dude, all it takes is common sense... even in this country (Brazil), which has a long history of sucking uncle Sam's dick, some minister had the balls to declare that ridiculous drug patents void, and then a bunch of labs started making "generic" drugs, which cost a fraction of the price... Lives get saved this way, so, it can't be bad. I wonder why that kind of patents are allowed/respected anywhere... It is like putting corporate interests of some rich fat fucks in the other side of the globe above the lives of your people... ikes...
On the old days, you could rent audio CDs in some rental stores... CDs would cost like $20+ back then (1992-1995, if I remember correctly). People used to rent them by $2 and then tape the best songs... Sadly, they stopped renting CDs as soon as CD-Burners started to get mainstream, but I was still able to get some gzipped wavs out of these stores, that later became mp3s... of course, with the prices of the megabyte of storage back then you had to be very picky.
sure, sure, CMD.EXE first debut was in windows NT (1993, I think...). but, you know, its purpose is to emulate that thing called "DOS", which is around much longer, and is a direct descendant of CP/M, which is surely as old, if not older, than UNIX.
CLIs are not a new thing, you know... kids today...
Actually, I find the fact that they are including pop-up suppresion and tabs in IE with this new SP pretty refreshing. To the day they just chose to ignore neat features like this "because we have 99.9999% marketshare and we don't give a fuck about your damn web browser's features". Now that the lack of these features (and many others) started to bite them in the ass, they rush to implement them (and probably will claim they invented them, whatever). Competition does wonders for the quality, as usual.
> the fact is that they *could* demand Linux royalties.
and why is that exactly? the FAT code in the kernel is *not* microsoft's, it was written by the linux programmers themselves. I dunno if they could charge USERS for using the format, but the code in the kernel? gimme a break.
btw, I think the FAT format is prior to Microsoft (CP/M ?)
If you want a *working* linux PDA get a 3870 off ebay, must be pretty cheap these days. All the hardware works out of the box (on the ipaq, dunno about PCMCIA/CF jacket stuff). I use GSM/GPRS over IrDA to ssh to my servers on emergencies, but, to be frank, I'd rather use the notebook to do that. Typing on the on-screen keyboard is much slower than a real keyboard.
amen to that. Since I installed familiar/OPIE in my Ipaq I never looked back to PocketPC. I know, syncing is a bitch, but guess what, It never worked for me anyway since I run linux on all my computers and they would not sync to PocketPC eiter. OPIE is pretty nifty, has a theme that looks aqua-ish (liquid), and in my IPAQ all the hardware works perfectly (38xx series). But the biggest advantage linux has over pocketpc is the way they manage the storage. PocketPC stores all data and extra programs in RAM, so if you let the battery discharge, you are fscked. Linux stores all data and programs in the Ipaq's flash memory or SD/MMC memory cards, so, when the battery discharges, the only thing I lose is the clock, that needs to be readjusted. Pretty good if you ask me.
Having used M$ PocketPC 2002 for a while, I decided to try familiar linux on my Ipaq 3850, and I'm glad I did.
Installing the bootloader is a bit risky, but I had no problem. Whith that installed you can load virtually anything you want in the ipaq's flash. I'm currently using OPIE, for its nice PIM apps, but will be probably switching to GPE when they get decent PIM support (e.g. beaming cards trough Irda/OBEX).
The main advantage of linux over PocketPC is its ability to read/write anything in the flash (32Mb) like it is a hard disk, thanks to the JFFS2 filesystem. This way, you have all the 64Mb of RAM for your apps usage. PocketPC cannot write to flash, so all your data (and extra applications, sadly) are stored in a RAMDISK, which leaves less memory for the apps to run, and have the nasty feature of losing all your data/apps if you let the batteries run down. With linux it does not happen since it stores all data in non-volatile flash.
If you have a 3850 sitting around, I highly reccomend that you try familiar linux on it. OPIE is much better-looking than PocketPC, especially with an aqua-ish theme. All the hardware in the 3850 is supported now, including the dreaded SD cards (but you will have to upgrade to the "unstable" kernel to get SD cards working.
In brief, the hardware I use is the ipaq itself, one 128Mb MMC card and one 128Mb SD card. It sums up to: PDA, email, mp3 player, game boy (heh, im stretching here, but I can play nethack and chess on it, so its cool), and linked trough IRDA with my GSM phone, I can ssh to my servers from virtually anywhere. Much more useful than old PocketPC.
Unless I'm missing something, this shortcuts just change the resolution of the viewport, not the size of the desktop (eg, I have this configured at home to switch between 1280x1024,1024x768,800x600). It works fine, but the desktop is always 1280x1024, and scrolls around when I use other resolutions). Still pretty neat, since I use this to use movies/activate the tv-out in the geforce4.
But changing the desktop size on-the-fly would be cool, at least for windoz users, which are used to it.
Dunno if it changed in XFree 4.3, since I have it installed only in the laptop, and this fscking TFT does not allow me to change the resolution (vsync goes haywire).
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dude, all it takes is common sense... even in this country (Brazil), which has a long history of sucking uncle Sam's dick, some minister had the balls to declare that ridiculous drug patents void, and then a bunch of labs started making "generic" drugs, which cost a fraction of the price... Lives get saved this way, so, it can't be bad. I wonder why that kind of patents are allowed/respected anywhere... It is like putting corporate interests of some rich fat fucks in the other side of the globe above the lives of your people... ikes...
cheers.
DUDE! I would love to pay 3.000 american dollars for such a machine... One year ago I had to pay $2.600 for a shitty COMPAQ EVO N1000V!.. ikes.
You guys are lucky.
cheers.
On the old days, you could rent audio CDs in some rental stores... CDs would cost like $20+ back then (1992-1995, if I remember correctly). People used to rent them by $2 and then tape the best songs... Sadly, they stopped renting CDs as soon as CD-Burners started to get mainstream, but I was still able to get some gzipped wavs out of these stores, that later became mp3s... of course, with the prices of the megabyte of storage back then you had to be very picky.
cheers
sure, sure, CMD.EXE first debut was in windows NT (1993, I think...). but, you know, its purpose is to emulate that thing called "DOS", which is around much longer, and is a direct descendant of CP/M, which is surely as old, if not older, than UNIX.
CLIs are not a new thing, you know... kids today...
cheers
The world cup and the Olympics never happen simultaneously, so, he is quite right.
cheers.
and what hardware is that, sunshine?
decent (like 'rtcw @ 1024x768+, 4x AA, 8x Anisotropic') only comes with binary drivers
either from ATI or nVidia.
cheers.
First they ignore you,
Then, they laugh at you,
Then, they fight you,
And then you win...
And they are already fighting...
cheers.
yeah, but PAE is an ugly hack. if you happen to have a linux kernel
source at hand, read what the help says about enabling it.
cheers.
or you could just beam the file over IRdA to your pal's reader... Oh wait, thats stealing!!!
cheers.
Actually, I find the fact that they are including pop-up suppresion and tabs in IE with this new SP pretty refreshing. To the day they just chose to ignore neat features like this "because we have 99.9999% marketshare and we don't give a fuck about your damn web browser's features". Now that the lack of these features (and many others) started to bite them in the ass, they rush to implement them (and probably will claim they invented them, whatever). Competition does wonders for the quality, as usual.
cheers.
Interesting to see QNX listed as a part of this consortium... Think about "If you can't beat them, join them", it seems.
> the fact is that they *could* demand Linux royalties.
and why is that exactly? the FAT code in the kernel is *not* microsoft's, it was written by the linux programmers themselves.
I dunno if they could charge USERS for using the format, but the code in the kernel? gimme a break.
btw, I think the FAT format is prior to Microsoft (CP/M ?)
cheers.
MMC and SD work on the 38xx (sa-based) out of the box.
Support for the newer models (pxa-based) is on the way I think.
cheers.
If you want a *working* linux PDA get a 3870 off ebay, must be pretty cheap these days. All the hardware works out of the box (on the ipaq, dunno about PCMCIA/CF jacket stuff).
I use GSM/GPRS over IrDA to ssh to my servers on emergencies, but, to be frank, I'd rather use the notebook to do that. Typing on the on-screen keyboard is much slower than a real keyboard.
cheers.
amen to that.
Since I installed familiar/OPIE in my Ipaq I never looked back to PocketPC. I know, syncing is a bitch, but guess what, It never worked for me anyway since I run linux on all my computers and they would not sync to PocketPC eiter. OPIE is pretty nifty, has a theme that looks aqua-ish (liquid), and in my IPAQ all the hardware works perfectly (38xx series). But the biggest advantage linux has over pocketpc is the way they manage the storage. PocketPC stores all data and extra programs in RAM, so if you let the battery
discharge, you are fscked. Linux stores all data and programs in the Ipaq's flash memory or SD/MMC memory cards, so, when the battery
discharges, the only thing I lose is the clock, that needs to be readjusted. Pretty good if you ask me.
cheers.
Doesn't SAMBA already run in userland?
cheers
if you don't care about your service, yes.
cheers
I second that.
Having used M$ PocketPC 2002 for a while, I decided to try familiar linux on my Ipaq 3850, and I'm glad I did.
Installing the bootloader is a bit risky, but I had no problem. Whith that installed you can load virtually anything you want in the ipaq's flash. I'm currently using OPIE, for its nice PIM apps, but will be probably switching to GPE when they get decent PIM support (e.g. beaming cards trough Irda/OBEX).
The main advantage of linux over PocketPC is its ability to read/write anything in the flash (32Mb) like it is a hard disk, thanks to the JFFS2 filesystem. This way, you have all the 64Mb of RAM for your apps usage. PocketPC cannot write to flash, so all your data (and extra applications, sadly) are stored in a RAMDISK, which leaves less memory for the apps to run, and have the nasty feature of losing all your data/apps if you let the batteries run down. With linux it does not happen since it stores all data in non-volatile flash.
If you have a 3850 sitting around, I highly reccomend that you try familiar linux on it. OPIE is much better-looking than PocketPC, especially with an aqua-ish theme. All the hardware in the 3850 is supported now, including the dreaded SD cards (but you will have to upgrade to the "unstable" kernel to get SD cards working.
In brief, the hardware I use is the ipaq itself, one 128Mb MMC card and one 128Mb SD card. It sums up to: PDA, email, mp3 player, game boy (heh, im stretching here, but I can play nethack and chess on it, so its cool), and linked trough IRDA with my GSM phone, I can ssh to my servers from virtually anywhere. Much more useful than old PocketPC.
cheers;
only if he is IN SOVIET RUSSIA
cheers.
Yeah, but I'll wait for a dual-cpu version, and for a multi-HD version too, like up to 4 HDDs.
then I will consider buying one.
cheers.
you know, this is a bit misleading.
Unless I'm missing something, this shortcuts just change the resolution of the viewport, not the size of the desktop (eg, I have this configured at home to switch between 1280x1024,1024x768,800x600). It works fine, but the desktop is always 1280x1024, and scrolls around when I use other resolutions). Still pretty neat, since I use this to use movies/activate the tv-out in the geforce4.
But changing the desktop size on-the-fly would be cool, at least for windoz users, which are used to it.
Dunno if it changed in XFree 4.3, since I have it installed only in the laptop, and this fscking TFT does not allow me to change the resolution (vsync goes haywire).
cheers.
dude, the solution I came up with is to not run nautilus at all, just the panel in the top.
/usr/bin/nautilus /usr/bin/nautilus.inactive" and get rid of the bloat.
works awesome and makes GNOME2 pretty lightweight.
who the hell wants desktop icons anyway? thats so windoze-ish. panel drawers are your friend.
just do "mv
ah, and if you need a filemanager, there are ligher ones aroud (gmc from gnome1 does all I need
when it comes to filemanagers)
cheers.
wu-ftpd? wtf?
even the worthless security audits I had here two years ago had in their recommendations to switch any wu-ftpd servers to ProFtpd
href=http://www.proftpd.org
These GNU guys spend to much time in politics and too little in stuff that matters (like maintaining their servers)
cheers.
not to mention that dd'ing partitions mounted rw is kinda pointless, unless you don't care for a corrupted backup.
cheers
really?
I installed it yesterday on my laptop, but didn't bother to read the EULA. What's so nasty about it?
cheers