Yep, picked up a couple of USB 1.1 128MB ones for around $35, after a rebate to my house and one to my office:).
They're so small that I have a vision of like 15 of the 512MB or 1GB ones in a special vinyl insert in my dayplanner...
Actually, I've been thinking of trying out a sony memorystick protector case, as they are roughly the same size (a bit smaller than the memory stick, I think). Rexz forgot to mention that the LED is ORANGE! Glowing out of the purple plastic shell! My wife occasionally plug/unplugs it just to watch the LED blink... it's really cute.
No testimonial here about the provided software, I have all the support I need from usb-storage and cryptoloop. MyPasswordSafe is also really handy, and I can (and do) carry around all my passwords on one of these guys.
Thank you!!! Finally, we all hear a clarion voice of sanity...
When did it become the responsibility of an automated entity to check and correct basic language skills? Does anyone actually think that Word's "grammar checker" will ever correctly demangle IM language?
The mother of a good friend of mine is an English teacher at a branch of our state university. She's mentioned in conversation that first year english students actually hand in papers written in AOL chat-speak ("like, OMG! she sed so funny! LOL! o, brb, sory!")
Anybody else here never use a spell checker? Well, perhaps if I have to add to somebody else's documentation, I may (ispell comes to mind...).
If that is all that's holding back mainstream adoption of superior OSS office programs than perhaps there is a
(grumble, grumble... corruption of the language, gripe, gripe)
Yep, Enahs, please do. Don't forget a mention of hdparm to enable ATA133... easy thing to overlook.
I've always run distro's like slackware that were pretty close to the metal, and was plenty comfortable with installing anything from source that needed updating, from binutils and the kernel up to AfterStep and TeX... since just after kernel 1.0 or so.
hdparm is one of those things that Red Hat people never think of because installers do so much work for you these days. I remember shuddering at the thought of X based installers... how could it even know ahead of time if the monitor was multisync or not?? Ludicrous!!!
I now also do Gentoo on my home workstations, but the same install of Slackware on all my older machines, and Debian servers at work (not my decision, but that's OK, Debian's cool too).
At any rate, I find out (late 2002, mind you!) that *all* my disks on my machines were running ATA33 or 66!! It never dawned on me for a minute that I had to turn it on, even though I conciously disabled auto DMA use in the kernel config.
I was so pissed at myself I actually broke a keyboard...
Well except Windows runs on other platforms as well... including Alpha, PowerPC, and Itanium.
I hope you are using the term "run" lightly, in reference to Alphas... Run NT 4.0, all service packs, and start adding some of these "windows accelerators" and you'll quickly understand why MS doesn't include this "functionality". It's all about fringe hardware...
Yep, plus others in Green Hills' own industry see what he's trying to do: FUD at it's best. The CEO at LynuxWorks has issued what seems to be nearly a direct response to O'Dowds' on the subject.
Eh?? Not true last month! Moz 1.6 on GNU/Linux (Gentoo, kernel 2.4.26) nor at my e-vile work machine, which has Moz 1.5 on W2K & FireFox 0,9 on Slackware 10 w/2.6.5.
I had problems with cookies, and had to basically allow cookies from *.ameritrade.com.
I'm logged into (ahem...) "Ameritrade's Secure Trading System" right now... (just to test my sanity and make sure I'm not lying to you!) on my home Gentoo machine.
E-mail me, I'd be happy to try and help you figure it out.
"Defragmenting itself" doesn't mean providing a tool that a user can click on, or schedule periodically. It means defragmenting ITSELF. High quality filesystems do not produce fragmentation in the manner that we have been used to for so long (like FAT anything or NTFS). The way the smallest chunks of files are indexed, and the way the data structures used to organize and link parts of files together can be made to eliminate the problem of defragmentation, as well as adding several useful features. Ever wonder why modern unixes don't provide defragmentation utilities? I guarantee it's not because they forgot, or are trying to screw their users. It's because defragmentation programs are useless, annoying bloat. I think that the reason microsoft didn't eliminate this in their first iteration of NTFS was simply because disks were smaller, and fragmentation wasn't so much of a problem when it was released (remember when that was?). At any rate, better file indexing, and smarter physical placement of file structures could reduce the problem on NTFS, perhaps by adding a database layer that was updated realtime by an OS process or thread running in the background. Ok, so perhaps WinFS wasn't supposed to reduce fragmentation, but perhaps the purposes were related. If better indexing causes better performance, than the slowdown due to fragmentation might not be as pronounced, but at the cost of cpu time/memory to maintain the database, and of the disk space lost to fragmentation. Well, microsoft is slashing winfs in a big way, probably to reduce the cpu hit, and also to spin the inevitable complaints about indexing services running in the background. Remember the win 98SE and win ME days? it was considered a power user 'trick' to kill the findfast service that ran in the background. what happens to winfs, consequently NTFS, when people want to do the same, but can't? WinFS is for PHB's who are dreaming about better integration between office documents and office applications. Defragmenting is for legacy win32 boxes. Better file systems are for admins who don't want to deal with that. I have no problem with microsoft sharing the file system integration code so that the OS can be installed on your choice of file systems, like in the unix world. At least then their users could choose to never have to defragment.
Actually, Tribes 2 onlne (or even classic Tribes, there are *still* servers up) is great for this on it's own, no bots needed. Predominantly, there aren't cheats, unless the server allows it, and that information is presented publicly. Plus, you can join a 45 minute long game, play for a while, and quit out before the game is even over. You don't *have* to be a member of a tribe, you don't even have to be good! It's especially easiy to blend in on a 50+ player server... But you do get better quickly. The game itself has a much faster pace than most FPS games. Plus, if you are lucky, you can get your grubby mits on the linux client for T2 (glad I got mine while I could!). Or, more realistically, since they are nearly impossible to find now, you could pirate it from a buddy, and buy the windows version for the key. Oops... did I just advocate software piracy?! Well, other people's piracy, anyway. Besides, what the hell are you supposed to do when a company won't even stamp the damn discs out??
Yeah, except here in Alaska, where the APUC are notoriously tight-assed, and live in the back pocket of our *two* real telecom companies, ACS (alaska communication systems or something) and GCI (general communication inc.), both of which are the Evil Empire for Alaskans... broadband prospects are basically nil if you live in the sticks. I know that we have a local DirecTV 'franchise' to install and distribute in town, but really, it's a joke.
And if you *do* get the local telco to lay a loop for you, and take it in the rear with all the regulatory fees and such, the cheapest T1 is close to $3000, and from the local telco, between $10,000 and $12,000 just for ONE. Yep, that's the same T1 as can be had for under $500 down south... except setup probably costs more.
Oh, yeah, I guess we do have a third party option (other than the two Evil Empires that don't offer service to my house...). Just take a gander at the wireless cable modem page on Alaska Wireless Cable's site to see why it's tough to take them seriously...
So, guess what old-fashioned device *I* have to use to get connectivity? Yep, that's right, the ol' external Courier v.Everything.
Thank you for pointing this out! OT as this post is, I still feel that it is vitally important to remember this point about Judaism; and it isn't only Orthodox Jews, but, hell, Orthodox rabbis! Ask one sometime how they feel about children being stoned to death for *any* reason, and you'll understand what this means. There is a reason why the the rabbinical order meets annually and evaluates the meaning of the Torah in the context of not only todays society and issues, but those to come (as far as can be truly discussed). It really makes me angry when folks point out hard religious differences as solid barriers to peace. They simply *do* *not* *exist*.
So, I disagree that collaborative efforts on the personal level will have no noticable effect on the long term peace process; rather, I think that it is a very important step. Folks have to realize that memberso of the demographic that author free and open source software have already chosen to open parts of their minds. Sure, perhaps some close other parts, but the will to open up is there, and has already been exercised.
Also, remember that comparing the effect of a number of personal collaborative relationships between Israeli and Arab populations will certainly have a much greater affect than the previously mentioned parallel between the US and the USSR. Think of the populations involved; these countries are tiny in comparison, so each person who thinks as an individual in an Arab nation (or in Israel) has far, far greater personal power and influence, by *default*.
Interesting to note that microsoft donated cash to the National Abortion Rights Action League in 2000... seems like kind of a politically loaded move for such a public entity.
What does the Greater Nashville Auburn Association have to do with disposable paper circuits? Are we using this technology for sports game tickets some how? Hmm... so confusing...
Hmm... sounds like TEMPEST research to me! Too bad you can't find out for sure (the specs are classified, of course). Well, ignorance is no defense; send in the black helicopters!! (don't forget to grab his wire hat before you flip him to the Grays...;)
As soon as it's released... at least according to mizz Anjel Van Slyke. Yeh, I asked them just that question (the last time this story was posted on Slashdot... *snicker*;) and actually got a pretty prompt response, one evening turnaround on my email. I think that's pretty good, considering the media hype they generated that month... maybe the issue was one they felt needed addressing anyway:
From: me
To: their info email address Subject: Oqo Ultrapersonal
Are there any plans to offer driver support for a linux based operating system? Transmeta had done a lot of the legwork and a crusoe compatible linux kernel is available. Production quality firewire, usb, 802.11b, and Bluetooth driver support is also available, so peripherals wouldn't be a problem.
This sort of thing would be very handy for the networking professional on-the- go for setting up and configuring institutional LAN's.
It's just something to consider.
Thanks, and I await a response!
fast forward 18 hrs...
From: Anjel Van Slyke
To: by way of OQO information desk Subject: Re: Oqo Ultrapersonal
As full feature, full power personal computer that fits in your pocket, the OQO will support a Linux based operating system. The current operating system is WindowsXP.
Thanks for your interest.
Anjel Van Slyke OQO www.oqo.com
Aww... how nice of her! Of course, then she forgets that she responded to me and three hours later I get:
As a full feature, full power computer the OQO is capable of supporting
other operating systems including Linux.
Thanks for your interest and we will definitely take your comments into consideration.
Well, duh... think of who owns CNN... AOL/Time/Warner also happen to own Atlantic, Rhino, Elektra, (of course) Warner Bros. Records, Maverick and Reprise; all of which are members of the RIAA.
Not a big surprise when it's all put in perspective, eh?
Well, after careful examination of the treatment of the bill that was finally agreed upon, [H.R.1877.EH], we find the following line embedded in there somewhere:
by inserting `section 2423(b) (relating to travel with intent to engage in a sexual act with a juvenile),' after `motor vehicle parts),'.
Can you say 'taken out of context'?!;)
(sorry no link to this, but apparantly Thomas caches queries but doesn't furnish direct links, hence you gotta go through the search form)
Slashdot Mirror
Yep, picked up a couple of USB 1.1 128MB ones for around $35, after a rebate to my house and one to my office :).
They're so small that I have a vision of like 15 of the 512MB or 1GB ones in a special vinyl insert in my dayplanner...
Actually, I've been thinking of trying out a sony memorystick protector case, as they are roughly the same size (a bit smaller than the memory stick, I think). Rexz forgot to mention that the LED is ORANGE! Glowing out of the purple plastic shell! My wife occasionally plug/unplugs it just to watch the LED blink... it's really cute.
No testimonial here about the provided software, I have all the support I need from usb-storage and cryptoloop. MyPasswordSafe is also really handy, and I can (and do) carry around all my passwords on one of these guys.
Thank you!!! Finally, we all hear a clarion voice of sanity...
When did it become the responsibility of an automated entity to check and correct basic language skills? Does anyone actually think that Word's "grammar checker" will ever correctly demangle IM language?
The mother of a good friend of mine is an English teacher at a branch of our state university. She's mentioned in conversation that first year english students actually hand in papers written in AOL chat-speak ("like, OMG! she sed so funny! LOL! o, brb, sory!")
Anybody else here never use a spell checker? Well, perhaps if I have to add to somebody else's documentation, I may (ispell comes to mind...).
If that is all that's holding back mainstream adoption of superior OSS office programs than perhaps there is a
(grumble, grumble... corruption of the language, gripe, gripe)
Hey! Buy 4alpha-VIAGRA-amine, you 6beta-oxy-HORNY CHEMIST!!!
Yep, Enahs, please do. Don't forget a mention of hdparm to enable ATA133... easy thing to overlook.
I've always run distro's like slackware that were pretty close to the metal, and was plenty comfortable with installing anything from source that needed updating, from binutils and the kernel up to AfterStep and TeX... since just after kernel 1.0 or so.
hdparm is one of those things that Red Hat people never think of because installers do so much work for you these days. I remember shuddering at the thought of X based installers... how could it even know ahead of time if the monitor was multisync or not?? Ludicrous!!!
I now also do Gentoo on my home workstations, but the same install of Slackware on all my older machines, and Debian servers at work (not my decision, but that's OK, Debian's cool too).
At any rate, I find out (late 2002, mind you!) that *all* my disks on my machines were running ATA33 or 66!! It never dawned on me for a minute that I had to turn it on, even though I conciously disabled auto DMA use in the kernel config.
I was so pissed at myself I actually broke a keyboard...
Yep, SDL has a very effective crash parachute! See?
Well except Windows runs on other platforms as well... including Alpha, PowerPC, and Itanium.
I hope you are using the term "run" lightly, in reference to Alphas... Run NT 4.0, all service packs, and start adding some of these "windows accelerators" and you'll quickly understand why MS doesn't include this "functionality". It's all about fringe hardware...
Wrong again... doubleclock.com goes to:
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Wanna bet these guys are spammers and server ad banners?
Yep, plus others in Green Hills' own industry see what he's trying to do: FUD at it's best. The CEO at LynuxWorks has issued what seems to be nearly a direct response to O'Dowds' on the subject.
How us Canadian's voted back a party, and Prime Minister who are proven crooks is beyond me.
Take a peek at our (U.S.) last election... probably a story similar to that. Except we're still doing it...
Eh?? Not true last month! Moz 1.6 on GNU/Linux (Gentoo, kernel 2.4.26) nor at my e-vile work machine, which has Moz 1.5 on W2K & FireFox 0,9 on Slackware 10 w/2.6.5.
I had problems with cookies, and had to basically allow cookies from *.ameritrade.com.
I'm logged into (ahem...) "Ameritrade's Secure Trading System" right now... (just to test my sanity and make sure I'm not lying to you!) on my home Gentoo machine.
E-mail me, I'd be happy to try and help you figure it out.
"Defragmenting itself" doesn't mean providing a tool that a user can click on, or schedule periodically. It means defragmenting ITSELF. High quality filesystems do not produce fragmentation in the manner that we have been used to for so long (like FAT anything or NTFS). The way the smallest chunks of files are indexed, and the way the data structures used to organize and link parts of files together can be made to eliminate the problem of defragmentation, as well as adding several useful features.
Ever wonder why modern unixes don't provide defragmentation utilities? I guarantee it's not because they forgot, or are trying to screw their users. It's because defragmentation programs are useless, annoying bloat.
I think that the reason microsoft didn't eliminate this in their first iteration of NTFS was simply because disks were smaller, and fragmentation wasn't so much of a problem when it was released (remember when that was?). At any rate, better file indexing, and smarter physical placement of file structures could reduce the problem on NTFS, perhaps by adding a database layer that was updated realtime by an OS process or thread running in the background.
Ok, so perhaps WinFS wasn't supposed to reduce fragmentation, but perhaps the purposes were related. If better indexing causes better performance, than the slowdown due to fragmentation might not be as pronounced, but at the cost of cpu time/memory to maintain the database, and of the disk space lost to fragmentation.
Well, microsoft is slashing winfs in a big way, probably to reduce the cpu hit, and also to spin the inevitable complaints about indexing services running in the background. Remember the win 98SE and win ME days? it was considered a power user 'trick' to kill the findfast service that ran in the background. what happens to winfs, consequently NTFS, when people want to do the same, but can't? WinFS is for PHB's who are dreaming about better integration between office documents and office applications. Defragmenting is for legacy win32 boxes.
Better file systems are for admins who don't want to deal with that. I have no problem with microsoft sharing the file system integration code so that the OS can be installed on your choice of file systems, like in the unix world. At least then their users could choose to never have to defragment.
Troll; chill out
Actually, Tribes 2 onlne (or even classic Tribes, there are *still* servers up) is great for this on it's own, no bots needed. Predominantly, there aren't cheats, unless the server allows it, and that information is presented publicly. Plus, you can join a 45 minute long game, play for a while, and quit out before the game is even over. You don't *have* to be a member of a tribe, you don't even have to be good! It's especially easiy to blend in on a 50+ player server... But you do get better quickly. The game itself has a much faster pace than most FPS games. Plus, if you are lucky, you can get your grubby mits on the linux client for T2 (glad I got mine while I could!). Or, more realistically, since they are nearly impossible to find now, you could pirate it from a buddy, and buy the windows version for the key. Oops... did I just advocate software piracy?! Well, other people's piracy, anyway. Besides, what the hell are you supposed to do when a company won't even stamp the damn discs out??
Yeah, except here in Alaska, where the APUC are notoriously tight-assed, and live in the back pocket of our *two* real telecom companies, ACS (alaska communication systems or something) and GCI (general communication inc.), both of which are the Evil Empire for Alaskans... broadband prospects are basically nil if you live in the sticks. I know that we have a local DirecTV 'franchise' to install and distribute in town, but really, it's a joke.
And if you *do* get the local telco to lay a loop for you, and take it in the rear with all the regulatory fees and such, the cheapest T1 is close to $3000, and from the local telco, between $10,000 and $12,000 just for ONE. Yep, that's the same T1 as can be had for under $500 down south... except setup probably costs more.
Oh, yeah, I guess we do have a third party option (other than the two Evil Empires that don't offer service to my house...). Just take a gander at the wireless cable modem page on Alaska Wireless Cable's site to see why it's tough to take them seriously...
So, guess what old-fashioned device *I* have to use to get connectivity? Yep, that's right, the ol' external Courier v.Everything.
Thank you for pointing this out! OT as this post is, I still feel that it is vitally important to remember this point about Judaism; and it isn't only Orthodox Jews, but, hell, Orthodox rabbis! Ask one sometime how they feel about children being stoned to death for *any* reason, and you'll understand what this means. There is a reason why the the rabbinical order meets annually and evaluates the meaning of the Torah in the context of not only todays society and issues, but those to come (as far as can be truly discussed). It really makes me angry when folks point out hard religious differences as solid barriers to peace. They simply *do* *not* *exist*.
So, I disagree that collaborative efforts on the personal level will have no noticable effect on the long term peace process; rather, I think that it is a very important step. Folks have to realize that memberso of the demographic that author free and open source software have already chosen to open parts of their minds. Sure, perhaps some close other parts, but the will to open up is there, and has already been exercised.
Also, remember that comparing the effect of a number of personal collaborative relationships between Israeli and Arab populations will certainly have a much greater affect than the previously mentioned parallel between the US and the USSR. Think of the populations involved; these countries are tiny in comparison, so each person who thinks as an individual in an Arab nation (or in Israel) has far, far greater personal power and influence, by *default*.
I hope they realize that.
Interesting to note that microsoft donated cash to the National Abortion Rights Action League in 2000... seems like kind of a politically loaded move for such a public entity.
What does the Greater Nashville Auburn Association have to do with disposable paper circuits? Are we using this technology for sports game tickets some how? Hmm... so confusing...
Hmm... sounds like TEMPEST research to me! Too bad you can't find out for sure (the specs are classified, of course). Well, ignorance is no defense; send in the black helicopters!! ;)
(don't forget to grab his wire hat before you flip him to the Grays...
I love how this guy directly addresses MERIT as if they are listening/care... and uses the word 'dis'; I got a chuckle out of that one!
/. fare. *sigh*
More rambling, misguided standard
Way to change the world, buddy.
Any references here?
So, if microsoft owns everything, than everyone is an affiliate, right? ;)
fast forward 18 hrs... Aww... how nice of her! Of course, then she forgets that she responded to me and three hours later I get:
Hmm... well, okay.
Well, duh... think of who owns CNN... AOL/Time/Warner also happen to own Atlantic, Rhino, Elektra, (of course) Warner Bros. Records, Maverick and Reprise; all of which are members of the RIAA.
Not a big surprise when it's all put in perspective, eh?
Well, after careful examination of the treatment of the bill that was finally agreed upon, [H.R.1877.EH], we find the following line embedded in there somewhere:
;)
by inserting `section 2423(b) (relating to travel with intent to engage in a sexual act with a juvenile),' after `motor vehicle parts),'.
Can you say 'taken out of context'?!
(sorry no link to this, but apparantly Thomas caches queries but doesn't furnish direct links, hence you gotta go through the search form)
Err... what is Razzle anyway? (for those of us who don't have corner shops...)