Sure, that works on just about any system but Windows.... unless you have cygwin installed.
still, my scenario may not have been perfect, but the idea behind it was more critera in a search is better. That is what WinFS brings to the table, more critera to search by. Some may find it useful, some may not.. As for me I'll stick with ext3 and NTFS for now, if WinFS turns out to offer somethign useful in the long run and performance doesn't take a big hit I may change. (assuming someone writes a Linux driver for WinFS filesystems... would hate to have to use MS tools for any kind of disaster recovery.)
Well, one of the metadata items they mention is who viewed it last.
Suppose you are end user support and the marketing person comes to you asking for help because she saved an image but wasn't paying attention to where she saved it, and can't remember the name of the file.
Do you want to a) search with the standard windows search which ought to let you get *.jpg and look at each one (she probably has thousands) until you find it
or
b) use the search with WinFS and look up *.jpg, last acessed by sue, within the last day
I've administered lots of Linksys routers and not had a problem using galeon, mozilla or konqueror. Perhaps the built in method for firmware updates (which I think it just HTTP upload) doesn't work in some browsers, they provide a TFTP firmware update program for windows anyway, and regular old console tftp in Linux works fine for that too.
If you think 1024 is bad in Windows try it in Linux.
I had my 17" CRT at 1280 but my girlfriend kept complaining about it hurting her eyes and messing with the contrast and brightness to compensate (at that resolution it was running at 60Hz, which is fine if you use it in the dark or by the light of a halogen desk lamp like me, but if you turn on the florescent overhead it does hurt....anyway, as a result I've had to move it down to 1024 so we could get decent refresh rates. I'm now really wanting a new monitor. (I thought 1280 was low, but 1024 is killing me) I'd like to see 1600 or higher in an LCD that was somewhere close to my price range, but it looks like that's not going to happen any time soon.:(
What is the target consumer group for this product? It has to be the lowend flatpanel HDTV market.
At a max resolution of 1280x768 and optimum of 1024x768 (??? on a 16:9 screen ewww!) the resolution is too low for large screen PC users those resolutions are ok for 17" but if I was buying anything bigger I'd expect better resolutions than that.... not to mention.49 pixel pitch? you need to be sitting back from this monitor to be comfortable with that, so this is definitely a TV grade monitor.
Actually, I have another little anecdote to go along with my magazine issue.
There was an artist last year (also in Canada, I heard about it on the CBC) who wanted to publish a limited edition collection of prints and bind them into an artbook. There were only going to be a very small number of these and each was valued at several thousand. (because of it's limited nature) the government got word of this and the national library demanded a copy. As this would diminish his profits by thousands he refused, he asked what if it wasn't bound, just a loose bunch of prints in a box? they said that constitutes a collection, therefore they still wanted a copy. I'm not sure how this story ended, but last I heard he was either goign to sell them and thumb his nose at the government and hope that the fines were less than the cost of the prints, or not do it at all. As an artist he felt that to print an extra copy for archival purposes diminished the integrety of the limited edition nature of this work, and as a guy trying to make a living he wasn't about to cancel one of his buyer's orders to give it away to the national library.
True you don't have to register a work for it to be copyrighted, but I think you will find it is still law that all copyrighted works distributed to more than a handful of people (I think it was 5 here in Canada) have to be submitted to the national library of the country of origin. I know that the Canadian government is still bugging me to give them a copy of a magazine I never actually published. I made the mistake of registering for an ISSN # too early (that's how they found out about it), the magazine folded before the first issue went to print. It isn't widely known, but technically (in Canada at the very least, but I expect in most countries) ALL copyrighted works that are published in any physical form (paper, CD-ROM etc) have to have one or two copys set aside for the national library, and electronic (internet) magazines etc. you are supposed to inform them of, so they can make a copy.
The problem as I see it (and I am a Linux desktop user) is that certain technologies that people want to use really are more difficult on Linux. Take DVD burning for example. I bought a DVD burner for 2 main reasons, #1 as a backup drive (I thought about tape, but decided it was better for me to use DVD as it takes less space and has other functions) and #2 to make copys of my expensive originals of both software and dvd-video so that I don't have to worry about scratches ruining a $100+ set.
While DVD-video was more difficult than I'd anticipated on both windows and Linux platforms, it was easy to do once I was able to track down the right combination of software for windows...still haven't found what I want for Linux several months later.
Backups are very simple in Windows and I was able to find a number of tools to do the job, my linux box I've resorted to using a Norton Ghost 2003 boot disk:( not exactly what I'd wanted. I'd prefer to be able to do everything within Linux, without shutting the machine down.
Other things have popped up over the years, IDE raid was one not too long ago... so was SoundBlaster Live support (still not 100% satisfied with that, though ALSA does a pretty good job)
Over all I love Linux, I've been using it exclusivly on my desktop for 3 years now, but I still think Windows is where to be if you have to have bleeding edge hardware. Also I've found that the support for Palm and PocketPC handhelds on Linux has left a lot to be desired. I sync with my PC at work for this reason, as much as I hate having my personal appointments (even flagged as private) stored on the exchange server at work. Not that I have anything to hide, it's just that that's none of their business. I'm quite confident that none of my co-workers care/have timt to waste reading my personal stuff, but the fact they can is a bit creepy to me.
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Just goes to show that it's being adapted into new products all the time, though I guess if you added up all the BSDs together they still aren't close to the numbers Windows holds, but it's still far from dead.
Where do you plug in the contollers? Are those the controller ports on the BACK of the unit? if so where do the memory cards go?
Yes I know it's got a HDD, but you still need memory card ports so you can play your old saved games, or so your friends can bring over their saved games to play.
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Yes, take a look at the website, you can download it now. www.gentoo.org
I thought x10 was for turning the lights on and off?
This is a wireless accesspoint built into a flourescent light (sort of) that hoks up to the network via an ethernet-like protocol through the power lines.
Granted, double-clicking "Setup.exe" is a little easier than "rpm -ivh " or (gasp) "config;make;make install"
sure, but nothing beats reading about a program you haven't tried before when you are at work and SSHing to your home box and issuing the "urpmi newprogramsname" command and watching it download and install for you and be ready to go when you get home.
I can't imagine her being able figure out (on her own) that she must unmount a CD-ROM in order to eject it.
The answer to that problem is called supermount Then when she clicks on the CD-ROM icon in KDE/Gnome/?whatever? it mounts automatically and dismounts automatically when she closes all windows/programs that are using it or hits eject... just like in windows
Nor would she get along well with a command prompt. She understands double-clicking quite well.
No need for her to if she doesn't want to use it she doesn't have to. Nearly everything can be done from a GUI.
Take a look at Mandrake. I think (with 9.1) it's almost the perfect mom OS.
Actually Minidisc put Near-DAT quality portable recording (in a smaller form factor than portable DAT decks) in the hands (or pockets as it were) of low budget (College/Community) radio stations and freelance radio journalists. This alone is a worthy contibution. Making consumers aware of digital recording and it's many advantages was another good one.
How are you getting these high quality recordings? It is an SPDIF connector, you just want a microphone input, unless you have access to digital outs on the mixing equipment they are using.
The lowest resolution I use is 1162x864 (the 17" I have at work only goes that high) My computer at home is 1280x1024 on a 17"... and I REALLY want more resolution. I've been looking at LCDs but unless I go to 20" or buy an older SGI LCD I can't get 1600:(
I refuse to buy a monitor that consumes more power than the one I alerady have, so a larger CRT is not an answer (besides I'm running out of desk space) I do hope that OLED will be able to provide me with the screen real estate I want by the end of the year. I'd even pay more for it to help bring this new low power tech into the mainstream.
Real numbers for running fibre (in Ontario at least) is $30,000 Can. (that's about $19,000 US) per kilometer. That's the cost of the fibre, the surveys, permits, digging etc. etc.....
Or so I was told when I was working for a rural cable TV company and trying to plan expansion of our internet service into new areas.
So how far away is your RT? figure in the cost of getting fibres to it.
I think you'd quickly find yourself changing your ToS.
When Joe amature techie sets up his mail server and leaves it wide open and your upstream/peers start threatening to shut your service off because of Joe's server being used as a spam relay, and Sue's NNTP server doing the same, and... What do you do then? running fibre is expensive, you can't just pick new peers and start over every couple months. (of course if you are in an urban area you're renting the fibre, so no big deal)
As more and more of your business dwindles away due to abuses that your customers are causing that still fall in the realm of "not prohibited by law" but do piss off other admins enough to make them not want to deal with you you'd regret the open ended ToS.
Ideally everyone who sets up a server would read the RFCs related to it first and know what trouble they might get into by misconfiguring it, but too many people just want to share their porn, or attempt to break the rules just a little bit by sending a batch of 400-1000 spams now and then counting on you not noticing that little traffic....but trust me, it'll all come back on you not them. (well, maybe them too, but definitely you.)
If you read all the way down to the next line I said they usually have ways to get around that sort of thing. (usually involves just a phone call that lasts all afternoon in my experience, but sometimes a letter from someone important in the company explaining the situation.
Keep in mind that this sort of licencing is only used for software that costs in the thousands per seat. Lotus tried it with 1-2-3 back in the DOS days and lost a lot of money on it because it's a major hassle for both them and the customer, so it's not worth it for a $100 program, but for a $6000+ dollar per seat program there is a better chance of something like that being used.
usually companies that use licencing like this have a revoke licence code that the computer will spit out when you uninstall that either gets written to the floppy (or CD-RW) that holds the licence info, or can be used at their web-site or phone help desk to get a new valid key....doesn't help if your PC dies before you can uninstall and get the revoke licence code, but they almost always have a way to work around that.
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Sounds like an interesting setup.
Sure, that works on just about any system but Windows.... unless you have cygwin installed.
still, my scenario may not have been perfect, but the idea behind it was more critera in a search is better. That is what WinFS brings to the table, more critera to search by. Some may find it useful, some may not.. As for me I'll stick with ext3 and NTFS for now, if WinFS turns out to offer somethign useful in the long run and performance doesn't take a big hit I may change. (assuming someone writes a Linux driver for WinFS filesystems... would hate to have to use MS tools for any kind of disaster recovery.)
Well, one of the metadata items they mention is who viewed it last.
Suppose you are end user support and the marketing person comes to you asking for help because she saved an image but wasn't paying attention to where she saved it, and can't remember the name of the file.
Do you want to
a) search with the standard windows search which ought to let you get *.jpg and look at each one (she probably has thousands) until you find it
or
b) use the search with WinFS and look up *.jpg, last acessed by sue, within the last day
I've administered lots of Linksys routers and not had a problem using galeon, mozilla or konqueror.
Perhaps the built in method for firmware updates (which I think it just HTTP upload) doesn't work in some browsers, they provide a TFTP firmware update program for windows anyway, and regular old console tftp in Linux works fine for that too.
If you think 1024 is bad in Windows try it in Linux.
...anyway, as a result I've had to move it down to 1024 so we could get decent refresh rates. :(
I had my 17" CRT at 1280 but my girlfriend kept complaining about it hurting her eyes and messing with the contrast and brightness to compensate (at that resolution it was running at 60Hz, which is fine if you use it in the dark or by the light of a halogen desk lamp like me, but if you turn on the florescent overhead it does hurt.
I'm now really wanting a new monitor. (I thought 1280 was low, but 1024 is killing me) I'd like to see 1600 or higher in an LCD that was somewhere close to my price range, but it looks like that's not going to happen any time soon.
What is the target consumer group for this product?
... not to mention .49 pixel pitch? you need to be sitting back from this monitor to be comfortable with that, so this is definitely a TV grade monitor.
It has to be the lowend flatpanel HDTV market.
At a max resolution of 1280x768 and optimum of 1024x768 (??? on a 16:9 screen ewww!) the resolution is too low for large screen PC users those resolutions are ok for 17" but if I was buying anything bigger I'd expect better resolutions than that.
Actually, I have another little anecdote to go along with my magazine issue.
There was an artist last year (also in Canada, I heard about it on the CBC) who wanted to publish a limited edition collection of prints and bind them into an artbook. There were only going to be a very small number of these and each was valued at several thousand. (because of it's limited nature) the government got word of this and the national library demanded a copy. As this would diminish his profits by thousands he refused, he asked what if it wasn't bound, just a loose bunch of prints in a box? they said that constitutes a collection, therefore they still wanted a copy. I'm not sure how this story ended, but last I heard he was either goign to sell them and thumb his nose at the government and hope that the fines were less than the cost of the prints, or not do it at all. As an artist he felt that to print an extra copy for archival purposes diminished the integrety of the limited edition nature of this work, and as a guy trying to make a living he wasn't about to cancel one of his buyer's orders to give it away to the national library.
True you don't have to register a work for it to be copyrighted, but I think you will find it is still law that all copyrighted works distributed to more than a handful of people (I think it was 5 here in Canada) have to be submitted to the national library of the country of origin.
I know that the Canadian government is still bugging me to give them a copy of a magazine I never actually published. I made the mistake of registering for an ISSN # too early (that's how they found out about it), the magazine folded before the first issue went to print.
It isn't widely known, but technically (in Canada at the very least, but I expect in most countries)
ALL copyrighted works that are published in any physical form (paper, CD-ROM etc) have to have one or two copys set aside for the national library, and electronic (internet) magazines etc. you are supposed to inform them of, so they can make a copy.
I've got my entire CD collection in OGG format and I traded up from an MP3 Player to a PocketPC so I could play them on the road (WinAmPAQ plays OGG).
The only MP3's in my collection now are the ones from the CDs I bought from MP3.com I'm too lazy to convert CDs that have already been done for me.
The problem as I see it (and I am a Linux desktop user) is that certain technologies that people want to use really are more difficult on Linux.
...still haven't found what I want for Linux several months later.
:( not exactly what I'd wanted. I'd prefer to be able to do everything within Linux, without shutting the machine down.
Take DVD burning for example. I bought a DVD burner for 2 main reasons, #1 as a backup drive (I thought about tape, but decided it was better for me to use DVD as it takes less space and has other functions) and #2 to make copys of my expensive originals of both software and dvd-video so that I don't have to worry about scratches ruining a $100+ set.
While DVD-video was more difficult than I'd anticipated on both windows and Linux platforms, it was easy to do once I was able to track down the right combination of software for windows
Backups are very simple in Windows and I was able to find a number of tools to do the job, my linux box I've resorted to using a Norton Ghost 2003 boot disk
Other things have popped up over the years, IDE raid was one not too long ago... so was SoundBlaster Live support (still not 100% satisfied with that, though ALSA does a pretty good job)
Over all I love Linux, I've been using it exclusivly on my desktop for 3 years now, but I still think Windows is where to be if you have to have bleeding edge hardware. Also I've found that the support for Palm and PocketPC handhelds on Linux has left a lot to be desired. I sync with my PC at work for this reason, as much as I hate having my personal appointments (even flagged as private) stored on the exchange server at work.
Not that I have anything to hide, it's just that that's none of their business. I'm quite confident that none of my co-workers care/have timt to waste reading my personal stuff, but the fact they can is a bit creepy to me.
Just goes to show that it's being adapted into new products all the time, though I guess if you added up all the BSDs together they still aren't close to the numbers Windows holds, but it's still far from dead.
Where do you plug in the contollers?
Are those the controller ports on the BACK of the unit? if so where do the memory cards go?
Yes I know it's got a HDD, but you still need memory card ports so you can play your old saved games, or so your friends can bring over their saved games to play.
Yes, take a look at the website, you can download it now. www.gentoo.org
Would you mind if some stranger came along and pulled the weeds out of your garden?
I would. I wanted those weeds there, dandelion makes a good salad.
I thought x10 was for turning the lights on and off?
This is a wireless accesspoint built into a flourescent light (sort of) that hoks up to the network via an ethernet-like protocol through the power lines.
Granted, double-clicking "Setup.exe" is a little easier than "rpm -ivh " or (gasp) "config;make;make install"
sure, but nothing beats reading about a program you haven't tried before when you are at work and SSHing to your home box and issuing the "urpmi newprogramsname" command and watching it download and install for you and be ready to go when you get home.
I can't imagine her being able figure out (on her own) that she must unmount a CD-ROM in order to eject it.
The answer to that problem is called supermount
Then when she clicks on the CD-ROM icon in KDE/Gnome/?whatever? it mounts automatically and dismounts automatically when she closes all windows/programs that are using it or hits eject... just like in windows
Nor would she get along well with a command prompt. She understands double-clicking quite well.
No need for her to if she doesn't want to use it she doesn't have to. Nearly everything can be done from a GUI.
Take a look at Mandrake. I think (with 9.1) it's almost the perfect mom OS.
Actually Minidisc put Near-DAT quality portable recording (in a smaller form factor than portable DAT decks) in the hands (or pockets as it were) of low budget (College/Community) radio stations and freelance radio journalists. This alone is a worthy contibution. Making consumers aware of digital recording and it's many advantages was another good one.
How are you getting these high quality recordings?
It is an SPDIF connector, you just want a microphone input, unless you have access to digital outs on the mixing equipment they are using.
The lowest resolution I use is 1162x864 (the 17" I have at work only goes that high) My computer at home is 1280x1024 on a 17" ... and I REALLY want more resolution. I've been looking at LCDs but unless I go to 20" or buy an older SGI LCD I can't get 1600 :(
I refuse to buy a monitor that consumes more power than the one I alerady have, so a larger CRT is not an answer (besides I'm running out of desk space) I do hope that OLED will be able to provide me with the screen real estate I want by the end of the year. I'd even pay more for it to help bring this new low power tech into the mainstream.
Real numbers for running fibre (in Ontario at least) is $30,000 Can. (that's about $19,000 US) ....
per kilometer. That's the cost of the fibre, the surveys, permits, digging etc. etc.
Or so I was told when I was working for a rural cable TV company and trying to plan expansion of our internet service into new areas.
So how far away is your RT? figure in the cost of getting fibres to it.
I think you'd quickly find yourself changing your ToS.
...
...but trust me, it'll all come back on you not them. (well, maybe them too, but definitely you.)
When Joe amature techie sets up his mail server and leaves it wide open and your upstream/peers start threatening to shut your service off because of Joe's server being used as a spam relay, and Sue's NNTP server doing the same, and
What do you do then? running fibre is expensive, you can't just pick new peers and start over every couple months.
(of course if you are in an urban area you're renting the fibre, so no big deal)
As more and more of your business dwindles away due to abuses that your customers are causing that still fall in the realm of "not prohibited by law" but do piss off other admins enough to make them not want to deal with you you'd regret the open ended ToS.
Ideally everyone who sets up a server would read the RFCs related to it first and know what trouble they might get into by misconfiguring it, but too many people just want to share their porn, or attempt to break the rules just a little bit by sending a batch of 400-1000 spams now and then counting on you not noticing that little traffic.
If you read all the way down to the next line I said they usually have ways to get around that sort of thing. (usually involves just a phone call that lasts all afternoon in my experience, but sometimes a letter from someone important in the company explaining the situation.
Keep in mind that this sort of licencing is only used for software that costs in the thousands per seat. Lotus tried it with 1-2-3 back in the DOS days and lost a lot of money on it because it's a major hassle for both them and the customer, so it's not worth it for a $100 program, but for a $6000+ dollar per seat program there is a better chance of something like that being used.
usually companies that use licencing like this have a revoke licence code that the computer will spit out when you uninstall that either gets written to the floppy (or CD-RW) that holds the licence info, or can be used at their web-site or phone help desk to get a new valid key. ...doesn't help if your PC dies before you can uninstall and get the revoke licence code, but they almost always have a way to work around that.
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