companies should not be allowed to "own" information about a person period. telling consumers is "good" only in that its more than currently happens but it does nothing to solve the problem of information being kept when and where it should not.
future submitted patches can be GPL v3 only. the original author already gave permission for all of their work to continue and be relicensed under v3 in the future if the overall project decides to go that way. if that author doesn't like it they don't have to contribute to the project that has moved on to operate under the new version.
I bought a Contour RollerMouse in mid-2004 and have been using it as my only pointing device at work since then. It works well. I use it combined with my old GoldTouch split keyboard sitting on an adjustable keyboard tray. I no longer have to reach for the mouse or trackball and my hands have been much happier.
Flaws?
I use a dual head display, going from one end to the other usually involves using the end-bumping buttons to shift the mouse pointer over a bit. I got over this annoyance quickly.
I wish they made a narrow version with the buttons and such centered. I use a split keyboard without the useless numeric keypad so that part sticks out to my right as I have it setup with the split centered around the roller.
The reviewers comment that "it better be good at that price" seems a bit misplaced. You buy these because you are trying to save your career future and avoid RSI issues. Not because you want to be the envy of your peers and killer of first person shooter twitchers. That said, I hate the high price. Pure profit for them.
lifetime is -important- because the subscription model prevents anyone from giving a TiVo as a gift. Nobody would like it if you bought them something than then required them to make regular payments to even turn it on.
*most* users when confronted with a dialog box saying the certificate signature is unknown or does not match will just click it to go away as fast as possible because its getting in the way of their bank login.
this scheme, as with decss, has nothing to do with copy protection. that is merely its disguise. it has everything to do with mandatory royalties to the consortium from all dvd player manufacturers and dvd mass producers. its all related to control over who makes and sells media players and what they are capable of doing or not doing out of the box.
boot time matters. serialized startup scripts, things that sleep needlessly. poor disk layout of all the random data that needs to be loaded at boot time (caching it all in a linear segment that is preloaded into the buffer cache as soon as booting starts is the way to go). they all contribute to boot startup time.
microsoft has requirements of less than one minute, probably closer to half that, from power on to desktop usability for their logo sporting preinstalled hw vendors. while they weild this as a big stick to prevent other software from running, theres no reason linux and bsd couldn't strive to match the nice low startup latency.
the older model 3ware cards work well but have less than stellar performance. you won't get more than 30-35mbyte/sec tops of hw raid5 thruput on a 3ware 8xxx or 7xxx controller.
that said the 3ware controllers are the -best- multiport ide controllers out there, especially for SATA support under linux.
We use them and run linux sw raid5 across all the individual disks on the controller. Excellent performance (it max's out the 32bit PCI bus, easily 100mbyte/sec reads)
I haven't tried their new 9xxx series cards. hopefully those have real speeds for their hw raid5.
the RIAA and major labels artifically prop up CD prices. the artists get jack and shit of the CD sales price if anything at all. the industry is designed and run by layers of lawyers and middle men all claiming a cut for required "services" nobody in their right mind would pay for in the first place.
sell at.25c a track and give the artist even 5 cents of that and they're getting more than they would from a track on a CD.
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its free. never been nagware. and it just plain works.
neutral, third-party testing lab
apt-get build-dep packagename(s)
problem solved.
companies should not be allowed to "own" information about a person period. telling consumers is "good" only in that its more than currently happens but it does nothing to solve the problem of information being kept when and where it should not.
RSSOAP. run in fear.
you're confusing issues. thats your back that is on the way out because of a CRT.
they're complying perfectly with the license the code was released under. why the hell would you expect more?
future submitted patches can be GPL v3 only. the original author already gave permission for all of their work to continue and be relicensed under v3 in the future if the overall project decides to go that way. if that author doesn't like it they don't have to contribute to the project that has moved on to operate under the new version.
stop smoking crack. the intel 2200 and 2915 centrino wireless chipsets have excellent 100% open source linux drivers provided by intel here.
no HD TiVo software update to support the codec is possible. TiVo uses a hardware video decoder.
I bought a Contour RollerMouse in mid-2004 and have been using it as my only pointing device at work since then. It works well. I use it combined with my old GoldTouch split keyboard sitting on an adjustable keyboard tray. I no longer have to reach for the mouse or trackball and my hands have been much happier.
Flaws?
I use a dual head display, going from one end to the other usually involves using the end-bumping buttons to shift the mouse pointer over a bit. I got over this annoyance quickly.
I wish they made a narrow version with the buttons and such centered. I use a split keyboard without the useless numeric keypad so that part sticks out to my right as I have it setup with the split centered around the roller.
The reviewers comment that "it better be good at that price" seems a bit misplaced. You buy these because you are trying to save your career future and avoid RSI issues. Not because you want to be the envy of your peers and killer of first person shooter twitchers. That said, I hate the high price. Pure profit for them.
keep your pants on. only one CPU core runs when on battery and most likely not even at full speed.
lifetime is -important- because the subscription model prevents anyone from giving a TiVo as a gift. Nobody would like it if you bought them something than then required them to make regular payments to even turn it on.
they should ditch subscriptions.
can cisco start the trend of being able to buy laptops from vendors -without- paying for a damn windows license that you don't want?
*most* users when confronted with a dialog box saying the certificate signature is unknown or does not match will just click it to go away as fast as possible because its getting in the way of their bank login.
you have to buy a radio which can only receive the manufacturers signals and requires a monthly fee. oh joy.
this scheme, as with decss, has nothing to do with copy protection. that is merely its disguise. it has everything to do with mandatory royalties to the consortium from all dvd player manufacturers and dvd mass producers. its all related to control over who makes and sells media players and what they are capable of doing or not doing out of the box.
what about this one?
http://www.packtpub.com/book/plone
a nice Shuttle box Athlon 64 based system with 256mb, dvd burner and 80gb hdd.
sure that doesn't include a display but its infinately more useful in the long term than this silly crippled C3 with a cd-rom.
that was then. this is now.
boot time matters. serialized startup scripts, things that sleep needlessly. poor disk layout of all the random data that needs to be loaded at boot time (caching it all in a linear segment that is preloaded into the buffer cache as soon as booting starts is the way to go). they all contribute to boot startup time.
microsoft has requirements of less than one minute, probably closer to half that, from power on to desktop usability for their logo sporting preinstalled hw vendors. while they weild this as a big stick to prevent other software from running, theres no reason linux and bsd couldn't strive to match the nice low startup latency.
it really makes computing a nicer experience.
http://www.micromagic.com/
tools included: chip design (schematic capture), datapath compiler, full custom IC layout, and integrated layout system.
the older model 3ware cards work well but have less than stellar performance. you won't get more than 30-35mbyte/sec tops of hw raid5 thruput on a 3ware 8xxx or 7xxx controller.
that said the 3ware controllers are the -best- multiport ide controllers out there, especially for SATA support under linux.
We use them and run linux sw raid5 across all the individual disks on the controller. Excellent performance (it max's out the 32bit PCI bus, easily 100mbyte/sec reads)
I haven't tried their new 9xxx series cards. hopefully those have real speeds for their hw raid5.
look at the amount of resources that had to be spent just to get it into this form!
sony made mp3 players before in the 1998 1999 craze of silly ones that used a memory stick.
the RIAA and major labels artifically prop up CD prices. the artists get jack and shit of the CD sales price if anything at all. the industry is designed and run by layers of lawyers and middle men all claiming a cut for required "services" nobody in their right mind would pay for in the first place.
.25c a track and give the artist even 5 cents of that and they're getting more than they would from a track on a CD.
sell at