Ditching the screen and stack large numbers
in racks might be a problem, how about power
requirements?
Speaking for myself, I only need one screen and
one computer with a diskdrive but I'd like to
see better ways of using multiple computers
(as long as any one program can crash one of them)
I guess the lack of "good deals" is the final proof that web-shopping has finally reached the mainstream, there's no need or place for limited bargain prices anymore since the webshops can't miss the chance of getting some real profit of any customer.
Another angle of this is that normal shops has had to take web competitors seriously and have actually started to become interesting since you have somewhere to complain if what you bough didn't work.
Today, I have for the first time actually considered to buy a brand computer in a major chain. Though, if I was seriously interested I'd probably try to find some stray shop not indexed in any price-database for some sell-outs. There's still that one item for sale somewhere, though the chances might be better in exam periods when poor students hasn't got that much time on their hands.
High Availability Linux is the project that really could use a small device with dual NIC's and a serial console that forwards traffic to one of several servers (knowing which are alive and free).
Changing the Wireless card to something else would make it useful for someone else, solid state web-server, bluetooth connecting point, digital camera printer server...
A CF to PIC interface was described in Circuit Cellar a while ago. A word of caution if you plan something like this is that the 8-bit ATA mode might or might not be supported on newer CF cards. (What! I NEEDED 256 MB)
From my experience most chips only need power and a simple parallell port programming adapter, so a dev-kit shouldn't have to be more than a few leds and a socket for something else.
The problem might be that the chips is developing rapidly so you might have to look a few years back in time to find something suitable to solder yourself compared to the new surface-mounted packages.
There are tools available for free, but it can be hard to grasp what you are getting and what you don't until you have worked with them.
Nothing will revolutionize the flat screen industry until it's in production. And if
you are looking for "large" you'll probably
have to wait for a bit longer.
Why aren't there a market for displays with a limited lifetime when cellular phones are replaced every other year anyway?
Transformers-style keyboard?
I can't see it but it's a nice idea, the single
most irritating thing about the Zaurus seems to be that the keyboard forces you to use the screen in portrait mode which makes the linux console pretty hard to use (see www.infosync.no). Command-line tools are very portable, but not portable enough to fit in less than 40 characters.
The obviuos solution to this would be to hide the keyboard underneath and drag it out on one side, like the "Lin@x" suggests. Though I'd rather have the keyboard as an add-on with a simple way to attach it underneath the PDA if you wanted it.
I recognize the pains in getting wireless.
My portable has only one usb port so I've set
up a USB hub to be able to use my logitech
cordless desktop. Yes it's one radio receiver
with two very long cables attached! Add the USB cable and power cable to the hub and you have
more cable than you can imagine...
Any wireless idea is pretty much useless if it's connected by wire. So logitech, bluetooth, WiFi and the rest must get inside the hosts, and anyone making external accessories must realize that if they have a good product their market will disappear as soon as this happens.
I've yet to see if portable computers with built in antennas will work. Compaq has something (expensive) going with their multiport, but first they should make sure their computers don't reboot when you get a call on your cellular.
And it's not like Microsoft hasn't had
time to think this through, Extremetech
had a story on how to set up
an IIS server trying to get the patch before
code red got them. (And failed miserably of course)
Now wouldn't XP's registration service be better if it didn't let you actually use the system until you had the patches downloaded on registration. But then noone would buy it, and an exploit for the registration service would spoil everything once and for all for ms.
Watching anime sometimes makes you wonder about the japanese people.
Vandread seems normal , but when you consider the audience and the background story it really raises some questions about human values. A planet's entire population gets mixed into a juice to be spareparts for earth's humans.
I actually enjoyed when the fan-subber got tired of one of the characters and inserted fake lines like "shoot for god's sake" when he walked in front of a friendly gunsight.
What did they send on Futurama's slot
the last three months?
"World" Series Baseball? - That's almost as sad as the choice of Hollywood action movies that are running months at my local cinema, blocking anything worth seeing.
More and more, Asus appears to be lining up with the mass of generic manufacturers, rather than including clever, attention-grabbing overclocking features. And while the "quantity, not quality" ploy will definitely score points in the high-volume OEM market, it's likely a flop in the image-conscious retail segment.
-What color is your new motherboard?
-Duh, who cares when it's shaped like a skull, don't tell me your's square!
It all began somewhere in California when a student didn't think that pulling a few switches to get a few red lamps to produce the answer was good enough.
With a bit of experimentation he produced a program that did nothing, but when he tuned in the radio next to the old monster a small tune was heard when his program was run.
Other Examples: One of the highlights of our open day display was a music program running on the DS300. This machine has no loudspeaker - the four-part harmonies are picked up by an AM radio tuned to the rf interference generated by the core driver circuits. For best results, pull your PDP-8 processor cabinet right out and place the radio immediately above the core stack. Resurrection, some kind of antique computer society
Can't find the correct reference, try yourself to search the net for computer, music etc
Knowing the processor socket is a good thing
(unless intel deprecates it too early).
Another good thing is the MAP, Mobile AGP Package, which can make it possible for some upgradability of the graphics too (like some people succeded in upgrading their Dell PC's to Geforce2Go).
Read about Nvidias cool 64 Mb MAP package.
Maybe someone knows when you can expect mobiles with this option on the market so you can buy one without having to wait for the good graphics chips to be available. Also, there's talk about intel working for more standards in modular mobiles, any examples? I'd love a MiniPCI with both Firewire and 100 MBps networking, that socket is just to good for a measly modem.
Even though I don't care about lisp it made me come to the conclusion that XSLT is not a good idea. They have set a goal (no side-effects) with one hand and try the hardest to work around it with the other, making it practically impossible.
When different approaches to comparing two objects can come up with both true and false there's something wrong, a commite's work that's going to give implementors headaches forever.
It's not horrible, the scientists using it said that they haven't even let a bird fly more tahn two days in a row, because they had to go home and sleep themselves. (Feature on Swedish Television "Nova")
In context, they didn't even get close to the birds limits flying 3000 km without stop in 3 days, with species reaching over 10000 km.
The bird themselves flies these distances in the wild and would have suffered more if held in captivity withouth the chance to get rid of the summer fat.
In the spring they are released again in their natural environment.
What interest the scientists is how the birds can manage to eat its own weight in a single day, and be able to use that energy to build up muscles extremely fast, and then use it up during the flight.
IMHO I would love to see dell ditch intel for all its notebooks and use the new AMD chips. The batteries have to discarge so fast it fries my PC cards with the heat.
Do you have one of the famous Dell speedsteps without a speedstep incompatible desktop chipset?
Even though intel gets a good deal of profit from their notebook chips they seem to be better at it than AMD. Mainly because they were large enough to begin production of their 0.13 um Tualatin chips on notebooks before they had the fabs to use the process on desktop chips.
For your next mobile, consider that today the 750MHz ULV PIII could be a better choice on batteries than the 1 LV GHz variant.
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* Firewire connection networking
* Gigabit ethernet networking
* Numbercrunching processors
Ditching the screen and stack large numbers
in racks might be a problem, how about power
requirements?
Speaking for myself, I only need one screen and
one computer with a diskdrive but I'd like to
see better ways of using multiple computers
(as long as any one program can crash one of them)
Why not just download the whole show in
a few seconds and jack into it whenever
you feel like it.
Is there a 110% speed option in the windows media player?
I guess the lack of "good deals" is the final proof that web-shopping has finally reached the mainstream, there's no need or place for limited bargain prices anymore since the webshops can't miss the chance of getting some real profit of any customer.
Another angle of this is that normal shops has had to take web competitors seriously and have actually started to become interesting since you have somewhere to complain if what you bough didn't work.
Today, I have for the first time actually considered to buy a brand computer in a major chain. Though, if I was seriously interested I'd probably try to find some stray shop not indexed in any price-database for some sell-outs. There's still that one item for sale somewhere, though the chances might be better in exam periods when poor students hasn't got that much time on their hands.
Anyone has the specification of a
2x2 cm device that can contact
american spy satellites?
Doh,
High Availability Linux is the project that really could use a small device with dual NIC's and a serial console that forwards traffic to one of several servers (knowing which are alive and free).
Changing the Wireless card to something else would make it useful for someone else, solid state web-server, bluetooth connecting point, digital camera printer server...
The PCMCIA port could be used for anything, just ip-tables and a rudimentary web-server would be great on an embedded system.
I turn off my linux firewall every night, but
a small device checking it's heartbeat on the serial console could make it look like a 99.9999 system...
A CF to PIC interface was described in Circuit Cellar a while ago. A word of caution if you plan something like this is that the 8-bit ATA mode might or might not be supported on newer CF cards. (What! I NEEDED 256 MB)
I found the link att Jeff Frohwein's
From my experience most chips only need power and a simple parallell port programming adapter, so a dev-kit shouldn't have to be more than a few leds and a socket for something else.
The problem might be that the chips is developing rapidly so you might have to look a few years back in time to find something suitable to solder yourself compared to the new surface-mounted packages.
There are tools available for free, but it can be hard to grasp what you are getting and what you don't until you have worked with them.
Not only music, but music videos and
soon probably the virtual Ms. Spears.
Well even science it seems: Britney Spears Guide to Semiconductor Physics
Nothing will revolutionize the flat screen industry until it's in production. And if
you are looking for "large" you'll probably
have to wait for a bit longer.
Why aren't there a market for displays with a limited lifetime when cellular phones are replaced every other year anyway?
Transformers-style keyboard?
I can't see it but it's a nice idea, the single most irritating thing about the Zaurus seems to be that the keyboard forces you to use the screen in portrait mode which makes the linux console pretty hard to use (see www.infosync.no). Command-line tools are very portable, but not portable enough to fit in less than 40 characters.
The obviuos solution to this would be to hide the keyboard underneath and drag it out on one side, like the "Lin@x" suggests. Though I'd rather have the keyboard as an add-on with a simple way to attach it underneath the PDA if you wanted it.
Come on, you'd notice if one of them hit us.
I recognize the pains in getting wireless.
My portable has only one usb port so I've set
up a USB hub to be able to use my logitech
cordless desktop. Yes it's one radio receiver
with two very long cables attached! Add the USB cable and power cable to the hub and you have
more cable than you can imagine...
Any wireless idea is pretty much useless if it's connected by wire. So logitech, bluetooth, WiFi and the rest must get inside the hosts, and anyone making external accessories must realize that if they have a good product their market will disappear as soon as this happens.
I've yet to see if portable computers with built in antennas will work. Compaq has something (expensive) going with their multiport, but first they should make sure their computers don't reboot when you get a call on your cellular.
And it's not like Microsoft hasn't had
time to think this through, Extremetech
had a story on how to set up
an IIS server trying to get the patch before
code red got them. (And failed miserably of course)
Now wouldn't XP's registration service be better if it didn't let you actually use the system until you had the patches downloaded on registration. But then noone would buy it, and an exploit for the registration service would spoil everything once and for all for ms.
Gaining steam isn't really a good thing
if it's used to describe an upcomping
software project.
Maybe it's taking a last shot at some PR
hype before it's confirmed vapour-ware.
"a C64 emulator"
Underacheiver, you should get a $50 Dreamcast instead. But an N64 emulator would make use of some bit of the Xbox.
Demand SID ringtones in your next mobile phone!
Watching anime sometimes makes you wonder about the japanese people.
Vandread seems normal , but when you consider the audience and the background story it really raises some questions about human values. A planet's entire population gets mixed into a juice to be spareparts for earth's humans.
I actually enjoyed when the fan-subber got tired of one of the characters and inserted fake lines like "shoot for god's sake" when he walked in front of a friendly gunsight.
What did they send on Futurama's slot
the last three months?
"World" Series Baseball? - That's almost as sad as the choice of Hollywood action movies that are running months at my local cinema, blocking anything worth seeing.
More and more, Asus appears to be lining up with the mass of generic manufacturers, rather than including clever, attention-grabbing overclocking features. And while the "quantity, not quality" ploy will definitely score points in the high-volume OEM market, it's likely a flop in the image-conscious retail segment.
-What color is your new motherboard?
-Duh, who cares when it's shaped like a skull, don't tell me your's square!
It all began somewhere in California when a student didn't think that pulling a few switches to get a few red lamps to produce the answer was good enough.
With a bit of experimentation he produced a program that did nothing, but when he tuned in the radio next to the old monster a small tune was heard when his program was run.
Other Examples: One of the highlights of our open day display was a music program running on the DS300. This machine has no loudspeaker - the four-part harmonies are picked up by an AM radio tuned to the rf interference generated by the core driver circuits. For best results, pull your PDP-8 processor cabinet right out and place the radio immediately above the core stack.
Resurrection, some kind of antique computer society
Can't find the correct reference, try yourself to search the net for computer, music etc
If you don't use a screensaver, eventually your windows desktop will be burnt into your monitor with disastrous results
Knowing the processor socket is a good thing
(unless intel deprecates it too early).
Another good thing is the MAP, Mobile AGP Package, which can make it possible for some upgradability of the graphics too (like some people succeded in upgrading their Dell PC's to Geforce2Go).
Read about Nvidias cool 64 Mb MAP package.
Maybe someone knows when you can expect mobiles with this option on the market so you can buy one without having to wait for the good graphics chips to be available.
Also, there's talk about intel working for more standards in modular mobiles, any examples? I'd love a MiniPCI with both Firewire and 100 MBps networking, that socket is just to good for a measly modem.
I stumbled on a thoughtful discussion about lisp
The Rise of ``Worse is Better''.
Even though I don't care about lisp it made me come to the conclusion that XSLT is not a good idea. They have set a goal (no side-effects) with one hand and try the hardest to work around it with the other, making it practically impossible.
When different approaches to comparing two objects can come up with both true and false there's something wrong, a commite's work that's going to give implementors headaches forever.
It's not horrible, the scientists using it said that they haven't even let a bird fly more tahn two days in a row, because they had to go home and sleep themselves. (Feature on Swedish Television "Nova")
In context, they didn't even get close to the birds limits flying 3000 km without stop in 3 days, with species reaching over 10000 km.
The bird themselves flies these distances in the wild and would have suffered more if held in captivity withouth the chance to get rid of the summer fat.
In the spring they are released again in their natural environment.
What interest the scientists is how the birds can manage to eat its own weight in a single day, and be able to use that energy to build up muscles extremely fast, and then use it up during the flight.
Some reference in Swedish
IMHO I would love to see dell ditch intel for all its notebooks and use the new AMD chips. The batteries have to discarge so fast it fries my PC cards with the heat.
Do you have one of the famous Dell speedsteps without a speedstep incompatible desktop chipset?
Even though intel gets a good deal of profit from their notebook chips they seem to be better at it than AMD. Mainly because they were large enough to begin production of their 0.13 um Tualatin chips on notebooks before they had the fabs to use the process on desktop chips.
For your next mobile, consider that today the 750MHz ULV PIII could be a better choice on batteries than the 1 LV GHz variant.