It seems they dropped WindowMaker from RH9. You can still use Switchdesk to select WindowMaker, but it's no longer available on a default install nor from the Red Hat Network package list.;-(
I do believe the Filewalker Messenger was actually the first announced Linux phone. The only worry I have with the Filewalker is the way you write SMS messages. I'm not sure if using a jog-dial with 3 buttons to select the letters is faster than the usual way of having letters associated to buttons.
VMware ESX is NOT based on Red Hat. It's a proprietary kernel. Red Hat is only used as the Console OS (not the same as a Host OS on VMware Workstation or VMware GSX departmental server). So a Open Source operating system is used to install VMware ESX and boot the system, then it hands over the control of the system to the vmkernel (which is optimized for performance and resource allocation). Because vmkernel is such a specific system, it only supports a limited amount of drivers. Select servers from Dell, HP/Compaq and IBM are well supported. The mother of all servers to run VMware ESX at an enterprise level is the IBM xSeries 440.
The next level of VMware product that is announced is VMware Virtual SMP. This will bridge the gap for enterprises that want to run virtual machines requiring multiprocessing but cannot do this with the current release of VMware ESX.
I truly believe that the VMware solutions are probably the best thing since sliced bread (I'm too young to have lived the MVS-era).
All Zyxel mode/routers being shipped in my country come with a red warning page explaining that the first thing to do one the user is connected is to change the password of their modem/router.
And they are slowly succeeding. Red on Blue with IBM supporting the OS, Oracle databases on Red Hat. VMware's use of Red Hat as the Console OS for the VMware ESX Product. and ISS RealSecure network/server sensors on Red Hat. If you are a great fan of Linux and want to applicate it to a business environment, Red Hat is the most 'corporate' oriented choise you can make.
After DSL/Cable comes LRE
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Both DSL and Cable technologies have a new contender on the block. LRE, or Long-Reach Ethernet. "The Cisco Long-Reach Ethernet (LRE) broadband networking solution is the industry's first end-to-end product line for delivering 5-15 Mbps performance over existing Category 1/2/3 wiring. LRE allows scalable deployment of high-speed Ethernet services on existing voice grade copper wire - enabling enterprises, building operators and service providers to quickly and easily deploy high speed data services. Utilizing LRE technology, tenants of hotels, apartment and office buildings with older telephone cabling can receive cost-effective, high-bandwidth Internet connections."
I believe, the open and distributed network of Keyserver.net (distibuted network of PGP keyservers) was hosted by SURFNet. This network is a distributed network holding PGP and OpenPGP keys. The loss the to UT NOC could have an impact on the updating of key-rings across the keyserver.net network.
HP will soon announce it's new generation of HP 5000 iPaq devices (picture), also based on the Intel PXA250 XScale processor running at 400MHz. These devices come with 64Mb of RAM, Bluetooth, Wireless LAN and a Biometrics fingerprint scanner.
Some details available at Expansys.
Weighs 7.26 ounces and measures 5.43" x 3.3" x 0.63"
The iPAQ Pocket PC h5400 Series has a transflective colour TFT display (same one used in its 3900 series) capable of supporting 64K colors. It is the Pocket PC standard 320x240 pixels screen with.24 dot pitch.
Lights - Blue light for the built-in Bluetooth - Green Light for the built-in 802.11b radio when a wireless LAN connection is made (or flashing amber when there is no link).
Replaceable rechargeable battery
The H5400 has an Intel PXA250 processor running at 400MHz, and is backed by 64MB of RAM. It comes with 32MB or greater of ROM and up to 20MB of iPAQ File Store.
Nevo enables the h5400 to become an excellent Universal Remote Control for your other electronic entertainment devices. Still, the most ground-breaking new addition is the thermal swipe technology used in its fingerprint reader. HP now allows you to secure your device in a variety of ways, from a password to a PIN to a fingerprint, or any combination of the three. To use a fingerprint, you must first "enroll" your fingerprint by training the iPAQ to recognize it.
Option International has been a leading company in bringing modems to PDA's and Laptops for years. They sold the first GSM Modem for the PalmOS as long ago as in 1996.
True, but PDA will exist (Utimaco SafeGuard PDA)
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The only true method of keeping confidential information safe is to keep it under lock and key, or in the possesion of a concerned person all the time. Very true, but it's not going to stop the problem that PDA are potentially the largest outgoing 'leak' of information for companies and organisations. They contain so much valuable data...
One interesting product that is well worth a close look is Utimaco's SafeGuard PDA solution.
For one thing the pinpad screen, swaps the numbers around when you want to unlock the device. So even if you watch your neighboor use his fingers pattern when he unlocks his PocketPC, it won't help you. The product also has a lot of other interesting features...
No SD/MMC or CF slots...
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Interestingly this device doesn't seem to have a SecureDigital/MMC or CompactFlash slots.
The SwissMetro project started in 1974. Due to the high cost of the project, there isn't yet a trial-run on a short distance, but the two top technical schools of the country (EPFL & ETH) keep working on the projet.
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Lufthansa is preparing to put three 802.11b access points on their Jumbos in 2003. I don't have details how they plan to get the Internet connection out (probably satelite) of the plane. So you probably could start using Wireless Mobile VoIP phones on such planes, as well as taking your Laptop with WiFi cards.
I've been doing the dnetc research since day 1, and attributed 18 months ago some CPU cycles towards the SETI@home (Got above the 10000 Units completed). But I got a bit annoyed with the way the SETI@home clients where optimized. Compaq, SGI and Sun had some specific highly-optimzed code and this made them compete in the Big Companies class, but the word then was there was no need to further optimize the x86 clients as it was good enough. So I decided to contributed all my cpu cycles to dnetc (rc5/ogr).
;-) this is a thin device, a 200Mhz Xscale is more than enough...
Xscale 400Mhz processors already run at the same speed as the StrongArm 206Mhz. All the complaints about the speed issues with the new Compaq iPaq 39x0 and Toshiba 740 are not due to the OS but are based on the low performance per mhz of the processor.
I believe there where different batches of Althon 1.2Ghz. The first one I got ran high, very high even when it was not doing anything (in the 75-82 C range). In colaboration with my hardware dealer, we tried a few different processors from the same batch and they where more or less in the same range. We sent them all back to AMD. And got a new batch three weeks later that where running about 15-20 C lower. So when I read you're Althon is so hot and someone else runs around 40 C, I'm not surprised. At the time we tested these processors, the cpus where made in two different FAB's, one in germany and one is asia. I don't recall now which ones where running hotter.
I'm using currently a ATI Fury 32mb and a Radeaon 7500 64mb. What I wish is that ATI releases drivers that support Hardware Mouse Acceleration for games like Asheron's Call 2. Having a gfx card that runs at 150fps, is USELESS if you can't drag your mouse quickly around the screen to pickup objects or load new weapons on your char.
Rather than having all the sites compare the 9700 Pro with the GeForce4 series, could some show me a comparison between the 9700Pro and the FireGL X1 ? What would an additional 128mb do for performance... ? and how does the newer support for OpenGL 2.0 make a difference on Rendering/Engineering programs...
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It seems they dropped WindowMaker from RH9. You can still use Switchdesk to select WindowMaker, but it's no longer available on a default install nor from the Red Hat Network package list. ;-(
I do believe the Filewalker Messenger was actually the first announced Linux phone.
The only worry I have with the Filewalker is the way you write SMS messages. I'm not sure if using a jog-dial with 3 buttons to select the letters is faster than the usual way of having letters associated to buttons.
VMware ESX is NOT based on Red Hat. It's a proprietary kernel. Red Hat is only used as the Console OS (not the same as a Host OS on VMware Workstation or VMware GSX departmental server). So a Open Source operating system is used to install VMware ESX and boot the system, then it hands over the control of the system to the vmkernel (which is optimized for performance and resource allocation). Because vmkernel is such a specific system, it only supports a limited amount of drivers. Select servers from Dell, HP/Compaq and IBM are well supported. The mother of all servers to run VMware ESX at an enterprise level is the IBM xSeries 440.
The next level of VMware product that is announced is VMware Virtual SMP. This will bridge the gap for enterprises that want to run virtual machines requiring multiprocessing but cannot do this with the current release of VMware ESX.
I truly believe that the VMware solutions are probably the best thing since sliced bread (I'm too young to have lived the MVS-era).
And in other news, 802.11h will replace 802.11a in the futur. 802.11h is still in the 5Ghz band, and will have support for transmission power changes.
This is the link to the offical site of Departement des Fiances of the State of Geneva.
The garbage tax has never been applied to the Canton de Geneve nor in the Canton de Vaud.
All Zyxel mode/routers being shipped in my country come with a red warning page explaining that the first thing to do one the user is connected is to change the password of their modem/router.
The company Polimaster has a few other wrist format dosimeters. You will also see the vigiWatch on that list.
And they are slowly succeeding. Red on Blue with IBM supporting the OS, Oracle databases on Red Hat. VMware's use of Red Hat as the Console OS for the VMware ESX Product. and ISS RealSecure network/server sensors on Red Hat.
If you are a great fan of Linux and want to applicate it to a business environment, Red Hat is the most 'corporate' oriented choise you can make.
Both DSL and Cable technologies have a new contender on the block. LRE, or Long-Reach Ethernet. "The Cisco Long-Reach Ethernet (LRE) broadband networking solution is the industry's first end-to-end product line for delivering 5-15 Mbps performance over existing Category 1/2/3 wiring. LRE allows scalable deployment of high-speed Ethernet services on existing voice grade copper wire - enabling enterprises, building operators and service providers to quickly and easily deploy high speed data services. Utilizing LRE technology, tenants of hotels, apartment and office buildings with older telephone cabling can receive cost-effective, high-bandwidth Internet connections."
and those that will read the books.
Enjoy them...
I believe, the open and distributed network of Keyserver.net (distibuted network of PGP keyservers) was hosted by SURFNet. This network is a distributed network holding PGP and OpenPGP keys. The loss the to UT NOC could have an impact on the updating of key-rings across the keyserver.net network.
Some details available at Expansys.
Weighs 7.26 ounces and measures 5.43" x 3.3" x 0.63"
The iPAQ Pocket PC h5400 Series has a transflective colour TFT display (same one used in its 3900 series) capable of supporting 64K colors. It is the Pocket PC standard 320x240 pixels screen with .24 dot pitch.
Lights - Blue light for the built-in Bluetooth - Green Light for the built-in 802.11b radio when a wireless LAN connection is made (or flashing amber when there is no link).
Replaceable rechargeable battery
The H5400 has an Intel PXA250 processor running at 400MHz, and is backed by 64MB of RAM. It comes with 32MB or greater of ROM and up to 20MB of iPAQ File Store.
Nevo enables the h5400 to become an excellent Universal Remote Control for your other electronic entertainment devices. Still, the most ground-breaking new addition is the thermal swipe technology used in its fingerprint reader. HP now allows you to secure your device in a variety of ways, from a password to a PIN to a fingerprint, or any combination of the three. To use a fingerprint, you must first "enroll" your fingerprint by training the iPAQ to recognize it.
Looking for an alternative ? Option International's GlobeTrotter Universal TriBand PCMCIA GSM/GPRS card has been shipping for months now... Driver supports for Windows family, PocketPC 2000/2002, MacOS and Linux support. And all that for 399 Euros.
Option International has been a leading company in bringing modems to PDA's and Laptops for years. They sold the first GSM Modem for the PalmOS as long ago as in 1996.
The only true method of keeping confidential information safe is to keep it under lock and key, or in the possesion of a concerned person all the time.
Very true, but it's not going to stop the problem that PDA are potentially the largest outgoing 'leak' of information for companies and organisations. They contain so much valuable data...
One interesting product that is well worth a close look is Utimaco's SafeGuard PDA solution.
For one thing the pinpad screen, swaps the numbers around when you want to unlock the device. So even if you watch your neighboor use his fingers pattern when he unlocks his PocketPC, it won't help you. The product also has a lot of other interesting features...
Interestingly this device doesn't seem to have a SecureDigital/MMC or CompactFlash slots.
Time could be another dimension...
The SwissMetro project started in 1974. Due to the high cost of the project, there isn't yet a trial-run on a short distance, but the two top technical schools of the country (EPFL & ETH) keep working on the projet.
Lufthansa is preparing to put three 802.11b access points on their Jumbos in 2003. I don't have details how they plan to get the Internet connection out (probably satelite) of the plane. So you probably could start using Wireless Mobile VoIP phones on such planes, as well as taking your Laptop with WiFi cards.
I've been doing the dnetc research since day 1, and attributed 18 months ago some CPU cycles towards the SETI@home (Got above the 10000 Units completed). But I got a bit annoyed with the way the SETI@home clients where optimized. Compaq, SGI and Sun had some specific highly-optimzed code and this made them compete in the Big Companies class, but the word then was there was no need to further optimize the x86 clients as it was good enough. So I decided to contributed all my cpu cycles to dnetc (rc5/ogr).
;-) this is a thin device, a 200Mhz Xscale is more than enough...
Xscale 400Mhz processors already run at the same speed as the StrongArm 206Mhz. All the complaints about the speed issues with the new Compaq iPaq 39x0 and Toshiba 740 are not due to the OS but are based on the low performance per mhz of the processor.
512mb SD cards... hmmm I'm drooling... I wonder if I can find one of these babies on the old continent.
I believe there where different batches of Althon 1.2Ghz. The first one I got ran high, very high even when it was not doing anything (in the 75-82 C range). In colaboration with my hardware dealer, we tried a few different processors from the same batch and they where more or less in the same range. We sent them all back to AMD. And got a new batch three weeks later that where running about 15-20 C lower. So when I read you're Althon is so hot and someone else runs around 40 C, I'm not surprised. At the time we tested these processors, the cpus where made in two different FAB's, one in germany and one is asia. I don't recall now which ones where running hotter.
As per the article, the provider is banning the RIAA website . So you might want to add 208.225.90.120 to the IP address space. Note that 208.225.90.120 is part of the UUnet Technology (Web Business Unit) IP Address space.
I'm using currently a ATI Fury 32mb and a Radeaon 7500 64mb. What I wish is that ATI releases drivers that support Hardware Mouse Acceleration for games like Asheron's Call 2. Having a gfx card that runs at 150fps, is USELESS if you can't drag your mouse quickly around the screen to pickup objects or load new weapons on your char.
Rather than having all the sites compare the 9700 Pro with the GeForce4 series, could some show me a comparison between the 9700Pro and the FireGL X1 ? What would an additional 128mb do for performance... ? and how does the newer support for OpenGL 2.0 make a difference on Rendering/Engineering programs...