love the portage system, it isnt perfect yet. Quite frequently, I've had to go in and edit files by hand, without any docs from the install, and without network access (emerge world killed my NIC several times, and my IDE controller another). Hopefully in time it will become more mature.
problems with GCC3.2 though
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LFS 4.0 Released
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I've been using the 4.0 release candidate for about 2 weeks now, and although it is AWSOME, it does have some problems with some packages, like GDB and Tripwire (neither will compile). I'm pretty sure the problems are related to GCC 3.2. Hopefully a patch for GCC will be released soon so as to compile these apps properly. Just a warning for those interested in LFS (its great otherwise).
But with the demise of the record label comes the end of the recording industry, at least as we know it. Do you really think that Korn or even Jimmy Buffet is going to hang around and make music for free? will eminem be as amusing if he isnt fu*ked up (from record-industry money/drugs) all the time? We're stuck in a catch-22.
Where do I sign up? Am I the only one that can imagine the fun you could have with this? How about an SMP Mac os X running on this beaut? Damn, that would look good (OSX is way too slow now, maybe it just needs a couple of procs for "eye-candy"...)
The illegeal activites going on in this country are getting out of control. I don't mean to single out the US, but this is where I live and work, and this is supposed to be a great country. Instead, all I hear of are large companies that are literally ruining its loyal employees. I was taught in school that america was founded on the principal that if we all work together, we can all be happy, productive, and (hopefully), somewhat wealthy. Instead, the top 1% are really screwing the rest of us with illegeal activities, fraud, lies and cheating. It really makes me sick.
Apparently you're not familar with the practice of "laundering" money. See, Gates "donates" a few hundred million to some various charites whos chairperson owes him a favor or something (maybe good-ol Bill gave their kid a job), and then THAT person turns around, reinvests the money in the "gates foundation", and bingo, Bill gets tax-free income. Kinda like the trouble they've been having with the IRS regarding that little $900M that they "forgot" to claim on their taxes. OOPS!
How were they able to get Steve Jobs to OK this? That guy has made every bad business decision he could, I dont understand why he is suddenly changing his game plan. Whats next, open source aqua (that would rock)? I dunno, just my 2 cents
This is bad. The only reason i can imagine that microsoft would do this is to solidify their argument for Palladium, or whatever the next incantation of it will be. By showing how the DMCA is ineffective in protecting against reverse-engineering and such, microsoft is trying to sneak their version of copyprotection in the "back door". Those guys (M$) don't do anything unless it will get them money. Never forget that, lest you be become assimilated. Remember....
Salesmen: Now you see, we're going to freeze you, and you'll be reanimated again in about 100 years Geek: So, when I wake up, linux will rule them all, and microsoft will be selling leisure suit lenny? Salesmen: Uh, yeah, sure, leenux. Here, just sign away your stock options from IBM, and we'll take care of the rest Geek: All right, just like Futuroma! Psycho robots and big-tittied one-eyed chicks here I come!
Great, something else for the MPAA to be pissed aobut. Those greedy little buggers... Anyway, I think this is great. Nothing better than "Ernest goes to camp" on an IMAX screen. Just what the world needs.
If the fingers/hand have sufficent PSI force, the military could make a hell of a augmented suit for special forces - I can see it now, a marine running through afghan wearing a backpack that has 6 of these arms on it, all with weapons... Sounds like another sequel to Robocop
They've been promising this since January of this year. Nice to see they're finally following thru, now that I've found a new wireless provider and all.
I see, says the blind man peeing into the wind. Sorry for the misunderstanding, I think I've had too much coffee this morning. Time for a cup of Bawls!
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Go pickup a logitech harmony remote. They are a little pricey, but it solved all my remote woes. It turns on all devices for a specified activity (watch a dvd, and it turns on the tuner, sets it to DVD, turns on the TV, sets it to input 1, turns on the DVD player). Likewise there is a "OFF" button that just turns off everything. VERY nice remote.
You're not billed by what time the phone thinks it is, but buy by what time the telco computer says it is.
I fully agree with the fair-use rights advocates, but in this case, I think they may be going to far. Although yes, it is my browser on my computer, and I should be able to do whatever I want with it, I don't OWN that book, so I should not be able to download it for free. Although the more creative and devious people on the net may find a way to get past the Google DRM, I don't see why helping them get through it faster is a good idea. If the google DRM is cracked, and anyone can download books freely, that feature will simply be removed, and Amazon will likely do the same - resulting in the loss of a great resource to those online.
That would be the reason why it allows you to store multiple profiles, and actively encourages users to store more than one finger, and on more than one hand (just look at the screenshots).
With M$ realizing that they have competition, they will strive to improve their products (with how much success?). If they actually do improve their wares, the Linux community will ralley to improve the software in Linux.
Everybody wins.
I was lucky enough to meet Linus at the last Bay Area Linux User Group (LUG) picnic, and he was still at tranmeta. He hinted at a new product that would use low power as the big selling point. I wouldn't be too worried about good linux support in the chip with Linux around Transmeta.
I dont think those senators or the RIAA really care at all about what the general public thinks is fair/not-fair use of the products purchased. All these senators care about is the bottom dollar, and how many ben franklins are in their pocket. It would be nice if they really did care what their constituants (sp) thought, but the truth is they dont, wont, and never really did.
It's nice to see productive discussion (rather than the oh-so-common flame wars) taking place to the benefit of linux/open-source. Hopefully this will provide a much-needed improved configuration tool for linux, and will also demonstrate to the "closed-source" community just how beneficial open-source really is.
I've been trying to compile gdb 5.2.1 with GCC 3.2 with the LFS patch, and the dam thing dies on db_pthread everytime.
gentoo also isnt production stable yet. I've been using it on my home PC for about 6 months now, and although I love the portage system, it isnt perfect yet. Quite frequently, I've had to go in and edit files by hand, without any docs from the install, and without network access (emerge world killed my NIC several times, and my IDE controller another). Hopefully in time it will become more mature.
I've been using the 4.0 release candidate for about 2 weeks now, and although it is AWSOME, it does have some problems with some packages, like GDB and Tripwire (neither will compile). I'm pretty sure the problems are related to GCC 3.2. Hopefully a patch for GCC will be released soon so as to compile these apps properly. Just a warning for those interested in LFS (its great otherwise).
But with the demise of the record label comes the end of the recording industry, at least as we know it. Do you really think that Korn or even Jimmy Buffet is going to hang around and make music for free? will eminem be as amusing if he isnt fu*ked up (from record-industry money/drugs) all the time? We're stuck in a catch-22.
Gods Waiting Room gets metro. Hopefully they'll give the over-65 generation free passes, get them off the roads.
Where do I sign up? Am I the only one that can imagine the fun you could have with this? How about an SMP Mac os X running on this beaut? Damn, that would look good (OSX is way too slow now, maybe it just needs a couple of procs for "eye-candy"...)
I've heard denmark is nice...
The illegeal activites going on in this country are getting out of control. I don't mean to single out the US, but this is where I live and work, and this is supposed to be a great country. Instead, all I hear of are large companies that are literally ruining its loyal employees. I was taught in school that america was founded on the principal that if we all work together, we can all be happy, productive, and (hopefully), somewhat wealthy. Instead, the top 1% are really screwing the rest of us with illegeal activities, fraud, lies and cheating. It really makes me sick.
Apparently you're not familar with the practice of "laundering" money. See, Gates "donates" a few hundred million to some various charites whos chairperson owes him a favor or something (maybe good-ol Bill gave their kid a job), and then THAT person turns around, reinvests the money in the "gates foundation", and bingo, Bill gets tax-free income. Kinda like the trouble they've been having with the IRS regarding that little $900M that they "forgot" to claim on their taxes. OOPS!
How were they able to get Steve Jobs to OK this? That guy has made every bad business decision he could, I dont understand why he is suddenly changing his game plan. Whats next, open source aqua (that would rock)? I dunno, just my 2 cents
This is bad. The only reason i can imagine that microsoft would do this is to solidify their argument for Palladium, or whatever the next incantation of it will be. By showing how the DMCA is ineffective in protecting against reverse-engineering and such, microsoft is trying to sneak their version of copyprotection in the "back door". Those guys (M$) don't do anything unless it will get them money. Never forget that, lest you be become assimilated. Remember....
Resistance is futile
Salesmen: Now you see, we're going to freeze you, and you'll be reanimated again in about 100 years
Geek: So, when I wake up, linux will rule them all, and microsoft will be selling leisure suit lenny?
Salesmen: Uh, yeah, sure, leenux. Here, just sign away your stock options from IBM, and we'll take care of the rest
Geek: All right, just like Futuroma! Psycho robots and big-tittied one-eyed chicks here I come!
Great, something else for the MPAA to be pissed aobut. Those greedy little buggers... Anyway, I think this is great. Nothing better than "Ernest goes to camp" on an IMAX screen. Just what the world needs.
If the fingers/hand have sufficent PSI force, the military could make a hell of a augmented suit for special forces - I can see it now, a marine running through afghan wearing a backpack that has 6 of these arms on it, all with weapons... Sounds like another sequel to Robocop
Finally, I can use both hands to browse the net! We'll just have to see how life-like skin they can create...
They've been promising this since January of this year. Nice to see they're finally following thru, now that I've found a new wireless provider and all.
I see, says the blind man peeing into the wind. Sorry for the misunderstanding, I think I've had too much coffee this morning. Time for a cup of Bawls!