During my intern job this summer, I am using a Linux PPC for checking my mail and run my "admin" apps (oo 1.0+MozillaRC, yeah!) Of course, while my co-workers are spending way to much time dealing and worrying with virus infections on their machines, I can safely upload any message without fearing a dreaded attack. I don't even have to run an antivirus program. It pays to be a minority.
This is open source, and if you are willing to download the kernel, compile it, and run it, it's up to you really and not to blame on any distro update engine. The steps are fairly easy to do if you follow readmes but keep in mind that is an unstable release and if things go wrong, you are on your own (keep a backup of the stable kernel and make sure lilo/grub points to the old one too.)
On the other hand, if you are not able to come up with this suggestion on your own, it's probably safe to assume that you should stay away from installing it until it moves to something known to work without any problems (after all, unstable code always moves to stable at one time or another.)
I found this kernel to be very stable and very reliable. This is very promising. I run JDK from blackdown and openoffice 1.0, as well as latest Mozilla, IRC, and got to admit that the system feels very responsive and extremelly feature rich. Hell, I can even use videolan with regionfree plugins. The 2.4 glitches for power saving features I experienced in the past seem to be gone too. Thumbs up for all the people who helped make this happen.
PPA, the girl next door.
What's needed on new PDAs and Not Yet Available
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Toshiba e740 Pocket PC
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· Score: 5, Interesting
- 3D to a lesser extent than desktop: If I buy one of these, it's gonna be to play on it half of the time. - USB in: HP did release a Palm PC allowing you to connect devices like keyboard, mouse and the like to it. And that was really cool when using it on a desktop. Unfortunately, no USB hub on these little sucker. - No integrated extended battery pack ala VAIO. What I would like to get is a double or triple life battery extension that matches the design of the PDA. - Most PDA come with no screen cover. Being the most fragile part of a device that you are supposed to carry all over the place, this one is just a pure puzzle to me. - I want WiFi AND Bluetooth, not one or the other. - Wireless earphones so I can listen to my mp3s without tripping in the cables, or hanging myself when I take out my coat. - etc...
Is this part of the economic factor? After all, if your system was lasting forever, companies would have some problem justifying their investor that they can sell you stuff only once.
I bought a PowerPC laptop back in 1995 and I could beat on the keyboard, not use a bag to carry to class, sit on it, almost anything it would take. Last year, I got a TiBook: first week, the return key broke, the next day, I hold the machine, the battery felt off the machine (while working), the screen had 5 bad pixels when I got it and the sticker feet on the bottom left the machine one at a time (without mentioning keys that scratch the screen, heat that burned my laps and locking system that doesn't work anymore.) Overall, a beautiful machine when you see it in an ad. But not built too last.
A friend of mine has still an HP-41C in perfect working condition (made 20 years ago.)
I went to a class given by our university about ergonomics. The people there seem to encourage students to stay away from the kinesis and microsoft/logitech models of this world. The best keyboards they said where the split keyboard model made by gold touch (a respectable company who has been in business for long time but with a ad budget lower than MS and the others) and the now defunct Apple ADB model which was a direct reap off of the gold touch model.
Living on Apple reputation to design always cool stuff, it's a shame that they stopped making that keyboard.
The position of the forearm seems to dictate according to the instructor the problem related ot wristh pain. He also mentionned that the laptop keyboards are worse than desktop keyboard because they will let you palm rest at the same level than the keyboard. Not to mention the most of the time smaller form factor associated with laptop keyboards.
Since I went to that class, and because I love the laptop form factor (me japanese), I keep my hand elevated while typing which gives my gesture an elegant touch. Not that I had pain before but like in many other activities, prevention is better than being sorry.
You need to restart the system and just after the chime, leave the mouse button pressed until the media gets ejected. No manual way but a work around for people who like me got cought with the soundtrack of Episode 2.
My main interest is playing movies on the wall of my living room.
This project looks nice if I can find someone to do it for me that is.
I have a few concerns though. 1) Aren't dvd players using Macrovision to forbid a signal to be output on anything else than a TV? The signal going to a video capture card seems to be a slight problem. Is this a reason why every one in the article is talking about LD and VCD, these two older media not suffering of the Macrovision "virus", er copy protection. 2) Is this really cheap? I mean a dedicated P800 in the living room (cpu speed to cope with descaler complex algorithm)+capture card+LCD panel, etc... I don't even mention the electric bill. 3) Noise level: Getting a Pentium noisy as an air carrier next to a TV and adding the noise of the fan(s) for cooling down the bulb(s), does that meant that I will need to listen to the movie with a pair a noise cancelling headphones? 4) Space: I imagine that the distance from the projector to the screen needs to be consequent. I can't find data regarding the minimum size of a room to use the projector.
I found the first script of Star wars once at a film bookstore in SF and decided to buy the copy just as to document myself about script writing. I was amazed as how much content from the Hidden Fortress from Kurosawa the script contained. Luke was a farmer, the princess was carrying stolen treasures, etc... In short the Kurosawa's story had been rewritten for a Science fiction epic. I realized that the storyline had been stollen from one of the most creative movie makers of all time and adapted to the western world. In short I was discusted by the whole SW phenomenom. Like Picasso, use to say: To be an artist: steal, don't copy.
Trully, if Lucas was playing in one of its own movies, he would be acting as someone from the dark force. This guy has shown only greed and bad taste for the past 20 years (the movies he made and came close to direct himself where mere failures if it wasn't for the SW brand name that was attached to them.)
How can you spend money on stuff that makes this thief even more rich is out of my understanding.
It's unfortunate that the JPEG format ends up being described as the JPG, due to DOS naming constraints. Are we doom to see the usage of 3 name extension only in the future due to this lack of vision from the early implementers? I for one would tend to favor embedded MIME support and the removing of file extensions.
Honestly, if there is something I am willing to install to replace MS office it has to be OpenOffice. This is a true drag and replace version of the beast's best seller. The final release is going to amaze you if you don't know about it yet, give it a try. You'll never go back. Kinda like IE and Konqueror.
Does 0.13u also means that the fan won't have to be so noisy to dissipate heat on the new chip in this coming model. I found that fan on my current model way too noisy in a quiet environment (when you are not in a car in gta3.) The Nintendo cube has also a fan but it's quieter. Actually I always had trouble with Sony noise level for fans. The VAIO R505 I bought had this intolerable variable fan that made it even worse (constant noise is way better to cover with a pair of cancelling noise earphones.)
That could also mean that Sony would be able to come with a System on a card for PCs. I would definitely buy a PS2 PCI/AGP card to play on my PC. My monitor and sound system in my office are way better than my TV/Stereo in my living room.
I was kind of suspicious when Mandrake announced that they would give the same support to the various metallic names they associated with membership, because why in the first place would they have bother doing it if everyone was treated at the same level. This announcement doesn't look too good for their PR though. It's a bad time for them to become unpopular. I think that they tried to be too nice from the start and every bits and pieces that they are taking back are making everyone angry
This article definitely forgot to include Nintendo comments. So to be fair to them, I'll include my fav quote from Nintendo's president: "It's not about the hardware you stupids, it's about the game."
BTW, as the end of the article reveals, M$ did an excellent job at localizing their HW and SW. Omitting to do international research on things like controller sizes and text size in dialogs: Wow, no need to have expensive offices in Tokyo and Europe to end up making such stupid mistakes. Not to mention that they could have simply copy the way Sony did it, as they had done for the rest.
PPA. the girl next door.
Re:23" Cinema Display is not the largest available
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Apple @ MacWorld Tokyo
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· Score: 2
Sun patented ugly design too I can tell. At least and not like Apple, Sun can rest assured that one will copy their design. Plain Fugly!
This is big. If Apple is on the blue tooth train, then it means that the standard will be back from the dead when M$ put it by not supporting it in XP, and will become successfull (see USB for some background.) Apple is obviously working on new desktop and laptop systems with bluetooth integrated. It's not rumors but very certain that BT is what Apple need for their digital hub strategy. I wonder how they are going to cop with interference between BT and 802.11b. And it will be really funny to see how other vendors are playing catch up with Apple when they realize that bluetooth is a really neat solution to connect devices. In M$ interest not to connect easily with Palm, this is the only reason why the beast of Redmond killed the technology by not releasing drivers last summer. However, all the devices like PDAs (ex: iPaq, Loox, etc...) are released in Japan with BlueTooth in standard. Again, US is lagging big time behind Japan when it comes to wireless (3G, and now BlueTooth.)
It was for some special developers. You just had to leave at about 2 miles from their office, and be a cute girl who always knows how to insist and get what she wants like I do;-)
I am not particularely impressed by the specs of the board. When the BeBox came out with its dual Hobbit chipset, I wanted to get my hands on one of these bad ass mother. But looking at the specs (and high price) of this board, why should I put money into that? To run a Linux port on it? Gee, that's a luxury item. I'd rather get a second ipaq instead. Actually I start to prefer the ARM architecture over the PPC one lately (Thanks for Mot for goofing heavily on the performance side too.) So I'd rather go light and wireless than underpowered and chained on the desktop.
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During my intern job this summer, I am using a Linux PPC for checking my mail and run my "admin" apps (oo 1.0+MozillaRC, yeah!) Of course, while my co-workers are spending way to much time dealing and worrying with virus infections on their machines, I can safely upload any message without fearing a dreaded attack. I don't even have to run an antivirus program. It pays to be a minority.
PPA, the girl next door.
This is open source, and if you are willing to download the kernel, compile it, and run it, it's up to you really and not to blame on any distro update engine. The steps are fairly easy to do if you follow readmes but keep in mind that is an unstable release and if things go wrong, you are on your own (keep a backup of the stable kernel and make sure lilo/grub points to the old one too.)
On the other hand, if you are not able to come up with this suggestion on your own, it's probably safe to assume that you should stay away from installing it until it moves to something known to work without any problems (after all, unstable code always moves to stable at one time or another.)
Oh boy, I still didn't make time to watch AOTC.
PPA, the girl next door.
I found this kernel to be very stable and very reliable. This is very promising. I run JDK from blackdown and openoffice 1.0, as well as latest Mozilla, IRC, and got to admit that the system feels very responsive and extremelly feature rich. Hell, I can even use videolan with regionfree plugins. The 2.4 glitches for power saving features I experienced in the past seem to be gone too. Thumbs up for all the people who helped make this happen.
PPA, the girl next door.
- 3D to a lesser extent than desktop: If I buy one of these, it's gonna be to play on it half of the time.
- USB in: HP did release a Palm PC allowing you to connect devices like keyboard, mouse and the like to it. And that was really cool when using it on a desktop. Unfortunately, no USB hub on these little sucker.
- No integrated extended battery pack ala VAIO. What I would like to get is a double or triple life battery extension that matches the design of the PDA.
- Most PDA come with no screen cover. Being the most fragile part of a device that you are supposed to carry all over the place, this one is just a pure puzzle to me.
- I want WiFi AND Bluetooth, not one or the other.
- Wireless earphones so I can listen to my mp3s without tripping in the cables, or hanging myself when I take out my coat.
- etc...
PPA, the girl next door.
Is this part of the economic factor? After all, if your system was lasting forever, companies would have some problem justifying their investor that they can sell you stuff only once.
I bought a PowerPC laptop back in 1995 and I could beat on the keyboard, not use a bag to carry to class, sit on it, almost anything it would take. Last year, I got a TiBook: first week, the return key broke, the next day, I hold the machine, the battery felt off the machine (while working), the screen had 5 bad pixels when I got it and the sticker feet on the bottom left the machine one at a time (without mentioning keys that scratch the screen, heat that burned my laps and locking system that doesn't work anymore.) Overall, a beautiful machine when you see it in an ad. But not built too last.
A friend of mine has still an HP-41C in perfect working condition (made 20 years ago.)
PPA, the girl next door.
I went to a class given by our university about ergonomics. The people there seem to encourage students to stay away from the kinesis and microsoft/logitech models of this world. The best keyboards they said where the split keyboard model made by gold touch (a respectable company who has been in business for long time but with a ad budget lower than MS and the others) and the now defunct Apple ADB model which was a direct reap off of the gold touch model.
Living on Apple reputation to design always cool stuff, it's a shame that they stopped making that keyboard.
The position of the forearm seems to dictate according to the instructor the problem related ot wristh pain. He also mentionned that the laptop keyboards are worse than desktop keyboard because they will let you palm rest at the same level than the keyboard. Not to mention the most of the time smaller form factor associated with laptop keyboards.
Since I went to that class, and because I love the laptop form factor (me japanese), I keep my hand elevated while typing which gives my gesture an elegant touch. Not that I had pain before but like in many other activities, prevention is better than being sorry.
PPA, the girl next door.
You need to restart the system and just after the chime, leave the mouse button pressed until the media gets ejected. No manual way but a work around for people who like me got cought with the soundtrack of Episode 2.
PPA, the girl next door
It's seems to me like a good way for keeping away idiots from buying cool cars like this beamer.
PPA, the girl next door
My main interest is playing movies on the wall of my living room.
This project looks nice if I can find someone to do it for me that is.
I have a few concerns though.
1) Aren't dvd players using Macrovision to forbid a signal to be output on anything else than a TV? The signal going to a video capture card seems to be a slight problem. Is this a reason why every one in the article is talking about LD and VCD, these two older media not suffering of the Macrovision "virus", er copy protection.
2) Is this really cheap? I mean a dedicated P800 in the living room (cpu speed to cope with descaler complex algorithm)+capture card+LCD panel, etc... I don't even mention the electric bill.
3) Noise level: Getting a Pentium noisy as an air carrier next to a TV and adding the noise of the fan(s) for cooling down the bulb(s), does that meant that I will need to listen to the movie with a pair a noise cancelling headphones?
4) Space: I imagine that the distance from the projector to the screen needs to be consequent. I can't find data regarding the minimum size of a room to use the projector.
I still like the idea though.
PPA, the girl next door.
I found the first script of Star wars once at a film bookstore in SF and decided to buy the copy just as to document myself about script writing. I was amazed as how much content from the Hidden Fortress from Kurosawa the script contained. Luke was a farmer, the princess was carrying stolen treasures, etc... In short the Kurosawa's story had been rewritten for a Science fiction epic. I realized that the storyline had been stollen from one of the most creative movie makers of all time and adapted to the western world. In short I was discusted by the whole SW phenomenom. Like Picasso, use to say: To be an artist: steal, don't copy.
Trully, if Lucas was playing in one of its own movies, he would be acting as someone from the dark force. This guy has shown only greed and bad taste for the past 20 years (the movies he made and came close to direct himself where mere failures if it wasn't for the SW brand name that was attached to them.)
How can you spend money on stuff that makes this thief even more rich is out of my understanding.
PPA, the girl next door.
It's unfortunate that the JPEG format ends up being described as the JPG, due to DOS naming constraints. Are we doom to see the usage of 3 name extension only in the future due to this lack of vision from the early implementers? I for one would tend to favor embedded MIME support and the removing of file extensions.
PPA, the girl next door.
Maybe, just maybe, Apple should considere going the Avid business and realease a quad G4 board that fits in a Dual Athlon 2GHz/Xeon 2.4GHz?
Honestly, if there is something I am willing to install to replace MS office it has to be OpenOffice. This is a true drag and replace version of the beast's best seller. The final release is going to amaze you if you don't know about it yet, give it a try.
You'll never go back. Kinda like IE and Konqueror.
PPA, the girl next door.
Does 0.13u also means that the fan won't have to be so noisy to dissipate heat on the new chip in this coming model. I found that fan on my current model way too noisy in a quiet environment (when you are not in a car in gta3.) The Nintendo cube has also a fan but it's quieter. Actually I always had trouble with Sony noise level for fans. The VAIO R505 I bought had this intolerable variable fan that made it even worse (constant noise is way better to cover with a pair of cancelling noise earphones.)
That could also mean that Sony would be able to come with a System on a card for PCs. I would definitely buy a PS2 PCI/AGP card to play on my PC. My monitor and sound system in my office are way better than my TV/Stereo in my living room.
PPA, the girl next door.
That's it, I switch to AMD. Intel Go @#$ yourself inside.
PPA, the girl next door.
... maybe in sleep mode ;-)
PPA, the girl next door.
PPA, the girl next door.
I was kind of suspicious when Mandrake announced that they would give the same support to the various metallic names they associated with membership, because why in the first place would they have bother doing it if everyone was treated at the same level. This announcement doesn't look too good for their PR though. It's a bad time for them to become unpopular. I think that they tried to be too nice from the start and every bits and pieces that they are taking back are making everyone angry
PPA, the girl next door.
Of course, an article like this could only have roots coming from M$NBC. What is the article saying at the end? Adopt M$N instead?
PPA, the girl next door
This article definitely forgot to include Nintendo comments. So to be fair to them, I'll include my fav quote from Nintendo's president :
"It's not about the hardware you stupids, it's about the game."
BTW, as the end of the article reveals, M$ did an excellent job at localizing their HW and SW. Omitting to do international research on things like controller sizes and text size in dialogs: Wow, no need to have expensive offices in Tokyo and Europe to end up making such stupid mistakes. Not to mention that they could have simply copy the way Sony did it, as they had done for the rest.
PPA. the girl next door.
Sun patented ugly design too I can tell. At least and not like Apple, Sun can rest assured that one will copy their design. Plain Fugly!
PPA, the girl next door.
This is big. If Apple is on the blue tooth train, then it means that the standard will be back from the dead when M$ put it by not supporting it in XP, and will become successfull (see USB for some background.) Apple is obviously working on new desktop and laptop systems with bluetooth integrated. It's not rumors but very certain that BT is what Apple need for their digital hub strategy. I wonder how they are going to cop with interference between BT and 802.11b. And it will be really funny to see how other vendors are playing catch up with Apple when they realize that bluetooth is a really neat solution to connect devices. In M$ interest not to connect easily with Palm, this is the only reason why the beast of Redmond killed the technology by not releasing drivers last summer. However, all the devices like PDAs (ex: iPaq, Loox, etc...) are released in Japan with BlueTooth in standard. Again, US is lagging big time behind Japan when it comes to wireless (3G, and now BlueTooth.)
PPA, the girl next door.
It was for some special developers. You just had to leave at about 2 miles from their office, and be a cute girl who always knows how to insist and get what she wants like I do ;-)
PPA, the girl next door.
I am not particularely impressed by the specs of the board. When the BeBox came out with its dual Hobbit chipset, I wanted to get my hands on one of these bad ass mother. But looking at the specs (and high price) of this board, why should I put money into that? To run a Linux port on it? Gee, that's a luxury item.
I'd rather get a second ipaq instead. Actually I start to prefer the ARM architecture over the PPC one lately (Thanks for Mot for goofing heavily on the performance side too.) So I'd rather go light and wireless than underpowered and chained on the desktop.
PPA, the girl next door.
Wasn't Mistery house on the Apple ][ the first 3D game of all time? It was published around 1980, I believe.
PPA, the girl next door.