Ironically, the Apple Geoport telecom adapter, which has suffered so much criticism, may offer an answer to this problem. The Apple Geoport telecom adapter connects your computer to a telephone line, but it's not a modem. All of the functions of a modem are performed by software running on the Mac. The main reason for all the criticism is that running this extra software takes up memory slows down the Mac, but it could also offer an advantage that no external modem could ever match. Because when you use the Geoport adapter the modem software is running on the same CPU as your TCP/IP software and your Web browser, it could know exactly what you are doing. When your Web browser sends a TCP packet, there's no need for the Geoport modem software to mimic the behaviour of current modems. It could take that packet, encode it, and start sending it over the telephone line immediately, with almost zero latency.
Not trolling, just curious: Isn't this like a WinModem?
Danger, Will Robinson! You didn't log in! You apparently put in the wrong password, or the wrong nickname, or else space aliens have infested the server. I'd suggest trying again, or clicking that mail password button if you forgot your password.
Logging in will allow you to post comments as yourself. If you don't log in, you will only be able to post as CmdrTaco.
You obviously have no idea what I wrote. I was intimating that the progress and fate of the project would be like that of GnuStep.
Does GnuStep have its own threaded kernel? No. Database Filesystem? No. So why did I mention them? They are core concepts in BeOS that would have to be duplicated by hardcore developers. Just like the fundamental objects had to be duplicated for GnuStep long before any end user apps could benefit from NeXT/OpenStep technologies.
The first, and probably chronic problem for OpenBeOS will come (as it did for GnuStep) from ADD-riddled screenshot addicts that think some static image of WM l337ness is what makes an operating system powerful, usable, etc.
Plus, you gotta admit, if Gnome and KDE are any indication (and I use KDE faithfully) most OSS end-user app developers have about 10% of the interface design savvy of those at (formerly) BeOS or Apple. That comment is not so much a slight against them as it is a matter of man hours spent planning and designing in addition to coding.
I don't think that anything Sealand does would mandate deadly force!
There are people in this world for whom $20 mandates deadly force. If commerce on Sealand reaches significant levels, how appealing does extortion look? It doesn't even take a Dr. Evil to do it:
"I won't detonate that hidden shape charge if you wire $RANSOM to Bank account $ACCTNUMBER in 24 hours...."
Think about it. Does Sealand keep physical backup media... off Sealand? Every one of their customers would find it necessary to pony up ransom to save their hide until they can relocate the data.
Isn't is possible that an OSS-type BeOS is a better option? It provides an environment that is ground-up designed for desktop users.
What's more likely is that it will turn out like GNUStep. That is:
The real OpenBeOS developers will be working on a pervasively multithreaded kernel and database-oriented filesystem backend that is technically stellar but worthy of no screenshots
Some group of eye-candy-leech-boyz will rave about how wonderful it will be when complete, showing screenshot mock-ups of all of the old BeOS apps.
No fewer than four window managers will be in alpha.
The OSS app developers who wouldn't know a usable interface if it bit them, will poorly imitate what they think they remember about screenshots of BeOS, even though they have never used the apps they are trying to clone.
The results will be ill-conceived and sluggish, capturing none of the essence of the BeOS user experience.
Then the whole project will decline in visibility, vitality, and viability, and
eventuially become irrelevant when a commercial OS (e.g. OS X) incorporates all of its features.
You have a knack for trolling, PhysicsGenius. I've been watching you.
The Hubble helps the scientific process in all of the ways it should. These/.ers who think your post is informative are already desperate to believe that bureaucrats capriciously stifle science.
Dealing with limited resources is a fact of life. The Hubble project has done far more for real science than it has for the front pages of newspapers and the public's self-esteem for knowing their taxes pay for it all.
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Three cheers for the Linux user support community!
(correcting the link...s/ \. hp/.php/) My thoughts as I read the link: All right! Someone with the same problem I have! With the same hardware (Linksys wpc11 v3) I have! And the solution (drumroll please!)
Buy new hardware! (Linksys wpc11 v2.5) Four cheers for the Linux User support community!
~Epilogue:~ The new hardware (wpc11 v2.5) doesn't work either. Solution: Buy yet another piece of hardware! (D-Link, version unknown) Five cheers for the Linux User support community!
Ya know, another user in the linked thread said it works for him and all he has to do is power cycle the router every time he needs access from his laptop! Gosh, if only he had a wire I bet he could rig a switch to do that.... Brilliant! Six cheers....
I'm having a hard time even maintaining sarcasm here; the truth is so full of ironies to begin with..... DOES ANYONE SEE MY POINT??? I AM NOT TROLLING WHEN I SAY THAT THIS IS A WASTE OF TIME!!!!
This is my point. I'm sick of googling. "hermes.conf?" How bloody intuituve. "Mysteries of iwconfig" is right.
Maybe I didn't make myself clear, but I've done the DIY websearch-hardware-admin-by-trial-and-error routine. I've been using Linux for seven years, on a half dozen boxes of my own and pritnear a hundred at work; I know the drill:
Googling.... wlan, wlan-NG, wireless.conf; is it the job of networking or the job of PCMCIA? Which of the many coexisting and conflicting branches will be definitive in the future? Which one works best today?
There is no way to do this without blowing away a great deal of my time.
I'm happy that it works for you. I wish nothing but success for Linux, but I'm done using it until it's mature with respect to peripherals.
I wrote a halfway tongue-in-cheek post about my frustrations getting Linux to fully utilize the features of my notebook. I got one response that said it "works fine" on a different model, and one that said it's "bitchin." You say that you don't use IR "but the code _is_ in there." Thanks for that! The code for NTFS write is in there, too! You mention playing 3D games, something which I don't do, and didn't describe as not working anyway. Have you tried dual-heading your 8100 or 7500? How about wireless ethernet, after all "the code _is_ in there?" Does your USB work like it does in Windows? I DON'T use Windows with any regularity, but every single feature I described as flaky of broken under Linux works out of the box with Windows.
Ahem. Apparently under Linux, there is a new definition of "working" when it comes to many peripherals:
To Linux USB hackers, "working" means that the attached device has to be actively trying to use the port before any software whatsoever may attempt to look for the device, making one-button palm syncing an impossibility.
Dual video? I don't think so. But it's not surprising consider that I have a no name chipset, like ATI.
s-video? Never even heard of a driver.
ACPI? build a kernel with it, and watch it screw my system so hard that lilo won't even work until I boot into NT for cryin out loud, to reset some low-level hardware thingamajig.
FIR? Well, if you have the Shibishibi 2135 chipset, you can build the firtree.o kernel module and if you have the DonKeyBar 99001 chipset, you can build the tijuana-fir.o kernel module, and otherwise you have to use SIR.
Wireless? I unsubscribed from the linux-wlan mailing list when my mailbox became chronically flooded with crap from "users" who, like me, never got the damn thing to work once, and therefore can not be said to have "used" it at all.
Oh, and to answer your question: Redhat 7.3. I particularly like that the RH7.3 documentation for "redhat-config-network" describes adding a wireless connection by simply clicking the "new wireless connection" button, But there is no "new wireless connection" button. When you look at the changelog for redhat-config-network, you see the entry: * Wed Apr 17 2002 Trond Eivind Glomsrød
- Turn off wireless. It doesn't work with all modes, all cards
and you can't edit IP settings after the initial attempt
So... Don't even try to tell me that it "works," if your definition of working involves these sorts of manoeverings and more than an hour of my time. Like I said, I'll pay for a working system, but I won't continue to sort through gigs of "free," laborious, and even conflicting advice on how to do it. I am not a technophobe, but I value my time and want my computer to be a tool to use, not a project in itself. I don't want to shill for Apple (so I won't link it), but it's latest ad campaign is pretty darn appealing.
If I could get Linux to work on my Dell Inspiron 7500, including the full use of internal+external dual video card, s-video, usb, IR, wireless, etc., I'd be willing to fork up a couple hundred.
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Not trolling, just curious: Isn't this like a WinModem?
Mod parent up, or at least follow the link. This looks like a great game.
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Danger, Will Robinson! You didn't log in! You apparently put in the wrong password, or the wrong nickname, or else space aliens have infested the server. I'd suggest trying again, or clicking that mail password button if you forgot your password.
Logging in will allow you to post comments as yourself. If you don't log in, you will only be able to post as CmdrTaco.
Does GnuStep have its own threaded kernel? No. Database Filesystem? No. So why did I mention them? They are core concepts in BeOS that would have to be duplicated by hardcore developers. Just like the fundamental objects had to be duplicated for GnuStep long before any end user apps could benefit from NeXT/OpenStep technologies.
The first, and probably chronic problem for OpenBeOS will come (as it did for GnuStep) from ADD-riddled screenshot addicts that think some static image of WM l337ness is what makes an operating system powerful, usable, etc.
Plus, you gotta admit, if Gnome and KDE are any indication (and I use KDE faithfully) most OSS end-user app developers have about 10% of the interface design savvy of those at (formerly) BeOS or Apple. That comment is not so much a slight against them as it is a matter of man hours spent planning and designing in addition to coding.
Nope, regular ol' copyright is all he needs.
There are people in this world for whom $20 mandates deadly force. If commerce on Sealand reaches significant levels, how appealing does extortion look? It doesn't even take a Dr. Evil to do it:
"I won't detonate that hidden shape charge if you wire $RANSOM to Bank account $ACCTNUMBER in 24 hours...."
Think about it. Does Sealand keep physical backup media... off Sealand? Every one of their customers would find it necessary to pony up ransom to save their hide until they can relocate the data.
What's more likely is that it will turn out like GNUStep. That is:
That's suck-assiosity.
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With Linux, is there such a thing as user freindly at all?
Oh, yes, except that DeCSS might be used to unencrypt the word "God," and so the Ninth Circuit will find it prima facie unconstitutional.
The Hubble helps the scientific process in all of the ways it should. These /.ers who think your post is informative are already desperate to believe that bureaucrats capriciously stifle science.
Dealing with limited resources is a fact of life. The Hubble project has done far more for real science than it has for the front pages of newspapers and the public's self-esteem for knowing their taxes pay for it all.
Scenarios involved being employed by narcotraffickers and the resulting incessant sweat-laced paranoia. I'll take my current PHB, thankyouverymuch.
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Three cheers for the Linux user support community!
(correcting the link...s/ \. hp/.php/)
My thoughts as I read the link: All right! Someone with the same problem I have! With the same hardware (Linksys wpc11 v3) I have! And the solution (drumroll please!)
Buy new hardware! (Linksys wpc11 v2.5) Four cheers for the Linux User support community!
~Epilogue:~
The new hardware (wpc11 v2.5) doesn't work either. Solution: Buy yet another piece of hardware! (D-Link, version unknown) Five cheers for the Linux User support community!
Ya know, another user in the linked thread said it works for him and all he has to do is power cycle the router every time he needs access from his laptop! Gosh, if only he had a wire I bet he could rig a switch to do that.... Brilliant! Six cheers....
I'm having a hard time even maintaining sarcasm here; the truth is so full of ironies to begin with..... DOES ANYONE SEE MY POINT??? I AM NOT TROLLING WHEN I SAY THAT THIS IS A WASTE OF TIME!!!!
Bingo Foo
The moderators too, apparently. The only mod on that post is "Overrated."
Nice link there, Tim!
Maybe I didn't make myself clear, but I've done the DIY websearch-hardware-admin-by-trial-and-error routine. I've been using Linux for seven years, on a half dozen boxes of my own and pritnear a hundred at work; I know the drill:
Googling.... wlan, wlan-NG, wireless.conf; is it the job of networking or the job of PCMCIA? Which of the many coexisting and conflicting branches will be definitive in the future? Which one works best today?
There is no way to do this without blowing away a great deal of my time.
I'm happy that it works for you. I wish nothing but success for Linux, but I'm done using it until it's mature with respect to peripherals.
Bingo Foo
Clueless wonder, indeed.
Bingo Foo
Oh, and to answer your question: Redhat 7.3. I particularly like that the RH7.3 documentation for "redhat-config-network" describes adding a wireless connection by simply clicking the "new wireless connection" button, But there is no "new wireless connection" button. When you look at the changelog for redhat-config-network, you see the entry:
* Wed Apr 17 2002 Trond Eivind Glomsrød
- Turn off wireless. It doesn't work with all modes, all cards
and you can't edit IP settings after the initial attempt
So... Don't even try to tell me that it "works," if your definition of working involves these sorts of manoeverings and more than an hour of my time. Like I said, I'll pay for a working system, but I won't continue to sort through gigs of "free," laborious, and even conflicting advice on how to do it. I am not a technophobe, but I value my time and want my computer to be a tool to use, not a project in itself. I don't want to shill for Apple (so I won't link it), but it's latest ad campaign is pretty darn appealing.
Bingo Foo
Oh well... Guess I'll go buy a PowerBook.
Yes, I prefer mine to sound like it could tow a few wakeboards.
No, that's why we need to bring back unregulated Chlorofluorocarbons! Bathe your box in "inert" high heat-capacity liquid!
...then either you or the industry is out of control.