The graphics-card is lame, the bus-speed is lower compared to G5, but overall... the design. It's just plain boring. When was the last time that apple-addicts were bored when a new machine was introduced?
Yes, Apple, I'm bored. The G4 iMac was a lot more interesting to look at than this machine. And design is what apple-addicts are really looking after.
It was *very* impressive and worked on this machine without any problems, was a bit slow though. This is a Pentium-M 1.7GHz with 1GB and DirectX9, required roughly 300MB Ram.
Shit. Sun sold their soul. See the press-release: "Microsoft Support for Java: The companies have agreed that Microsoft may continue to provide product support for the Microsoft Java Virtual Machine that customers have deployed in Microsoft's products".
Dear Scott, now that you've sold your soul, have dealt with the devil: what's next? DOT-NET compatibility layers for Java? Cooperation with Unisys to provider 32-CPU servers for Windows Datacenter edition? IMHO you've just destroyed your lifework, no wonder all your buddies left your company in the last years...
Of course a competitive comparison done by one of the competitors is always biased. To me most of the stuff seemed somehow fair. They are not *really* bashing OO.
Just regular lobbying like it is happening every day in every country. Why should Microsoft be a bit different than thousands of other industry leaders out there...?
I don't know. Samsung, always known for their great phones, has delayed and delayed and delayed and delayed (yip, four times) their SGH-i500/505/530/550 (or how they might call it right now).
Some of these phone (besides handspring perhaps and one or two tests from kyocera) companies seem to be waiting for palm os 6 with pure multitasking capabilities.
*BUT* keep in mind: smartphones are mostly geek toys. Perhaps one (two? three?) percent market cap these days. Symbian covers a whole lot more.
And you'll be seing palm imho only in smrtphones...
Siemens, Samsung, Sony-Ericsson, et al (see former ownershop smybian) are all ambitious mobile phone companies. They would be completely dependant on Nokia if they exclusively chose Symbian a.k.a. Nokia Series 60/70.
Instead they'll expand their technological portfolio.
Current situation: nearly no M$ smartphones (except some models from motorola), mostly symbian dominated market.
Possible future situation: M$ *and* Symbian phones from Siemens, Samsung,...
So, even Dell offers you *some* kind of installation support for Linux on Desktop Systems and Laptops (read: links to community supported laptop-groups, i bet that there's one or two active dell employees). I bet that there'll be some more support on that page in the future.
And our big linux brother IBM? Nada. At least where I live (europe) the official statement is and has been since 1999: IBM only supports Windows on these systems.
There are good internet resources and mailing-lists, *but* the only way to get there is google (no link at ibm.com, etc.)
I'm currently running IBM WSAD 5.1 on a Debian laptop (PIII-1113, 1GB) and I'm praying (!!!) for a faster machine within the next weeks. This things is incredibly slow. Some dialogs need > 15 Seconds to be displayed. Very frustrating.
As some people are talking about Eclipse... can someone confirm that WSAD is running on MAC OSX? Any chance to hack it going?
No, sorry haven't tested all the other aspects of XP yet (see xplanner.org as a nice example of how support might support you in xp projects)... BUT I could tell you dozens of stories about programming in pairs...
first option: your old school buddy, roughly same programming knowledge and project experience like you joins you in an XP project. You hang around for hours, drink a beer with him, tell dozens of old stories... and then you get productive. Damn productive. XP _might_ work great in these conditions. I absolutely enjoyed some examples of programming in pairs when your programming partner is of your kind... BUT
second option: this guy sucks, he's dumb like a piece of shit, has no idea what i'm talking about. You end up doing the whole code and explain to him what you're currently doing. At least that's what you're doing the first two days. You're de-motivated and won't get your work done. That sucks.
Programming in pairs might work, but the bigger the company/project the bigger the chances are it won't.
Have you looked into Kazaa lately??? It's ABSOLUTELY the same stuff that was there 12 months ago, and networks like kazaa are the ones monitored by the RIAA (still ~ 4 Million users online)
Quality has even improved during the last months with IP-Block-Lists getting more updates and Apollon+gIFT (TRY THIS FOLKS, GREAT CLIENT) having matured...
Well, then all those Blade 100/150 machines are SUPERB work horses. Simply put, cheap crap. Compare the Sun Blade machine with a HP Visualize (the RISC version... or a real Sun server - not that netra stuff). Not that I like HPUX, but the Visualize was built for eternity. Feels like the true little brother of big iron.
So the Visualize should be a gamers dream then???:-)
Ok, so I thought when J2EE stuff is your everyday work, some Solaris know-how would be nice. Bought a Sun Blade 100.
Well, Solaris was interesting software at least. The Sun Blade was nicely documented and stuff, but it was awfully slow and in fact the cheapest-built hardware I've ever put my hands on. Even those supermarkt-pcs were alot more silent and felt more robust.
And that machine cost ~ $1500 when I bought it. Incredible.
Sun servers were a completely opposite experience for me, built for eternity, great support.
Us? So what's us? I thought this is somehow international here...
Unlike us, because we have a solid middle-class with kids that can afford to be geeks. Geeks whom may surf for porn, express their political opinion and whear stuff people are wearing on MTV.
Where's that free, liberal solid middle-class in SA?
1995: Yes, fellows. Had long hair, Pearl Jam shirts, leather trousers and boots and spent every weekend and any single dime I had on festivals. Was drunk and stoned, times were great.
NOW: consultant job, hair cut, owning 11 suits, no festivals, no chicks, but a nice car with a nice gf.
I don't know. 3 months age we bought 4 Thinkpads T40p, mainly because of the incredible batterie times everyone seemed to be experiencing with these machines. Kernel 2.6+ACPI+cpufreq+some tricks from several mailing lists give us max. 3h with display set to darkest level and bios settings to max battery life.
Windows may not be able to fine-control the machine as much as you can with the upper configuration, but a xp-test-installation kept the machine up and running for nearly 5 hours (nearly same work on the machine...).
Well, I have to admin, not just computer beginners. I'm working with Linux now in my 3rd year as my laptop OS, started with RedHat then switched to Debian.
I was SO fed up up with the partly miserable hardware support (and sadly don't have the time to write drivers on my own).
Sync via Bluetooth with Clie PDA? Patch the appropriate UDB-module, check the vendor ID of your PDA, recompile. Then get multisync/pilot-link up and running.
What about WLAN? Check the chip on your card (wasn't that easy in my case), get madwifi, recompile.
X doesn't work sometimes, you definitly need to know your XF86Config otherwise your fucked up sooner or later.
[...]
That's all interesting stuff to know to test to see. But it costs a bunch of time. Time that i don't have anymore.
My last test right now is Xandros2 (since Tuesday). Not geeky but that's what i want, I urgently need the time for my software developments.
I might be switching back to windows in the next month. Sad but true.
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The graphics-card is lame, the bus-speed is lower compared to G5, but overall... the design. It's just plain boring. When was the last time that apple-addicts were bored when a new machine was introduced?
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Yes, Apple, I'm bored. The G4 iMac was a lot more interesting to look at than this machine. And design is what apple-addicts are really looking after.
Here's some nice examples for great iMac designs: http://www.mackompass.de/
PLUS: no heating problems here? Picture from iside: http://forum.macnews.de/forum/show?mid=8894.1839.
I guess they're using the narrator .dll from windows, sounds very comparable. Test it, "Start -> Run -> narrator".
It was *very* impressive and worked on this machine without any problems, was a bit slow though. This is a Pentium-M 1.7GHz with 1GB and DirectX9, required roughly 300MB Ram.
Shit. Sun sold their soul. See the press-release: "Microsoft Support for Java: The companies have agreed that Microsoft may continue to provide product support for the Microsoft Java Virtual Machine that customers have deployed in Microsoft's products".
Dear Scott, now that you've sold your soul, have dealt with the devil: what's next? DOT-NET compatibility layers for Java? Cooperation with Unisys to provider 32-CPU servers for Windows Datacenter edition? IMHO you've just destroyed your lifework, no wonder all your buddies left your company in the last years...
This is just sad.
Of course a competitive comparison done by one of the competitors is always biased. To me most of the stuff seemed somehow fair. They are not *really* bashing OO.
They have a nice type-3 (100% java) jdbc driver available.
why not take a look at their homepage?
Just regular lobbying like it is happening every day in every country. Why should Microsoft be a bit different than thousands of other industry leaders out there...?
I don't know. Samsung, always known for their great phones, has delayed and delayed and delayed and delayed (yip, four times) their SGH-i500/505/530/550 (or how they might call it right now).
Some of these phone (besides handspring perhaps and one or two tests from kyocera) companies seem to be waiting for palm os 6 with pure multitasking capabilities.
*BUT* keep in mind: smartphones are mostly geek toys. Perhaps one (two? three?) percent market cap these days. Symbian covers a whole lot more.
And you'll be seing palm imho only in smrtphones...
Siemens, Samsung, Sony-Ericsson, et al (see former ownershop smybian) are all ambitious mobile phone companies. They would be completely dependant on Nokia if they exclusively chose Symbian a.k.a. Nokia Series 60/70.
...
Instead they'll expand their technological portfolio.
Current situation: nearly no M$ smartphones (except some models from motorola), mostly symbian dominated market.
Possible future situation: M$ *and* Symbian phones from Siemens, Samsung,
Conclusion: M$ is the lucky winner.
Damn.
So, even Dell offers you *some* kind of installation support for Linux on Desktop Systems and Laptops (read: links to community supported laptop-groups, i bet that there's one or two active dell employees). I bet that there'll be some more support on that page in the future.
And our big linux brother IBM? Nada. At least where I live (europe) the official statement is and has been since 1999: IBM only supports Windows on these systems.
There are good internet resources and mailing-lists, *but* the only way to get there is google (no link at ibm.com, etc.)
IBM is cheating on us.
Well speed matters, sometimes at least.
I'm currently running IBM WSAD 5.1 on a Debian laptop (PIII-1113, 1GB) and I'm praying (!!!) for a faster machine within the next weeks. This things is incredibly slow. Some dialogs need > 15 Seconds to be displayed. Very frustrating.
As some people are talking about Eclipse... can someone confirm that WSAD is running on MAC OSX? Any chance to hack it going?
No, sorry haven't tested all the other aspects of XP yet (see xplanner.org as a nice example of how support might support you in xp projects)... BUT I could tell you dozens of stories about programming in pairs...
first option: your old school buddy, roughly same programming knowledge and project experience like you joins you in an XP project. You hang around for hours, drink a beer with him, tell dozens of old stories... and then you get productive. Damn productive. XP _might_ work great in these conditions. I absolutely enjoyed some examples of programming in pairs when your programming partner is of your kind... BUT
second option: this guy sucks, he's dumb like a piece of shit, has no idea what i'm talking about. You end up doing the whole code and explain to him what you're currently doing. At least that's what you're doing the first two days. You're de-motivated and won't get your work done. That sucks.
Programming in pairs might work, but the bigger the company/project the bigger the chances are it won't.
my 2 cents.
minq.se
Free (you need to registers), commercial version available($99 i guess).
Ok, this is not really an end-user tool, but an absolutely great DB Frontend. Written in Java, runs on many platforms, very nicely designed and quick.
Java has very solid database drivers these days, as Java (like it or not) has become the main middleware and server-side programming language.
Note to all those java haters out there: try it, you'll like it!
Have you looked into Kazaa lately??? It's ABSOLUTELY the same stuff that was there 12 months ago, and networks like kazaa are the ones monitored by the RIAA (still ~ 4 Million users online)
Quality has even improved during the last months with IP-Block-Lists getting more updates and Apollon+gIFT (TRY THIS FOLKS, GREAT CLIENT) having matured...
See...
Apollon@SF.net
gift-fasttrack (got updates lately...)
Well, then all those Blade 100/150 machines are SUPERB work horses. Simply put, cheap crap. Compare the Sun Blade machine with a HP Visualize (the RISC version... or a real Sun server - not that netra stuff). Not that I like HPUX, but the Visualize was built for eternity. Feels like the true little brother of big iron.
:-)
So the Visualize should be a gamers dream then???
Ok, so I thought when J2EE stuff is your everyday work, some Solaris know-how would be nice. Bought a Sun Blade 100.
Well, Solaris was interesting software at least. The Sun Blade was nicely documented and stuff, but it was awfully slow and in fact the cheapest-built hardware I've ever put my hands on. Even those supermarkt-pcs were alot more silent and felt more robust.
And that machine cost ~ $1500 when I bought it. Incredible.
Sun servers were a completely opposite experience for me, built for eternity, great support.
Never, ever again Sun on the desktop.
They're currently in the process of porting Quickbasic to MS enabled Phones.
Us? So what's us? I thought this is somehow international here...
Unlike us, because we have a solid middle-class with kids that can afford to be geeks. Geeks whom may surf for porn, express their political opinion and whear stuff people are wearing on MTV.
Where's that free, liberal solid middle-class in SA?
1995: Yes, fellows. Had long hair, Pearl Jam shirts, leather trousers and boots and spent every weekend and any single dime I had on festivals. Was drunk and stoned, times were great.
NOW: consultant job, hair cut, owning 11 suits, no festivals, no chicks, but a nice car with a nice gf.
GIMME THOSE GREAT TIMES BACK!!!!
Qualifications: MBA, Harvard, 2002; B.S., Computer Science, Dartmouth, 1999; Private business owner; 3 fuck-buddies
Be my teacher, my spiritual leader, PLEASE!
I don't know. 3 months age we bought 4 Thinkpads T40p, mainly because of the incredible batterie times everyone seemed to be experiencing with these machines. Kernel 2.6+ACPI+cpufreq+some tricks from several mailing lists give us max. 3h with display set to darkest level and bios settings to max battery life.
Windows may not be able to fine-control the machine as much as you can with the upper configuration, but a xp-test-installation kept the machine up and running for nearly 5 hours (nearly same work on the machine...).
Any tips from Linux Pentium-M experts???
Well, I have to admin, not just computer beginners. I'm working with Linux now in my 3rd year as my laptop OS, started with RedHat then switched to Debian.
I was SO fed up up with the partly miserable hardware support (and sadly don't have the time to write drivers on my own).
Sync via Bluetooth with Clie PDA? Patch the appropriate UDB-module, check the vendor ID of your PDA, recompile. Then get multisync/pilot-link up and running.
What about WLAN? Check the chip on your card (wasn't that easy in my case), get madwifi, recompile.
X doesn't work sometimes, you definitly need to know your XF86Config otherwise your fucked up sooner or later.
[...]
That's all interesting stuff to know to test to see. But it costs a bunch of time. Time that i don't have anymore.
My last test right now is Xandros2 (since Tuesday). Not geeky but that's what i want, I urgently need the time for my software developments.
I might be switching back to windows in the next month. Sad but true.