As a married reader who has no problem getting a little tail every now and again (most likely unlike this guy) -- I propose he offer timeshares to us. I mean at best sex can last 20-25 minutes...But a good game of Donkey Kong can go on for hours. I mean how does that compare?
Should it not be a law that all diskless workstations be required to have front USB ports? I mean if they populate all the libraries and kiosks around the world with these things - it would be nice to plug my USB keychain into the front. The form factor of this thing is a joke. Could the case get any bigger and uglier....
Now have they edited the source of every program to save settings files to whatever mountpoint I use for my usb keychain thingy or Samba / NFS mount? Like for instance...bookmarks, tetris high scores, toolbar layouts, etc...
You are right. PPC just walks all over palm right now. (Same goes for the Sharp Linux based machines). In my opinion the PPC or Zaurus is the best option if you want "laptop type" functionality in a small form factor. If all you need is a PIM type device then the Palms are just fine.
16-17 hours of normal usage life out of the Yopi is pretty good,
If it is anything like any of the other high end PDA's on the market than the "16-17 hours of normal use" is most likely based on about 8 or 9 of these "normal hours" being used with the screen off....
Now if someone is saying that at the very least I could have a marathon solitaire session for 18 hours (backlight set to low) without the battery going dead....then I will be impressed. (I am jaded because I have dried 7 or 8 different color PDA's....and have yet to see any battery (extended) or otherwise even last 5 or 6 hours of real usage. (Checking an address at 8 AM, turning the device off and then checking a phone number at 2 PM 6 Hours of "normal usage".)
Ah the extra battery life to keep an HD going is possible....If it happens to be a device that does not have a bunch of other "high drain" features. The screen and backlight alone are enough to tax even the highest NON hard drive PDA to a minimal few hours of use even on a bad boy extended battery....Throw a wireless NIC into the mix and your time in between charges has just dropped into a range that can be calculated without using the hour column.....Now if we were to throw a hard drive on top of that then you are in "Sega Nomad" territory.
Seems like there's no businesses -- certainly not incorporated ones -- want to hire experts in free software like Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL and Mozilla when 2kServer, IIS, SQL Server and IE are what all the other big companies are using first. Mozilla's got an uphill battle, and it knows it.
Now, now -- I agree that most big companies do have Microsoft entrenched on the client, but most "big companies" stay away from Microsoft on the server side. (IIS and SQLServer are generally considered legitimate security breaches and not even allowed in many big companies that I am know of --- Plus most of these companies were using some form of *nix long before Bill and the boys were even on the map.....and are still using *nix servers.) I do not mean this as a huge rip on Microsoft -- just stating the facts from where I stand. I know this is not the case for Mom and Pop shops (small to medium size companies who do not have the need or budget to fork over millions on HPUX and Oracle) but it was your use of the term "Big Companies" that stood out to me. (Considering I deal with about 10 or 11 of the fortune 500's that would not even consider Microsoft in the server marketplace.)
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Not the most secure thing in the world....but I am lazy like you (prob. moreso) and just plugged my access point into my firewall and then limited connections at the router to only allow 3 computers to connect. (I have 3 computers that are always on....), and then I set the access point to not allow anything more than 1 wireless connection....since I only have 1 laptop and 1 wireless card. As an added bonus -- I took my laptop out in the street and realized that the connection goes dead before I hit the sidewalk on the other side of the road....So I feel pretty safe that unless I see a pinto or chevette with geeky looking kids pulled onto my lawn....that things are fairly safe. (I live in the sticks.)
My advice: Go with a nice ethernet bridge and don't get burned by bad / non-existent drivers. I ended up with a Linksys WET54G, which just so happened to be reviewed by THG earlier. It works flawlessly after I plugged it into my NIC under Linux. It also leaves my options open for other OSes that don't even have as much support as Linux. So long as your network card works (And interconnects via RJ45), you'll have a reliable wireless connection using the bridge.
One of the big advantages of going wireless is getting rid of the wires. Having to constantlly find power to plug the brick...errr....bridge into would kind of defeat the purpose of being able to walk around from room to room with your laptop. I still think it would be cool if someplace who hoarde linux compatiblle hardware (in this case 802.X cards from the stoneage...) to sell to those who need them a year or two down the road as we struggle to find that today's cards are useless in Linux.
I know OS X is all unix central nowadays...Yet to see a book about core Unix programming on a Mac still has me to a doubletake the same if I saw a book called "A vegetarians guide to cooking steak."
Exactly what is the market for a Laptop like this?
Good point. In the business world (biggest purchasers of laptops I think), laptops are usually used from hotel rooms and airport lobbies. Having been in this situation for over 10 years now, where email, web applications, power point presentations, etc -- make up the bulk of the reasons why I carry the thing around the country -- I have a hard time seeing why anyone would want something any bigger than the smallest possible option. I could use a variety of these "new fangled" laptops to work on my presentation's in airport lounges, but I still choose to use an "old/slow (400 Mhz Cely)" IBM TP 240 at 2.9 lbs. I may give up the bells and whistles, but it sure beats lugging around a 6-10 lb. monster around the country.
I have always found hardware that is supported fine in Linux for each category. The problem being, that by the time Linux supports it -- the product is no longer available at the stores, because it has been replaced with a new model. This is a vicious cycle. The memory reader is a perfect example. When I bought a USB CF reader I did much research and found that the SDDR-61? worked perfectlly on Linux -- and about 40 others did not work at all. I was lucky to find one in the close out bin at my local best buy. I used it for 2 years and was perfectlly happy. Then one day I bent the pins on it and decided I needed a new one. Again I did my research on what current CF readers were supported under Linux. Guess what, the same as the first time I had checked 2 years previous. You can walk into any store and find at least 20-30 different card readers....but guess what, try finding one that was manufactured 3 years ago....Damn. Same goes with webcams, digital cameras, video cards (to some degree), etc. This is frustrating. At one time (about 3 years ago) I had carfeully purchased all my external paripreals to ensure that everyone worked on Linux. And now that some of these things are wearing out, I am finding it very difficult to replace them without going "dumpster diving" on ebay..... You would think with the increasing popularity of Linux that hardware support would be getting better -- not worse.
Would this not be like the grocery store not letting me leave after my grocery purchases until I bagged and carted 5 or 6 of the customers behind me in line? Listen people, if you want to sell a product and make a profit -- pony up your product, disk space to hold said product, and your bandwidth to distribute the product. Why should I have to make a purchase and then wander around the cyber store why you sucked my bandwidth AFTER I have opened my wallet, to sell to the guy behind me. Damn -- brokers.
why haven't you guys adopted PNGs or some other image format instead of sticking with GIFs?
I have lost sleep over that question. They might as well be running/. on SCO and posting the stories through an IE window while reading a book purchased through Amazon. (All under the watchful eye of their new X10 cams)
before they use MD5 comparisons, that SCO does not own any of the prorietary algorithms used in MD5 encryption OR decryption.....This could be a big honeypot for some "rainy day" money for SCO.
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and that not being able to run a program is not the same as not wanting to run that program.
Damn man -- That quote says it all. For as much as I spite microsoft, and have used *nix for 95% of the time for the last 6 years...It is easy to say "I don't need no stinkin' [insert software name here]", it is harder when really, really need to Run said software...
Ya, they can figure you the tech to nuke the guilty parties computer by nothing more than an IP and/or Mac address -- yet we don't have the technology to stop the spammers.
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It is hard to see all the cool gadgets and technologies...and not be able to take part. We are after all "hunters and gatherers" here in the US. (And we have cash to burn on cool stuff) Yet by the time we seperate what actually makes it to the local Circuit City or Best Buy VS. what we see as "coming soon..." on/., it becomes a bit of a let down.
What does 3G have to do with Wi-Fi? 3G is a phone standard. You get 3G stuff anywhere you can use your phone. Wi-Fi is a wireless LAN standard. You need a pringles can to use it from two doors down the street. They're completely different technologies, designed for two completely different things, how can one make the other irrelevant?
Mod the parent up, this is just as much an "Apples and Oranges" story as the Bluetooth piece the other day. I can use my 3G phone to browse the web anywhere I have a digital cell signal (On the same network with the same IP address). Wi-fi is something that can be used only if I sit in the lawn chair closest to my basement window where the access point is....And if I do have a friend down the street running Wi-fi...It is another network and a different IP. Now until I see a company the size of Sprint (3G) installing prongles cans in every tree and billboard along the freeway and in the neighborhoods -- then this is still "apples and oranges".
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Now that's a keeper. ** personally sitting through 12 hours of LOTR is something I will prefer to do solo.
As a married reader who has no problem getting a little tail every now and again (most likely unlike this guy) -- I propose he offer timeshares to us. I mean at best sex can last 20-25 minutes...But a good game of Donkey Kong can go on for hours. I mean how does that compare?
My TivO -- One more machine I better make sure I write that $699.00 check to SCO for.
Damn there goes next weeks lunch money.
Besides, my GF has enough trouble staying awake in a 1.5 hour long movie.
Leave her home!
Throw in the SCO tax and you are really going to have to call uncle Jed for a loan. (At this rate we will be stuck with HP(s)UX for years to come...)
If it proves successful for SCO, why not? Come to think of it -- I may start claiming ownership to everyones BIOS...Baybe needs a new pair of shoes.
Should it not be a law that all diskless workstations be required to have front USB ports? I mean if they populate all the libraries and kiosks around the world with these things - it would be nice to plug my USB keychain into the front. The form factor of this thing is a joke. Could the case get any bigger and uglier....
Now have they edited the source of every program to save settings files to whatever mountpoint I use for my usb keychain thingy or Samba / NFS mount? Like for instance...bookmarks, tetris high scores, toolbar layouts, etc...
You are right. PPC just walks all over palm right now. (Same goes for the Sharp Linux based machines). In my opinion the PPC or Zaurus is the best option if you want "laptop type" functionality in a small form factor. If all you need is a PIM type device then the Palms are just fine.
16-17 hours of normal usage life out of the Yopi is pretty good,
If it is anything like any of the other high end PDA's on the market than the "16-17 hours of normal use" is most likely based on about 8 or 9 of these "normal hours" being used with the screen off....
Now if someone is saying that at the very least I could have a marathon solitaire session for 18 hours (backlight set to low) without the battery going dead....then I will be impressed. (I am jaded because I have dried 7 or 8 different color PDA's....and have yet to see any battery (extended) or otherwise even last 5 or 6 hours of real usage. (Checking an address at 8 AM, turning the device off and then checking a phone number at 2 PM 6 Hours of "normal usage".)
Ah the extra battery life to keep an HD going is possible....If it happens to be a device that does not have a bunch of other "high drain" features. The screen and backlight alone are enough to tax even the highest NON hard drive PDA to a minimal few hours of use even on a bad boy extended battery....Throw a wireless NIC into the mix and your time in between charges has just dropped into a range that can be calculated without using the hour column.....Now if we were to throw a hard drive on top of that then you are in "Sega Nomad" territory.
Seems like there's no businesses -- certainly not incorporated ones -- want to hire experts in free software like Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL and Mozilla when 2kServer, IIS, SQL Server and IE are what all the other big companies are using first. Mozilla's got an uphill battle, and it knows it.
Now, now -- I agree that most big companies do have Microsoft entrenched on the client, but most "big companies" stay away from Microsoft on the server side. (IIS and SQLServer are generally considered legitimate security breaches and not even allowed in many big companies that I am know of --- Plus most of these companies were using some form of *nix long before Bill and the boys were even on the map.....and are still using *nix servers.) I do not mean this as a huge rip on Microsoft -- just stating the facts from where I stand. I know this is not the case for Mom and Pop shops (small to medium size companies who do not have the need or budget to fork over millions on HPUX and Oracle) but it was your use of the term "Big Companies" that stood out to me. (Considering I deal with about 10 or 11 of the fortune 500's that would not even consider Microsoft in the server marketplace.)
Not the most secure thing in the world....but I am lazy like you (prob. moreso) and just plugged my access point into my firewall and then limited connections at the router to only allow 3 computers to connect. (I have 3 computers that are always on....), and then I set the access point to not allow anything more than 1 wireless connection....since I only have 1 laptop and 1 wireless card. As an added bonus -- I took my laptop out in the street and realized that the connection goes dead before I hit the sidewalk on the other side of the road....So I feel pretty safe that unless I see a pinto or chevette with geeky looking kids pulled onto my lawn....that things are fairly safe. (I live in the sticks.)
My advice: Go with a nice ethernet bridge and don't get burned by bad / non-existent drivers. I ended up with a Linksys WET54G, which just so happened to be reviewed by THG earlier. It works flawlessly after I plugged it into my NIC under Linux. It also leaves my options open for other OSes that don't even have as much support as Linux. So long as your network card works (And interconnects via RJ45), you'll have a reliable wireless connection using the bridge.
One of the big advantages of going wireless is getting rid of the wires. Having to constantlly find power to plug the brick...errr....bridge into would kind of defeat the purpose of being able to walk around from room to room with your laptop. I still think it would be cool if someplace who hoarde linux compatiblle hardware (in this case 802.X cards from the stoneage...) to sell to those who need them a year or two down the road as we struggle to find that today's cards are useless in Linux.
I know OS X is all unix central nowadays...Yet to see a book about core Unix programming on a Mac still has me to a doubletake the same if I saw a book called "A vegetarians guide to cooking steak."
Exactly what is the market for a Laptop like this?
Good point. In the business world (biggest purchasers of laptops I think), laptops are usually used from hotel rooms and airport lobbies. Having been in this situation for over 10 years now, where email, web applications, power point presentations, etc -- make up the bulk of the reasons why I carry the thing around the country -- I have a hard time seeing why anyone would want something any bigger than the smallest possible option. I could use a variety of these "new fangled" laptops to work on my presentation's in airport lounges, but I still choose to use an "old/slow (400 Mhz Cely)" IBM TP 240 at 2.9 lbs. I may give up the bells and whistles, but it sure beats lugging around a 6-10 lb. monster around the country.
I have always found hardware that is supported fine in Linux for each category. The problem being, that by the time Linux supports it -- the product is no longer available at the stores, because it has been replaced with a new model. This is a vicious cycle. The memory reader is a perfect example. When I bought a USB CF reader I did much research and found that the SDDR-61? worked perfectlly on Linux -- and about 40 others did not work at all. I was lucky to find one in the close out bin at my local best buy. I used it for 2 years and was perfectlly happy. Then one day I bent the pins on it and decided I needed a new one. Again I did my research on what current CF readers were supported under Linux. Guess what, the same as the first time I had checked 2 years previous. You can walk into any store and find at least 20-30 different card readers....but guess what, try finding one that was manufactured 3 years ago....Damn. Same goes with webcams, digital cameras, video cards (to some degree), etc. This is frustrating. At one time (about 3 years ago) I had carfeully purchased all my external paripreals to ensure that everyone worked on Linux. And now that some of these things are wearing out, I am finding it very difficult to replace them without going "dumpster diving" on ebay..... You would think with the increasing popularity of Linux that hardware support would be getting better -- not worse.
Would this not be like the grocery store not letting me leave after my grocery purchases until I bagged and carted 5 or 6 of the customers behind me in line? Listen people, if you want to sell a product and make a profit -- pony up your product, disk space to hold said product, and your bandwidth to distribute the product. Why should I have to make a purchase and then wander around the cyber store why you sucked my bandwidth AFTER I have opened my wallet, to sell to the guy behind me. Damn -- brokers.
3,500 Wi-Fi wireless "hot spots"
Make that 3,501 if you are standing within 20 feet of my basement window.
why haven't you guys adopted PNGs or some other image format instead of sticking with GIFs?
/. on SCO and posting the stories through an IE window while reading a book purchased through Amazon. (All under the watchful eye of their new X10 cams)
I have lost sleep over that question. They might as well be running
before they use MD5 comparisons, that SCO does not own any of the prorietary algorithms used in MD5 encryption OR decryption.....This could be a big honeypot for some "rainy day" money for SCO.
and that not being able to run a program is not the same as not wanting to run that program.
Damn man -- That quote says it all. For as much as I spite microsoft, and have used *nix for 95% of the time for the last 6 years...It is easy to say "I don't need no stinkin' [insert software name here]", it is harder when really, really need to Run said software...
Ya, they can figure you the tech to nuke the guilty parties computer by nothing more than an IP and/or Mac address -- yet we don't have the technology to stop the spammers.
It is hard to see all the cool gadgets and technologies...and not be able to take part. We are after all "hunters and gatherers" here in the US. (And we have cash to burn on cool stuff) Yet by the time we seperate what actually makes it to the local Circuit City or Best Buy VS. what we see as "coming soon..." on /., it becomes a bit of a let down.
What does 3G have to do with Wi-Fi? 3G is a phone standard. You get 3G stuff anywhere you can use your phone. Wi-Fi is a wireless LAN standard. You need a pringles can to use it from two doors down the street. They're completely different technologies, designed for two completely different things, how can one make the other irrelevant?
Mod the parent up, this is just as much an "Apples and Oranges" story as the Bluetooth piece the other day. I can use my 3G phone to browse the web anywhere I have a digital cell signal (On the same network with the same IP address). Wi-fi is something that can be used only if I sit in the lawn chair closest to my basement window where the access point is....And if I do have a friend down the street running Wi-fi...It is another network and a different IP. Now until I see a company the size of Sprint (3G) installing prongles cans in every tree and billboard along the freeway and in the neighborhoods -- then this is still "apples and oranges".