That whole "select == sucked into clipboard" thing is one thing that keeps me from using Linux in a big way. I always want to *replace* code. Select snippet #1, copy, select snippet #2, paste, and bam! snippet #1 is now where snippet #2 used to be. I do that about a million times a day. On Linux, as soon as I select snippet #2, snippet #1 is no longer in memory. Also, that only copies--I actually use *cut* and paste just as much as *copy* and paste. Granted, this isn't on all apps, but it is the case on many; enough that it is a dealbreaker.
Mac & Win: control/command X, C, V; everywhere, all the time. Period. (Well, a couple exceptions here & there, but not the ~50% failure rate I get with Linux.)
Saw the story on macslash last week and downloaded it this morning. the site was already down but I googled and found another place to download it from. usable enough, I guess. cute little PPC-demo app, I guess. I just got this iPaq a while ago from work and besides the fact that it has no easy-to-find battery level indicator (grr, my ancient Palm has that) I wouldn't use a PDA for music, anyway, but that's just me. mostly I just downloaded it to check it out and play with it some.
I don't see it in my programs folder but it's in the start menu. without a physical groove, it's almost impossible to use your finger to "scroll" songs but it's not too bad with the stylus. no exit, either, just choose 'hide' from the main menu. not sure if that means it's still running and taking cpu cycles/battery life. plays music just fine, but took a million years to move 27 mb worth of music to it over USB.
summary: kinda cute, kinda neat, I don't plan to use it so I don't care about the outcome of the lawsuit.:-)
I've almost done this. DVDibbler (free, OS X) to take Toy Story from DVD to DivX'd AVI, then through Windows Media Encoder (free (except your soul) from MS) on Windows to make a ~150 MB AVI for PocketPC. But, the only PocketPC I have access to is a friend's 200 MHz iPaq that won't play it back--won't go full-screen (320x240, sideways) and won't play sound. (I encoded the movie twice, with both available PocketPC settings in WME.)
So, my two questions: 1) How much CPU do you need (speed & model) to play back a movie and 2) do any of these units have enough battery to play a whole (~90-min) movie? Has anyone really done this successfully--played back a movie, full-screen and sideways, and made it through the whole thing without a power cord? If so, what unit? What specs? How encoded?
It's worse than that. Go to dell or compaq and look at the base systems--most have 128 MB shared memory, which technically puts it below the 128 MB minimum MS says is minimum for XP. I just worked on a new Compaq today, XP and 128 MB (shared; windows showed 120 MB) and all the OEM crapware, and it was painful. I told her she'd need RAM and went right out and bought it. The upside: 512 MB for $90.
FWIW, base eMacs come with OS X and 128 MB also. Not shared, and a bit more tolderable, but not by much. 256 MB is acceptable, 512 is fine for most.
Awesome! Thanks! Like another replier said, I've always had trouble because compatability is mostly specified by chipset--which is crucial, I know, but then you have to find *another* list of what cameras use what chipsets.
They must be running their site on one ha ha LOL OMG WTF they are teh suck!!!11 ...
OK, now that we've got that out of the way, anyone else got any info on these things? I found a review but it has no pics.:-(
I haven't done much (OK, anything) with GnomeMeeting or Video4Linux. A bit of googleing (googling?) doesn't turn up what I'm looking for so I thought I'd post here while people are still reading comments because I think I have a common question/desire.
Ebay has tons of my favorite computer, Compaq Deskpro SFFs, with USB and PII/350-PIII/500 CPUs for <$100 every day of the week. I'd love to be able to buy one (or a lot of 10) and add a cheap USB webcam (Logitech QuickCam Messengers are $50 at Circuit City this week, with $20 in rebates, for just one example) and make, basically, a videophone appliance. Hell, I don't even care if it does sound (I'm happy to use a landline for that) but I'd love to have cheap, consistant, decent-quality, OSS, easy-to-use-with-a-firewall* videoconferencing solution. Just something that I can do a basic install of $DISTRO, add GnomeMeeting, an el-cheapo webcam, and have it work. Kinda like buying an eMac and an iSight but $800 cheaper.
So, I guess my question is, does anyone know of a cheap, readily-available USB webcam that works with GnomeMeeting? Following that, is there a distro that works well with the above, out-of-the-box or close to? And can all this be done with only a handful of open TCP ports? My #1 concern is getting video back and forth.
Everyone always seems to forget that a 128k mp3 sounds better than FM radio, which has a pretty wide audience, last time I checked. Grandparent needs to remember he is *not* a representative sample of the music-listening public. Just like a geek saying "I can't stand to use a computer with anything less than a 512MB Radeon 12k; I don't know why dell and compaq even bother making 'computers'."
I heard ages ago that there was supposed to be a GITS TV show. A bit of googling seems to indicate that season 1 was made & shown in japan. Is that true? Has another season been made? Is season 1 available on DVD?
OK, I'll take you up on this. Starting today, release no more patches for XP and 2003 Server (or IE or IIS or OE or MS-SQL or any other component.) We should see no new exploits from this day forward. We'll give it a year. If an explot is found, I get your house and car. If no exploits are found, you get mine. Deal?
PS: If you release another patch, I win. Any "feature upgrades" must be thoroughly examined by a 3rd party to make sure you aren't sneaking any patches in. I promise I will not actively look for exploits myself.
Another vote for "wrong". I've seen it happen in OS X from 10.0.3 through 10.2.8. (I haven't seen it in Panther yet.) (Give it time.;-) ) The text doesn't really "scroll", it just shows up and overlays the GUI--white text in black rectangles, each rectangle the length of the line. And yes, I've seen the 4-language overlay message, too. I've seen both pop up while doing nothing unusual--opening and app, clicking on the desktop, etc.
Laws don't stop people from driving drunk*, and drunk drivers are in this country and even (by definition) driving out in public, in plain sight of everyone. How, exactly, would US law enforcement prosecute a $NATIONALITY1 spammer who's using a hijacked $NATIONALITY2 computer?
Laws are fine, but what would *really* work is if everyone were filtering spam, and everyone tells all their newbie friends & relatives what spam is and installs blocking software for them. If sending 1,000,000 spams no longer results in 10 sales, spam *will* stop.
* yes, laws do stop *some* people from driving whilke drunk, but laws have not eliminated the problem of drunk driving.
"...when I play guitar with my garage band, I mostly play in standard tuning, but switch to open-G for a lot of slide-blues songs. Currently, I do this by having two guitars, so an autotuner that can quickly switch like this is easilly worth the price of a second guitar to somebody like me."
Cool! So it's like... dual-booting your guitar!:-)
Willie "The Actor" Sutton was a bank robber. His claim to fame is that someone asked him "Why do you rob banks?" and his answer was "Because that's where the money is."
I've got the ILM 10th anniversary book and they show that sequence in there. I don't remember them saying anything special about the department that did it. I'll have to check when I go home.
I'll leave it to others to talk you out of getting one. I think they're great if you've got the money. The Compq/HP is my favorite. Get a current one (TC1100)--sad to say the 1 GHz Transmeta is much, much slower than the 1 GHz Centrino. Yeah, it has a 10" screen but everything else is fine--wireless, battery life, etc. Plus, it's the only tablet that has a detatchabe keyboard, giving you 100% the functionality of a convertible and slate.
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Doing a little digging, I see that I was born at the same time, down to the minute, as Mr. Soto. Therefore, *I'm* not a sucker. :-)
PS: All extremists should be shot.
That whole "select == sucked into clipboard" thing is one thing that keeps me from using Linux in a big way. I always want to *replace* code. Select snippet #1, copy, select snippet #2, paste, and bam! snippet #1 is now where snippet #2 used to be. I do that about a million times a day. On Linux, as soon as I select snippet #2, snippet #1 is no longer in memory. Also, that only copies--I actually use *cut* and paste just as much as *copy* and paste. Granted, this isn't on all apps, but it is the case on many; enough that it is a dealbreaker.
Mac & Win: control/command X, C, V; everywhere, all the time. Period. (Well, a couple exceptions here & there, but not the ~50% failure rate I get with Linux.)
Saw the story on macslash last week and downloaded it this morning. the site was already down but I googled and found another place to download it from. usable enough, I guess. cute little PPC-demo app, I guess. I just got this iPaq a while ago from work and besides the fact that it has no easy-to-find battery level indicator (grr, my ancient Palm has that) I wouldn't use a PDA for music, anyway, but that's just me. mostly I just downloaded it to check it out and play with it some.
:-)
I don't see it in my programs folder but it's in the start menu. without a physical groove, it's almost impossible to use your finger to "scroll" songs but it's not too bad with the stylus. no exit, either, just choose 'hide' from the main menu. not sure if that means it's still running and taking cpu cycles/battery life. plays music just fine, but took a million years to move 27 mb worth of music to it over USB.
summary: kinda cute, kinda neat, I don't plan to use it so I don't care about the outcome of the lawsuit.
I've almost done this. DVDibbler (free, OS X) to take Toy Story from DVD to DivX'd AVI, then through Windows Media Encoder (free (except your soul) from MS) on Windows to make a ~150 MB AVI for PocketPC. But, the only PocketPC I have access to is a friend's 200 MHz iPaq that won't play it back--won't go full-screen (320x240, sideways) and won't play sound. (I encoded the movie twice, with both available PocketPC settings in WME.)
So, my two questions: 1) How much CPU do you need (speed & model) to play back a movie and 2) do any of these units have enough battery to play a whole (~90-min) movie? Has anyone really done this successfully--played back a movie, full-screen and sideways, and made it through the whole thing without a power cord? If so, what unit? What specs? How encoded?
It's worse than that. Go to dell or compaq and look at the base systems--most have 128 MB shared memory, which technically puts it below the 128 MB minimum MS says is minimum for XP. I just worked on a new Compaq today, XP and 128 MB (shared; windows showed 120 MB) and all the OEM crapware, and it was painful. I told her she'd need RAM and went right out and bought it. The upside: 512 MB for $90.
FWIW, base eMacs come with OS X and 128 MB also. Not shared, and a bit more tolderable, but not by much. 256 MB is acceptable, 512 is fine for most.
Awesome! Thanks! Like another replier said, I've always had trouble because compatability is mostly specified by chipset--which is crucial, I know, but then you have to find *another* list of what cameras use what chipsets.
They must be running their site on one ha ha LOL OMG WTF they are teh suck!!!11
... :-(
OK, now that we've got that out of the way, anyone else got any info on these things? I found a review but it has no pics.
I haven't done much (OK, anything) with GnomeMeeting or Video4Linux. A bit of googleing (googling?) doesn't turn up what I'm looking for so I thought I'd post here while people are still reading comments because I think I have a common question/desire.
Ebay has tons of my favorite computer, Compaq Deskpro SFFs, with USB and PII/350-PIII/500 CPUs for <$100 every day of the week. I'd love to be able to buy one (or a lot of 10) and add a cheap USB webcam (Logitech QuickCam Messengers are $50 at Circuit City this week, with $20 in rebates, for just one example) and make, basically, a videophone appliance. Hell, I don't even care if it does sound (I'm happy to use a landline for that) but I'd love to have cheap, consistant, decent-quality, OSS, easy-to-use-with-a-firewall* videoconferencing solution. Just something that I can do a basic install of $DISTRO, add GnomeMeeting, an el-cheapo webcam, and have it work. Kinda like buying an eMac and an iSight but $800 cheaper.
So, I guess my question is, does anyone know of a cheap, readily-available USB webcam that works with GnomeMeeting? Following that, is there a distro that works well with the above, out-of-the-box or close to? And can all this be done with only a handful of open TCP ports? My #1 concern is getting video back and forth.
* as in, no "open ports 1024-65,535" like NetMeeting wants.
(And please don't reply talking about how great iChat is. I know it's great but I can't to spend $1,000 on every member of my family just yet.)
Everyone always seems to forget that a 128k mp3 sounds better than FM radio, which has a pretty wide audience, last time I checked. Grandparent needs to remember he is *not* a representative sample of the music-listening public. Just like a geek saying "I can't stand to use a computer with anything less than a 512MB Radeon 12k; I don't know why dell and compaq even bother making 'computers'."
Totally OT, but this reminds me of one of my favorite old geek jokes:
- How do I read this file?
- You uudecode it.
- I I I decode it?
Can you post your script?
I heard ages ago that there was supposed to be a GITS TV show. A bit of googling seems to indicate that season 1 was made & shown in japan. Is that true? Has another season been made? Is season 1 available on DVD?
"If you want more secure software, upgrade."
OK, I'll take you up on this. Starting today, release no more patches for XP and 2003 Server (or IE or IIS or OE or MS-SQL or any other component.) We should see no new exploits from this day forward. We'll give it a year. If an explot is found, I get your house and car. If no exploits are found, you get mine. Deal?
PS: If you release another patch, I win. Any "feature upgrades" must be thoroughly examined by a 3rd party to make sure you aren't sneaking any patches in. I promise I will not actively look for exploits myself.
Gack! Stupid brain. OK, I found it again. (although googling shows a lot more quotes of 4 than 5.)
soap, ballot, jury, witness, and ammo.
Not that mine is better, I just heard different, that's all.
Another vote for "wrong". I've seen it happen in OS X from 10.0.3 through 10.2.8. (I haven't seen it in Panther yet.) (Give it time. ;-) ) The text doesn't really "scroll", it just shows up and overlays the GUI--white text in black rectangles, each rectangle the length of the line. And yes, I've seen the 4-language overlay message, too. I've seen both pop up while doing nothing unusual--opening and app, clicking on the desktop, etc.
I think Pudge meant "and a small package."
Laws don't stop people from driving drunk*, and drunk drivers are in this country and even (by definition) driving out in public, in plain sight of everyone. How, exactly, would US law enforcement prosecute a $NATIONALITY1 spammer who's using a hijacked $NATIONALITY2 computer?
Laws are fine, but what would *really* work is if everyone were filtering spam, and everyone tells all their newbie friends & relatives what spam is and installs blocking software for them. If sending 1,000,000 spams no longer results in 10 sales, spam *will* stop.
* yes, laws do stop *some* people from driving whilke drunk, but laws have not eliminated the problem of drunk driving.
The way I heard it, there was a 5th box, ballot, between #3 and #4 in your list.
A: Why oh why did I register with Insta-Trace?!?
"...when I play guitar with my garage band, I mostly play in standard tuning, but switch to open-G for a lot of slide-blues songs. Currently, I do this by having two guitars, so an autotuner that can quickly switch like this is easilly worth the price of a second guitar to somebody like me."
:-)
Cool! So it's like... dual-booting your guitar!
this page seems to be missing some important dates. Anyone know (yes, ITLTG*) when eBay, Amazon, and Yahoo! had their IPOs?
* I'm Too Lazy To Google
Willie "The Actor" Sutton was a bank robber. His claim to fame is that someone asked him "Why do you rob banks?" and his answer was "Because that's where the money is."
I've got the ILM 10th anniversary book and they show that sequence in there. I don't remember them saying anything special about the department that did it. I'll have to check when I go home.
I'll leave it to others to talk you out of getting one. I think they're great if you've got the money. The Compq/HP is my favorite. Get a current one (TC1100)--sad to say the 1 GHz Transmeta is much, much slower than the 1 GHz Centrino. Yeah, it has a 10" screen but everything else is fine--wireless, battery life, etc. Plus, it's the only tablet that has a detatchabe keyboard, giving you 100% the functionality of a convertible and slate.