And ZFS has a web frontend, slick stuff. This is DEFINTELY the only way to go. Download OpenSolaris, set up a nice ZFS zpool across a bunch of disks, use raidz or raidz2 if you want redundancy, and export it all over NFS or Samba. You now have you're own NAS, better than anything else you could buy. (Until commercial vendors start shipping ZFS based NAS's).
Zapp Brannigan: Captain's journal. Stardate...uh... Kif: April thirteenth. Zapp Brannigan: April thirteenth...point two. We have failed to uphold Brannigan's Law. However, I did make it with a hot alien babe. And in the end, is that not what man has dreamt of since first he looked up at the stars? [pause] Kif, I'm asking you a question!
Did you actually try to develop anything for Symbian?
Well, I did. And let me tell you this: Windows APIs, complete with their haphazard organization and historical baggage, lunatic bugs and arcane undocumented extensions are an example of Reason and Logic, when compared to this positive 10 day old vomit which is Symbian. Any ole Linux API is like an Extatic Symphony of Cosimic Joy, Eternal Purity and All-Encompassing Sanity, next to this 10 day old vomit which is Symbian.
Hell, I am being unfair to 10 day old vomit.
You gotta be a masochist to develop for this thing, downloadable "api" or not.
The toolchain is fucked up beyond belief.
The API is a convoluted mess of overcomplicated certinisms, wheels reinvented to be square and with an offset axis, said square "wheels" within other square "wheels", and all existing only so that Symbian "alliance" can have NDAs, Patents and what not on this shit, which otherwise has been done a million times before, some 900 thousand times of which done much better.
Great majority of it is undocumented or laughably documented (they want you to pay big money for access to the "real" stuff). Most of what is documented you do not want go near.
The OS itself was designed by a brain-damaged monkey, its like a retarded dwarf cousin of Windows, complete with moronic "drive letters" and whole bunch of other truly imbecillic "features" from the early days of DOS, which even Microsoft doesn't want anymore.
You gotta pay money for application certs.
On and and on and on.
Or and did I mention that there is like 6 mutually incompatible versions of the thing in the wild, and about 8 different, mutually incompatible of course, versions of the "ui" deployed on various phones?
One way to gauge of the levels of insanity is the fact that there are a grand total of 4 (to my knowledge) languages ported to this thing, NONE of which has anything resembling something like a useful set of bindings to the Symbian API (Java, which is the only remotely usable one, has a very limited MIDP profile). Ponder that!
In short: do pay good coin for those downloadable Symbian-specific apps if you need them, because their developers have all been through Hell several times to make them.
What really kills me though is how arrogant and pompous the "designer" of this pile of pig manure about this monumental "achievment". Another, mind boggling observation is that there actually cell phone manufacturers using it. QFT.
Regardless of whether the IT sector is _technically_ in the wrong it's commonly accepted that in this area we work with powers of two. The fact that people have to explicitly explain this fact shows that everyone expects it to be that way. The HDD manufacturers damn well know this and fairly blantantly use measurements which would commonly be interpreted more favourably. Exactly.
This says it perfectly.
RAM manufacturers do it correctly, and Application Vendors and Operating System Vendors have been doing it this way for DECADES. SI units be damned, this is the way it has always been and there is no reason for it to be changed.
Seriously, the blame could just as easily be laid at the feet of the OS developers. There is a long standing history of disk manufacturers using base 10 counting numbers. It would not be so horribly difficult for the OS developers to conform to the base 10 measurement. I mean what next are the consumers going to sue because the formatting and allocation tables take up room? or perhaps because it hides space for virtual memory? seriously. come on people. You're moronic.
Every operating system, whether it be Windows NT, XP, or Vista, Linux, FreeBSD, or Solaris, states that 1Kb = 1024bytes, 1Mb = 1024Kb, and so on.
Every application, does too.
Why rewrite all software, and god forbid, patch all old software going back however many DECADES into the past to implement this change, when harddrive manufacturers could simply start labelling their drives correctly?
Besides, when you buy a gigabyte of ram, are you really getting 1 billion bytes? or 1073741824 bytes? You tell me:)
Last I checked, bios reported 1024Mb was a 1gb, and 4096mb was 4gb's of ram:)
I don't see why hdd manufactureres are the ONE single exception to this long standing rule, and SI units be damned.
Wow, I'm surprised that actually went through, if only because the court systems seem so broken. Hopefully, other manufacturers will get the hint and start changing their plans. I could just see this going after other manufacturers too, who insist on using smaller sizes for their measurements to seem bigger. I bloody well hope so.
I recall my Micro teacher proving that these kind of transactions lead to non-efficient outcomes. Aggregate utility is better off if carrier lock-in is banned.
If the Iphone is supposed to be $700, it should be, as otherwise we artificially inflate demand and distort the economy. Subsidies from companies have the same effect as subsidies from government.
Exactly.
Ban carrier lock in.
Infact, ban any sort of software implemented restrictions that are designed to price gouge the consumer.
I bought WoW, played it for about 2 weeks... got a Level 19 Human Warrior and Level 21 Night Elf Druid, and am bored of it already....
Its just pointless killing and running for 20 minutes to turn quests back in. God i hate running. I can't even be bothered waiting to level 40 and saving up 100 gold to get a horse to ride on.
I rather just play something more fun... something that feels less like work!
Its visible about 20 degrees in the sky to the north, after 10:30pm adelaide time.
I went to see it 2 days ago (after the first slashdot story) but it was cloudy... and its cloudy every damn day.
I suggest you drive up north up port wakefield road somewhere to get away from the city lights to somewhere real dark to try and look, but only if the weather cooperates.
In a few days time you won't see it at all as it won't appear above the horizon at all for us southern hemisphere observers. Northen hemisphere observers are in for a real treat I think.
Use VMware or Virtual PC (Virtual PC is from Microsoft, too! so they should be happy) and run whatever unix OS you're using inside Virtual PC (or VMware) and you're happy and they're happy.
There's no reason why you couldn't play multiplayer games over bluetooth?
The new Sony PSP and Nintendo DS have bluetooth for multiplayer gaming, so why couldn't mobile phones do the same? You could have a multiplayer game on the bus, on the rain, in a lecture, whatever....
But yes, the ultimate solution would be to have multiplayer gaming over GPRS:)
I can already surf the net using Opera, go on MSN Messenger, ICQ, AIM and others all on my mobile... the SE P900. My gf's P800 can do it too.
So i see no reason why multiplayer gaming can't go there.
I have not used anything less than 1024x768 in 5+ years.
Often i use 1280x1024 or 1600x1200, or 1280x854 on my PowerBook.
If I use 1024x768 its because i am using a crappy ass LCD (not laptop one) where 1024x768 is its max resolution and I wish i could go higher.
Who the hell uses 800x600 these days? Slashdot looks awful in 800x600, as do alot of websites. If people are still using 800x600 they are still probably running Windows 95 and some ancient browser so they won't see your website anyway.
What you are asking for is a 'Document Management' system. I know, I integrate our product with lots of doc mgmt systems and Integration is my job. (We also do GIS among other things).
Unfortunately, I don't know of any for Unix that work with OpenOffice, we only deal with Windows. FWIW, Trim Context and DataWorks are a pain;)
Now we just need the penis bird, a natalie protman naked and petrified, hot grits down my pants, etc post (and maybe a meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeept! too) and we really ARE all done!
I have a Sony Ericsson P900, and absolutely love it.
It does just about everything, and is the perfect compromise for a PDA/Phone (ie, not to big and not too small).
The sound quality is fantastic! The persons voice sounds more realistic, not high pitched and tinny like it did on my Sony Ericsson T610.
The reception is also excellent. I live in a dead zone and the T610 would never work (nor would any other mobile) but the P900 works fine! Maybe it has a bigger internal antenna since its physically bigger.
The phone is superb. I would definitely recommend it, or the P1000 (or whatever it will be called) when its released later in the year. Apparently this one will have a keyboard on the back of the flip.
Unfortunately the phone has a camera, as all new phones and PDA/Smartphones do these days:(
I'm not sure what you can do about that... pretty much every phone has a camera these days, so you're pretty much stuck using an old phone + PDA combo or just get a camera phone/smartphone/etc.
Everyone is gonna have them, so places will just need to learn to deal with it.
I just wanted to register diskiller at gmail cuz it often gets taken (like diskiller@hotmail.com is taken). Of course i have my own domain name anyway.
But yes, you got my email address right i got my offer from google only minutes ago:)
Slashdot Mirror
And ZFS has a web frontend, slick stuff. This is DEFINTELY the only way to go. Download OpenSolaris, set up a nice ZFS zpool across a bunch of disks, use raidz or raidz2 if you want redundancy, and export it all over NFS or Samba. You now have you're own NAS, better than anything else you could buy. (Until commercial vendors start shipping ZFS based NAS's).
No ifs or buts or maybes.
Doing it any other way is just plain stupid.
Additionally:
Love's Labors Lost in Space
Zapp Brannigan: Captain's journal. Stardate...uh...
Kif: April thirteenth.
Zapp Brannigan: April thirteenth...point two. We have failed to uphold Brannigan's Law. However, I did make it with a hot alien babe. And in the end, is that not what man has dreamt of since first he looked up at the stars? [pause] Kif, I'm asking you a question!
In a word, yes.
Man has always dreamt of hawt alien sex, and how else will we ever find spacegoats if not through SETI?
Well, I did. And let me tell you this: Windows APIs, complete with their haphazard organization and historical baggage, lunatic bugs and arcane undocumented extensions are an example of Reason and Logic, when compared to this positive 10 day old vomit which is Symbian. Any ole Linux API is like an Extatic Symphony of Cosimic Joy, Eternal Purity and All-Encompassing Sanity, next to this 10 day old vomit which is Symbian.
Hell, I am being unfair to 10 day old vomit.
You gotta be a masochist to develop for this thing, downloadable "api" or not.
The toolchain is fucked up beyond belief.
The API is a convoluted mess of overcomplicated certinisms, wheels reinvented to be square and with an offset axis, said square "wheels" within other square "wheels", and all existing only so that Symbian "alliance" can have NDAs, Patents and what not on this shit, which otherwise has been done a million times before, some 900 thousand times of which done much better.
Great majority of it is undocumented or laughably documented (they want you to pay big money for access to the "real" stuff). Most of what is documented you do not want go near.
The OS itself was designed by a brain-damaged monkey, its like a retarded dwarf cousin of Windows, complete with moronic "drive letters" and whole bunch of other truly imbecillic "features" from the early days of DOS, which even Microsoft doesn't want anymore.
You gotta pay money for application certs.
On and and on and on.
Or and did I mention that there is like 6 mutually incompatible versions of the thing in the wild, and about 8 different, mutually incompatible of course, versions of the "ui" deployed on various phones?
One way to gauge of the levels of insanity is the fact that there are a grand total of 4 (to my knowledge) languages ported to this thing, NONE of which has anything resembling something like a useful set of bindings to the Symbian API (Java, which is the only remotely usable one, has a very limited MIDP profile). Ponder that!
In short: do pay good coin for those downloadable Symbian-specific apps if you need them, because their developers have all been through Hell several times to make them.
What really kills me though is how arrogant and pompous the "designer" of this pile of pig manure about this monumental "achievment". Another, mind boggling observation is that there actually cell phone manufacturers using it. QFT.
This says it perfectly.
RAM manufacturers do it correctly, and Application Vendors and Operating System Vendors have been doing it this way for DECADES. SI units be damned, this is the way it has always been and there is no reason for it to be changed.
Every operating system, whether it be Windows NT, XP, or Vista, Linux, FreeBSD, or Solaris, states that 1Kb = 1024bytes, 1Mb = 1024Kb, and so on.
Every application, does too.
Why rewrite all software, and god forbid, patch all old software going back however many DECADES into the past to implement this change, when harddrive manufacturers could simply start labelling their drives correctly?
Besides, when you buy a gigabyte of ram, are you really getting 1 billion bytes? or 1073741824 bytes? You tell me
Last I checked, bios reported 1024Mb was a 1gb, and 4096mb was 4gb's of ram
I don't see why hdd manufactureres are the ONE single exception to this long standing rule, and SI units be damned.
I recall my Micro teacher proving that these kind of transactions lead to non-efficient outcomes. Aggregate utility is better off if carrier lock-in is banned.
If the Iphone is supposed to be $700, it should be, as otherwise we artificially inflate demand and distort the economy. Subsidies from companies have the same effect as subsidies from government.
Exactly.
Ban carrier lock in.
Infact, ban any sort of software implemented restrictions that are designed to price gouge the consumer.
If you check your sales figures you'll be surprised to learn which one sells the best (hint: it's not number three).>
Actually, I think, you will be quite surprised to find out that it actually IS number three.
RentaCoder. Well, Maybe.
Yup, i agree.
Video games are meant to be fun for me, to relax and unwind, not have to work (a second shift) after a long day at work!
LOL sounds like me!
I bought WoW, played it for about 2 weeks... got a Level 19 Human Warrior and Level 21 Night Elf Druid, and am bored of it already....
Its just pointless killing and running for 20 minutes to turn quests back in. God i hate running. I can't even be bothered waiting to level 40 and saving up 100 gold to get a horse to ride on.
I rather just play something more fun... something that feels less like work!
D.
Another mirror here (http://cable.diskiller.net/google/ ).
I'm looking at Starry Night.
Its visible about 20 degrees in the sky to the north, after 10:30pm adelaide time.
I went to see it 2 days ago (after the first slashdot story) but it was cloudy... and its cloudy every damn day.
I suggest you drive up north up port wakefield road somewhere to get away from the city lights to somewhere real dark to try and look, but only if the weather cooperates.
In a few days time you won't see it at all as it won't appear above the horizon at all for us southern hemisphere observers. Northen hemisphere observers are in for a real treat I think.
D.
Use VMware or Virtual PC (Virtual PC is from Microsoft, too! so they should be happy) and run whatever unix OS you're using inside Virtual PC (or VMware) and you're happy and they're happy.
I dunno about CGYWIN, i wouldn't trust it....
Especially TiVo, since we're all rooting for them anyway.
We are???
I don't know about YOU, but i certainly don't wanna have sex with my TiVo.....
There's no reason why you couldn't play multiplayer games over bluetooth?
:)
The new Sony PSP and Nintendo DS have bluetooth for multiplayer gaming, so why couldn't mobile phones do the same? You could have a multiplayer game on the bus, on the rain, in a lecture, whatever....
But yes, the ultimate solution would be to have multiplayer gaming over GPRS
I can already surf the net using Opera, go on MSN Messenger, ICQ, AIM and others all on my mobile... the SE P900. My gf's P800 can do it too.
So i see no reason why multiplayer gaming can't go there.
D.
I have not used anything less than 1024x768 in 5+ years.
Often i use 1280x1024 or 1600x1200, or 1280x854 on my PowerBook.
If I use 1024x768 its because i am using a crappy ass LCD (not laptop one) where 1024x768 is its max resolution and I wish i could go higher.
Who the hell uses 800x600 these days? Slashdot looks awful in 800x600, as do alot of websites. If people are still using 800x600 they are still probably running Windows 95 and some ancient browser so they won't see your website anyway.
D.
What you are asking for is a 'Document Management' system. I know, I integrate our product with lots of doc mgmt systems and Integration is my job. (We also do GIS among other things).
;)
Unfortunately, I don't know of any for Unix that work with OpenOffice, we only deal with Windows. FWIW, Trim Context and DataWorks are a pain
D.
I'm jealous ;)
Now we just need the penis bird, a natalie protman naked and petrified, hot grits down my pants, etc post (and maybe a meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeept! too) and we really ARE all done!
D.
Who was the email from?? (the forged email address, name, whatever)
;)
What was the subject of the email???
I recieve 100+ spams a day, that email may still be in my spam folder now!!
I have a Sony Ericsson P900, and absolutely love it.
:(
It does just about everything, and is the perfect compromise for a PDA/Phone (ie, not to big and not too small).
The sound quality is fantastic! The persons voice sounds more realistic, not high pitched and tinny like it did on my Sony Ericsson T610.
The reception is also excellent. I live in a dead zone and the T610 would never work (nor would any other mobile) but the P900 works fine! Maybe it has a bigger internal antenna since its physically bigger.
The phone is superb. I would definitely recommend it, or the P1000 (or whatever it will be called) when its released later in the year. Apparently this one will have a keyboard on the back of the flip.
Unfortunately the phone has a camera, as all new phones and PDA/Smartphones do these days
I'm not sure what you can do about that... pretty much every phone has a camera these days, so you're pretty much stuck using an old phone + PDA combo or just get a camera phone/smartphone/etc.
Everyone is gonna have them, so places will just need to learn to deal with it.
D.
OMG. You are a legend!!!!!! I got my account :)
:)
I just wanted to register diskiller at gmail cuz it often gets taken (like diskiller@hotmail.com is taken). Of course i have my own domain name anyway.
But yes, you got my email address right i got my offer from google only minutes ago
Once again, thank you very much!
Can you refer anyone to get a gmail account? How many people? Can you refer me? Please? Pretty pretty pretty please with a cherry on top?
D.