Also, don't forget the Compaq Presario 3020 and 3060, released in mid-1996. 166-200 MHz MMX Pentium, 24 MB RAM (128 Max), 2-3.8 GB HD, 6x 4-disc CD changer, 12.1" 800x600 TFT screen, 2 MB VRAM, logitech cordless mouse. Very close, performance-wise, to what the iMac would be when it was released in late 1998 (G3/233, 32 MB RAM, 4 GB HD.) Who's trailing whom? Of course, the 3020/3060 was basically a high-end (at the time) desktop with a notebook screen and a price ($3000-$3500) to match, so they sold like crap and were quickly discontinued. I've got one and I love it. As a bonus, it's unnaturally stable-- with the early version of win95 that it came with, it goes 3-5 weeks without needing to be rebooted. I've never seen a 9x machine so stable.
I can understand why C|Net was inaccurate-- if you do a google search for 'compaq presario 3020' or 3060, you'll get a link to a ZDNet page and then discover that it has been pulled.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020117. html
New products and upgrades based on increased security have a certain appeal. After all, you can never have too much security, so users can be convinced to upgrade over and over almost forever (just look at Mcafee). But there is a downside, too, which is that security and security performance are now firmly on the table. If Microsoft says it is going to make its products trustworthy and they aren't, then customers can rightly be upset. To this point, remember, Microsoft has pretty much disclaimed security, saying that all operating systems and applications are vulnerable. "It's not our fault." Well in the age of Trustworthy Computing, it WILL be their fault, though the cost to us will probably be continual and expensive upgrades.
"Since publication of this story, CNN and other media have been criticized for falling for a clear hoax. According to popular technical web site slashdot.org the story is full of holes."
Look out slashdot, you're about to get hit by the CNN effect!
I've got a pacemaker that runs Linux. Beat that. Seriously, this is way cool. Send critical logs to a printer on your WLAN, or save them all to an nfs-mounted volume... sweeeeeeet.
I wrote to the developer about the lack of downloadability. He asked me to post his reply since he was headed out the door:
"I've got to run to work (I'm late!), but if one of you could please put a post on the slashdot article explaining the problem I would be very thankful!
It seems I broke a rule at sourceforge which limits file sizes to 100MB
If someone could offer a mirror site I would be very thankful for that as well!
Thanks! Chad
Here's what sourceforge had to say
--------------
Greetings,
My name is ********; I am the Quality of Service Manager for
SourceForge.net. This message is directed to you since you are
designated as a project administrator for the Simply GNUstep project on
SourceForge.net.
First, we would like to take a moment to congratulate you on your recent
press exposure on Slashdot.org -- we love to see Open Source projects
succeed, and press exposure of this nature is always of great benefit.
Since the announcement of your project efforts on/., your project has
received roughly 2241 downloads of the ISO image provided through your
download page at: http://simplygnustep.sourceforge.net/Download.html
It has come to our attention that you are making use of SourceForge.net
project web services as a mechanism to release file materials in excess
of 100MB in size. Each project hosted on SourceForge.net is provided
with project web services as to ensure that they may adequately provide
an online description and information regarding their project.
according to the fine folks at merriam-webster (www.m-w.com), the word 'crayon' dates back to 1644. I agree that you shouldn't make a product with a name that is similar to an already exiting product with similar functionality. however, there should exceptions when companies name their products after simple, centuries-old words (crayon, draw, windows, paint, painter, illustrator, write, word) in the first place.
Also, is it just me, or is it strange that the two biggest offenders when it comes to uncreative names are when companies make *writing* and *artistic* programs? I could forgive a math-geek for being too left-brained to come up with anything more creative than "Math", but c'mon... Draw? Word? Sheesh. Maybe we should just go to funtctionality:paltform names, like WordProcessor:Win32 or RasterArt:Mac.
proof that no one cares: if you look at the front page of napster.com, you'll see that the preview was updated 12/12/2001. took nearly a month to make slashdot.
Rather than watching the movies in a tiny window embedded in a web page, visit this page, download them, and watch them in their own player as large as you want. Personally, I'm very impressed.
Here on the East Coast, I haven't seen futurama in forever. First, they pre-empted every episode with baseball then, the week after the world series, it was football. If anything, they should dump the Simpsons or Malcom and run Futurama at 8 or 830.
At the bottom of the page are load times. I visited while this was still the top story here. First page load time was 3 ms. Page 2 was 59,000 and change. Page 3 timed out.:-)
One of the underlying assumptions that GNU has, (which I happen to agree with) is that programs are generally useful technical information, just like mathematical formulas or cooking recipies.
How about Col. Sanders' chicken or Mrs. Field's cookies? My feeling is that once you release a product into the public, you accept a certain risk that people will take it apart and see how it works, and if they successfully clone it, you're SOL. However, just because you're releasing a finished product to the world, that doesn't mean you have to release the blueprints. People should be allowed to profit from their innovations. (Whether they should be allowed to profit from illegally destroying their competition is another matter entirely.) There are scores of recipies out there for chicken and cookies, but if Col. Sanders and Mrs. Fields want to keep their particular recipies secret, they certainly have that right. If they wish to distribute their recipies to make the world a better place and/or let others improve them so they themselves can eat tastier food and/or achieve worldwide fame, hooray for them. However, they (along with most software manufacturers) sell consumer goods that are not required by everyone to sustain life. You can buy other cookies or chicken, or make your own, or do without them. Same with software. Don't like paying for Photoshop? Use PhotoPaint, or the GIMP, or write your own, or don't edit photos.
Basically, you should be allowed to do with your creations as you wish. If you decide it's crap and throw it in the trash, fine. If you like it but want to keep it to yourself, fine. If you want to release a finished product based on your idea but not tell people how to make it, fine. If you want to make the information available to the world at large, fine. It is something you created. Do with it as you wish.
Licensing is a whole other kettle of worms but I don't want to open that can of cats and let those fish out of the bag right now. Extolling the virtues of creation is tiring, not to mention the strain involved in mixing metaphors.
Will we be able to add nudity to crappy PG-13 movies that desparately need it, like Coyote Ugly and every other PG-13 movie that came out in the last 2 years?
how about an audrey or iOpener connected to your LAN with a browser window open and the browser showing a page (served from another box on the LAN) who's only tags are (meta refresh) and (img src)? that way the frame does nothing but show the pics, and the pics themselves are all stored safely on another machine which is easy to administer. also makes it easy to add more framse around the house that all pull from the same pool of pics. or, the others could just as easily pull from a different set.
I have both cable and DSL. smoothwall ( http://www.smoothwall.org; free, gpl, 22 MB) and a Linksys broadband router have both worked equally well for me on both connections. I've had the linksys since it was introduced 1.5 years ago. both have simple browser-based admin pages to control forwarding, etc. both have built-in dhcp clients (though smoothwall's is off by default, so you need to set one IP statically, at least in the begining.) it recognizes generic $13 10/100 NICs with RealTek chips just fine. for easiest setup, use a PCI pentium with 16 MB RAM. if you have a box like that or can find one for ~$50 (browse regionally on ebay; no need to spend $40 to ship a $50 box) and don't mind having a whole PC sucking juice, blowing off heat, and taking up space, go the smoothwall route. if you want to spend $100 (after rebates) for a 4-port linksys, go that route. remember you'll need a hub along with smoothie. I have 3 devices in a row on my shelf below my desk-- my toshiba cable modem, a 10/100 8-port Asante hub, and the 4-port 10/100 linksys switch. I use the modem and hub as footwarmers; the linksys doesn't get warm enough. (though all 3 have similarly-sized wall warts.) feel free to contact me directly (slashdot at pixelcity dot com) for more info.
Slashdot Mirror
I can understand why C|Net was inaccurate-- if you do a google search for 'compaq presario 3020' or 3060, you'll get a link to a ZDNet page and then discover that it has been pulled.
digging around, I finally got to the order form. pricing is: $150+(N-1)x$100, or $150 for the first seat, $100 per each node thereafter.
Yes it is: http://www.sgi.com/fun/freeware/games.html
New products and upgrades based on increased security have a certain appeal. After all, you can never have too much security, so users can be convinced to upgrade over and over almost forever (just look at Mcafee). But there is a downside, too, which is that security and security performance are now firmly on the table. If Microsoft says it is going to make its products trustworthy and they aren't, then customers can rightly be upset. To this point, remember, Microsoft has pretty much disclaimed security, saying that all operating systems and applications are vulnerable. "It's not our fault." Well in the age of Trustworthy Computing, it WILL be their fault, though the cost to us will probably be continual and expensive upgrades.
"Since publication of this story, CNN and other media have been criticized for falling for a clear hoax. According to popular technical web site slashdot.org the story is full of holes."
Look out slashdot, you're about to get hit by the CNN effect!
it's only a 45-day moratorium on opening new ones.
Name----Product Description-----------Part #---Price
POMA*---wearable internet device------K50------1499.00
I've got a pacemaker that runs Linux. Beat that. Seriously, this is way cool. Send critical logs to a printer on your WLAN, or save them all to an nfs-mounted volume... sweeeeeeet.
I wrote to the developer about the lack of downloadability. He asked me to post his reply since he was headed out the door:
/., your project has
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"I've got to run to work (I'm late!), but if one of you could please put a post on the slashdot article explaining the problem I would be very thankful!
It seems I broke a rule at sourceforge which limits file sizes to 100MB
If someone could offer a mirror site I would be very thankful for that as well!
Thanks! Chad
Here's what sourceforge had to say
--------------
Greetings,
My name is ********; I am the Quality of Service Manager for
SourceForge.net. This message is directed to you since you are
designated as a project administrator for the Simply GNUstep project on
SourceForge.net.
First, we would like to take a moment to congratulate you on your recent
press exposure on Slashdot.org -- we love to see Open Source projects
succeed, and press exposure of this nature is always of great benefit.
Since the announcement of your project efforts on
received roughly 2241 downloads of the ISO image provided through your
download page at: http://simplygnustep.sourceforge.net/Download.htm
It has come to our attention that you are making use of SourceForge.net
project web services as a mechanism to release file materials in excess
of 100MB in size. Each project hosted on SourceForge.net is provided
with project web services as to ensure that they may adequately provide
an online description and information regarding their project.
... etc"
according to the fine folks at merriam-webster (www.m-w.com), the word 'crayon' dates back to 1644. I agree that you shouldn't make a product with a name that is similar to an already exiting product with similar functionality. however, there should exceptions when companies name their products after simple, centuries-old words (crayon, draw, windows, paint, painter, illustrator, write, word) in the first place.
Also, is it just me, or is it strange that the two biggest offenders when it comes to uncreative names are when companies make *writing* and *artistic* programs? I could forgive a math-geek for being too left-brained to come up with anything more creative than "Math", but c'mon... Draw? Word? Sheesh. Maybe we should just go to funtctionality:paltform names, like WordProcessor:Win32 or RasterArt:Mac.
proof that no one cares: if you look at the front page of napster.com, you'll see that the preview was updated 12/12/2001. took nearly a month to make slashdot.
somewhere, in the distance, a dog barked.
...are people searching for CNN?
c h. html
http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist/9-11-sear
http://www.on2.com/quicktime/trailers/
Rather than watching the movies in a tiny window embedded in a web page, visit this page, download them, and watch them in their own player as large as you want. Personally, I'm very impressed.
Here on the East Coast, I haven't seen futurama in forever. First, they pre-empted every episode with baseball then, the week after the world series, it was football. If anything, they should dump the Simpsons or Malcom and run Futurama at 8 or 830.
At the bottom of the page are load times. I visited while this was still the top story here. First page load time was 3 ms. Page 2 was 59,000 and change. Page 3 timed out. :-)
One of the underlying assumptions that GNU has, (which I happen to agree with) is that programs are generally useful technical information, just like mathematical formulas or cooking recipies.
How about Col. Sanders' chicken or Mrs. Field's cookies? My feeling is that once you release a product into the public, you accept a certain risk that people will take it apart and see how it works, and if they successfully clone it, you're SOL. However, just because you're releasing a finished product to the world, that doesn't mean you have to release the blueprints. People should be allowed to profit from their innovations. (Whether they should be allowed to profit from illegally destroying their competition is another matter entirely.) There are scores of recipies out there for chicken and cookies, but if Col. Sanders and Mrs. Fields want to keep their particular recipies secret, they certainly have that right. If they wish to distribute their recipies to make the world a better place and/or let others improve them so they themselves can eat tastier food and/or achieve worldwide fame, hooray for them. However, they (along with most software manufacturers) sell consumer goods that are not required by everyone to sustain life. You can buy other cookies or chicken, or make your own, or do without them. Same with software. Don't like paying for Photoshop? Use PhotoPaint, or the GIMP, or write your own, or don't edit photos.
Basically, you should be allowed to do with your creations as you wish. If you decide it's crap and throw it in the trash, fine. If you like it but want to keep it to yourself, fine. If you want to release a finished product based on your idea but not tell people how to make it, fine. If you want to make the information available to the world at large, fine. It is something you created. Do with it as you wish.
Licensing is a whole other kettle of worms but I don't want to open that can of cats and let those fish out of the bag right now. Extolling the virtues of creation is tiring, not to mention the strain involved in mixing metaphors.
Will we be able to add nudity to crappy PG-13 movies that desparately need it, like Coyote Ugly and every other PG-13 movie that came out in the last 2 years?
how about an audrey or iOpener connected to your LAN with a browser window open and the browser showing a page (served from another box on the LAN) who's only tags are (meta refresh) and (img src)? that way the frame does nothing but show the pics, and the pics themselves are all stored safely on another machine which is easy to administer. also makes it easy to add more framse around the house that all pull from the same pool of pics. or, the others could just as easily pull from a different set.
to get the trailer from http://starwars.apple.com/ep2/breathing/
but you need QT Pro to view the largest.
Two wrongs make a right.
just saw some of the pics... does it have a regular 123/456/789/*0# keypad? if not...
Why not just use limewire?
Of course not. It should be X.i.
I have both cable and DSL. smoothwall ( http://www.smoothwall.org; free, gpl, 22 MB) and a Linksys broadband router have both worked equally well for me on both connections. I've had the linksys since it was introduced 1.5 years ago. both have simple browser-based admin pages to control forwarding, etc. both have built-in dhcp clients (though smoothwall's is off by default, so you need to set one IP statically, at least in the begining.) it recognizes generic $13 10/100 NICs with RealTek chips just fine. for easiest setup, use a PCI pentium with 16 MB RAM. if you have a box like that or can find one for ~$50 (browse regionally on ebay; no need to spend $40 to ship a $50 box) and don't mind having a whole PC sucking juice, blowing off heat, and taking up space, go the smoothwall route. if you want to spend $100 (after rebates) for a 4-port linksys, go that route. remember you'll need a hub along with smoothie. I have 3 devices in a row on my shelf below my desk-- my toshiba cable modem, a 10/100 8-port Asante hub, and the 4-port 10/100 linksys switch. I use the modem and hub as footwarmers; the linksys doesn't get warm enough. (though all 3 have similarly-sized wall warts.) feel free to contact me directly (slashdot at pixelcity dot com) for more info.
Well, you are the one that needs food, after all...