In the Sharp Zaurus Linux PDA community, many have shied away from SanDisk's SD cards. Their 128MB and 256MB had many problems with the Zaurus. Things are supposedly better now but you still hear about SanDisk SD problems with brand new cards and the latest Sharp ROM.
I've used a 128MB Lexar, formatted as FAT16 and things have worked well. Many have used an SD card as main storage on their Zauruses, formatted as ext2.
I live in an apartment community and they're about to roll out cable internet on their own private cable system real soon now. I have my standard DOCSIS cable modem and I'm just waiting for them to flip the switch, so to speak.
The tkcPhone product can do PDA-PDA (or PDA-any-VoIP-device) on a Sharp Zaurus. AFAIK the program doesn't support encryption directly, but there is IPSec for the Zaurus via FreeSWAN.
It better work with XVID, as Sigma Designs stole XVID's source in violation of the GPL to develop their "REALmagic MPEG-4 Video Codec." I believe most of the GPL problems have been ironed out by now, though.
The Xbox has two things working against it: the cooling fan and the hard drive. I can hardly stand to use any of the modern game consoles due to the racket that they make. This device is totally fanless and hard driveless. The only moving parts are in the DVD/CD transport.
The only systems that really benefit from the hardware encoder/decoder are secure webservers.
What if you wanted an encrypted filesystem? That absolutely kills the CPU. Hardware acceleration for this would be perfect. I'd also prefer the chip that would do this to not be on the PCI bus which is getting more and more saturated these days.
What if you use scp and rsync over ssh extensively for network management? Flooding a 100Mbps link with encrypted traffic takes quite a bit of CPU.
but the main thing that stopped me, consideration of making money with other's work without being able to retrace everyone to get the proper permissions to do so...
Also, the Demoscene tradition regarding CD-ROMs (and now DVDs) of scene productions is if your work is on the disc, you or your group gets a free one. I believe that is the case with Mindcandy as well.
And i seem to recall they were always on an endless loop. How can you make a DVD or DivX of demos without "fading out" after X repeats?
On a couple of the older demos (Spacepigs Megademo, Chronologia), they had to cut them short or stop them before they repeated. In one modern demo (The Nonstop Ibiza Experience, by Orange) they faded to black during the repeating endpart.
Hi, Cuth. Lassi actually didn't do music on Square, he did some coding (Statix explains the parts Dune did on the commentary track.) The music's pretty good, though.
Have you seen recent frontlit screens? Walk into any place selling any sort of color PDA, and see for yourself. They're absolutely gorgeous, especially on the iPAQ. Even the Afterburner GBA frontlight looks great.
When I installed the Afterburner, I was amazed at how thin it was. Perhaps frontlights are so popular these days because they contribute almost nothing to the thickness of the unit.
If you're passing by St. Louis, don't miss the free Anheuser-Busch brewery tour. St. Louis is the headquarters and has the oldest, largest brewery, but they have breweries that give tours around the country. For more info check out their website. Best part of going on the tour - free beer at the end.
The question "Do you consider yourself to be a hacker" was not asked by the prosecutor, it was asked by Elcomsoft's attorney. I don't think Sklyarov wanted to throw HIS rhythm off.
It's not that big of a deal, since most people's DNS requests never reach the TLD servers. Instead they're handled by a mirror at a lower point on the tree.
The most recent attack wasn't on the root nameservers, it was on UltraDNS, which is a large-scale commercial DNS hosting provider. A lot of big sites rely on their DNS service
A lot of work has to be done to run great on the new Xscale processor, and I doubt that Sharp did that work. Or if they did, not all the apps are tuned for the new processor.
Okay, so instead of running 'gcc -mtune=strongarm1100', they run 'gcc -mtune=xscale'.
Rather than using a split-RAM architecture like the Sl-5500 and Pocket PCs do, the SL-5600 will have 32 MB of RAM that is dedicated to just active memory.
While the Sharp rom on the SL-5500 leaves your hands tied and dedicates the 64MB built-in ram 50/50 to ramdisk and available RAM, various custom ROM images like the Crow rom and OpenZaurus let you move the ramdisk to an SD flash card while freeing up all 64MB for usable RAM.
Having only 32MB for main memory REALLY ties your hands. Is SDRAM really so expensive that Sharp couldn't have used 64MB for main memory?
Good god...how many of these things could be lurking about in automotive airbags, ABS systems, or in any sort of medical device?
(Slightly OT)
While not quite as bad, this is becoming a problem in older automotive ECUs (engine control units). The problem is especially rampant in DSM cars (Mitsubishi Eclipse, Eagle Talon, Plymouth Laser) manufactured between 1989 and 1994. I know because it happened to me. All the big electrolytic capacitors leaked all over the place, pretty much destroying the board. One of the symptoms is a 'rotten seafood smell' coming from behind the console.:)
Mitsubishi wanted around $750 for a replacement. Luckily since this is such a problem, refurbished ECUs are available for cheap.
From what I've seen, those YS Tech TMD fans aren't too great. They just spin too fast to be quiet. It's a shame, because the increased blade surface area should mean higher efficiency.
Anyway, the next-generation fans I'm truly drooling over are the ultra-quiet fans from Verax. A power supply with a Verax fan was a part of the Tom's Hardware Power Supply Roundup and they liked it a lot.
However, at $48.00 in the US for one of these babies, I don't think I'll be splurging yet. I thought I was nuts for buying 5 Papst 8412NGLs at $20.00 each.
I'm starting to lose count. It seems like every 6 months or so, the ad blitz starts. "New AOL Version x.0!! Now easier to use than ever! No wonder it's #1!!" It's been just like that EVERY SINGLE TIME.
I think their marketing needs a kick in the pants. I think people are getting numb to the rapid release of new AOL versions. I mean, have there been any real earth-shattering features between these "major" releases?
(Disclaimer: I once had an AOL account. I used my free 5 hours (Yes! FIVE HOURS! Not the 1025 hours they advertise now) back on my old 286 using their pretty cool DOS client that used GEOS. After the 5 hours were up, I promptly cancelled my account. They actually allowed you to cancel online back then! I also was a user of the proto-AOL service, PC-LINK.)
These are the InfoWorld Robert X. Cringely's predictions, who isn't the same Cringely that does things for PBS. That Cringely is actually Mark C. Stephens, who took the pen name with him when he left InfoWorld in 1995. There have been other Cringelys both before and after Stephens writing the column for InfoWorld.
InfoWorld/IDG has taken legal action in the past to prevent him from using the name, but Mr. Stephens continues to use Cringely.
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In the Sharp Zaurus Linux PDA community, many have shied away from SanDisk's SD cards. Their 128MB and 256MB had many problems with the Zaurus. Things are supposedly better now but you still hear about SanDisk SD problems with brand new cards and the latest Sharp ROM.
I've used a 128MB Lexar, formatted as FAT16 and things have worked well. Many have used an SD card as main storage on their Zauruses, formatted as ext2.
I live in an apartment community and they're about to roll out cable internet on their own private cable system real soon now. I have my standard DOCSIS cable modem and I'm just waiting for them to flip the switch, so to speak.
The tkcPhone product can do PDA-PDA (or PDA-any-VoIP-device) on a Sharp Zaurus. AFAIK the program doesn't support encryption directly, but there is IPSec for the Zaurus via FreeSWAN.
It better work with XVID, as Sigma Designs stole XVID's source in violation of the GPL to develop their "REALmagic MPEG-4 Video Codec." I believe most of the GPL problems have been ironed out by now, though.
The Xbox has two things working against it: the cooling fan and the hard drive. I can hardly stand to use any of the modern game consoles due to the racket that they make. This device is totally fanless and hard driveless. The only moving parts are in the DVD/CD transport.
Ouch. That stinks.
The only systems that really benefit from the hardware encoder/decoder are secure webservers.
What if you wanted an encrypted filesystem? That absolutely kills the CPU. Hardware acceleration for this would be perfect. I'd also prefer the chip that would do this to not be on the PCI bus which is getting more and more saturated these days.
What if you use scp and rsync over ssh extensively for network management? Flooding a 100Mbps link with encrypted traffic takes quite a bit of CPU.
but the main thing that stopped me, consideration of making money with other's work without being able to retrace everyone to get the proper permissions to do so...
Bascially, what Luxo said in his post -- Andy Voss went to the ends of the earth to get permission.
Also, the Demoscene tradition regarding CD-ROMs (and now DVDs) of scene productions is if your work is on the disc, you or your group gets a free one. I believe that is the case with Mindcandy as well.
And i seem to recall they were always on an endless loop. How can you make a DVD or DivX of demos without "fading out" after X repeats?
On a couple of the older demos (Spacepigs Megademo, Chronologia), they had to cut them short or stop them before they repeated. In one modern demo (The Nonstop Ibiza Experience, by Orange) they faded to black during the repeating endpart.
Hi, Cuth. Lassi actually didn't do music on Square, he did some coding (Statix explains the parts Dune did on the commentary track.) The music's pretty good, though.
This is great and all, but it is still frontlit.
Have you seen recent frontlit screens? Walk into any place selling any sort of color PDA, and see for yourself. They're absolutely gorgeous, especially on the iPAQ. Even the Afterburner GBA frontlight looks great.
When I installed the Afterburner, I was amazed at how thin it was. Perhaps frontlights are so popular these days because they contribute almost nothing to the thickness of the unit.
If you're passing by St. Louis, don't miss the free Anheuser-Busch brewery tour. St. Louis is the headquarters and has the oldest, largest brewery, but they have breweries that give tours around the country. For more info check out their website. Best part of going on the tour - free beer at the end.
The question "Do you consider yourself to be a hacker" was not asked by the prosecutor, it was asked by Elcomsoft's attorney. I don't think Sklyarov wanted to throw HIS rhythm off.
Debian has this built into the OS with debsums.
It does require a legit dpkg database (and md5sum, and the debsums program itself...) but it's a nice tool.
It's not that big of a deal, since most people's DNS requests never reach the TLD servers. Instead they're handled by a mirror at a lower point on the tree.
The most recent attack wasn't on the root nameservers, it was on UltraDNS, which is a large-scale commercial DNS hosting provider. A lot of big sites rely on their DNS service
A lot of work has to be done to run great on the new Xscale processor, and I doubt that Sharp did that work. Or if they did, not all the apps are tuned for the new processor.
Okay, so instead of running 'gcc -mtune=strongarm1100', they run 'gcc -mtune=xscale'.
The new SL-5600 will come with a 1700mAh battery. Unfortunately it looks like it's a lot bigger than the SL-5500's 950mAh battery. :(
I think they made a bad decision on the ram:
Rather than using a split-RAM architecture like the Sl-5500 and Pocket PCs do, the SL-5600 will have 32 MB of RAM that is dedicated to just active memory.
While the Sharp rom on the SL-5500 leaves your hands tied and dedicates the 64MB built-in ram 50/50 to ramdisk and available RAM, various custom ROM images like the Crow rom and OpenZaurus let you move the ramdisk to an SD flash card while freeing up all 64MB for usable RAM.
Having only 32MB for main memory REALLY ties your hands. Is SDRAM really so expensive that Sharp couldn't have used 64MB for main memory?
Check out this detailed mbox vs. Maildir comparison. Maildir really knocks the socks off of mbox in almost all of the tests.
Courier's POP and IMAP servers (the IMAP server is used in this benchmark) have performed excellently for me in both qmail and Postfix installations.
Good god...how many of these things could be lurking about in automotive airbags, ABS systems, or in any sort of medical device?
:)
(Slightly OT)
While not quite as bad, this is becoming a problem in older automotive ECUs (engine control units). The problem is especially rampant in DSM cars (Mitsubishi Eclipse, Eagle Talon, Plymouth Laser) manufactured between 1989 and 1994. I know because it happened to me. All the big electrolytic capacitors leaked all over the place, pretty much destroying the board. One of the symptoms is a 'rotten seafood smell' coming from behind the console.
Mitsubishi wanted around $750 for a replacement. Luckily since this is such a problem, refurbished ECUs are available for cheap.
From what I've seen, those YS Tech TMD fans aren't too great. They just spin too fast to be quiet. It's a shame, because the increased blade surface area should mean higher efficiency.
Anyway, the next-generation fans I'm truly drooling over are the ultra-quiet fans from Verax. A power supply with a Verax fan was a part of the Tom's Hardware Power Supply Roundup and they liked it a lot.
However, at $48.00 in the US for one of these babies, I don't think I'll be splurging yet. I thought I was nuts for buying 5 Papst 8412NGLs at $20.00 each.
Ian
I'm starting to lose count. It seems like every 6 months or so, the ad blitz starts. "New AOL Version x.0!! Now easier to use than ever! No wonder it's #1!!" It's been just like that EVERY SINGLE TIME.
I think their marketing needs a kick in the pants. I think people are getting numb to the rapid release of new AOL versions. I mean, have there been any real earth-shattering features between these "major" releases?
(Disclaimer: I once had an AOL account. I used my free 5 hours (Yes! FIVE HOURS! Not the 1025 hours they advertise now) back on my old 286 using their pretty cool DOS client that used GEOS. After the 5 hours were up, I promptly cancelled my account. They actually allowed you to cancel online back then! I also was a user of the proto-AOL service, PC-LINK.)
here's his 2002 [infoworld.com] predictions.
These are the InfoWorld Robert X. Cringely's predictions, who isn't the same Cringely that does things for PBS. That Cringely is actually Mark C. Stephens, who took the pen name with him when he left InfoWorld in 1995. There have been other Cringelys both before and after Stephens writing the column for InfoWorld.
InfoWorld/IDG has taken legal action in the past to prevent him from using the name, but Mr. Stephens continues to use Cringely.
Let's see how close he was... Anyone got a link?
Cringely prides himself on the accuracy of his predictions. Here's links to the last few years' worth:
2002
2001
2000
1999
(Joke's on me -- I misspelled asinine.)