I'm looking for something like that but for Bell Mobility (large Canadian cell provider). It'd have to be the 800MHz digital (what "tri-mode" phones use)... I've seen a CompactFlash CDMA card, but I wasn't sure if it's universal CDMA or not.... Has anyone had any experiences with these cards?
How the hell do you get the kernel to behave with respect to swap?? I'm using 2.4.21 and the kernel is perfectly happy using 70% of my mem for cached data, and if I request a big chunk, it'll swap before giving up cache! wtf?!?!
it also seems to slowly degrade over time (on the desktop, I've never had this kind of trouble on a server which may be a mem leak) -- after about 10 days of uptime (this is a laptop, I put it to sleep to take it home and back to work) my swap's nearly all gone and the cached mem is still a large % of total mem.. swapoff -a / swapon -a restores zippy fast response but it starts doing this again... Very very irritating.
Now to address some of your points. I purchased my house (ok, a 6% APR 15-year mortgage) 6 years ago for $80k (about 1400 sq ft). I only put 5% down which is a big mistake but for a first house it's pretty much the norm (I was 21, not many 21-year-olds have a ton of money to put down). My next house I hope to be putting at least 25% down on. In that time, I've put the following into the house: new furnace ($2500), new garage roof ($600), carpet ($1200) and miscellaneous fixups (drywall, paint, etc) of about another $3000 over that time. Let's round it up and say I've put $8000 into the house. If I'd have bought a newer house I wouldn't have had to put as much in.
I'm listing it for about $125k to buy a larger one (3 kids and 3 bedrooms don't work), and the ones I'm looking at are all ~80 years old and about $120-$140k. (My current house is 104 years old.) Even taking into account real estate fees (3-5%) and lawyer fees (about $2k IIRC) I will have made money on the property.
If I had rented a 3 bedroom apartment, providing I could have found one large enough, I would be paying over $1200 a month in rent (I'm paying $760/mo now) and would have nothing to show for it when I decide to move. Had I invested in the stock market this past six years I'd probably have lost a good chunk of money to boot.
As far as your opinon that people who buy houses always buy too much space: I disagree. I would be happy with ~1500-2000 square feet. That's for five people, and would include nice-sized dining and recreation rooms (I like to have family and friends over). I dislike living in compartmentalized boxes full of people cooking strange-smelling foods, kids running down the halls and having no property of your own. You could rent a house, granted, but again why rent for the same amount as you're going to pay a mortgage for and have nothing in the end?
I think that all the analyses you've read also assume that people buy 25-year mortgages and put a bare-minumum down payment in. That's never a good idea.
I dunno; real estate has always been at least a mediocre investment for my family. We've certainly never lost money on it.
Houses aren't a good financial investment? Excuse me while I disregard everything you say from now on. Real estate is one of the best long-term investments going. Got some data to back up your position?
Cars I'll agree with you on, but if you're not in a city you're going to need one.
My preferred package is Slackware Packages. debs, RPMs (RedHat and SuSEs), Gentoo ports... all ugh. Slackware packages do everything you want for installs, and almost all of the uninstall stuff. Where almost every package managers fall apart is in uninstalls. Slackware does so too, but without crapping up the install in the process.
CheckInstall does wonders for Slackware, Debian and RPM-based systems. I am planning on contributing code which allows you to apply a patch -- not just blindly overwriting a file. Perfect example: Perl modules. Module installs add to perllocal.pod. CheckInstall will write the new perllocal.pod into th epackage. Not so good.
Another place where package managers fall down is dependencies. I'm sorry, but no package manager on the planet does package management right. Slackware doesn't pretend to do it at all, which is great. And I mean what's the worst that happens if you're missing a dep; a pretty straightforward error in most cases. Admittedly "can't resolve pz_requiredFunctionHere()" isn't clear, but some work can be done to clearly separate the dependency database from the package manager, and bolt on something to do the deps. Deps should _not_ be integral to the package.
Finally, a personal gripe about Debian; while their source packages are by far the best in the biz, rewriting the man pages to change practically every reference of Linux to GNU/Linux and blindly overwriting the author's configuration locations to fit into "the Debian way" goes too far sometimes. Uniformity in the distro is good, but there's been more than one occassion where the Debian man page was just plain wrong compared to the author's original.
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Yeah, and both run totally different widget sets. No thanks. That's why I've banished GTK+ from my system; I don't want KDE, GTK+, AWT (Java), TCL, WxWindows, etc. methods of working, I want one. I chose KDE. Others will choose Gnome. And yet others will claim that it's best to have it all different.
I'm not aware of any North American district or federal government that taxes at 50%, even for the ultra-wealthy. Sure you get close but that's at the high tax brackets, and they're smart enough to use the numerous loopholes available.
How exactly do you live on $200 a week when a mortgage is about that? And a car payment about half that? Or are you talking just about food?
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Let's not put the cart before the horse. Get a solid open-sourced replacement for basic Exchange Server functionality (Contacts, Calendar, Email, etc...) and the add-ons will happen FAST.
Like this? I'm not saying it's perfect (closed source MAPI connector), but everything and I mean everything is stored in pgsql and 99% of it is in plain English. I've just been playing with it these past few days (importing 4000 contacts, about 2500 emails, shared folders, calendars, etc.) and checking it out... works over CORBA. Server runs Python (ick). So far so good though, but man do you need a beefy system (fast disks a necessity!) for this to work. My existing P90 Exchange 5.0 server takes this out (on a dual Cel466) at the knees for speed, but I'm positive it's disk-bound.
Actually it's more about AC vs DC than it is about voltage potential. I very seriously doubt any human would survive a hundred thousand volts DC at practically any current. AC gives you this wonderful thing called skin effect which means that the vast majority of the voltage is flowing through the dead skin covering your body.
It's true that "Volts Jolt, but mils (Amps) kill," but there's more to it than that.
I really wish you'd provide a "standard" installer -- I went though hell trying to install it becuase Konqueror doesn't have full Java support (none that I could tell anyway) and I had to fart around trying to get the thing to run nicely.
(trying again, I can't do it) -- I swear I had it up on the screen at one point.
I'm sorry, but $1250 for 10 groupware users (unlimited mail) and $250 for 5-user groupware license packs is not "paying out the wazoo" by any stretch of the imagination.
I am currently evaluating SLOX and where my beefs are is in the integration between the mail and the groupware, and in the closed nature of the data formats and API. I've offered to sign NDAs but SuSE has been dragging their feet for over a month now getting me the contract so I'm probably just going to drop it altogether. It's unfortunate. All I wanted to do was build an XMLRPC gateway to their API so I could create my own frontend using XWT (I hate browser-based shit) and use Outlook Connector for the Win32 users for now.
It seems to have just about everything else though. Calendaring is good. Project management is there but spotty, document store is there but spotty... Project forums are there... It's almost perfect, but I can do the rest myself; I needed the core which worked 100% with Outlook and the hard stuff to be done (LDAP schemas, replication, glue between LDAP, IMAP and CAL) -- SLOX does all that already.
Looks like it'd do the trick but they refuse to give me the data formats, so it's out the window. I refuse to have to reverse-engineer the protocols and data formats to my own data.
SuSE Linux OpenExchange Server looks promising too, I have their eval CD and have been playing with it but web-based solutions suck ass. Their data formats are mostly open, and I've been trying to get an NDA signed so I can see what I can access to bolt-on what else I need (basically I want to build an XMLRPC gateway so I can programmatically create an appointment or check a calendar or get a list of todos) -- but it's been over a month now, and the cohesion between the mail and groupware seems to be not quite where I thought it was. Oh well. Otherwise it is a very cool system and looks like it would have worked well. The price was right, too.
It's pretty dead simple to do, at least in Canada...
Your CDMA or GPRS phone has an email address... usually phone#@pager.mobility.ca or phone#@txt.mobility.ca for Bell anyway. You email it and your phone gets the message. So to do it on your own domain just set up a mail forwarder (check freshmeat) and a little bit of scripting to check the From: header against a list you'd like. procmail or grep or anything really could do this with ease.
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Dude... overtime is not a privelage. It is an indication that there aren't enough people to do the work. Yeah it's nice to be paid more ofr it but you shouldn't be working in the first place!
That's why you're supposed to REMOVE all electronic devices, pens, wallets, everything before going through the metal detectors. If some putz leaves his palmpilot in his shirt pocket, he's the ass, not the airport.
I'm sorry, but every time I've called MS for support and paid through the nose for it, I've gotten dumb looks and "reinstall" for an answer. That must be one amazingly expensive support contract to get someone clueful enough to code a fix for you OVER THE PHONE in less than an hour.
No, but it sees const == non const differently from const = non const. Did you see the difference? This is the number 1 typo made by programmers, and the easiest to catch if you just habitually put the const on the left.
True enough, but that's hardly reason to bring out the clue stick.
I'd go slack, only because I've been using it for the past 6 or so years. SuSE is nice too if you just want everything to work and have the CPU power to spare. Offhand, I don't know why slack wouldn't run on a P150; what exactly is the problem?
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What is it exporting, presentations? I don't see a flash export feature the copy of RC1 I just installed...
I'm looking for something like that but for Bell Mobility (large Canadian cell provider). It'd have to be the 800MHz digital (what "tri-mode" phones use)... I've seen a CompactFlash CDMA card, but I wasn't sure if it's universal CDMA or not.... Has anyone had any experiences with these cards?
How the hell do you get the kernel to behave with respect to swap?? I'm using 2.4.21 and the kernel is perfectly happy using 70% of my mem for cached data, and if I request a big chunk, it'll swap before giving up cache! wtf?!?!
it also seems to slowly degrade over time (on the desktop, I've never had this kind of trouble on a server which may be a mem leak) -- after about 10 days of uptime (this is a laptop, I put it to sleep to take it home and back to work) my swap's nearly all gone and the cached mem is still a large % of total mem.. swapoff -a / swapon -a restores zippy fast response but it starts doing this again... Very very irritating.
First, aplogies for the flippant comment earlier.
Now to address some of your points. I purchased my house (ok, a 6% APR 15-year mortgage) 6 years ago for $80k (about 1400 sq ft). I only put 5% down which is a big mistake but for a first house it's pretty much the norm (I was 21, not many 21-year-olds have a ton of money to put down). My next house I hope to be putting at least 25% down on. In that time, I've put the following into the house: new furnace ($2500), new garage roof ($600), carpet ($1200) and miscellaneous fixups (drywall, paint, etc) of about another $3000 over that time. Let's round it up and say I've put $8000 into the house. If I'd have bought a newer house I wouldn't have had to put as much in.
I'm listing it for about $125k to buy a larger one (3 kids and 3 bedrooms don't work), and the ones I'm looking at are all ~80 years old and about $120-$140k. (My current house is 104 years old.) Even taking into account real estate fees (3-5%) and lawyer fees (about $2k IIRC) I will have made money on the property.
If I had rented a 3 bedroom apartment, providing I could have found one large enough, I would be paying over $1200 a month in rent (I'm paying $760/mo now) and would have nothing to show for it when I decide to move. Had I invested in the stock market this past six years I'd probably have lost a good chunk of money to boot.
As far as your opinon that people who buy houses always buy too much space: I disagree. I would be happy with ~1500-2000 square feet. That's for five people, and would include nice-sized dining and recreation rooms (I like to have family and friends over). I dislike living in compartmentalized boxes full of people cooking strange-smelling foods, kids running down the halls and having no property of your own. You could rent a house, granted, but again why rent for the same amount as you're going to pay a mortgage for and have nothing in the end?
I think that all the analyses you've read also assume that people buy 25-year mortgages and put a bare-minumum down payment in. That's never a good idea.
I dunno; real estate has always been at least a mediocre investment for my family. We've certainly never lost money on it.
Houses aren't a good financial investment? Excuse me while I disregard everything you say from now on. Real estate is one of the best long-term investments going. Got some data to back up your position?
Cars I'll agree with you on, but if you're not in a city you're going to need one.
One of the main reasons I enjoy DEB binary packages which also do not have any of the bad issues you mention is this:
Dude, you can do that with _any_ distro with binary packages. I personally do it with Slackware.
some background: linux user for the past 7 years.
My preferred package is Slackware Packages. debs, RPMs (RedHat and SuSEs), Gentoo ports... all ugh. Slackware packages do everything you want for installs, and almost all of the uninstall stuff. Where almost every package managers fall apart is in uninstalls. Slackware does so too, but without crapping up the install in the process.
CheckInstall does wonders for Slackware, Debian and RPM-based systems. I am planning on contributing code which allows you to apply a patch -- not just blindly overwriting a file. Perfect example: Perl modules. Module installs add to perllocal.pod. CheckInstall will write the new perllocal.pod into th epackage. Not so good.
Another place where package managers fall down is dependencies. I'm sorry, but no package manager on the planet does package management right. Slackware doesn't pretend to do it at all, which is great. And I mean what's the worst that happens if you're missing a dep; a pretty straightforward error in most cases. Admittedly "can't resolve pz_requiredFunctionHere()" isn't clear, but some work can be done to clearly separate the dependency database from the package manager, and bolt on something to do the deps. Deps should _not_ be integral to the package.
Finally, a personal gripe about Debian; while their source packages are by far the best in the biz, rewriting the man pages to change practically every reference of Linux to GNU/Linux and blindly overwriting the author's configuration locations to fit into "the Debian way" goes too far sometimes. Uniformity in the distro is good, but there's been more than one occassion where the Debian man page was just plain wrong compared to the author's original.
Yeah, and both run totally different widget sets. No thanks. That's why I've banished GTK+ from my system; I don't want KDE, GTK+, AWT (Java), TCL, WxWindows, etc. methods of working, I want one. I chose KDE. Others will choose Gnome. And yet others will claim that it's best to have it all different.
Your mortgage is $1000 a week?? And your car payment is $250 a week?!
I'm not aware of any North American district or federal government that taxes at 50%, even for the ultra-wealthy. Sure you get close but that's at the high tax brackets, and they're smart enough to use the numerous loopholes available.
How exactly do you live on $200 a week when a mortgage is about that? And a car payment about half that? Or are you talking just about food?
Let's not put the cart before the horse. Get a solid open-sourced replacement for basic Exchange Server functionality (Contacts, Calendar, Email, etc...) and the add-ons will happen FAST.
Like this? I'm not saying it's perfect (closed source MAPI connector), but everything and I mean everything is stored in pgsql and 99% of it is in plain English. I've just been playing with it these past few days (importing 4000 contacts, about 2500 emails, shared folders, calendars, etc.) and checking it out... works over CORBA. Server runs Python (ick). So far so good though, but man do you need a beefy system (fast disks a necessity!) for this to work. My existing P90 Exchange 5.0 server takes this out (on a dual Cel466) at the knees for speed, but I'm positive it's disk-bound.
Actually it's more about AC vs DC than it is about voltage potential. I very seriously doubt any human would survive a hundred thousand volts DC at practically any current. AC gives you this wonderful thing called skin effect which means that the vast majority of the voltage is flowing through the dead skin covering your body.
It's true that "Volts Jolt, but mils (Amps) kill," but there's more to it than that.
Instead a flexible plastic hose with metal ring clamps should be used.
Incorrect. Plastic hose for a dryer vent is a fire hazard; the modern standard is flexible metal hose and hose clamps.
So... how about enlightening the rest of us who would like ot know who makes these things?
I really wish you'd provide a "standard" installer -- I went though hell trying to install it becuase Konqueror doesn't have full Java support (none that I could tell anyway) and I had to fart around trying to get the thing to run nicely.
(trying again, I can't do it) -- I swear I had it up on the screen at one point.
I'm sorry, but $1250 for 10 groupware users (unlimited mail) and $250 for 5-user groupware license packs is not "paying out the wazoo" by any stretch of the imagination.
I am currently evaluating SLOX and where my beefs are is in the integration between the mail and the groupware, and in the closed nature of the data formats and API. I've offered to sign NDAs but SuSE has been dragging their feet for over a month now getting me the contract so I'm probably just going to drop it altogether. It's unfortunate. All I wanted to do was build an XMLRPC gateway to their API so I could create my own frontend using XWT (I hate browser-based shit) and use Outlook Connector for the Win32 users for now.
It seems to have just about everything else though. Calendaring is good. Project management is there but spotty, document store is there but spotty... Project forums are there... It's almost perfect, but I can do the rest myself; I needed the core which worked 100% with Outlook and the hard stuff to be done (LDAP schemas, replication, glue between LDAP, IMAP and CAL) -- SLOX does all that already.
I evaluated SamsungContact.
Looks like it'd do the trick but they refuse to give me the data formats, so it's out the window. I refuse to have to reverse-engineer the protocols and data formats to my own data.
SuSE Linux OpenExchange Server looks promising too, I have their eval CD and have been playing with it but web-based solutions suck ass. Their data formats are mostly open, and I've been trying to get an NDA signed so I can see what I can access to bolt-on what else I need (basically I want to build an XMLRPC gateway so I can programmatically create an appointment or check a calendar or get a list of todos) -- but it's been over a month now, and the cohesion between the mail and groupware seems to be not quite where I thought it was. Oh well. Otherwise it is a very cool system and looks like it would have worked well. The price was right, too.
It's pretty dead simple to do, at least in Canada...
Your CDMA or GPRS phone has an email address... usually phone#@pager.mobility.ca or phone#@txt.mobility.ca for Bell anyway. You email it and your phone gets the message. So to do it on your own domain just set up a mail forwarder (check freshmeat) and a little bit of scripting to check the From: header against a list you'd like. procmail or grep or anything really could do this with ease.
Dude... overtime is not a privelage. It is an indication that there aren't enough people to do the work. Yeah it's nice to be paid more ofr it but you shouldn't be working in the first place!
That's why you're supposed to REMOVE all electronic devices, pens, wallets, everything before going through the metal detectors. If some putz leaves his palmpilot in his shirt pocket, he's the ass, not the airport.
I'm sorry, but every time I've called MS for support and paid through the nose for it, I've gotten dumb looks and "reinstall" for an answer. That must be one amazingly expensive support contract to get someone clueful enough to code a fix for you OVER THE PHONE in less than an hour.
No, but it sees const == non const differently from const = non const. Did you see the difference? This is the number 1 typo made by programmers, and the easiest to catch if you just habitually put the const on the left.
True enough, but that's hardly reason to bring out the clue stick.
Also the opposite result. And anyone using "non const == const" instead of "const == non const" needs a beating with a cluestick.
You've gotta be kidding me; the compiler sees const == nonconst differently than nonconst == const?
I'd go slack, only because I've been using it for the past 6 or so years. SuSE is nice too if you just want everything to work and have the CPU power to spare. Offhand, I don't know why slack wouldn't run on a P150; what exactly is the problem?