Take any Windows Linux or OSX system, and lock it down till its just a kiosk.
There you go!
This is also doable with a windows98 installation onto a CD. Knoppix comes to mind for Linux. I've also tried setting up a kiosk like graphic OS to go onto a compactflash card that acts as an IDE device. I needed newer apps too many times on it.
See, a FIXED OS needs to be configured seperately for each system since noones requirement is the same as anothers'. QNX, Windows CE, PalmOS and ucLinux come to mind. But Windows 2000/XP etc will work too.
Did you mean an OS DESIGNED that way? The act of installation is managed by the libc and scripts to place it in the right folders. Take away the permissions and remove the scripts that do the installation (Windows Installer) and you're there. Theres nothing more to redesign in the libraries or kernel.
64-bit would be nice. I dont like the default theme though, it should be a windows classic default theme. I'd do without themes if I were them.
ACID2 and a browser that doesnt crash are high on my list. I went back to firefox after by opera9 full release crashed a few too many times. I leave 10+ tabs open, maybe that did it.
I think it has more to do with the segregation of components in Linux than in Windows. In Windows things depend on each other unnecessarily with no clear standardized API. In Linux, someone can make a new scheduler, add 2 more filesystems and know almost nothing about drivers. Yet it'll work and work well. In Windows, make a new filesystem and 12 other things will break because they depended on the quirks of the previous filesystem. At least many apps out there will break because their developers had to depend on those quirks because there is no clear complete standardized API.
Not burdened with binary compatibility, Linux (and BSD et al) cleaned up their design at the cost of not being compatible with previous apps. Now it doesnt run libc5 apps, most dont run a.out binaries and they dont care if kernel version 1.3.27 drivers dont work in version 2.6.45. So they can make a clean new design each time. Windows is still supposed to support DOS apps, win16 binaries and win32 binaries with quirks from circa windows 95. And they know the day they try to have a clean start and ignore their binary codebase, Linux and BSD will have an edge.
My dad tried to connect to the Internet by plugging in the phone line into the ethernet socket. He's much more savvy now.
And of course people putting floppies into cdrom slots and MANY MANY cases of speaker plug into the wrong hole.
Others include plugging the DB15 monitor plug into DB9 serial ports and bending some of the pins, and vice versa.
Can I count the number of times people complained the machine had errors or was frozen, while the power to the case was off? No. A more recent one was the user switching the tower APC UPS on and off wondering why the computer isnt turning on.
These are just the physical interfaces. I had a professor call me all angry wondering why he could only see files starting with A and B. I told him to scroll to the right. "Whats a scroll?".
Thats OK. I remember when as a kid I saw a VCR the first time. My dad brought it and said we could now see more cartoons on it. I just put my eyes close against the casette entry and wondered when the cartoons would start.
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Who cares? Linux has more than its fair share of filesystems, including XFS. I'm still wondering why XFS isnt used universally on desktop and server Linux installations everywhere. Is the ext2/3 just 'traditional'?
Or the Adobe Element allows contrast search or something similar where it brings up the lines. In Emboss, you can further contrast the image to make it black n white. That should work. If you arent happy with the think boundary lines the elements tool (pretty sure theres something similar in linux) will give you sharp lines that you can contrast more. Of course only certain images will work, not everything.
This is awesome. ANYTHING to force the threshold market to move onto Linux or OSX makes me happy. I know this will be a pain for me since I maintain 100+ machines with windows on them, I cant wait to use Linux or BSD on em. That will depend on the apps available for those OSes, which will depend on how painful it gets to run Microsoft.
I dont care. I'll take SuSE, redhat, slackware, debian,ubuntu, custom uclinux distro, whatever. Bring it on.
But I desperately need a good collaboration suite that looks like outlook+exchange, and lotus, accpac, visual manufacturing, etc to move to Linux. Once that happens I can save my company a good $50,000 a year by using a custom Linux distro, possibly slackware. But for as long as Microsoft allows illegal copies, people will use nothing but Microsoft, and the app developers will only support Microsoft. And I'll suffer.
I hope Microsoft drives a 10 foot long stake into each pirate. I need free beer.
I'd recommend adding these menu entries in the BIOS so people would buy the laptops in hope for such a docking station. When we've sold enough laptops building those docking stations would be feasible. Then we can sell THOSE at a high price.
In short, I wouldnt believe it until I saw the docking stations and the benchmarks.
10% of firewire 400 is 40mbps. fast ethernet is more than that even with the collisions. So I dont know how you got faster transfers with firewire.
One option is to just pull the drive from the old machine and use it as the slave drive. I use this when moving large files. Another option is to have a gigabit card, now around $14 everywhere. Newer PCs already have gigabit cards. Just use a crossover cable if you wont buy the (also cheap) gigabit switch.
As far as firewire is concerned, I've never used it to transfer files since I've always had faster alternatives.
Its far from the most peculiar of theories that have withstood time.
I remember the heyday of the many-worlds theory that came out of Oxford/Cambridge. Forgot the guys name. Other physicists had to be very careful in calling it wrong, and it was quite imaginative saying there are many other worlds RIGHT NOW in parallel with us. This sucked in lots of grads until it was either dispoven or went out of fashion.
When I was in college chasing physics, the string theory and the standard model seemed like we've hit the limit of human knowledge, and apart from small things its impossible to learn much more. That killed all the great promises of travelling faster than time, getting unlimited energy more than what nuclear energy gives us, time travel, infinite computational power, and other cool stuff like being invisible, wormholes, levitation etc. All those died. Physics seemed like something for old men listening to elevator music sitting behind piles of paper, analyzing meteorite particles and calculating whats in the Sun.
So I moved on to computer science when Linux was all the rage (still is, but its more corporate and less garage-kid nowadays).
Anything that squashes string theory piques my interest in theoretical physics, and I think the article hits the nail on the head. String theory is interesting in that its an example of a theory that comes along and gets stuck around since its so 'general' that even if it can prove nothing, it can't be disproved and thus becomes a future framework limiting that corner of science. Physicists should be brave enough to say we dont know if string theory is right, and should explore other stuff, even the weirdness of the many worlds theory. General Relativity and the Copenhagen model need not be reconciled at this point. Maybe they have to be developed much more before making sense with each other. Maybe during this time we can discover time travel, travel back in time and ride hovering skateboards.
Hmm apparently this is more common than I thought.
I never got panic attacks. I loved exams. Also loved teasing friends when they were having their panic attacks.
It feels a little like a chess game. Youre timed and you have to think some and do some stuff before the time is up. Being 'fresh' and awake was more important for me than having studied full tilt just before, and I suggest the day before the exam, do something totally unrelated, and should not be studying. Go swimming or play the old games. Try to finish Doom or something the whole day. Just have fun. Eat well and sleep early.
Right before the exam, about an hour or so skim through the book or whatever. Remember, if you didnt study that is not the time to crunch it all. You just dont know and dont deserve the grade. That will make you feel at ease. The skimming is just to remember the stuff, not to learn anything new.
But then again, since I never had that attack, my advice might be redundant.
Thousands of atoms. Shrodingers/Bohrs equations for all of them.
This has interesting consequences for the study of plastics, DNA, virii and other complex molecules.
Perhaps the program can run in a loop trying every possible atomic combination to produce the best of certain attributes, as in give me the hardest material or give me an easy to manufacture room temp superconductor. It bypasses the whole invention/discovery step.
It was too much knee pressure for me. Eventually its back exercise. Paddling a canoe will do it. Better and more fun than these chairs. You'll spend less time on the computer with these chairs because they're painful.
I doubt its dead. In fact I suspect the market for board-level design is huge given the variety of products and design tools out there.
Its something I'm interested in too, but I suspect a college degree would teach me less than 2 full years with copper-clad boards, design tools, sample board companies and tonnes of CPU samples from around (and their programmers).
Hopefully the curriculum you design is hands-on enough.
When it doesnt matter, I use slackware. Some embedded tools are packaged for redhat 9, and I'll use that. Otherwise its all either slackware, or knoppix given its ease and utility, and the fact that its debian, has no shortage of tools and is packaged nicely ( not too many things broken in there).
Forgive me for asking but what part of the browsing experience makes up voip? How is voip browsing?
Things like xmms and mplayer are more 'browsing' than voip. Things like email clients, voip, financial applications, spreadsheets, idsoftware games are all non-browser software and should not be a part of the browser. A browser should include things that are required for browsers, and wont go anywhere else like shockwave flash players.
And I've seen other comments before, people dont like their firefoxen growing fatter.
I understand how easy digital cameras make photography, but the subject of quality remains. I've seen black-and-white large format pictures whose resolution blew me away. They were pictures of yosemite in winter, and the details of the branches is amazing.
In 10 years cheaper digital cameras will exceed the quality of large format photography. Unfortunately Internet connection speeds have stayed the same in Canada for the past 5 years, and doesnt look like it will increase in the next 5. We'll have to downsample pictures more.
We ordered an infomagic CD set of redhat, slackware and debian CDs. There were the 3 of us friends. We knew NOTHING of unix or linux.
So we distributed the CDs and tried installing it. I got redhat first and failed. It was too complex.
Then we switched CDs and tried again. I got debian. I installed it but the dselect packages and interface were way too much. I didnt know how the system worked. It was crazy and confusing at the time.
So the others gave up and I took all the CDs. I installed slackware 3.0 and it couldnt have been easier or more intuitive. Within weeks I was compiling my own kernels, changing sysctls and doing advanced advanced stuff like configuring ppp. When the system is simple enough, you can keep everything in perspective.
I admit I wouldnt use slackware for much. Too many packages are made for redhat and suse and too many drivers, scripts, other mechanisms have been stress-tested only on redhat and suse. Outside of these, I'd use ubuntu and knoppix for different reasons. And for embedded stuff I'd build my own distro using uclibc and busybox.
But should someone ask me for my favorite distro I'll say slackware. Shes like the linux of linux distros. For every major version release I download and install it once, doing all the rc script changes that I'm so used to doing, compile a new kernel, setup X completely, install firefox and use it for a day. Just for the old times sake. When Linux was not for the enterprise, but for people who wanted to play with it.
exactly what you are supposed to do and to what extent.
The rest is up to you. The rest is you offering something for free, to look good, to be friends with the investors and to possibly be a future dev manager. You're providing that for free and you should simply know that when you're providing that. Apart from that, what you do is your job and you'll get paid for it.
For some strange reason, I suggest you try and apply to get hired in that bought company again.
The US being the sole superpower, I wonder who or what is the target. 6000 bombs is a lot. Its as unreasonable to build 6000 bombs as it is to build 6000,000 bombs. Whats the point? Who are you trying to scare, and by what measure?
I dont think Al Qaeda attacks would be reduced, nor would Iran, North Korea etc cease to build bombs. They'll only be encouraged. Makes me wonder whats the point.
It may be safer for the Americans to try and dismantle more of the USSR stockpile than build a new one against an unknown enemy. Maybe we're expecting lots of huge Asteroids hearding our way.
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So life would be cheaper. However one shouldnt overdrinkdrink the antidote as the love of antiques is more expensive.
Is there a word for people who like slightly used items?
You have no reason to go 64-bit in the corporate right now. Its still not there yet. You have almost nothing to gain from going 64-bit.
So whats the problem again?
Its a good idea, only it already exists. Kinda.
Take any Windows Linux or OSX system, and lock it down till its just a kiosk.
There you go!
This is also doable with a windows98 installation onto a CD. Knoppix comes to mind for Linux. I've also tried setting up a kiosk like graphic OS to go onto a compactflash card that acts as an IDE device. I needed newer apps too many times on it.
See, a FIXED OS needs to be configured seperately for each system since noones requirement is the same as anothers'. QNX, Windows CE, PalmOS and ucLinux come to mind. But Windows 2000/XP etc will work too.
Did you mean an OS DESIGNED that way? The act of installation is managed by the libc and scripts to place it in the right folders. Take away the permissions and remove the scripts that do the installation (Windows Installer) and you're there. Theres nothing more to redesign in the libraries or kernel.
Read again, there are two models. The second one has 2x rotary engines.
Gotta love bad car makers who build helicopters. Canada should buy some to replace its Seakings, to go with the used submarines.
64-bit would be nice. I dont like the default theme though, it should be a windows classic default theme. I'd do without themes if I were them.
ACID2 and a browser that doesnt crash are high on my list. I went back to firefox after by opera9 full release crashed a few too many times. I leave 10+ tabs open, maybe that did it.
I think it has more to do with the segregation of components in Linux than in Windows. In Windows things depend on each other unnecessarily with no clear standardized API. In Linux, someone can make a new scheduler, add 2 more filesystems and know almost nothing about drivers. Yet it'll work and work well. In Windows, make a new filesystem and 12 other things will break because they depended on the quirks of the previous filesystem. At least many apps out there will break because their developers had to depend on those quirks because there is no clear complete standardized API.
Not burdened with binary compatibility, Linux (and BSD et al) cleaned up their design at the cost of not being compatible with previous apps. Now it doesnt run libc5 apps, most dont run a.out binaries and they dont care if kernel version 1.3.27 drivers dont work in version 2.6.45. So they can make a clean new design each time. Windows is still supposed to support DOS apps, win16 binaries and win32 binaries with quirks from circa windows 95. And they know the day they try to have a clean start and ignore their binary codebase, Linux and BSD will have an edge.
Lots of cable misplugs.
My dad tried to connect to the Internet by plugging in the phone line into the ethernet socket. He's much more savvy now.
And of course people putting floppies into cdrom slots and MANY MANY cases of speaker plug into the wrong hole.
Others include plugging the DB15 monitor plug into DB9 serial ports and bending some of the pins, and vice versa.
Can I count the number of times people complained the machine had errors or was frozen, while the power to the case was off? No. A more recent one was the user switching the tower APC UPS on and off wondering why the computer isnt turning on.
These are just the physical interfaces. I had a professor call me all angry wondering why he could only see files starting with A and B. I told him to scroll to the right. "Whats a scroll?".
Thats OK. I remember when as a kid I saw a VCR the first time. My dad brought it and said we could now see more cartoons on it. I just put my eyes close against the casette entry and wondered when the cartoons would start.
Who cares? Linux has more than its fair share of filesystems, including XFS. I'm still wondering why XFS isnt used universally on desktop and server Linux installations everywhere. Is the ext2/3 just 'traditional'?
Business Objects enterprise.
Even better, a pile of perl scripts.
Or the Adobe Element allows contrast search or something similar where it brings up the lines. In Emboss, you can further contrast the image to make it black n white. That should work. If you arent happy with the think boundary lines the elements tool (pretty sure theres something similar in linux) will give you sharp lines that you can contrast more. Of course only certain images will work, not everything.
This is awesome. ANYTHING to force the threshold market to move onto Linux or OSX makes me happy. I know this will be a pain for me since I maintain 100+ machines with windows on them, I cant wait to use Linux or BSD on em. That will depend on the apps available for those OSes, which will depend on how painful it gets to run Microsoft.
I dont care. I'll take SuSE, redhat, slackware, debian,ubuntu, custom uclinux distro, whatever. Bring it on.
But I desperately need a good collaboration suite that looks like outlook+exchange, and lotus, accpac, visual manufacturing, etc to move to Linux. Once that happens I can save my company a good $50,000 a year by using a custom Linux distro, possibly slackware. But for as long as Microsoft allows illegal copies, people will use nothing but Microsoft, and the app developers will only support Microsoft. And I'll suffer.
I hope Microsoft drives a 10 foot long stake into each pirate. I need free beer.
If I were in the Dell marketing department....
I'd recommend adding these menu entries in the BIOS so people would buy the laptops in hope for such a docking station. When we've sold enough laptops building those docking stations would be feasible. Then we can sell THOSE at a high price.
In short, I wouldnt believe it until I saw the docking stations and the benchmarks.
10% of firewire 400 is 40mbps. fast ethernet is more than that even with the collisions. So I dont know how you got faster transfers with firewire.
One option is to just pull the drive from the old machine and use it as the slave drive. I use this when moving large files. Another option is to have a gigabit card, now around $14 everywhere. Newer PCs already have gigabit cards. Just use a crossover cable if you wont buy the (also cheap) gigabit switch.
As far as firewire is concerned, I've never used it to transfer files since I've always had faster alternatives.
Its far from the most peculiar of theories that have withstood time.
I remember the heyday of the many-worlds theory that came out of Oxford/Cambridge. Forgot the guys name. Other physicists had to be very careful in calling it wrong, and it was quite imaginative saying there are many other worlds RIGHT NOW in parallel with us. This sucked in lots of grads until it was either dispoven or went out of fashion.
When I was in college chasing physics, the string theory and the standard model seemed like we've hit the limit of human knowledge, and apart from small things its impossible to learn much more. That killed all the great promises of travelling faster than time, getting unlimited energy more than what nuclear energy gives us, time travel, infinite computational power, and other cool stuff like being invisible, wormholes, levitation etc. All those died. Physics seemed like something for old men listening to elevator music sitting behind piles of paper, analyzing meteorite particles and calculating whats in the Sun.
So I moved on to computer science when Linux was all the rage (still is, but its more corporate and less garage-kid nowadays).
Anything that squashes string theory piques my interest in theoretical physics, and I think the article hits the nail on the head. String theory is interesting in that its an example of a theory that comes along and gets stuck around since its so 'general' that even if it can prove nothing, it can't be disproved and thus becomes a future framework limiting that corner of science. Physicists should be brave enough to say we dont know if string theory is right, and should explore other stuff, even the weirdness of the many worlds theory. General Relativity and the Copenhagen model need not be reconciled at this point. Maybe they have to be developed much more before making sense with each other. Maybe during this time we can discover time travel, travel back in time and ride hovering skateboards.
Hmm apparently this is more common than I thought.
I never got panic attacks. I loved exams. Also loved teasing friends when they were having their panic attacks.
It feels a little like a chess game. Youre timed and you have to think some and do some stuff before the time is up. Being 'fresh' and awake was more important for me than having studied full tilt just before, and I suggest the day before the exam, do something totally unrelated, and should not be studying. Go swimming or play the old games. Try to finish Doom or something the whole day. Just have fun. Eat well and sleep early.
Right before the exam, about an hour or so skim through the book or whatever. Remember, if you didnt study that is not the time to crunch it all. You just dont know and dont deserve the grade. That will make you feel at ease. The skimming is just to remember the stuff, not to learn anything new.
But then again, since I never had that attack, my advice might be redundant.
Thousands of atoms. Shrodingers/Bohrs equations for all of them.
This has interesting consequences for the study of plastics, DNA, virii and other complex molecules.
Perhaps the program can run in a loop trying every possible atomic combination to produce the best of certain attributes, as in give me the hardest material or give me an easy to manufacture room temp superconductor. It bypasses the whole invention/discovery step.
It was too much knee pressure for me. Eventually its back exercise. Paddling a canoe will do it. Better and more fun than these chairs. You'll spend less time on the computer with these chairs because they're painful.
Word has it that Toyota has caused people to buy less cars. They last too damn long.
Someone should go after Toyota. Maybe their competitors should file a class action lawsuit.
Oh I thought you meant chip design too.
I doubt its dead. In fact I suspect the market for board-level design is huge given the variety of products and design tools out there.
Its something I'm interested in too, but I suspect a college degree would teach me less than 2 full years with copper-clad boards, design tools, sample board companies and tonnes of CPU samples from around (and their programmers).
Hopefully the curriculum you design is hands-on enough.
When it doesnt matter, I use slackware. Some embedded tools are packaged for redhat 9, and I'll use that. Otherwise its all either slackware, or knoppix given its ease and utility, and the fact that its debian, has no shortage of tools and is packaged nicely ( not too many things broken in there).
Forgive me for asking but what part of the browsing experience makes up voip? How is voip browsing?
Things like xmms and mplayer are more 'browsing' than voip. Things like email clients, voip, financial applications, spreadsheets, idsoftware games are all non-browser software and should not be a part of the browser. A browser should include things that are required for browsers, and wont go anywhere else like shockwave flash players.
And I've seen other comments before, people dont like their firefoxen growing fatter.
I understand how easy digital cameras make photography, but the subject of quality remains. I've seen black-and-white large format pictures whose resolution blew me away. They were pictures of yosemite in winter, and the details of the branches is amazing.
In 10 years cheaper digital cameras will exceed the quality of large format photography. Unfortunately Internet connection speeds have stayed the same in Canada for the past 5 years, and doesnt look like it will increase in the next 5. We'll have to downsample pictures more.
Slackware is how I got started on Linux in 1996.
We ordered an infomagic CD set of redhat, slackware and debian CDs. There were the 3 of us friends. We knew NOTHING of unix or linux.
So we distributed the CDs and tried installing it. I got redhat first and failed. It was too complex.
Then we switched CDs and tried again. I got debian. I installed it but the dselect packages and interface were way too much. I didnt know how the system worked. It was crazy and confusing at the time.
So the others gave up and I took all the CDs. I installed slackware 3.0 and it couldnt have been easier or more intuitive. Within weeks I was compiling my own kernels, changing sysctls and doing advanced advanced stuff like configuring ppp. When the system is simple enough, you can keep everything in perspective.
I admit I wouldnt use slackware for much. Too many packages are made for redhat and suse and too many drivers, scripts, other mechanisms have been stress-tested only on redhat and suse. Outside of these, I'd use ubuntu and knoppix for different reasons. And for embedded stuff I'd build my own distro using uclibc and busybox.
But should someone ask me for my favorite distro I'll say slackware. Shes like the linux of linux distros. For every major version release I download and install it once, doing all the rc script changes that I'm so used to doing, compile a new kernel, setup X completely, install firefox and use it for a day. Just for the old times sake. When Linux was not for the enterprise, but for people who wanted to play with it.
exactly what you are supposed to do and to what extent.
The rest is up to you. The rest is you offering something for free, to look good, to be friends with the investors and to possibly be a future dev manager. You're providing that for free and you should simply know that when you're providing that. Apart from that, what you do is your job and you'll get paid for it.
For some strange reason, I suggest you try and apply to get hired in that bought company again.
I dont know why I suggested that.
The US being the sole superpower, I wonder who or what is the target. 6000 bombs is a lot. Its as unreasonable to build 6000 bombs as it is to build 6000,000 bombs. Whats the point? Who are you trying to scare, and by what measure?
I dont think Al Qaeda attacks would be reduced, nor would Iran, North Korea etc cease to build bombs. They'll only be encouraged. Makes me wonder whats the point.
It may be safer for the Americans to try and dismantle more of the USSR stockpile than build a new one against an unknown enemy. Maybe we're expecting lots of huge Asteroids hearding our way.