Compaq's iPaq is a completely different concept to the Jornada. An iPaq is a PDA. A palm style address book, calendar, appointment system. Basically, they have absolutely no real value or use, especially in a commercial application.
We develop sales automation tools for handheld pcs. we couldn't do that on a PDA. there is no keyboard. how can a sales person lookup a customer / part, or enter an invoice / order with a stylus touch pad. answer, you can't you need a keyboard. this is why the Jornada will be more successful and last longer than the "traditional" palm, handspring and iPaq style PDAs / handhelds. it has last and, more importantly, commercial use.
Or in Objective Oberon with an object orientated design, or perl, or c, or c++, or shell with awk and sed.
i suppose if you are a real glutton you could use assembler *shakes head*
I do have to admit, that the Visual Studio IDE is pretty good. i wish that they'd integrate VB with DevStudio more quickly however. intellisense is a wonderful boon.
but this statement about it hardly ever crashing.... now now now. i have had DevStudio crash on me
upon loading of project / workspace files it creates
looking up intellisense
looking up intellisense where it is across the network
putting in a pointer from a struct
... the list is endless, much like most other software from redmond
Yes i agree, the copy protection on OpenServer is a real pain in the proverbial butt. i have never used UNIXWare, so i cant comment on that front, but i assume it would be much the same.
Overall i find the install on OpenServer clumsy and time consuming with not enough options and too many questions (make sense of that)
as to support, here in australia, there is a certain "support" company that i shall not name, but they are the only distributor (that i know of, i think thats right) and their support is shocking. most of the time they dont know either, and they will charge you for saying, opps sorry we dont know. and then.... charge you again when you dont even call them.
we had a customer that had a hard drive died on him. since he had bought a certain largest computer companies' server line with the 24 hours support turn-around he thought he was covered. the drive was back and forth between brisbane and sydney and then they said that data was lost and it turned out that the twits just hadn't plugged in the cable correctly and everything was fine. that 24 hours turned out to be 9 working days.
Now, i work with SCO OpenServer quite a bit. And i do have to say that it isn't that bad an OS. As per usual for *nix, it runs beautifully. I find it hard to come from our / my linux machines back to our OpenServer box, but that is what happens when you mix BSD with SysV (hell, i keep trying ls and vi in NT!).
But what i dont understand is how first SCO (please dont pronouce it as one word, but anounciate each letter like the moron they want us to look like) said that linux was a fad, it wasn't reliable or stable enough to run your business on. Then they offer support for linux. Now they're saying they'll create their very own distribution? come on folks. are they really interested in helping the community, or just where the money is? Of course they are a business and have to make a profit. That is understandable. But please, no more back flips.
this just seems to be yet another example of how the company cant make up it's mind what and who they are. for instance, first they were Santa Cruz Operation, then SCO, now they are S.C.O. what can i say? *spreads hands*, they seem to have an identity crisis. \\||// --ooo00ooo--
Here at Queensland University of Technology (BNE - AUS), they use Linux (mainly Redhat 6.0) a hell of a lot in the IT Labs. For all the network admin, management, comparative network systems, etc.. subjects, RH6.0 is used. They sell it in the Computer Shop and there are numerous books (mainly rubbish Unleashed ones) in the bookstore.
For the Operating Systems subject, it is split between Unix (SysVR4 - redhat) and NT4. All this in 13 weeks (ouch, it used to just be the unix in all that time!). In that we cover csh, shell scripting in sh/bash, i/o, pipes, memory management, etc... For projects / assignments, we have to write a C parser for unix, and for NT, a basic device driver. we haven't been given the specs for the VxD as of yet however.
In the previous subject - Computer Architecture - we had to write a mouse driver (for DOS of course) using Assembler, now wasn't that one fun boys and girls!
Seems very likely that the Windows Derived OS will be WindowsCE 3. It supports most of the Win32 API, Java, Internet, iRDA, etc. not a bad OS, if you dont mind slow IO. The current range of handheld devices (esp the HP 620LX) are very unstable, so if that is what this X Box is to be like, then, no way do i want a piece of it \\||// ----ooo00ooo----
As always, Dvorak writes well and concisly. and it definately looks like we will be needing Black ICE Defender in the near future when we finally get dsl here in oz \\||// ----ooo00ooo----
goto your preferences and say i dont want stories from Hemos
i personally disagree with you, but if you dont like it, at least take the time to read the options available instead of wasting all of our time and the moderators time with it.
not to mention Rob's servers (well, not anymore,.. but...) \\||// ----ooo00ooo----
You think that there will be a big messy fight do you? well, i certainly hoped so. When the US Government tried to pass the CDA, the whole WORLD cried out.
But when the Australian government successfully passed legislation to make Australia have the 3rd most restrictive internet laws in the world, there wasn't a peep from the main stream media about it.
actually the government passed it in 2 weeks, whilst discussion the GST lasted for MONTHS! (and continues still). The main (read "only") reason it was passed so easily and quickly (full support in both houses by both major parties) was so that the Liberal government could pass the GST.
they want to use a filtering system. ok... but how does it work. well the system endorsed and passed by our Hon Minister for Telecommunications, Information Technology and (wait for it) the Arts (mmmm... i get it, the arts ppl get the pizza for us IT ppl.... frowns) lets porn though, but bans many free speech sites including the bible. (read the press release from the EFA)
don't you love the fact that the source code for linux may now be illegal on the internet in australia because of some of the comments in it (read this for the/. article)
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/me scratches head in confuzzlement I dont know about the rest of you out there, but i was very interested when i first heard about Amiga making a come back. And the fact that they were planning to use a Linux kernel just made it that much better. There have been rumors flying all over the place about things happening, not happening, CEOs changing. Now they have decided (apparantly) not to create a "new machine" but rather an "internet device" Does anyone have any real information about what is going on over @ Amiga Corp \\||// ----ooo00ooo----
God Damn! am i sick and tired of hearing about how bad video games and the internet are! the internet is just a bunch of computers hooked together by copper wire (mostly) and glass. so what, there is heaps of information on "the net". i agree, not all of it is great. but just because i CAN find out how to wield a semi-automatic, does not then make me a mass murderer. it is not the availablity of this information that makes these kids go bonkers... they must already have some problems to begin with. and games such as doom and quake DO NOT make people kill. they are entertainment! they are not realistic in the slightest! blocky, cartoony, polygons! not life like! the media always go on about things such as this as though they know what they are talking about. maybe if they did a little research they might get a better idea of what is going on. thank god that most people realise that the television and newspaper coverage is biased and incorrect 80% of the time in the first place anyway! also, maybe if the media did not give as much coverage as they do to these awful events, then there also might be a lessening in their occurance. now i am not saying that people dont have to know about this, or that the media should not inform us, just that a little bit of common-sense and restraint would go a long way to helping things my two cents
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Compaq's iPaq is a completely different concept to the Jornada. An iPaq is a PDA. A palm style address book, calendar, appointment system. Basically, they have absolutely no real value or use, especially in a commercial application.
We develop sales automation tools for handheld pcs. we couldn't do that on a PDA. there is no keyboard. how can a sales person lookup a customer / part, or enter an invoice / order with a stylus touch pad. answer, you can't you need a keyboard. this is why the Jornada will be more successful and last longer than the "traditional" palm, handspring and iPaq style PDAs / handhelds. it has last and, more importantly, commercial use.
Or in Objective Oberon with an object orientated design, or perl, or c, or c++, or shell with awk and sed.
i suppose if you are a real glutton you could use assembler *shakes head*
actually a language with excellent string manipulation is also Business Basic (Basis Business Basic or ProvideX Basic)
pick your favorite language
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Supposedly web caches are illegal in Australia due to copyright issues.
Australia is still in the dark ages with its Internet Policy. But we all do it, because it not only saves money, but time.
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another useful site that I use all the time is internet traffic report (http://www.internettrafficreport.com/)
this is especially useful in Australia as seen recently, most of the country is knocked out by one cable going down. *sigh*
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but this statement about it hardly ever crashing.... now now now. i have had DevStudio crash on me
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Yes i agree, the copy protection on OpenServer is a real pain in the proverbial butt. i have never used UNIXWare, so i cant comment on that front, but i assume it would be much the same.
.... charge you again when you dont even call them.
Overall i find the install on OpenServer clumsy and time consuming with not enough options and too many questions (make sense of that )
as to support, here in australia, there is a certain "support" company that i shall not name, but they are the only distributor (that i know of, i think thats right) and their support is shocking. most of the time they dont know either, and they will charge you for saying, opps sorry we dont know. and then
we had a customer that had a hard drive died on him. since he had bought a certain largest computer companies' server line with the 24 hours support turn-around he thought he was covered. the drive was back and forth between brisbane and sydney and then they said that data was lost and it turned out that the twits just hadn't plugged in the cable correctly and everything was fine. that 24 hours turned out to be 9 working days.
and that article says that they have good support
BBBAHHHH
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Now, i work with SCO OpenServer quite a bit. And i do have to say that it isn't that bad an OS. As per usual for *nix, it runs beautifully. I find it hard to come from our / my linux machines back to our OpenServer box, but that is what happens when you mix BSD with SysV (hell, i keep trying ls and vi in NT!).
But what i dont understand is how first SCO (please dont pronouce it as one word, but anounciate each letter like the moron they want us to look like) said that linux was a fad, it wasn't reliable or stable enough to run your business on. Then they offer support for linux. Now they're saying they'll create their very own distribution? come on folks. are they really interested in helping the community, or just where the money is? Of course they are a business and have to make a profit. That is understandable. But please, no more back flips.
this just seems to be yet another example of how the company cant make up it's mind what and who they are. for instance, first they were Santa Cruz Operation, then SCO, now they are S.C.O.
what can i say? *spreads hands*, they seem to have an identity crisis.
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Here at Queensland University of Technology (BNE - AUS), they use Linux (mainly Redhat 6.0) a hell of a lot in the IT Labs. For all the network admin, management, comparative network systems, etc.. subjects, RH6.0 is used. They sell it in the Computer Shop and there are numerous books (mainly rubbish Unleashed ones) in the bookstore.
For the Operating Systems subject, it is split between Unix (SysVR4 - redhat) and NT4. All this in 13 weeks (ouch, it used to just be the unix in all that time!). In that we cover csh, shell scripting in sh/bash, i/o, pipes, memory management, etc...
For projects / assignments, we have to write a C parser for unix, and for NT, a basic device driver. we haven't been given the specs for the VxD as of yet however.
In the previous subject - Computer Architecture - we had to write a mouse driver (for DOS of course) using Assembler, now wasn't that one fun boys and girls!
My $0.02
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Seems very likely that the Windows Derived OS will be WindowsCE 3. It supports most of the Win32 API, Java, Internet, iRDA, etc. not a bad OS, if you dont mind slow IO. The current range of handheld devices (esp the HP 620LX) are very unstable, so if that is what this X Box is to be like, then, no way do i want a piece of it
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Never heard of any special effects companies from NY. Most are from London. Even Sydney has a few big names too.
but, i have never heard of any big names from NY doing special effects. maybe i just dont listen hard enough... but most come from London.
cheers
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As always, Dvorak writes well and concisly. and it definately looks like we will be needing Black ICE Defender in the near future when we finally get dsl here in oz
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goto your preferences and say i dont want stories from Hemos
i personally disagree with you, but if you dont like it, at least take the time to read the options available instead of wasting all of our time and the moderators time with it.
not to mention Rob's servers (well, not anymore,.. but...)
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You think that there will be a big messy fight do you? well, i certainly hoped so. When the US Government tried to pass the CDA, the whole WORLD cried out.
/. article)
But when the Australian government successfully passed legislation to make Australia have the 3rd most restrictive internet laws in the world, there wasn't a peep from the main stream media about it.
actually the government passed it in 2 weeks, whilst discussion the GST lasted for MONTHS! (and continues still). The main (read "only") reason it was passed so easily and quickly (full support in both houses by both major parties) was so that the Liberal government could pass the GST.
they want to use a filtering system. ok... but how does it work. well the system endorsed and passed by our Hon Minister for Telecommunications, Information Technology and (wait for it) the Arts (mmmm... i get it, the arts ppl get the pizza for us IT ppl.... frowns) lets porn though, but bans many free speech sites including the bible. (read the press release from the EFA)
don't you love the fact that the source code for linux may now be illegal on the internet in australia because of some of the comments in it (read this for the
just my little contribution
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/me scratches head in confuzzlement I dont know about the rest of you out there, but i was very interested when i first heard about Amiga making a come back. And the fact that they were planning to use a Linux kernel just made it that much better. There have been rumors flying all over the place about things happening, not happening, CEOs changing. Now they have decided (apparantly) not to create a "new machine" but rather an "internet device" Does anyone have any real information about what is going on over @ Amiga Corp
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God Damn! am i sick and tired of hearing about how bad video games and the internet are! the internet is just a bunch of computers hooked together by copper wire (mostly) and glass. so what, there is heaps of information on "the net". i agree, not all of it is great. but just because i CAN find out how to wield a semi-automatic, does not then make me a mass murderer. it is not the availablity of this information that makes these kids go bonkers... they must already have some problems to begin with. and games such as doom and quake DO NOT make people kill. they are entertainment! they are not realistic in the slightest! blocky, cartoony, polygons! not life like! the media always go on about things such as this as though they know what they are talking about. maybe if they did a little research they might get a better idea of what is going on. thank god that most people realise that the television and newspaper coverage is biased and incorrect 80% of the time in the first place anyway! also, maybe if the media did not give as much coverage as they do to these awful events, then there also might be a lessening in their occurance. now i am not saying that people dont have to know about this, or that the media should not inform us, just that a little bit of common-sense and restraint would go a long way to helping things my two cents