I highly recommend getting either the refurb ibook or just one of these new ibooks. I was in a similar position (in terms of what I needed a computer for) 2 years ago. I bought one of the 12" G3 ibooks and added an airport card and 256MB of RAM for a total of 384. Contrary to what another poster says does not run OSX too slow on a G3 provided you have enough RAM.
After an initial 2 months which was _very_ frustrating as I was relearning everything I finally got used to it and now I love it. Even though I live in a 400sqft. appartment the getting the airport card was the best thing I could've done. It totally changed how I use a computer (had a desktop previously).
BTW don't get a refurb G3 iBook. They have a problem with a mainboard that flexes when the ibook is picked up with one hand and the video eventually goes out. They fixed it in the G4 revisions.
Did anybody notice that in this article provided by a reader in a comment it mentions that the parent company that owns SCO also owns trolltech! What gives!? Qt's parent is brothers with SCO?
The point is probably to make things more accessible. If you surf to.mobile on your phone it'll be designed for mobile devices..health is for countries like China so that they can block.com,.gov, etc. but hopefully leave.health alone knowing there's nothing dangerous there. That way you don't block health info inadvertantly. The only one I don't get is.iii
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China manages fine, and they only have bicycles.;) =)
Personally it was E&CE429 - Computer Architecture. Covered high points of MIPS, Sparc, Pentium, Alpha architecture
Actually in reality you pick up most of the knowledge on the job. I've designed in SDR SDRAM into some of my designs; read data sheets on DDR SDRAM.
Bottom line: this is really obscure knowledge that very few people in the world really understand... and in this case I have to agree with the poster at the root of this thread: A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. There are so many things that affect performance in interconnected ways that even as a hardware designer it's difficult to get to the root. Only people who design stuff like motherboards and the CPUs could really tell you what's going on.
Browsing around on the site I came across the Espresso (which has been on slashdot before) which is actuall smaller than the Cappucino G1... it's 6" x 4" x 1.25".
Here you go: Espresso Pocket PC
I love the design of the classic Unix tools. The architecture is flexible and allows you to accomplish complex tasks easily... find, grep, xargs, sed, etc. I mean just look at how dialup works in linux... it's all a bunch of small programs strung together with scripts. Pretty incredible.
My biggest problem with the architecture has been that it's distinctly "feed forward". What I mean by that is that you can pass data ahead to the next program (through a pipe). What I've allways found lacking is the feed back. Again to go back to the example of dialup... I often found it necessary to look in/var/log/messages to figure out why the dialup script quit. Basically there's no mechanism for feedback.
That is the biggest problem in integrating these tools into gui's. If we can create core algorithmic components that can be called either cli or hooked into gui's you could provide small reusable components that can be used either cli or gui while still adhering to the unix philosopy.
Actually there's a club in Ottawa (Canada) called Zaphod's (IIRC) where you can buy a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster. It's blue... that's about all I can say... the rest is very fuzzy for some reason.
The bang per $$ people are (or should be) talking about is the TCO... total cost of ownership. The cost of the shrink warapped box is nothing compared to the administration and maintenance costs. Just because Linux can be gotten free (as in beer) doesn't mean it's bang per $$ is infinite.
I wouldn't care to speculate on the TCO of linux vs NT but there are studies going on to figure this out. Sorry no pointers off the top of my head.
From reading through the comments one thing in particular jumps out at me. We seem to have people pulling in two conflicting directions. That is some people want to moderate bad comments down and other people want to moderate good comments up.
The whole point of the moderation system is to (if I may use an EE metaphor here) lower the noise floor. Ie: to move the useless comments below a certain threshold leaving only good ones above it.
Since the moderation points are a limited resource you want to use them where they will make most difference. Here comes the assumption: there are less good comments than bad ones. Therefore moderating down bad comments is a waste of points.
If everyone starts at a certain intermediate level and posts are moderated up and down then many good and bad posts stay at the default level and a certain few get moderated down and up. This leaves a lot of comments in that intermediate state which is noisy. The points to moderate down comments have been wasted because the only useful 'signal' that's been amplified is in the moderated _up_ comments.
So here's my take: start everyone at the bottom... the noise floor. Moderators only moderate up out of the noise floor. So, so posts rise only so far, good posts rise higher, etc.
Just a note but how exactly does order by score work? Is it order thread by score or is there a bug. I'm always see a couple of high scoring articles at the top and then it gets random.
Is it just me or are fixed width websites annoying. Used to be that HTML rendered in whatever sized browser window you had. Lately everyone want's to tell you how big your browser window should be. Fight the power! =)
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We successful used Sunrays with no issues for 2.5 years doing hardware design. I don't buy your argument. Other than that Citrix sucks.
I highly recommend getting either the refurb ibook or just one of these new ibooks. I was in a similar position (in terms of what I needed a computer for) 2 years ago. I bought one of the 12" G3 ibooks and added an airport card and 256MB of RAM for a total of 384. Contrary to what another poster says does not run OSX too slow on a G3 provided you have enough RAM.
After an initial 2 months which was _very_ frustrating as I was relearning everything I finally got used to it and now I love it. Even though I live in a 400sqft. appartment the getting the airport card was the best thing I could've done. It totally changed how I use a computer (had a desktop previously).
BTW don't get a refurb G3 iBook. They have a problem with a mainboard that flexes when the ibook is picked up with one hand and the video eventually goes out. They fixed it in the G4 revisions.
Did anybody notice that in this article provided by a reader in a comment it mentions that the parent company that owns SCO also owns trolltech! What gives!? Qt's parent is brothers with SCO?
Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated.
The point is probably to make things more accessible. If you surf to .mobile on your phone it'll be designed for mobile devices. .health is for countries like China so that they can block .com, .gov, etc. but hopefully leave .health alone knowing there's nothing dangerous there. That way you don't block health info inadvertantly. The only one I don't get is .iii
China manages fine, and they only have bicycles. ;) =)
Check out this story on EETimes.
would you know about youth detention centers?
"The other message is that even if you get caught, your sentence will be ridiculously easy"
Personally it was E&CE429 - Computer Architecture. Covered high points of MIPS, Sparc, Pentium, Alpha architecture
Actually in reality you pick up most of the knowledge on the job. I've designed in SDR SDRAM into some of my designs; read data sheets on DDR SDRAM.
Bottom line: this is really obscure knowledge that very few people in the world really understand... and in this case I have to agree with the poster at the root of this thread: A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. There are so many things that affect performance in interconnected ways that even as a hardware designer it's difficult to get to the root. Only people who design stuff like motherboards and the CPUs could really tell you what's going on.
Browsing around on the site I came across the Espresso (which has been on slashdot before) which is actuall smaller than the Cappucino G1 ... it's 6" x 4" x 1.25".
Here you go: Espresso Pocket PC
Here's a link to something that looks remarkably similar in english: Cappucino PC
Why does everything have to have a linux version/run linux/be connected with Linux in any way.
/. is great but I wish you guys would lighten up on the advocacy sometimes a little bit.
I love the design of the classic Unix tools. The architecture is flexible and allows you to accomplish complex tasks easily ... find, grep, xargs, sed, etc. I mean just look at how dialup works in linux ... it's all a bunch of small programs strung together with scripts. Pretty incredible.
... I often found it necessary to look in /var/log/messages to figure out why the dialup script quit. Basically there's no mechanism for feedback.
My biggest problem with the architecture has been that it's distinctly "feed forward". What I mean by that is that you can pass data ahead to the next program (through a pipe). What I've allways found lacking is the feed back. Again to go back to the example of dialup
That is the biggest problem in integrating these tools into gui's. If we can create core algorithmic components that can be called either cli or hooked into gui's you could provide small reusable components that can be used either cli or gui while still adhering to the unix philosopy.
How is the above post a troll? It's totally accurate and concise. Me thinks we have a loopy moderator on the loose.
Pennies from heaven. =)
Actually there's a club in Ottawa (Canada) called Zaphod's (IIRC) where you can buy a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster. It's blue ... that's about all I can say ... the rest is very fuzzy for some reason.
The bang per $$ people are (or should be) talking about is the TCO ... total cost of ownership. The cost of the shrink warapped box is nothing compared to the administration and maintenance costs. Just because Linux can be gotten free (as in beer) doesn't mean it's bang per $$ is infinite.
I wouldn't care to speculate on the TCO of linux vs NT but there are studies going on to figure this out. Sorry no pointers off the top of my head.
From reading through the comments one thing in particular jumps out at me. We seem to have people pulling in two conflicting directions. That is some people want to moderate bad comments down and other people want to moderate good comments up.
... the noise floor. Moderators only moderate up out of the noise floor. So, so posts rise only so far, good posts rise higher, etc.
The whole point of the moderation system is to (if I may use an EE metaphor here) lower the noise floor. Ie: to move the useless comments below a certain threshold leaving only good ones above it.
Since the moderation points are a limited resource you want to use them where they will make most difference. Here comes the assumption: there are less good comments than bad ones. Therefore moderating down bad comments is a waste of points.
If everyone starts at a certain intermediate level and posts are moderated up and down then many good and bad posts stay at the default level and a certain few get moderated down and up. This leaves a lot of comments in that intermediate state which is noisy. The points to moderate down comments have been wasted because the only useful 'signal' that's been amplified is in the moderated _up_ comments.
So here's my take: start everyone at the bottom
Just a note but how exactly does order by score work? Is it order thread by score or is there a bug. I'm always see a couple of high scoring articles at the top and then it gets random.
Is it just me or are fixed width websites annoying. Used to be that HTML rendered in whatever sized browser window you had. Lately everyone want's to tell you how big your browser window should be. Fight the power! =)